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Blattner awards Built Robotics $75M contract for physical AI to help meet energy demand
Blattner has expanded its partnership with Built Robotics to scale autonomous systems for solar construction. The post Blattner awards Built Robotics $75M contr…
In Robotics, Ruggedization Is No Longer Optional
As autonomy moves beyond controlled environments, ruggedized design is becoming a prerequisite for reliable robotic operations. The post In Robotics, Ruggedizat…
Enhancing Robustness in Robot-Environment Interactions through Passive Compliant Degrees of Freedom: A Hybrid Position-Force Control Approach with Feedback Linearization
arXiv:2607.00571v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robot-environment interactions in dynamic or unstructured settings are often degraded by impact shocks, vibratio…
Guaranteed Escape for a Bouncing Robot in Pipe Chains
arXiv:2607.00221v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We study the symmetric bouncing of a point robot within orthogonally-joined rectangles with equal width, which…
Deconfounded Lifelong Learning for Autonomous Driving via Dynamic Knowledge Spaces
arXiv:2603.14354v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: End-to-End autonomous driving (E2E-AD) systems face challenges in lifelong learning, including catastr…
Human-Centric Transferable Tactile Pre-Training for Dexterous Robotic Manipulation
arXiv:2607.01067v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As an essential modality for dexterous and contact-rich tasks, tactile sensing provides precise force feedback t…
FLYNN: Robust Neural Network for Robot Navigation using Fly Brain Topology
arXiv:2607.00025v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While deep learning models achieve state-of-the-art performance in complex tasks, they remain brittle when faced…
Creating Impactful Autonomous Driving Datasets: A Strategic Guide from Research Gap to Benchmark
arXiv:2607.00710v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Well-designed autonomous driving datasets have fundamentally shaped research progress, yet existing literature…
DriveVA: Video Action Models are Zero-Shot Drivers
arXiv:2604.04198v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Generalization is a central challenge in autonomous driving, as real-world deployment requires robust …
AMBUSH: Collaborative Capture in Complex Environments with Neural Acceleration
arXiv:2607.01029v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Collaborative capture of dynamic targets is common in nature as an essential strategy for weaker species against…
AutoSpeed: Annotation-Free Stage-Adaptive Motion Speed Learning for Robot Manipulation
arXiv:2607.01051v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Different stages of manipulation tasks exhibit varying levels of difficulty, suggesting stage-dependent motion s…
FurnitureVLA: Learning Long-Horizon Bimanual Furniture Assembly with Vision-Language-Action Model
arXiv:2607.01212v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Current work on robot furniture assembly mostly focuses on toy-scale settings or single-arm manipulation. We int…
[Preprint] Dynamic Modeling, Gait Synthesis, and Control of a Novel Subsurface Bore Propagator
arXiv:2607.00569v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In this article, we present dynamic modeling, gait synthesis, and feedback control design for a modular novel su…
Robust Operational Space Control with Conformal Disturbance Bounds for Safe Redundant Manipulation
arXiv:2607.00424v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Redundant robotic manipulators operating in constrained and human-interactive environments require accurate task…
Enhancing Hardware Fault Tolerance in Machines with Reinforcement Learning Policy Gradient Algorithms
arXiv:2407.15283v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Industry is moving toward autonomous, network-connected machines that detect and adapt to changing con…
Beyond Line of Sight: Hybrid Validation of V2X Collective Perception in Complex Scenarios
arXiv:2607.00874v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper introduces a probabilistic framework and hybrid validation methodology for V2X-enabled Collective Per…
KungfuBot: Physics-Based Humanoid Whole-Body Control for Learning Highly-Dynamic Skills
arXiv:2506.12851v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Humanoid robots are promising to acquire various skills by imitating human behaviors. However, existing algo…
Learning Expert Strategy for Autonomous Robotic Endovascular Intervention via Decoupled Procedural Execution
arXiv:2607.00066v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Endovascular interventions are high-stakes procedures requiring precise device operation within complex and tort…
Neural Surface and Reflectance Modelling from 3D Radar Data
arXiv:2603.25623v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Robust scene representation is essential for autonomous systems to safely operate in challenging low-visibil…
ROSA: A Robotics Foundation Model Serving System for Robot Factories
arXiv:2607.01088v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robotics foundation models (RFMs) are making general-purpose robots increasingly practical for factory deploymen…
Search-Based Spatiotemporal and Multi-Robot Motion Planning on Graphs of Space-Time Convex Sets
arXiv:2607.00444v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Spatiotemporal motion planning, especially in multi-robot settings, requires robots to reason about collision-fr…
Stop Pretending Social Robots Are Inevitable
arXiv:2607.00142v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper takes issue with the recent themes of both the RO-MAN and the HRI conferences for their portrayal of …
Where Am I? Semantic Map Grounding via Vision-Language Models for Multi-Modal Localization
arXiv:2607.01079v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We address robot localization in GPS-denied indoor environments by reframing it as a semantic reasoning task rat…
From Real-Time Planning to Reliable Execution:Scalable Coordination for Heterogeneous Multi-Robot Fleets in Industrial Environments
arXiv:2607.00591v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: With the increasing deployment of heterogeneous robot fleets in industrial environments, efficient coordination …
What's Hidden Matters: Identifying Planning-Critical Occluded Agents using Vision-Language Models
arXiv:2607.00283v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous vehicles must safely navigate complex environments where planning-critical agents may be hidden from …
Towards Metric-Agnostic Trajectory Forecasting
arXiv:2607.01133v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Accurate trajectory forecasting of surrounding traffic participants is a core capability for autonomous drivin…
Rule-VLN: Bridging Perception and Compliance via Semantic Reasoning and Geometric Rectification
arXiv:2604.16993v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: As embodied AI transitions to real-world deployment, the success of the Vision-and-Language Navigation…
Distributed Multi Robot Lunar Cargo Transportation via Phase Decomposed Reinforcement Learning
arXiv:2607.00160v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modular reconfigurable robotic systems provide a scalable solution for cooperative surface operations in future …
Multi-Embodiment Robotic Retargeting via Guided Diffusion Model
arXiv:2505.20857v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Motion retargeting for specific robot from existing motion datasets is one critical step in transferring mot…
NOVA: Next-step Open-Vocabulary Autoregression for 3D Multi-Object Tracking in Autonomous Driving
arXiv:2603.06254v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Generalizing across unknown targets is critical for open-world perception, yet existing 3D Multi-Objec…