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3285 storiesRemoving Infrastructure Barriers in Human-Robot Collaboration Through Wireless Reconfigurable Cells
arXiv:2608.09658v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Human-Robot Collaboration (HRC) plays a vital role in dynamic, high mix, low volume industrial scenarios such as…
Anchor-Based AI Approach for Pre-Crash Object Detection Utilizing Micro-Doppler Signatures in Automotive Radar
arXiv:2608.08701v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Advanced automated driving presents significant potential to improve modern automotive safety systems, but it de…
PhysX-CoT: Structured Physical Reasoning from a Single Image to Simulation-Ready 3D Assets
arXiv:2608.08053v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Simulation-ready 3D assets are central to robotics and embodied AI. Generating them from a single image is usual…
Hadrian raises $1.37B to accelerate U.S. defense, aerospace manufacturing
The raise values Hadrian at $7.87 billion. It is Hadrian's second funding round this year, following a round in January 2026. The post Hadrian raises $1.37B to …
RoboStore launches Robo Inc. to help U.S. organizations deploy robots
RoboStore, a distributor of Unitree's legged robots, has launched Robo Inc. to serve as a U.S.-based manufacturer and integrator. The post RoboStore launches Ro…
Tate deploys 58 Hirebotics cobot welders across multiple facilities
Tate decided to move from traditional hand welding to an agile, cloud-connected automation network powered by Hirebotics. The post Tate deploys 58 Hirebotics co…
VicOne releases free NVIDIA Isaac Sim cybersecurity extension based on DEF CON 34 research
VicOne says its free Radeis Extension for NVIDIA Isaac Sim enables developers to test robot cyber safety before deployment. The post VicOne releases free NVIDIA…
A ‘5-in-1’ seed-sized surgical robot
Scientists from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have developed a tiny seed-sized robot that can navigate across soft and uneven surf…
A Disturbance in the Force: Force Actuation on the RAVEN II Surgical Robot with Parallel Motor-Cable Units
arXiv:2608.06488v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Difficulty in haptic feedback for surgical robots has been a long-term problem for decades. In recent years, lea…
SyncSBC: Decentralized Swarm Behavior Prediction for Synchronized Autonomous Control
arXiv:2608.06587v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robot swarms utilize many independent limited-sensing agents to produce complex emergent behaviors without requi…
SoRoMoX: Fast, Differentiable, and Parallelizable Soft Robot Models
arXiv:2608.06650v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reduced-order models based on Cosserat-rod theory are now well established, and modeling theory is no longer the…
Hoverflie: An empirical investigation of rotor shrouds to transform micro air vehicles into multi-modal hovercraft
arXiv:2608.06707v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Small rotorcraft intended for use indoors or around the built environment have extremely limited flight duration…
R2S-EGO: Dual-Proxy Refinement for Sparse-Capture Real-to-Sim
arXiv:2608.06827v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Real-to-sim (R2S) depends on scene representations that render observations along robot ego trajectories, yet de…
When Coordination Becomes a Threat: Communication Attacks in LLM-Controlled Multi-Robot Systems
arXiv:2608.06830v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used as high-level planners in embodied multi-robot systems, enabl…
Cross-View Action Consistency for Camera-Robust Vision-Language-Action Policies
arXiv:2608.06965v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language-action (VLA) policies fine-tuned from a fixed scene camera can fail when the camera is moved, ev…
Representation Handoffs for OpenArm-Based Laboratory Mobile Manipulation
arXiv:2608.07154v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Open-source robotics and foundation models have lowered the barrier to embodied AI, yet language-guided laborato…
Ising Acceleration for Multi-Robot Multi-Target Planning
arXiv:2608.06803v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Ising machines are emerging as promising hardware for combinatorial optimization. With recent advances in CMOS…
Accurate Trajectory Tracking with Model Predictive Contouring Control for Bird-Scale Flapping-Wing MAVs
arXiv:2605.06042v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Flapping-wing micro aerial vehicles offer quieter and safer operation than rotary-wing drones, yet achieving…
EchoVLA: Robotic Vision-Language-Action Model with Synergistic Declarative Memory for Mobile Manipulation
arXiv:2511.18112v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Recent progress in Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models has enabled embodied agents to interpret multimodal i…
Rigid-Covert GNSS Spoofing of UAV Swarms: A Structural Blind Spot, Its Detection Limit, and Absolute-Anchor Defenses
arXiv:2608.06885v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Cooperative UAV-swarm defenses commonly cross-check GNSS positions against measured inter-drone geometry. We s…
Detection and Ranging of Transient Extrinsic Contacts Based on 6D Dynamic Tactile Sensing
arXiv:2608.07075v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Delicate manipulation often involves transient and subtle collisions between a grasped object and the environmen…
AutoIntervene: Calibrated Intervention for Action-Chunking Imitation Learning Policies
arXiv:2608.07065v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Action-chunking visuomotor policies learn from demonstrations and improve temporal consistency by predicting sho…
C2Dex: Contact-Consistent Reconstruction and Retargeting for Dexterous Manipulation from Monocular Video
arXiv:2608.07045v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: High-quality demonstrations for dexterous robot manipulation are costly and difficult to collect, whereas monocu…
A Haptic Robot Finger Designed for Guqin Instrument Playing
arXiv:2608.07002v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: With the rapid advancement of humanoid robotics and embodied intelligence technologies, numerous musical instrum…
How Should I Pick a Foundation Model for My Robot? In Favor of a Community Evaluation Framework for Social Robots
arXiv:2608.06898v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Researchers who seek to build social robot applications on foundation models are faced with a difficult question…
Panoramic Multimodal Semantic Occupancy Prediction for Quadruped Robots
arXiv:2603.13108v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Panoramic imagery provides holistic 360{\deg} visual coverage for environmental perception in quadruped robo…
Robot guide with multi-agent control and automatic scenario generation with LLM
arXiv:2509.10317v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The article describes the development of a hybrid social robot control architecture to overcome the limitati…
Beyond Visibility: Real-Time Surface Accessibility Fields from Sparse LiDAR
arXiv:2608.06412v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Understanding which surfaces in a scene are physically accessible to a given tool is fundamental for robotic i…
Unordered Landmark Visual Navigation
arXiv:2608.06833v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Image-goal navigation is a fundamental capability for embodied AI, yet its practical deployment is strained by s…
Is Forward Prediction Enough? Physical State Grounding for JEPA World Models
arXiv:2608.06799v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Learning structured and control-relevant latent representations remains a key challenge for world models. Recent…