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3285 storiesAtlasVLA: Persistent World-Ego State Modeling for Vision-Language-Action Models
arXiv:2608.06729v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have advanced embodied AI, their fundamentally reactive paradigm sever…
CrossTracer: Cross-Embodiment Navigation via VLA Model Reasoning and Trace Residuals Adapting
arXiv:2608.06688v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language-action (VLA) models provide strong semantic priors for robot navigation, but they often ignore e…
Analog Devices returns as strategic sponsor to aid MassRobotics startups
Analog Devices Inc. is supporting MassRobotics startups with Analog Garage and participating in events including RoboBusiness. The post Analog Devices returns a…
Experts look ahead at the next 20 years of robotics at RoboBusiness
At Robobusiness, leaders in robotics will explore the technologies, opportunities, and challenges that will shape the next twenty years. The post Experts look a…
Tacta Systems takes aim at high-skilled manufacturing work with TactaBot
Tacta Systems unveiled a three-part system, including its robotic hand, that enables users to teach its robot new dexterous skills. The post Tacta Systems takes…
Building robots that survive the warehouse
Nomagic says its real moat is production data, because the messiness of real warehouses is where robots either prove themselves or fail. The post Building robot…
Avatar Robotics raises seed round to address industrial labor constraints
Avatar Robotics raised $6.5 million in funding to scale humanoid robots and remote teleoperation across industrial supply chains. The post Avatar Robotics raise…
AI agents create virtual playgrounds to help robots get crucial training data
A new system developed at MIT uses three agents to piece together the objects, walls, and overall look of a 3D scene. Its realistic recreations of indoor spaces…
$\omega$-0: A Latent Predictive World Action Model for Concurrent Humanoid Loco-Manipulation
arXiv:2608.06375v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Humanoid household tasks often require concurrent loco-manipulation, where the robot must move, adjust posture, …
LoDA: A Level of Detection Aware Method and a Multimodal Sensing Benchmark for Object Level Change Detection
arXiv:2608.05356v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: High-definition 3D LiDAR maps are important for autonomous driving and smart-city services, which require reli…
Hijacking Robots with a Piece of Paper: A Systematic Study of Physical Prompt Injection in VLM-Controlled Robots
arXiv:2608.05715v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language Models (VLMs) are increasingly deployed as planners in robotic systems, where they translate nat…
Robot Learning from Human Demonstrations: Handwritten Alphabet Trajectories and Human-Likeness Evaluation
arXiv:2608.06221v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Learning from demonstration (LfD) provides a developmental framework through which robots can develop motor skil…
XEWorld: Can Action-Conditioned World Models Generalize to Unseen Robot Embodiments?
arXiv:2608.05799v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Action-conditioned world models are promising learned simulators for robotic manipulation, yet evaluating them e…
SkillMemo: Expert-guided Skill Memory Framework for Compositional Embodied Manipulation
arXiv:2608.05970v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Embodied visuomotor models, including Diffusion Policy (DP) and Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models, have demons…
Robotic Nanoparticle Synthesis via Solution-based Processes
arXiv:2604.12169v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We present a screw geometry-based manipulation planning framework for the robotic automation of solution-bas…
IcFuzz: Fuzzing Isaac Sim with Semantic Stage Guidance and Multi-level Mutation
arXiv:2608.06088v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robotics simulators serve as a foundational infrastructure for embodied AI, facilitating safe and scalable robot…
Adaptive-WAM: Quality-Guided Early-Exit Planning from Intermediate Video-Diffusion Features
arXiv:2608.06008v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large video diffusion models provide rich spatiotemporal priors for autonomous driving, but existing world-actio…
Coordinated Multi-Robot Disassembly for Makespan Optimization of Large-Scale Assemblies
arXiv:2608.05830v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-robot task and motion planning for disassembly tasks requires robots to operate in confined workspaces whi…
Parallel-in-Time Nonlinear Optimal Control via GPU-native Sequential Convex Programming
arXiv:2603.10711v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Real-time solution of nonlinear optimal control problems remains challenging on embedded robotic hardware, w…
Topometric Autonomous Vehicle Localization by Combining Visual Embeddings and Feed-Forward 3D Models
arXiv:2608.06021v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Effective Visual Localization (VL) requires a map of the environment that combines compactness for efficient sca…
Near-sensor Computing for Rapid Visuotactile Perception
arXiv:2608.05725v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Visuotactile sensors reconstruct dense contact geometry from measured surface gradients, but host-based processi…
PathCover: A Fast Convex Decomposition along a Path via Randomized Iterative Space Partitioning (RISP) on Point Clouds
arXiv:2608.05586v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous robot navigation requires the rapid generation of obstacle-free regions for trajectory planning. Howe…
VLAff: Vision-Language-Affordance Model for Unified Actionable Affordances
arXiv:2608.05215v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Learning manipulation skills from human videos is promising for scalable robot learning. However, the embodiment…
Acoustic-driven millimetric helical robot: ultrasonic synergistic manipulation in confined fluidic environment
arXiv:2608.05746v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Acoustic field-driven manipulation provides a non-contact and non-invasive strategy for controlling microscale a…
Nonvisual Classification of Ground-Condition by Artificial Proprioception in an Amoeba-Inspired Autonomous Walking Robot
arXiv:2608.05684v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Nonvisual classification of ground condition based on a multimodal sensing approach was investigated for an amoe…
DFM-VLA: Iterative Action Refinement for Robot Manipulation via Discrete Flow Matching
arXiv:2603.26320v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models that encode actions using a discrete tokenization scheme have been widel…
Path Planning of Cleaning Robot with Reinforcement Learning
arXiv:2208.08211v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Recently, as the demand for cleaning robots has steadily increased, therefore household electricity consumpt…
Prior-SG: Task and Prior Driven Region Segmentation for Scene Graphs in Arbitrarily-Structured Environments
arXiv:2608.06170v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Hierarchical 3D scene graphs are a promising representation for high-level spatial reasoning in autonomous mobil…
ARGUS: Aligning Robot Scene Geometry Under Shifting Views with Large 3D Vision Models
arXiv:2608.05579v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large-scale visuomotor policies have demonstrated impressive performance across a wide range of robot manipulati…
A Master-Salve Robot Manipulator for Needle-Based Teleoperation in MRI Chamber
arXiv:2608.06354v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present a MR safe, master-slave robot manipulator for abdominal interventions in the MRI chamber. A human ope…