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3285 storiesBridgeVLA++: A Data-Efficient, Generalizable, and Memory-Augmented Vision-Language-Action Framework for 3D Manipulation
arXiv:2608.05042v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Leveraging pre-trained vision-language models (VLMs) to construct vision-language-action (VLA) models has emerge…
SCOPE: Field-of-View-Aware Path Planning in Unknown 3D Environments via Safety-Volume Certification
arXiv:2608.04420v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Safe navigation with a body-mounted limited-field-of-view sensor requires the complete robot-inflated volume of …
Enabling Urgency-aware Robot Swarm Intralogistics using Smart IoT Tags
arXiv:2608.04721v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Warehouse items differ in how urgently they must be moved: perishable goods, pharmaceutical shipments, and just-…
RESample: A Robust Data Augmentation Framework via Exploratory Sampling for Robotic Manipulation
arXiv:2510.17640v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have shown strong manipulation capability when trained with large-scale …
From Transparent Labware Segmentation to Collision Avoidance: A Real-Time Edge-Aware Perception Pipeline
arXiv:2608.04769v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper presents an edge-aware instance segmentation framework that enables real-time robotic collision avoid…
Static Timing Orchestration for Tree-Structured Robot Control Firmware
arXiv:2608.04600v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As robotic systems become increasingly complex, generating control firmware from structural description files ha…
Feasibility of Embedded Photoplethysmography Sensing in Short-Duration Tactile Interactions With Pocket-Sized Robots Using IMU- and Confidence-Based Filtering
arXiv:2608.04242v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Ubiquitous companion robots offer a promising avenue for immediate anxiety relief in children, yet their effecti…
Approximate Multi-Objective Search Under Rulebooks
arXiv:2608.04398v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robotic planning often involves multiple objectives with complex priority relationships, such as safety, efficie…
Suppression Sticks, Locality Is Fragile: A Closed-Loop Target-and-Control Audit of Task-Vector Negation in VLA Policies
arXiv:2608.04692v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Task-vector arithmetic offers a closed-form way to modify a model, yet its behavioral locality remains unclear i…
SiMDex: Mining Similar Egocentric Videos for Cross-Embodiment Dexterous Manipulation
arXiv:2608.04196v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent years have witnessed an explosive trend of scaling ego-centric human videos for robot manipulation, yet i…
AI-based single-shot structured-light depth reconstruction for real-time laparoscopic surgical guidance
arXiv:2608.05109v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Significance. Accurate intraoperative depth perception is important for autonomous and semi-autonomous robotic…
SafeLand: Safe Autonomous Landing in Unknown Environments with Bayesian Semantic Mapping
arXiv:2603.17430v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Autonomous landing of uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) in unknown, dynamic environments poses significant saf…
Learning Direct Control Policies with Flow Matching for Autonomous Driving
arXiv:2605.14832v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We present a flow-matching planner for autonomous driving that directly outputs actionable control trajector…
A Vision-based Control Framework for Real-time Autonomous UUV Operations
arXiv:2608.04723v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper presents a fully integrated vision-based framework for real-time and robust localization, autonomous …
Moove raises $250M to build infrastructure for autonomous vehicles
The funding will support Moove's expansion of its autonomous fleet ownership and robotics-first depot infrastructure “Nests.” The post Moove raises $250M to bui…
University of Florida opens new robotics lab dedicated to industrialized construction
Fueled by Autodesk, UF opened a robotics lab for industrialized construction to fight housing shortages and labor declines. The post University of Florida opens…
GAM Enterprises to produce Schaeffler’s PSC gear reducers
Acquiring the IP from this core supplier allows GAM to vertically integrate its supply chain and expand its manufacturing capabilities. The post GAM Enterprises…
Avnet and Weston Robot partner to launch edge AI inspection platform
Avnet and Weston Robot have partnered to launch an AI-powered autonomous inspection platform for complex industrial environments. The post Avnet and Weston Robo…
Why perception is the key to scaling industrial autonomy
Autonomy is no longer just about robotic motor skills. It encompasses machine awareness, dynamic decision-making, multi-vehicle coordination, and spatial precis…
Pivot-Centric Trajectory Prediction: Bridging Long Horizons via Dynamical Guidance
arXiv:2608.03521v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Forecasting precise future motion of surrounding agents is essential for reliable autonomous vehicles. However, …
LiLa-WAM: Lightweight Latent Reasoning World-Action Model for Robotic Manipulation
arXiv:2608.03701v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: World-action modeling has emerged as a promising paradigm for robotic control, as it empowers models to go beyon…
How Should Vision-Language-Action Models Use Proprioceptive State?
arXiv:2608.03052v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models almost universally take robot proprioceptive state as input, yet wire…
Learning Context-Aware Motion Priors for Humanoid Control
arXiv:2608.03234v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Motion priors provide powerful guidance for learning naturalistic humanoid behaviors. However, existing methods …
PACE: Physics Augmentation for Coordinated End-to-end Reinforcement Learning toward Versatile Humanoid Table Tennis
arXiv:2509.21690v5 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Humanoid table tennis (TT) demands rapid perception, proactive whole-body motion, and agile footwork under s…
Toward Certified Functional Safety for Industrial Humanoid Robots: The Fail-Passive Gap and a Feasibility Study
arXiv:2608.02809v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Industrial humanoid robots are constrained less by locomotion or manipulation capability than by the immaturity …
Passively Safe Convex Guidance for Cislunar Rendezvous and Proximity Operations
arXiv:2608.03060v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper presents purely convex programs for passively safe impulsive rendezvous and proximity operations in c…
PhyAI: Real-Time Physical AI at the Edge, Scalable Rollouts in the Cloud
arXiv:2608.03682v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Physical AI policies require inference throughout their lifecycle, including model evaluation, cloud reinforce…
Multimodal Plant Root Phenotyping with Integration of 3D Skeleton Extraction and Language Analysis
arXiv:2608.03109v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Plant root phenotyping is fundamental to understanding below-ground structures, optimizing crop management, an…
GORDON: Graph-based Object-centric Rewards for Decomposition of Long-Horizon Manipulation
arXiv:2608.03753v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Learning long-horizon manipulation skills with reinforcement learning remains challenging due to the complexity …
A Hierarchical Approach to Imitation Learning for Manipulation Tasks Requiring Time Varying Forces
arXiv:2608.03103v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Diffusion policies have shown strong performance in learning complex, multi-modal behaviors for robotic manipula…