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3285 storiesOn-the-fly hand-eye calibration for the da Vinci surgical robot
arXiv:2601.14871v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: In Robot-Assisted Minimally Invasive Surgery (RMIS), accurate tool localization is crucial to ensure patient…
U.S. Navy picks Blue Water Autonomy to use autonomous vessels for deep ocean surveys
Blue Water Autonomy creates unmanned ships that can operate autonomously on the open ocean for months a time. The post U.S. Navy picks Blue Water Autonomy to us…
Zoox unveils production-ready robotaxi for U.S. expansion
Amazon subsidiary Zoox unveiled its final production-ready robotaxi design and expanded testing following a subtle redesign to improve rider comfort. The post Z…
Humanoids won’t scale on factory floors until costs drop
The race to commercialize humanoids is on. What’s left to prove is that humanoid robots can beat the economics of the automation manufacturers are already runni…
VertiAKD: Adaptive Off-Road Kinodynamics on Vertically Challenging Terrain
arXiv:2608.00945v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Off-road mobility requires autonomous mobile robots to generalize across heterogeneous vehicle fleets and contin…
3D-CovDiffusion: 3D-Aware Diffusion Policy for Coverage Path Planning
arXiv:2510.03011v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Diffusion models have shown strong potential for robot skill learning, yet their role in coverage path plann…
DreamTrajectory: Trajectory-Guided Action Generation with World Model Alignment for Mobile Manipulation
arXiv:2608.01381v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Mobile manipulation requires a robot to coordinate base and arm motion under continuously changing viewpoints an…
Multi-View Unified Camera Fields: Geometry-Shaped Action-Facing Representations for RGB-Only Multi-Camera VLA Policies
arXiv:2608.01826v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have shown strong generalization in robotic manipulation, yet complex contac…
Track-Guided Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Vehicle Drifting with Minimum-Lap-Time Planning
arXiv:2608.00113v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In Formula 1, drivers optimize racing lines within tire grip limits to minimize lap times; however, in rally rac…
Belief-Space Perception Routing under Coupled Sensor Faults and Compute Contention
arXiv:2608.00322v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A robot that has to see and react on a fixed clock runs into two problems at once. Its cameras degrade in rain, …
Grounded Vision-Language Interpreter for Long-Horizon Bimanual Task and Motion Planning
arXiv:2506.03270v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: While recent advances in vision-language models have accelerated language-guided robot planning, their black…
LooperMuscle: Fast and Stable Learning of Humanoid Whole-Body Tracking via Structured Mixture-of-Experts
arXiv:2608.00820v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: FastSAC-style methods significantly reduce humanoid motion training time but often suffer from notable performan…
SIPTraj: Map-Free End-to-End Trajectory Prediction via Physics-Guided Scene Interaction
arXiv:2608.00779v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Trajectory prediction of surrounding agents is a prerequisite for safe planning and decision making in autonomou…
Toward Geometry-Scalable Whole-Body Touch for Humanoids: A 3D-Printed Conformal EIT Skin
arXiv:2608.02080v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Whole-body tactile sensing is a prerequisite for humanoids that operate in contact-rich human environments, but …
MANGO-Grasp: Mahalanobis Fields over Geometry-Oriented 3D Gaussians for Cross-Embodiment Dexterous Grasping
arXiv:2608.02014v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Cross-embodiment dexterous grasping aims to synthesize stable grasps across heterogeneous multi-fingered hands w…
Sparse Meets Dense: Correspondence Guided Robotic Manipulation with Rigid-Deformable Interactions
arXiv:2608.01083v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Manipulation involving rigid-deformable interactions, such as hanging clothes or dressing humans, is common in d…
StableMimic: Smooth Human-Like Recovery for Humanoid Motion Tracking - Learning Beyond the Tracking Distribution for Structured Post-Fall Behavior
arXiv:2608.02385v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Humanoid motion trackers perform reliably within learned tracking distributions, but falls can move the robot in…
Push-Wiper: Toward General-Purpose Robotic Cleaning across Varied Stains and Surfaces with Segmented Pushing Trajectories
arXiv:2608.00730v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Viscous stains, characterized by high viscosity and complex rheological properties, remain a major challenge for…
TWINS: A Tactile Wearable Isomorphic Arm Networked System for Contact-Rich Manipulation Learning
arXiv:2608.01733v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advances in robot learning for manipulation have increased the importance of collecting real-world demons…
First Deployable Dynamic-CoM: A Unified Policy and Method-Agnostic Benchmark for Humanoid Single-Leg Balance
arXiv:2608.00500v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Unified humanoid policies handle agile whole-body motion, yet stumble on a simple demand: staying balanced on on…
RobotDancing: Residual-Action Reinforcement Learning Enables Robust Long-Horizon Humanoid Motion Tracking
arXiv:2509.20717v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Long-horizon, high-dynamic motion tracking on humanoids remains brittle: retargeted reference motions are ty…
Why Does Action Chunking Improve Behavioral Cloning Performance in Robotic Control?
arXiv:2608.02547v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Action chunking---predicting and executing multiple actions instead of a single action---has proven to be a crit…
Ego2Robot: Scalable Robot Data Synthesis from Egocentric Human Data
arXiv:2608.02580v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Learning generalizable robot manipulation policies requires large-scale and diverse demonstration data. Egocentr…
Action Chunk Scheduling for Batched Robot Policy Serving
arXiv:2608.00337v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deploying robot foundation models at scale is the next step towards realizing the potential of general-purpose r…
Embodied Passive Aeroacoustic Perception Enables Relative Sensing and Pursuit Between Aerial Robots
arXiv:2608.00401v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Aerial robots generate structured aeroacoustic fields during flight, yet these signals have been underexplored a…
Developing Combined Manipulation and Locomotion Skills with Interaction Representation and Skill Composition
arXiv:2608.00208v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper addresses how to enable a humanoid robot to learn motion policies based on developmental principles a…
Compliant Sphere Lattice Contact: Distributed Contact Modeling for Sphere-Based Robot Representations
arXiv:2608.00263v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Contact planning in robotics requires models that are both computationally efficient and physically accurate. Sp…
OmniAI: A Surface-Adaptive Aerial Projection Interface for Human--Drone Interaction
arXiv:2608.00721v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Drones in human environments often lack spatially grounded in- terfaces for situated communication. We present O…
MoRAL: Sensor-Grounded BEV Reasoning for Compact VLMs toward Edge-Oriented Autonomous Driving
arXiv:2608.02449v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Deploying vision-language models (VLMs) for safety-critical spatial reasoning on resource-constrained autonomo…
World Action Models in Real Time: An Empirical Study of Smooth Execution via Asynchronous Deployment
arXiv:2608.01880v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: World Action Models generate fixed-horizon action chunks through iterative denoising, creating substantial infer…