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1860 storiesWorldScape Policy 2.0: Empowering Steerable World Action Modeling with Reasoning-Augmented Memory
arXiv:2607.18840v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: World Action Models (WAMs) offer a promising paradigm for robotic manipulation by jointly modeling visual state …
RoboInspector: Unveiling the Unreliability of Policy Code for LLM-enabled Robotic Manipulation
arXiv:2508.21378v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) demonstrate remarkable capabilities in reasoning and code generation, enabling …
VOFA: Visual Object Goal Pushing with Force-Adaptive Control for Humanoids
arXiv:2605.01518v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The ability to push large objects in a goal-directed manner using onboard egocentric perception is an essent…
Motion Primitive Discovery in a Humanoid Robot via Self-Organising Maps for Phase Recognition
arXiv:2607.18737v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Understanding the computational basis of action recognition is a central challenge in social cognition as well a…
FARO: Feasibility-Aware Robot Motion Optimization
arXiv:2607.18362v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Fast planning of novel behaviors in unseen scenarios remains a fundamental challenge in robotics. The high-dimen…
Guide, Think, Act: Interactive Embodied Reasoning in Vision-Language-Action Models
arXiv:2605.13632v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: In this paper, we propose GTA-VLA(Guide, Think, Act), an interactive Vision-Language-Action (VLA) framework …
Hazard or Anomaly? Evaluating VLMs for Understanding Dangers and Discrepancies
arXiv:2607.18325v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Modern safety-critical systems increasingly rely on human-robot interaction to reduce disaster risk and suppor…
MVP-Tac: A Miniaturized Dual-Modal Vision and Photoelastic Tactile Sensor for Robot-Assisted Minimally Invasive Surgery
arXiv:2607.18660v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robot-assisted minimally invasive surgery (RMIS) offers major benefits over open and conventional laparoscopic p…
DASH Robot: Minimalistic Design and Optimal Aerial-Terrestrial Locomotion via Contact-Implicit Control
arXiv:2607.18527v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present a novel and minimalistic design of an aerial-terrestrial robot DASH: Ducted Aerial Spring Hopper. The…
EquiBim: Learning Symmetry-Equivariant Policy for Bimanual Manipulation
arXiv:2603.08541v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Robotic imitation learning has achieved impressive success in learning complex manipulation behaviors from d…
Eversion-based robots can enable safe access,steering and endoscopic imaging within the spinal subarachnoid space
arXiv:2607.19274v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Safe navigation within the spinal subarachnoid space is constrained by its narrow, compliant, and delicate anato…
Beyond Fixed Goal Delivery: Online POMDP Planning for Target Interception in Crowds
arXiv:2607.18517v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Target interception in crowded environments requires reaching a moving objective while navigating among multiple…
Design and stability analysis of an underactuated hand with passively rotating fingers
arXiv:2607.18950v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper presents an innovative design and stability analysis of an underactuated robotic finger with spatial …
Teaching Robots to Interpret Social Interactions through Lexically-guided Dynamic Graph Learning
arXiv:2604.10895v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: For a robot to be called socially intelligent, it must be able to infer users internal states from the…
Bridging the Sim-to-Real Gap under Real-Time Constraints in Autonomous Racing
arXiv:2607.18586v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous racing exposes the sim-to-real gap under extreme operating conditions characterized by high speed, ti…
Assistax: A Multi-Agent Hardware-Accelerated Reinforcement Learning Benchmark for Assistive Robotics
arXiv:2507.21638v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: As embodied autonomous systems capable of assisting humans in daily activities remain a major goal for…
Evaluating Uncertainty and Quality of Visual Language Action-enabled Robots
arXiv:2507.17049v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA)-enabled robots integrate visual perception, natural language understandin…
STeP: Signal Temporal Logic for Precise Specifications for Action Generation with Vision Language Models
arXiv:2607.18580v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language-action (VLA) models have shown impressive generalization, but often lack interpretability and ca…
RoboInter1.5: A Holistic Intermediate Representation Suite for Embodied World Modeling and Robotic Manipulation
arXiv:2607.18709v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Existing robot datasets remain expensive to curate, embodiment-specific, and insufficiently annotated with the f…
Vicarious Surgical officially shutting down
Vicarious Surgical raised about $300 million in total, most of that from a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) merger in 2021. The post Vicarious Surgica…
U.K.-based Humanoid secures $152M in Series A funding
Humanoid said it has reached a $1.35 billion valuation as it scales its AI-driven industrial robots and expands commercial deployments. The post U.K.-based Huma…
Generative Bionics unveils humanoid robot with full-body tactile sensing
Generative Bionics said its Gene.01 humanoid is fully sensorized, helping it quickly anticipate human presence and respond. The post Generative Bionics unveils …
Friction is key to making better robot world models
Deploying world models in real robotic systems requires a step that receives less attention than the models themselves: conditioning. The post Friction is key t…
MISUMI Americas releases reshoring report, supports manufacturing training bill
MISUMI Americas has examined reshoring of U.S. manufacturing and supported legislation to send workers overseas for training. The post MISUMI Americas releases …
Predictive Training with Latent Imagination for Visual Quadruped Navigation
arXiv:2607.17574v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement-learning navigation policies for legged robots select actions reactively from current observations…
Path Planning Optimisation for SParse, AwaRe and Cooperative Networked Aerial Robot Teams (SpArC-NARTs): Optimisation Tool and Ground Sensing Coverage Use Cases
arXiv:2602.14247v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: A networked aerial robot team (NART) comprises a group of agents (e.g., unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), gro…
World Translation: Minimizing Sim-to-Real Gap with Backward Dynamics Extraction and Unpaired Domain Translation
arXiv:2607.18154v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The gap between simulation and reality remains a fundamental challenge in deploying simulation-trained robotic p…
Articulated Humanoid Head for a Robot Receptionist Capable of Natural Human Interaction
arXiv:2607.17042v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Humanoid robots have become increasingly popular in applications such as social interaction, education, and serv…
A Sensorless, Inherently Compliant Anthropomorphic Musculoskeletal Hand Driven by Electrohydraulic Actuators
arXiv:2603.24357v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Robotic manipulation in unstructured environments requires end-effectors that combine kinematic dexterity wi…
SHAPE: Simultaneous Water Hydraulic Actuation and Position Estimation of a Sensorless Remote Actuator through a Thin and Long Flexible Tube
arXiv:2607.17054v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robot sensors and electronic equipment are prone to failure in harsh environments. With water hydraulic drive, t…