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Why vision AI is the safety backbone of the automated job site
Vision AI doesn't replace robots or human judgement; it provides the continuous perception that allows both to operate safely together. The post Why vision AI i…
MassRobotics shares member survey results around FCC restrictions
MassRobotics has found that companies were split on the FCC ban on new foreign-produced mobile robots. The post MassRobotics shares member survey results around…
Agility Robotics reports $1.8M revenue ahead of humanoid SPAC
Agility Robotics’ S-4 filing reveals $1.8 million in 2025 revenue, a $140 million operating loss and plans to scale its Digit humanoid robot business. The post …
Inbolt to discuss physical AI’s deployment problem at RoboBusiness
Rudy Cohen, the co-founder and CEO of Inbolt, will reframe where physical AI pays off at RoboBusiness this fall. The post Inbolt to discuss physical AI’s …
Could robots help tackle loneliness? BBC’s Ann Droid raises questions about the future of care
By Maria Jose Galvez Trigo, Cardiff University and Paul Willis, Cardiff University New BBC sitcom Ann Droid imagines a near future in which robots provide care …
APEX-RBD: Mixed-Precision Exploration Framework for Hardware-Efficient Robot Dynamics Accelerator Design
arXiv:2609.05161v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Rigid Body Dynamics (RBD) forms the computational core of real-time robotic control, but its immense computati…
One Diffusion Model, Two Roles: Guided Trajectory Planning and Safety-Critical Scenario Generation in Closed-Loop Simulation
arXiv:2609.04921v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Diffusion probabilistic models can capture the multi-modal, interaction-rich distribution of joint future traj…
SocioGesture: Real-Time and Adaptive Social Gesture Perception for Human-Robot Interaction
arXiv:2609.04545v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robots interacting with people must recognize not only explicit commands, but also social cues such as invitatio…
ToPos: Automated Optimal Positioning on Topographic Manifolds using Constrained Geodesic Voronoi Decomposition
arXiv:2609.05084v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reliable autonomous mapping, environmental sampling, last-mile logistics, and infrastructure deployment depend o…
EmbodiedLGR: Integrating Lightweight Graph Representation and Retrieval for Semantic-Spatial Memory in Robotic Agents
arXiv:2604.18271v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: As the world of agentic artificial intelligence applied to robotics evolves, the need for agents capable of …
RoboSPA: Can VLA Models Go Beyond Simple Scenes and Short-Horizon Tasks?
arXiv:2609.05324v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have shown promising progress in language-conditioned robotic manipulation. …
Morphology and actuation as inductive biases in robotic hand manipulation
arXiv:2609.05206v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robotic hands vary widely in anatomical fidelity and mechanical complexity, and these structural choices influen…
LIBERO-RECOVER: Beyond Task Success Towards Failure Recovery in Robotic Manipulation Models
arXiv:2609.05178v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) or World Action (WAM) models have recently demonstrated remarkable performance in r…
A Schema Bounded Language Model for Refining Robot Policies Without Destabilizing Local Learning
arXiv:2609.05133v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper addresses navigation by composite heterogeneous robots in a decentralized system when policy reasonin…
Continuous Cognitive Coverage for Autonomous Robots via Event-Dependent Cognitive Treatment and Learning
arXiv:2609.04770v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous robots continuously encounter objects, changes, and situations, and every event admitted into cogniti…
AquaBEV: Monocular Underwater BEV Occupancy with 3D Sonar Supervision
arXiv:2609.04411v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous underwater robots are widely used for exploration, monitoring, and inspection, where safe navigation …
MINT: A Unified Model for World-Space Camera and Hand Motion Estimation from Scalable Egocentric Pipeline Supervision
arXiv:2609.04958v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recovering camera and hand motion in world coordinates from egocentric video is a key capability for activity …
CrossDepth: Geometry-Constrained Attention for Generalizable Multi-View Surround Depth Estimation
arXiv:2609.05397v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reliable 3D understanding of the surrounding environment is a core requirement for autonomous driving. Multi-v…
Octopus Protocol: One-Shot Hardware Discovery and Control for AI Agents via Infrastructure-as-Prompts
arXiv:2605.09055v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Bringing a previously unintegrated device under the control of an AI agent still requires device-specific en…
YOLO with Kolmogorov-Arnold networks and vision-language foundation models for interpretable object detection with trustworthy multimodal AI in computer vision perception
arXiv:2603.23037v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The trustworthy object detection capabilities of a novel Kolmogorov-Arnold network framework are exami…
SCRIPT: Scalable Diffusion Policy with Multi-stage Training for Language-driven Physics-Based Humanoid Control
arXiv:2605.22894v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Controlling physics-based humanoids from natural-language instructions is a critical step toward gener…
Out-of-Distribution Semantic Occupancy Prediction
arXiv:2506.21185v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: 3D semantic occupancy prediction is crucial for autonomous driving, providing a dense, semantically ri…
Multi-Robot Bearing-based Pose Estimation via Angle Rigidity
arXiv:2606.03931v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: This letter proposes a novel distributed pose estimator for multi-robot systems evolving on $\mathrm{SE}(3)$…
Pack It My Way: Triadic Human-Robot Collaboration for Personalized Autonomous Packing
arXiv:2609.04620v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Personalized autonomous packing requires robots to account for resident preferences that cannot be inferred from…
Open-Set 3D Scene Graphs for Field Robotics: An Outdoor Case Study
arXiv:2609.04607v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Three-dimensional scene graphs (3DSGs) have emerged as a promising approach for building geometrically grounded,…
Continual Field-Adaptive Models (CFAMs) for Post-Deployment Physical AI
arXiv:2609.04552v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Unattended interactive autonomy - machines that step into danger in place of humans and complete tasks with huma…
VLA-Precision: Asymmetric Co-Bootstrapping for Efficient Real-World Online RL of Vision-Language-Action Models
arXiv:2609.04355v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Pretrained vision-language-action (VLA) models enable broad manipulation but remain unreliable in tasks demandin…
Scalable Edge-assisted Fusion and Path Prediction for Connected Autonomous Vehicles
arXiv:2609.04364v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The planning algorithms inside an Autonomous Vehicle (AV) rely on information from on-board sensors whose line o…
Dressing in Motion: A Human Motion-Aware Diffusion Policy for Robot-Assisted Dressing
arXiv:2609.04759v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robotic dressing assistance is a promising solution for supporting older adults with physical impairments in dai…
Coupled Control and Wireless World Models for Resilient Remote Robotic Control
arXiv:2609.04851v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Remote robotic systems operating over wireless networks must maintain reliable control despite limited communica…