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CreateMe partners with Avalo and Laguna Fabrics to bring resilience to apparel supply chains
CreateMe said the partnership aims to demonstrate how apparel can be produced faster, more locally, and with greater supply chain resilience. The post CreateMe …
Why physical AI 2.0 needs a reality check
While vision and language are key parts of physical AI, physical state recovery will enable robots to interact with the world, says a columnist. The post Why ph…
AI brings object-level vision prosthetics closer to reality
Image credit: By Jeff Dahl – Own work by uploader, Based on the public domain document: [1], CC BY-SA 3.0, Link By Stephanie Parker This research from the…
FORT and NVIDIA launch AI-driven Outside-In Safety blueprint
FORT Robotics and NVIDIA launch Outside-In Safety, using external sensors to improve autonomous robot productivity and worker safety. The post FORT and NVIDIA l…
Eclipse Automation launches RealitySync simulation platform
Eclipse said its new RealitySync platform allows manufacturers to step into their future factory before it’s built. The post Eclipse Automation launches Reality…
Bear Robotics acquires Kinisi Robotics to boost its physical AI capabilities
Kinisi's KR1 humanoid robot, its Bristol-based engineering team, and its physical AI capabilities will be integrated into Bear Robotics. The post Bear Robotics …
How Intrinsic eliminates manual robot coding
Alphabet’s Intrinsic has debuted its AI-powered "Intelligence Cell" to simplify factory automation and eliminate complex robot programming. The post How Intrins…
Cobot’s Proxie Gen 2 robot adds autotasking, mobile manipulation
Cobot founder and CEO Brad Porter said Proxie Gen 2 can determine when materials are ready to move, identify destinations, and create tasks without human interv…
NVIDIA releases Halos, a full-stack safety system for robotics
NVIDIA said Halos connects AI compute, system software, sensor data, safety applications, and inspection for robotic systems. The post NVIDIA releases Halos, a …
Güdel to show grinding beyond stationary robots with vertical, horizontal motion at Automate 2026
Güdel has added two degrees of freedom to heavy-duty robotic grinding applications through its TMV and TMF systems. The post Güdel to show grinding beyond stati…
Defense manufacturing readiness hinges on autonomous finishing, says GrayMatter Robotics
The Navy's industrial base review identified a projected need for 174,000 new workers. GrayMatter says robotics can fill this gap. The post Defense manufacturin…
AURA Foresight Reaches Global XPRIZE Wildfire Finals in Alaska
One of only four teams remaining from more than 130 competitors worldwide, our team AURA Foresight is developing autonomous technology to stop wildfires before …
Robot Talk Episode 161 – Collaborative haptic systems, with Allison Okamura
Claire chatted to Allison Okamura from Stanford University about developing advanced robotic systems for haptic (touch) interaction. Allison Okamura is the Rich…
Elmo releases new motion controller and servo drives for industrial applications
Elmo said its latest products set new benchmarks for power density, expand its existing Platinum line, and introduce the Titanium line. The post Elmo releases n…
U.S. robotics industry saw double-digit growth in 2025, says IFR
The IFR said robust growth in the food industry and other non-manufacturing sectors drove this recovery in the U.S. robotics industry. The post U.S. robotics in…
Playful Agentic Robot Learning
arXiv:2606.19419v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Current agentic robot systems can write executable Code-as-Policy programs, observe feedback, and revise behavio…
3D Scene Graphs: Open Challenges and Future Directions
arXiv:2606.19383v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: 3D Scene Graphs (3DSGs) have emerged as a powerful representation for spatial AI by combining geometric groundin…
Temporal Self-Imitation Learning
arXiv:2606.19752v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-horizon robot manipulation policies trained with reward shaping can still exploit dense rewards through ine…
Physical Atari: A Robust and Accessible Platform for Real-time Reinforcement Learning on Robots
arXiv:2606.19357v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We built a robot called the Robotroller that actuates an Atari CX40+ controller and a device called the Atari De…
Efficiently Linking Real Scenes with Synthetic Data Generation for AI-based Cognitive Robotics and Computer Vision Applications
arXiv:2606.20272v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI vision models are a driving factor for the potential use case scenarios of cognitive robotics within in the i…
Dual-Agent Framework for Cross-Model Verified Translation of Natural-Language Protocols into Robotic Laboratory Platform
arXiv:2606.20120v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Biological experiment protocols are written in natural language, whereas automation systems rely on predefined c…
Frequency-Aware Flow Matching for Continuous and Consistent Robotic Action Generation
arXiv:2606.20135v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Flow matching has emerged as a standard paradigm for robotic manipulation owing to its strong expressive power f…
WorkBenchMark: A LEGO-Based Assembly Benchmark with an Assembly-by-Disassembly Baseline for the Smart Manufacturing League
arXiv:2606.19358v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduceWorkBenchMark, a LEGO Duplo-based robotic assembly benchmark motivated by the RoboCup Smart Manufact…
DiffusionVS: A Generative Framework for Robust Visual Servoing Based on Diffusion Policy
arXiv:2606.19397v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Visual servoing is a fundamental technique in robotic manipulation and navigation. Regression-based visual servo…
Simulating Robotic Locomotion in Sand: Resistive Force Theory in an Open-Source Physics Engine
arXiv:2606.19504v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advancements in Resistive Force Theory (RFT) enable approximation of ground reaction forces for locomotio…
Formal Verification of Learned Multi-Agent Communication Policies via Decision Tree Distillation
arXiv:2606.19632v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) enables agents to develop coordination strategies through emergent com…
Scaling Self-Play for End-to-End Driving
arXiv:2606.19641v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: End-to-end autonomous driving models are typically trained on offline human-demonstration datasets that provide …
A Differentiable Composite Approximation Framework for Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Maneuvering Modeling from Sea-Trial Data
arXiv:2606.19711v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Field-based modeling from onboard measurements can produce autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) maneuvering model…
VOiLA: Vectorized Online Planning with Learned Diffusion Model for POMDP Agents
arXiv:2606.19729v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Planning under uncertainty is an essential capability for autonomous robots. The Partially Observable Markov Dec…
Data Standards for Humanoid Robotics: The Missing Infrastructure for Physical AI
arXiv:2606.19769v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The scalability of humanoid robots will depend not only on models and hardware, but also on whether physical exp…