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3285 storiesEvent-Based Upper-Body Humanoid Teleoperation Under Challenging Illumination
arXiv:2607.29227v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present a real-time upper-body human-to-humanoid motion imitation framework driven by neuromorphic event-base…
Temporal Policy: History-Initialized Action Generation for Robotic Learning from Demonstration
arXiv:2607.29482v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: By relying on independent couplings from uninformative Gaussian priors, standard diffusion and flow matching mod…
Shepherding UAV Swarm with Action Prediction Based on Movement Constraints
arXiv:2604.17189v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: In this study, we propose a new sheepdog-inspired control method for a swarm of small unmanned aerial vehicl…
Bootstrapping Self-Supervised Learning of Binary Classification Using Error Bounds: A Case Study on a Robotic Insertion Task
arXiv:2607.29640v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Flexible manufacturing requires rapid deployment of solutions and minimal setup time to remain competitive. An e…
RAPiD: Reward-Guided Consistency Distillation of Diffusion Planners for Real-Time Autonomous Driving
arXiv:2602.07339v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Diffusion-based trajectory planners can model multi-modal driving behavior, but their iterative denois…
Google DeepMind says Gemini Robotics 2 enables full body control
Gemini Robotics 2 enables robots to reason through every movement, unlocking a broad range of tasks, DeepMind said. The post Google DeepMind says Gemini Robotic…
Top 10 robotics stories of July 2026
In July, large funding rounds, new approaches to robot training, and new robot models drew our readers attention. The post Top 10 robotics stories of July 2026 …
KUKA deploys Automation Management Platform for North American automakers
KUKA has deployed its Automation Management Platform at KTPO, a major manufacturing facility in Ohio. The post KUKA deploys Automation Management Platform for N…
FCC robot ruling shines a spotlight on U.S. policy; how next-gen AI can help warehousing
Osaro’s Derek Pridmore says warehouse robots are advancing, but real-world safety and reliability still depend on specialized, layered AI systems. The post FCC …
Procore Technologies acquires DroneDeploy for $845M
Procore will integrate DroneDeploy's visual intelligence technology to link the digital world with physical construction sites. The post Procore Technologies ac…
RMBench: Memory-Dependent Robotic Manipulation Benchmark with Insights into Policy Design
arXiv:2603.01229v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Robotic manipulation policies have made rapid progress in recent years, yet most existing approaches give li…
SeedPolicy: Horizon Scaling via Self-Evolving Diffusion Policy for Robot Manipulation
arXiv:2603.05117v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Imitation Learning (IL) enables robots to acquire manipulation skills from expert demonstrations. Diffusion …
PAC-MAN: Perception-Aware CBF-RL for Whole-Body Safety in Humanoid Dodgeball
arXiv:2607.28623v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present PAC-MAN, a perception-aware CBF-RL framework that couples control-barrier safety with deployment-real…
Simulation of Surgical Suturing Using Position-Based Dynamics and the Material Point Method for Robot Reinforcement Learning
arXiv:2607.27494v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advances in robotics research have created a strong demand for high-performance simulators. Surgical robo…
When Robots Exchange Meaning: A Demo of Goal-Oriented Semantic Communications for Collaborative Robotics
arXiv:2607.28256v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Collaborative robotics is a representative task-oriented 6G use-case, where communication quality should be refl…
Machines that know they are aging: a framework for hardware-aware autonomous intelligence
arXiv:2607.28451v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous systems inevitably age, yet their artificial intelligence typically assumes hardware remains in its o…
Corrigible Assistance in One Round: Pragmatic-Pedagogic Best Response
arXiv:2607.27508v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Assistance games formalize human-robot collaboration under asymmetric information: the human knows the goal, whi…
DexDirect: Direct Kinesthetic Arm Guidance for Efficient Dexterous Demonstration Collection
arXiv:2607.27784v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Scalable collection of dexterous manipulation demonstrations remains a major bottleneck for robot learning. High…
ARCSnake V2: Mechanical Adaptations For An Amphibious Multi-Domain Screw-Propelled Snake-Like Robot
arXiv:2511.11970v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Robotic exploration in extreme environments, such as caves, oceans, and extraplanetary surfaces, poses signi…
Goal-Oriented Semantic Communication for ISAC-Enabled Robotic Obstacle Avoidance
arXiv:2603.02291v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We investigate an integrated sensing and communication (ISAC)-enabled BS for the unmanned aerial vehicle (UA…
LabEvolver: Training-Free Experience Evolution for Safe and Grounded Wet-Lab Agents
arXiv:2607.27690v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce LabEvolver, a training-free framework that equips safe and grounded wet-lab agents with episodic me…
X-NavDP: Generalizing Navigation Diffusion Policy to Novel Behavior and Embodiments with Group Q-score Reweighted Matching
arXiv:2607.28560v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Pretraining navigation diffusion policies rely on large-scale expert demonstrations. These data are typically ge…
HALO: Heterogeneous Admission through Localized Obligations for Safe Agentic Execution
arXiv:2607.27636v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent agentic AI systems may return a heterogeneous response containing notices, requests, handoffs, and acti…
Cross-Embodiment Transfer via Behavior-Aligned Representations
arXiv:2607.27549v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent progress in large-scale imitation learning for robot manipulation has been driven by leveraging datasets …
CLAM: Continuous Latent Action Models for Robot Learning from Unlabeled Demonstrations
arXiv:2505.04999v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Learning robot control policies from demonstrations typically requires action-labeled expert data, which is …
SharedAssembly: A Data Collection Approach via Shared Tele-Assembly
arXiv:2503.12287v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: High-precision, tight-clearance assembly demonstrations are indispensable for training tactile-aware robotic…
RedFlow: Redirect Failure into Action-Level Corrections for Flow-matching VLA Policy
arXiv:2607.27782v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Flow-matching Vision-Language-Action (VLA) policies have shown strong potential for robotic manipulation but oft…
Failure Detection for Surgical Robot Imitation Policies via Flow-Matching World Modeling
arXiv:2607.27511v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Imitation learning has shown increasing promise for autonomous robotic surgery, yet safe deployment remains chal…
One Future, Every Robot: Label-Efficient Collective-State Prediction with Decentralized JEPA
arXiv:2607.28443v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Can every robot in a swarm predict the same future collective state from only local observations and bandwidth-l…
Arm2Air: Cross-Embodiment Skeleton Transfer for 3D Relay Formation
arXiv:2607.27627v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) relay networks can restore connectivity after communication infrastructure is dama…