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3285 storiesAssistax: 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…
UMCP: A Unified Multi-Task Collaborative Perception Network for Luggage Trolley Pose Estimation
arXiv:2607.17950v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In robotic autonomous luggage trolley collection, robots must continuously localize scattered luggage trolleys i…
Foresight Residual RL for Long-Horizon Robot Manipulation with Vision-Language-Action Models
arXiv:2607.16506v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) policies offer strong general-purpose manipulation priors, but often fail on tight-…
Control Design for a Rideable Animatronic Two-Wheeled Robot with Quadruped Form
arXiv:2607.16302v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In recent years, motorcycle popularity has been declining, particularly among the younger generations. To rekind…
AI-Augmented Model Predictive Control for Safe and Adaptive Rendezvous and Proximity Operations
arXiv:2607.16630v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous rendezvous and proximity operations (RPO) in adversarial orbital environments require guidance archit…
FM-VLA: Force-based Memory for Vision-Language-Action Models in Contact-Rich Manipulation
arXiv:2607.18231v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language-action (VLA) models have achieved impressive generalization in robotic manipulation, and recent …
HCPG-Flow:Hierarchical Contact-Progress Guidance for Flow-Policy Robot Manipulation
arXiv:2607.17651v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Flow policies can represent multimodal action distributions for robot manipulation, yet a robot must execute one…
Asynchronous Multimodal Diffusion Policy Composition via Latency-Aware Guidance Fusion
arXiv:2607.17257v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Diffusion policies have shown strong potential for robotic imitation learning, and recent extensions incorporate…
Generalist AI Control: Towards Multi-purpose Adaptive Algorithms
arXiv:2607.16313v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Traditional controllers are designed for specific systems and do not transfer across different system orders a…
Retriever: Composing Closed-Loop Asynchronous Robot Programs
arXiv:2607.17213v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Building long-horizon robot agents requires composing closed-loop pipelines -- perception, belief update, planni…
Imitation of Arm Gestures by the Semi-Humanoid Robot NICO
arXiv:2607.18197v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Seamless human-robot interaction (HRI) requires a number of perceptual and motor abilities from the robot, one o…
Predicting Grasping Compliance in Robotic Hands through Analytical-Model-Informed Neural Networks
arXiv:2607.17541v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In robotic manipulation studies, grasping is often treated as a binary success or failure problem, usually defin…
Move First, Commit Later: Selective LiDAR-to-BIM Global Initialization via Sequential Consensus with Symmetry-Aware Abstention
arXiv:2607.17103v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Global LiDAR-to-BIM initialization must place a robot within an as-designed building model without a prior pose.…
Digital-physical testbed for ship autonomy studies in the Marine Cybernetics Laboratory basin
arXiv:2505.06787v5 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The algorithms developed for Maritime Autonomous Surface Ships (MASS) are often challenging to test on actua…
What Do They See? Interpreting Complex Road Scenarios Through the Eyes of Vision-Language-Action Models for Safe and Trustworthy Autonomous Vehicle Learning
arXiv:2607.16938v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: End-to-end autonomous driving models are now able to navigate complex road scenarios, mapping raw sensor obser…
SinD 2.0: A Multi-City UAV Dataset with Semantic Risk Annotations for SOTIF-Oriented Safety Validation at Signalized Intersections
arXiv:2607.16943v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Safety validation at signalized intersections remains a critical bottleneck for the deployment of autonomous dri…