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3285 storiesARTiS: An Adaptive Robotic Gripper for Enhanced Tool Manipulation in Disassembly Applications
arXiv:2609.03362v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Grasping and holding tools while using them presents a considerable challenge not only for robots but also for h…
Seeing Less Is Not Seeing Safely: Privacy Leakage from Task-Scoped Robot Perception Exports
arXiv:2609.03055v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Domestic robots rely on rich perception to operate in private homes, but privacy risk persists even when raw sen…
JAKA hits Teradyne Robotics back over patent dispute
JAKA is now taking legal action against Teradyne Robotics to end public dissemination of statements it considers "false, misleading and damaging." The post JAKA…
Medtronic invests $700M in surgical partner Cornerstone Robotics
Medtronic and Cornerstone Robotics are building a multi-port portfolio anchored by the Hugo surgical system and expanded by Sentire. The post Medtronic invests …
NVIDIA plans to acquire Hugging Face and keep AI development platform open
NVIDIA is already a major model contributor to Hugging Face, which recently surpassed 1 million datasets. The post NVIDIA plans to acquire Hugging Face and keep…
PlusAI to take autonomous trucking public via a SPAC deal
The SPAC transaction puts PlusAI, whose self-driving trucking software is already generating revenue, at about $800 million. The post PlusAI to take autonomous …
NexCOBOT discusses physical AI market hurdles and acceleration
NexCOBOT, which provides functional safety and motion controllers, discusses how physical AI benefits from 'Big Tech' and where it will grow. The post NexCOBOT …
AIR to use Elmo Motion Control technology in uncrewed cargo aircraft
The partnership brings together Elmo's compact, high-power density servo drives and AIR's electric aviation design. The post AIR to use Elmo Motion Control tech…
Learn why food is physical AI’s hardest problem at RoboBusiness
Rajat Bhageria, the founder and CEO of Chef Robotics, will explore what makes food such a demanding benchmark for physical AI. The post Learn why food is physic…
EmbodiedSkills: A Unified Framework for Orchestrating, Training, and Deploying VLA Agents
arXiv:2609.01281v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language-action (VLA) models map visual observations and language instructions directly to robot actions,…
Autonomous robotic bridging using distributed swarm control without inter-agent communication
arXiv:2609.01394v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We describe SCARAB--Swarm-Capable Autonomous Robotic Aquatic Bridging. Using distributed swarm control and multi…
Obstacle-Aware Autonomous Coverage and Navigation for Outdoor Robots
arXiv:2609.01384v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-duration outdoor coverage with autonomous platforms remains challenging beyond classical planning: deployme…
Scalable Rao-Blackwellized Online Planning for High-Dimensional POMDPs
arXiv:2609.01351v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Online planning under uncertainty remains a fundamental challenge for robotic systems operating in partially obs…
DNC-IMM: Early Lane-Change Intention Recognition via Neural Calibration Based on Driving Context Information
arXiv:2609.01120v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Early recognition of lane-change intention is essential for proactive decision-making in autonomous driving and …
Adaptive Depth-Map-Guided Bundle Adjustment for Correspondence-Free Multi-View Point Cloud Registration
arXiv:2609.01089v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robotic processing of irregular steel scrap requires dense 3-D measurement to replace manual visual assessment i…
Peg-in-Bench: A Modular Benchmark for High-Precision Robotic Insertion
arXiv:2609.00906v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: High-precision insertion remains a fundamental challenge in robotic manipulation due to the strict alignment req…
Optimal UGV-UAV Cooperative Partitioning and Inspection of Shortest Paths
arXiv:2604.25284v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We study cooperative shortest path planning for an unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) assisted by an unmanned aer…
DynSSM: A Physics-Aware State-Space Memory Framework for Learning Vehicle Dynamics
arXiv:2605.08489v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Accurate modeling of nonlinear vehicle dynamics is essential for high-speed autonomous racing, where control…
EAAE: Energy-Aware Autonomous Exploration for UAVs in Unknown 3D Environments
arXiv:2603.15604v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Battery-powered multirotor unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can rapidly map unknown environments, but mission…
From Legible to Inscrutable Trajectories: (Il)legible Motion Planning Accounting for Multiple Observers
arXiv:2602.09227v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: In cooperative environments, such as in factories or assistive scenarios, it is important for a robot to com…
MobileOcc: A Human-Aware Semantic Occupancy Dataset for Mobile Robots
arXiv:2511.16949v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Dense 3D semantic occupancy perception is critical for mobile robots operating in pedestrian-rich environmen…
Hydra: Marker-Free RGB-D Hand-Eye Calibration
arXiv:2504.20584v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: This work presents an RGB-D imaging-based approach to marker-free hand-eye calibration using a novel impleme…
Adaptive Collision Sensitivity for Efficient and Safe Human-Robot Collaboration
arXiv:2409.20184v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: What is considered safe for a robot operator during physical human-robot collaboration (HRC) is specified in…
CoLT-Drive: Counterfactual Long-Tail Benchmarking and Knowledge-Preserving Adaptation for Driving Affordance Prediction
arXiv:2609.00242v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Long-tail autonomous driving failures are often framed as rare-object recognition errors. We argue that this v…
Evaluating Multimodal LLMs as Generalist Vision-Language-Action Agents for Drone Control: Commanding, Approaching, Tracking and Searching
arXiv:2609.01404v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) are strong perceivers of images and video. We ask how far that reach ex…
TacVLA: Contact-Aware Tactile Fusion for Robust Vision-Language-Action Manipulation
arXiv:2603.12665v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have demonstrated significant advantages in robotic manipulation. Howeve…
Parallel Reference-Centric Continuous-Time Relative Localization with Augmented Clamped Non-Uniform B-Splines
arXiv:2602.22006v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Accurate relative localization is critical for multi-robot cooperation. In robot groups, measurements from d…
Dual Process Motion Planning
arXiv:2609.01260v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Robotic systems are deeply embedded in both industry and everyday life, where they are expected to act with sp…
Federated Trust for Embodied Robot Capability Marketplaces
arXiv:2609.00404v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Robot capability marketplaces, the "app store for robot skills," are emerging as the deployment vector for LLM…
Facet-0: A Robotic Foundation Model for Contact-Rich Precise Manipulation
arXiv:2609.01596v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Real-world robotic assembly at sub-millimeter tolerances demands spatial precision, compliant interaction, and r…