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HIVE brings in $15M to build physical AI for industrial machines
HIVE has deployed its technology across several sites in Scandinavia, operating autonomously across different machines. The post HIVE brings in $15M to build ph…
Tesollo initiates IPO process while developing humanoid hands
Tesollo, a South Korean robotic hand specialist, has officially begun preparations for its initial public offering. The post Tesollo initiates IPO process while…
A Digital Twin Framework for Traffic-Aware UAV Pavement Monitoring in Open-Traffic Conditions
arXiv:2606.20742v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: UAV-based pavement inspection can reduce the cost and risk of road-surface monitoring, but real-world deploy…
Cross-Embodiment Robot Manipulation via a Unified Hand Action Space
arXiv:2607.03570v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robot manipulation policies are typically tied to specific robotic hand embodiments, limiting the transfer of le…
Rational Inverse Reasoning: Few-Shot Imitation by Inferring Intent through Planning
arXiv:2508.08983v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Humans can learn a new manipulation task from one or two demonstrations and then perform it in a new room, w…
SutureFormer: Learning Surgical Trajectories via Goal-conditioned Offline RL in Pixel Space
arXiv:2603.26720v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Predicting surgical needle trajectories from endoscopic video is critical for robot-assisted suturing, enabl…
Towards Data-Driven Metrics for Social Robot Navigation Benchmarking
arXiv:2509.01251v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: This paper presents a joint effort towards the development of a data-driven Social Robot Navigation metric t…
BEVLM: Distilling Semantic Knowledge from LLMs into Bird's-Eye View Representations
arXiv:2603.06576v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The integration of Large Language Models (LLMs) into autonomous driving has attracted growing interest…
CG-MuTra: Continuously-Gated Multi-Terrain Adaptive Recovery for Unified Humanoid Fall Recovery and Locomotion
arXiv:2606.08922v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Falling is an inherent risk for humanoid robots operating in unstructured environments. Existing reinforceme…
A Survey of Reinforcement Learning-Based Motion Planning for Autonomous Driving: Lessons Learned from a Driving Task Perspective
arXiv:2503.23650v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL), with its ability to explore and optimize policies in complex, dynamic dec…
CLEAR: Closed-Loop Reinforcement Learning at Scale for End-to-End Autonomous Driving
arXiv:2607.02841v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: End-to-end autonomous driving (E2E-AD) aims to directly map raw sensor information to driving actions. Recently,…
Exp2VLA: Enabling Vision-Language-Action for Drone Navigation from Expert Demonstrations
arXiv:2607.03146v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language-action (VLA) models open a new path toward intuitive robot control by directly linking perceptio…
EVA-Client: A Unified Data Collection, Inference, and Deployment Framework for Embodied Policies on Real Robots
arXiv:2607.02646v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present EVA-Client, an open-source framework for deployment, data collection, and evaluation of trained manip…
Worldscape-MoE: A Unified Mixture-of-Experts World Model for Scalable Heterogeneous Action Control
arXiv:2607.03964v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: World models are rapidly becoming a core infrastructure for embodied intelligence and interactive agents: they p…
Continuous-Time Gaussian Belief Trees for Motion Planning
arXiv:2607.02884v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We address sampling-based motion planning for continuous-time stochastic systems under process and measurement u…
Autonomous Search for Sparsely Distributed Visual Phenomena through Environmental Context Modeling
arXiv:2603.10174v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) are increasingly used to survey coral reefs, yet efficiently locating …
Beyond Point-Attached Semantics: Object-Centric Semantic Fields for Generalizable Manipulation
arXiv:2607.03163v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generalizable robot manipulation requires stable 3D understanding of functional object parts, such as handles, t…
Longitudinal-Motion-Aware Lateral Control for Autonomous Vehicles: A Robust Nonlinear Control Framework
arXiv:2607.02924v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As autonomous vehicles (AVs) operate in increasingly dynamic traffic conditions, lateral control must be perform…
CRISP: A Spatiotemporal Camera-Radar Backbone for Driving via Forecasting-Based World-Model Pretraining
arXiv:2607.04541v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Camera-radar (CR) fusion is a practical sensing configuration for autonomous driving, but existing models are …
A Vision Based System for Guided and Collaborative Reconstruction of Fragmented Documents
arXiv:2607.03621v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This paper presents the development and evaluation of a collaborative system for real-time reconstruction of f…
Glance-Say: Multimodal Human-Robot Collaboration and Intent Recognition via Sticky Glance
arXiv:2603.06121v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Gaze and speech are promising interaction modalities for individuals with motor impairments, yet robust inte…
Geometry-Aware Motion Latents for Learning Robust Manipulation Policies
arXiv:2607.04714v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Learning motion latents for robotic manipulation heavily relies on extracting motion patterns from visual sequen…
Trajectory-Anchor Optimization for Overconfident Thermal Visual Place Recognition: Zero-Leakage OOD Auditing and Kidnapped-Robot Recovery
arXiv:2607.04745v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern thermal visual place recognition (TIR-VPR) frontends based on foundation models achieve remarkable closed…
CABTO: Context-Aware Behavior Tree Grounding for Robot Manipulation
arXiv:2603.16809v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Behavior Trees (BTs) offer a powerful paradigm for designing modular and reactive robot controllers. BT plan…
Anytime Plug-and-Play Control with Contract-Based Distributed MPC
arXiv:2607.04215v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A central challenge in many mobile multi-robot applications is that communication topologies are inherently ti…
Current as Touch: Proprioceptive Contact Feedback for Compliant Dexterous Manipulation
arXiv:2607.03529v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Compliance is essential for dexterous manipulation, yet existing solutions often rely on external tactile or for…
CoRE-VLA: Towards Scalable and Robust Vision-Language-Action Modeling via Conditional Routing of Experts
arXiv:2607.03693v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language-action (VLA) models have advanced generalist robotic manipulation, yet real-world deployment rev…
ROBOCYCLE: Autonomous Dual-Arm Robotic Manipulation and Coordination for Recycling Applications
arXiv:2607.03616v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As urban waste volumes escalate and labor shortages intensify, automated waste sorting systems are becoming a ne…
Function-Space Diffusion for Motion Planning
arXiv:2607.02977v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Diffusion-based motion planners have demonstrated strong performance in generating diverse and high-quality robo…
Metallic Ultrasound Waveguides as a Distributed Tactile Sensing Platform for Contact Localization, Force Estimation, and Material Class Discrimination
arXiv:2607.02827v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tactile sensing is central to how robotic systems interact with the real world, yet current solutions face a tra…