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Kinova launches KIMA medical robotic arm
Instead of adapting the robot from industrial technology, Kinova said it designed KIMA from the ground up for clinical use. The post Kinova launches KIMA medica…
RealSense unveils AI-native D585 Pro depth camera for robots
The D585 Pro is powered by a proprietary Gen 5 system-on-chip and delivers more than 2x better depth quality than the previous generation of RealSense cameras. …
Mem-World: Memory-Augmented Action-Conditioned World Models for Persistent Robot Manipulation
arXiv:2606.18960v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Action-conditioned world models have emerged as a promising paradigm for robot learning, offering a scalable a…
Steering Flexible Linear Objects in Planar Environments by Two Robot Hands Using Euler's Elastica Solutions
arXiv:2501.02874v5 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The manipulation of flexible objects such as cables, wires and fresh food items by robot hands forms a speci…
R2BC: Multi-Agent Imitation Learning from Single-Agent Demonstrations
arXiv:2510.18085v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Imitation Learning (IL) is a natural way for humans to teach robots, particularly when high-quality demonstr…
Bench-Push: Benchmarking Pushing-based Navigation and Manipulation Tasks for Mobile Robots
arXiv:2512.11736v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Mobile robots are increasingly deployed in cluttered environments with movable objects, posing challenges fo…
Benchmarking Action Spaces in Reinforcement Learning for Vision-based Robotic Manipulation
arXiv:2606.18594v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In real-world reinforcement learning (RL), the choice of action space can play a key role in shaping motion smoo…
SRL: Combining SLIP Model and Reinforcement Learning for Agile Robotic Jumping
arXiv:2606.18625v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robotic jumping is pivotal in applications such as search and rescue and logistics, where crossing obstacles and…
PAIWorld: A 3D-Consistent World Foundation Model for Robotic Manipulation
arXiv:2606.18375v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: World foundation models (WFMs) are powerful simulators, yet they predominantly operate in a single-view setting …
Why Automate This? Exploring Correlations Between Desire for Robotic Automation, Invested Time and Well-Being
arXiv:2501.06348v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Understanding the motivations underlying the human inclination to automate tasks is vital for developi…
Recover, Discover, Plan: Learning Skills and Concepts from Robot Failures
arXiv:2606.18328v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Intelligent robots should not only recover from failures, but also acquire the abstract knowledge needed to avoi…
Congestion-Aware Robot Tour Planning in Crowded Environments
arXiv:2606.19031v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous mobile service robots are often required to complete tours that require navigating through a set of l…
ReSiReg: Towards Spatially Consistent Semantics in Language-Conditioned Robotic Tasks
arXiv:2606.19088v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language Models (VLMs) enable robots to follow open-language instructions. However, dense VLM embeddings …
DexSynRefine: Synthesizing and Refining Human-Object Interaction Motion for Physically Feasible Dexterous Robot Actions
arXiv:2605.05925v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Learning dexterous manipulation from human-object interaction (HOI) data offers a scalable alternative to ro…
Viking Hill Dataset: A Lidar-Radar-Camera Dataset for Detection and Segmentation in Forest Scenes
arXiv:2606.19154v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous robots operating under forest canopies need robust perception of trees and surrounding vegetation acr…
Hardware- and Vision-in-the-Loop Validation of Deep Monocular Pose Estimation for Autonomous Maritime UAV Flight
arXiv:2606.19176v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous UAV operations on ships require reliable vision-based relative pose estimation, yet at-sea validation…
Seeing Through Occlusion: Deterministic Arm Kinematic Correction for Robot Teleoperation
arXiv:2606.19240v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Markerless, single-RGB-D-camera motion capture provides a low-cost and non-invasive alternative to conventional …
Do as I Do: Dexterous Manipulation Data from Everyday Human Videos
arXiv:2606.19333v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: How can we scalably generate data for robotic manipulation, especially on human-like platforms such as dexterous…
Mutual Adaptation in Human-Robot Co-Transportation with Human Preference Uncertainty
arXiv:2503.08895v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Mutual adaptation can enhance overall task performance in human-robot co-transportation by integrating both …
STORM: Slot-based Task-aware Object-centric Representation for robotic Manipulation
arXiv:2601.20381v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Visual foundation models provide strong perceptual features for robotics, but their dense representations la…
Cosmos 3: Omnimodal World Models for Physical AI
arXiv:2606.02800v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We introduce Cosmos 3, a family of omnimodal world models designed to jointly process and generate lan…
RSLCPP -- Deterministic Simulations Using ROS 2
arXiv:2601.07052v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Simulation is crucial in real-world robotics, offering safe, scalable, and efficient environments for develo…
Motion-Focused Latent Action Enables Cross-Embodiment VLA Training from Human EgoVideos
arXiv:2606.18955v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Training generalist Vision-Language-Action(VLA) models typically requires massive, diverse robotic datasets wi…
AI Sandboxes: A Threat Model, Taxonomy, and Measurement Framework
arXiv:2606.18532v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: AI systems are increasingly evaluated in bounded environments that combine isolation, simulation, instrumentat…
A Mixed-Reality Testbed for Autonomous Vehicles
arXiv:2606.19267v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We propose a mixed-reality, hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) testbed for autonomous vehicles that seamlessly integrate…
Invertible Neural Network Adapter for One-Step Flow Matching in Robot Manipulation
arXiv:2606.19194v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper presents an invertible neural network adapter for general robotic manipulation, designed to generate …
Learning to Annotate Delayed and False AEB Events: A Practical System for Extreme Class Imbalance and Asymmetric Label Noise
arXiv:2606.19186v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous Emergency Braking (AEB) optimization relies on accurately annotated real-world trigger events, partic…
TactSpace: Learning a Physics-enriched Shared Latent Space for Tactile Sim-to-Real Transfer
arXiv:2606.18959v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tactile sensing provides direct measurements of contact interactions that are essential for robotic manipulation…
ZiMPedance: Impedance-Aware ZMP Modeling and Control for Payload Carrying with Quadruped Robots
arXiv:2606.18883v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Load transportation with quadruped robots is strongly affected by the dynamics of the physical interface between…
ART-VS: Adaptive Resolution Tiling for Vision Transformer Visual Servoing
arXiv:2606.19089v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Visual servoing with self-supervised Vision Transformer (ViT) features enables training-free robotic positioning…