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Daily robotics industry news: humanoids, industrial automation, drones, autonomous systems and the companies building them.
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3285 storiesMonocular 3D Occupancy Perception for Robots on Sidewalks via Hybrid 2D-3D Learning
arXiv:2606.19122v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Sidewalks in the real world are crowded, cluttered, and less structured than roads, making 3D occupancy predicti…
HT-Bench: Benchmarking and Learning Dexterous Full-Hand Tactile Representations with Egocentric Vision
arXiv:2606.19161v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Establishing a universal benchmark for tactile representation learning in robotic manipulation remains challengi…
Mobile Pedipulation for Object Sliding via Hierarchical Control on a Wheeled Bipedal Robot
arXiv:2606.19233v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In this letter, we present a hierarchical control framework that enables wheeled bipedal robots to perform plana…
Shape Sensing of Continuum Robots using Direct Laser Writing
arXiv:2606.19265v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Continuum robots offer a promising approach for minimally invasive and natural-orifice surgical procedures due t…
HALOMI: Learning Humanoid Loco-Manipulation with Active Perception from Human Demonstrations
arXiv:2606.18772v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Human demonstrations, which can be collected at scale and naturally capture active hand-eye coordination, are a …
As You Wish: Mission Planning with Formal Verification using LLMs in Precision Agriculture
arXiv:2606.18519v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Though robotic systems are now being commercialized and deployed in various industries, many of these systems ar…
DREAM-Chunk: Reactive Action Chunking with Latent World Model
arXiv:2606.18589v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Action chunking has become a common interface for vision-language-action (VLA) models, enabling low-frequency po…
Generating Natural and Expressive Robot Gestures through Iterative Reinforcement Learning with Human Feedback using LLMs
arXiv:2606.18747v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Expressive gestures are essential for natural and effective communication, complementing speech when verbal cues…
Admittance-Based Surface Alignment for Human-in-the-Loop Robotic Visual Inspection
arXiv:2606.18601v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Precision visual inspection underpins quality assurance across aerospace, semiconductor, and medical manufacturi…
SC3-Eval: Evaluating Robot Foundation Models via Self-Consistent Video Generation
arXiv:2606.18610v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Evaluating generalist robot manipulation policies in the real world is expensive, slow, and difficult to scale. …
ROBOSHACKLES: A Safety Dataset for Human-Injury Prevention in Embodied Foundation Models
arXiv:2606.18632v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Embodied Foundation Models (EFMs) integrate multimodal understanding, future-state reasoning, and executable rob…
Sensor Configuration Matters: A Systematic Evaluation of Multimodal SLAM on Quadruped Robots
arXiv:2606.19067v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous navigation of quadrupedal robots in diverse environments fundamentally relies on resilient Simultaneo…
EffiNav: Fusing Depth and Vision-Language for Efficient Object Goal Navigation
arXiv:2606.18634v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: To locate a target object while exploring the unknown environment is a fundamental capability for autonomous age…
Autonomique deploys semi-humanoid robots and AI at Canadian Tier 1
Autonomique has moved its AI-powered robots from pilot to production at F&P Mfg., with plans for deployment across F-tech's global network. The post Autono…
Fennec Engineering earns T2 qualification for Advanced Safety Acceleration Platform
Fennec Engineering has obtained certification confirming that its automated traceability platform meets strict safety standards. The post Fennec Engineering ear…
Evaluating humanoids for surface finishing applications
Manufacturing processes such as sanding, polishing, blasting, grinding, coating, and painting are used in a wide variety of industries. These manufacturing task…
Sanctuary AI validates physical AI performance at Tier 1 automotive supplier
Sanctuary AI is not waiting for humanoid robots; it's applying physical AI to demonstrate production-ready performance. The post Sanctuary AI validates physical…
New research enables a robot to chart a better course
By rapidly generating a smooth path plan that cuts travel time and avoids obstacles, the open-source “MIGHTY” system could streamline disaster recovery and parc…
HRDX: A Large-Scale Vector HD-Map Dataset
arXiv:2606.17080v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reliable autonomous driving requires vectorized HD maps that are geometrically accurate, semantically rich, and …
Contrastive Action-Image Pre-training for Visuomotor Control
arXiv:2606.17256v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Existing vision encoders for robotics face a fundamental bottleneck: robotic datasets lack the scale necessary f…
EgoInfinity: A Web-Scale 4D Hand-Object Interaction Data Engine for Any-View Robot Retargeting and Video-to-Action Robot Learning
arXiv:2606.17385v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Internet videos constitute the largest reservoir of embodied human manipulation knowledge, yet converting arbitr…
Damage Adaptation in Seconds for Architected Materials
arXiv:2606.17394v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Adaptation to damages and in-situ physical repairs is essential for long-term robot autonomy, yet challenging ou…
Where Should Action Generation Begin? A Learnable Source Prior for Generative Robot Policies
arXiv:2606.17408v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generative robot policies typically begin action generation from an observation-independent standard Gaussian di…
AnnotateAnything: Automatic Annotation of 3D Assets for Robot Manipulation
arXiv:2606.17446v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Simulation enables scalable robot data collection, but raw 3D assets provide only geometry, lacking the semantic…
ED3R: Energy-Aware Distributed Disaster Detection Enabled by Cooperative Robotic Agents
arXiv:2606.17739v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robotics are expected to support environmental monitoring and natural disaster management, where decisions must …
HumanoidArena: Benchmarking Egocentric Hierarchical Whole-body Learning
arXiv:2606.17833v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Humanoid robots promise whole-body interaction in human-centered environments, but scalable policy learning rema…
SPARK: Low Latency Single-Camera 3D Pose Estimation for Autonomous Racing using Keypoints
arXiv:2606.17936v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In autonomous racing, fast detection of other participants' movements is required to plan safe, collision-free t…
Extracting Semantics: LLM-Guided Automatic Population of Robot Ontology from URDF
arXiv:2606.17073v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While commonsense knowledge may suffice for virtual agents, embodied robots interacting with humans require grou…
Beyond Benchmarks: Continuous Edge Inference for Fine-Grained Roadside Perception
arXiv:2606.17241v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Continuous AI inference on resource-constrained edge hardware introduces deployment effects that are largely i…
DriveJudge: Rethinking Autonomous Driving Evaluation with Vision-Language Models
arXiv:2606.17362v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Autonomous driving has shifted towards end-to-end policy learning, where reliable, interpretable policy evalua…