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Robotics company moves: funding rounds, product launches, partnerships, acquisitions and market entries.
Robotics company moves: funding rounds, product launches, partnerships, acquisitions and market entries.
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Q2 2026 robotics demand increased across industries, reports A3
A3 said that Q2 2026 robotics orders in food, electronics, and healthcare helped offset soft demand from automotive manufacturing. The post Q2 2026 robotics dem…
Strengthening U.S. Army sustainment: TALUS to deliver autonomous distribution
A Stratom-led team won a U.S. Army contract to develop TALUS, an autonomous logistics system for contested environments. The post Strengthening U.S. Army sustai…
Robust Safety Filtering for Input-Constrained Underactuated Linear Systems
arXiv:2608.10872v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present a robust safety-filtering framework for input-constrained underactuated linear systems subject to u…
Seeing above the waves: A modular sensing framework for data acquisition at sea
arXiv:2608.10997v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Advancing autonomy for surface vessels requires systematic evaluation of their sensing and perception subsystems…
Nonlinear Model Predictive Control via Sequential Convex Programming for Drone-to-Drone Docking
arXiv:2608.10542v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous mid-air docking of multi-rotor vehicles under disturbance-driven target motion poses a constrained no…
Automatic Field-of-View Adjustment for a View-Expansive Microscope via LSTM-Based Gaze and Pipette Motion Interpretation
arXiv:2608.10401v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) operators frequently adjust the field-of-view (FOV) during procedures,…
Defense drone developer Cambridge Aerospace raises $300M
The round comes just months after the Cambridge Aerospace's $200 million Series B funding in April. The post Defense drone developer Cambridge Aerospace raises …
DA-NBV: A Direction-Aware Next-Best-View Planner for Efficient 3D Reconstruction of Ships at Sea
arXiv:2608.08025v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Accurate 3D reconstruction of ships at sea is important for maritime supervision, damage assessment, and autonom…
Predictive safety filter enhanced curriculum learning control for efficient vehicle dynamics controller
arXiv:2608.09653v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advances in learning-based control have enabled impressive achievements in solving complex control proble…
Epically Powerful: An open-source software and mechatronics infrastructure for wearable robotic systems
arXiv:2511.05033v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Epically Powerful is an open-source robotics infrastructure that streamlines the underlying framework of wea…
Hadrian raises $1.37B to accelerate U.S. defense, aerospace manufacturing
The raise values Hadrian at $7.87 billion. It is Hadrian's second funding round this year, following a round in January 2026. The post Hadrian raises $1.37B to …
RoboStore launches Robo Inc. to help U.S. organizations deploy robots
RoboStore, a distributor of Unitree's legged robots, has launched Robo Inc. to serve as a U.S.-based manufacturer and integrator. The post RoboStore launches Ro…
SoRoMoX: Fast, Differentiable, and Parallelizable Soft Robot Models
arXiv:2608.06650v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reduced-order models based on Cosserat-rod theory are now well established, and modeling theory is no longer the…
When Coordination Becomes a Threat: Communication Attacks in LLM-Controlled Multi-Robot Systems
arXiv:2608.06830v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used as high-level planners in embodied multi-robot systems, enabl…
Detection and Ranging of Transient Extrinsic Contacts Based on 6D Dynamic Tactile Sensing
arXiv:2608.07075v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Delicate manipulation often involves transient and subtle collisions between a grasped object and the environmen…
Avatar Robotics raises seed round to address industrial labor constraints
Avatar Robotics raised $6.5 million in funding to scale humanoid robots and remote teleoperation across industrial supply chains. The post Avatar Robotics raise…
Differential 6-DOF Pose Estimation with Provable First-Order Immunity to Camera Calibration Errors
arXiv:2608.04673v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Accurate six-degree-of-freedom (6-DOF) motion estimation is essential for robotic manipulation, autonomous sys…
AI-based single-shot structured-light depth reconstruction for real-time laparoscopic surgical guidance
arXiv:2608.05109v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Significance. Accurate intraoperative depth perception is important for autonomous and semi-autonomous robotic…
Moove raises $250M to build infrastructure for autonomous vehicles
The funding will support Moove's expansion of its autonomous fleet ownership and robotics-first depot infrastructure “Nests.” The post Moove raises $250M to bui…
GAM Enterprises to produce Schaeffler’s PSC gear reducers
Acquiring the IP from this core supplier allows GAM to vertically integrate its supply chain and expand its manufacturing capabilities. The post GAM Enterprises…
CUDA MPC: A GPU-Native Solver for Model Predictive Control
arXiv:2608.03051v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Model Predictive Control (MPC) delivers constraint-aware control, but its reliance on online optimization limits…
Biconvex Optimization for Smooth Minimum-Time Trajectories around Convex Obstacles
arXiv:2608.02834v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present a biconvex approach for minimum-time motion planning around convex obstacles that is guaranteed to co…
Zoox unveils production-ready robotaxi for U.S. expansion
Amazon subsidiary Zoox unveiled its final production-ready robotaxi design and expanded testing following a subtle redesign to improve rider comfort. The post Z…
CoWAM: Coordination Contracts for Selective Policy Intervention with WAMs
arXiv:2608.02578v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: World Action Models (WAMs) augment robot policies with action-conditioned predicted futures, but a plausible fut…
Adaptive Human-Robot Collaborative Painting Combining Preference-Based Optimization and Dynamic Motion Primitives
arXiv:2608.01981v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This work presents a human-centered collaborative framework that integrates Preference-Based Optimization (PBO) …
MixedComplementarityProblems.jl: A Fast, Batched, Open-Source Interior Point Solver for Mixed Complementarity Problems
arXiv:2608.00959v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Mixed complementarity problems (MCPs) arise as the first-order optimality conditions of nonlinear programs and…
GeminiPainter's sequence-formed pipeline comprised of perception, cognition, planning, and action stages
arXiv:2608.00829v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present an autonomous robotic portrait-generation system combining real-time face detection, AI-based sketch …
Uncovering and Mitigating Positional Blind Spots in Vision-Language-Action Models
arXiv:2608.01573v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models achieve promising performance in robotic manipulation, typically meas…
igus launches energy chain with 600-degree rotation for industrial robots
igus says its new twisterchain energy chain provides cable management for challenging industrial robotics applications such as palletizing. The post igus launch…
RayViT: Ray-Conditioned Visual Representations for Viewpoint-Robust Imitation Learning
arXiv:2607.29622v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Visual imitation learning enables robots to acquire visuomotor skills directly from images, yet RGB observations…