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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…

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GPA-RAM: Grasp-Pretraining Augmented Robotic Attention Mamba for Spatial Task Learning

arXiv:2504.19683v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Fine-grained robotic manipulation often fails when inaccurate initial grasps propagate errors and necessitat…

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TacPrint: A Wearable Fingertip Tactile Sensor for Human-to-Robot Contact Reproduction

arXiv:2607.29231v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Human-centric data collection is emerging as a significant paradigm for robot skill acquisition, but seamlessly …

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DART: Dual-Axis Airborne Reachability-Gated Torque-Reaction for Off-Road Vehicle Jumps

arXiv:2607.29011v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Traversing crests, ledges, and ditches at high speed often launches vehicles into the air, and a mishandled land…

Top 10 robotics stories of July 2026
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Top 10 robotics stories of July 2026

In July, large funding rounds, new approaches to robot training, and new robot models drew our readers attention. The post Top 10 robotics stories of July 2026 …

Procore Technologies acquires DroneDeploy for $845M
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Procore Technologies acquires DroneDeploy for $845M

Procore will integrate DroneDeploy's visual intelligence technology to link the digital world with physical construction sites. The post Procore Technologies ac…

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SeedPolicy: Horizon Scaling via Self-Evolving Diffusion Policy for Robot Manipulation

arXiv:2603.05117v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Imitation Learning (IL) enables robots to acquire manipulation skills from expert demonstrations. Diffusion …

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Corrigible Assistance in One Round: Pragmatic-Pedagogic Best Response

arXiv:2607.27508v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Assistance games formalize human-robot collaboration under asymmetric information: the human knows the goal, whi…

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SharedAssembly: A Data Collection Approach via Shared Tele-Assembly

arXiv:2503.12287v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: High-precision, tight-clearance assembly demonstrations are indispensable for training tactile-aware robotic…

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SUNSET - A Sensor-fUsioN based semantic SegmEnTation exemplar for ROS-based self-adaptation

arXiv:2601.13732v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The fact that robots are getting deployed more often in dynamic environments, together with the increasing c…

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Practice Makes Policies: Bootstrapping and Consolidating Robotic Capabilities from Zero Human Demonstrations

arXiv:2607.26809v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: General-purpose robotic manipulation requires robots to perform diverse tasks in open-world environments while i…

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Time-delay Control Using a New Nonlinear Adaptive Law for Cable-Driven Robots

arXiv:2607.26383v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Cable-driven manipulators exhibit strong nonlinearities and low structural stiffness, which make precise contr…

GMEX Robotics to acquire MediaMeta.ai for social intelligence
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GMEX Robotics to acquire MediaMeta.ai for social intelligence

GMEX Robotics has acquired shares in MediaMeta to incorporate social intelligence capabilities into its service robots. The post GMEX Robotics to acquire MediaM…

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Can Vision-Language-Action Models Learn from Real-World Data Continually without Forgetting?

arXiv:2605.26820v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models provide a promising foundation for general-purpose robotics, yet their r…

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When Does Legacy Data Start to Help? Emergent Transfer in Cross-Configuration Robot Learning

arXiv:2607.25593v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robotic hardware evolves over time, but demonstration data is often tied to a specific sensor and actuator confi…

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A Few Words Go a Long Way: Language Guided Robot Policy Synthesis

arXiv:2607.23784v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While vision-language-action models have demonstrated impressive zero-shot manipulation capabilities, they remai…

Kraken Technology raises Series B funding for autonomous vessels
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Kraken Technology raises Series B funding for autonomous vessels

Kraken Technology plans to use its funding to continue developing uncrewed surface vessels and localizing manufacturing around the world. The post Kraken Techno…

Uber co-founder raises $1.7B for new robotics startup ATOMS
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Uber co-founder raises $1.7B for new robotics startup ATOMS

Travis Kalanick, the former CEO of Uber, said with ATOMS, he hopes to create physical automation to transform industry. The post Uber co-founder raises $1.7B fo…

Holiday Robotics raises $105M for its FRIDAY wheeled humanoid
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Holiday Robotics raises $105M for its FRIDAY wheeled humanoid

Holiday's robot features a wheel-based mobile base, an upper body for dexterous manipulation, and hot-swappable batteries. The post Holiday Robotics raises $105…

Ropedia raises $22M to scale data collection for training robots
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Ropedia raises $22M to scale data collection for training robots

Ropdeia's HOMIE is a head-mounted device, equipped with a 360º camera view, that captures first-person data for training robots. The post Ropedia raises $22M to…

AMD unveils Kria module for real-time control, unified memory for robots
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AMD unveils Kria module for real-time control, unified memory for robots

AMD has launched the Ryzen AI Embedded X100 and Kria AI SoM, bringing unified memory and real-time control to challenge NVIDIA in robotics. The post AMD unveils…

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Extreme-RGMT: Continual Learning of Highly Dynamic Skills for Robust Generalist Humanoid Control

arXiv:2607.20110v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Humans can progressively acquire highly dynamic motor skills while preserving reliable everyday motor abilities.…

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Morphing MILR: Design and control of a cable-driven limbless robot with rolling joints for maneuvering in complex environments

arXiv:2607.19714v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Limbless robots offer exceptional mobility in confined and cluttered environments due to their slender bodies an…

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EgoRecovery: Acquiring Failure Recovery Ability Through Human Recovery Demonstration

arXiv:2607.19745v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robust embodied robots should be able to recover from failures and retry tasks in order to operate reliably in u…

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Milo, a Fully Autonomous Indoor/Outdoor Robotic Guide Dog

arXiv:2607.19530v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Many Blind and Low-Vision (BLV) people rely on guide dogs for moment-to-moment navigation, such as staying on pa…

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Dynamic Multi-Agent Pickup and Delivery in Robotic Cellular Warehousing Systems

arXiv:2606.05669v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Robotic Cellular Warehousing Systems (RCWS) give rise to multi-agent pickup and delivery (MAPD) processes in…

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Robots Acquire Manipulation Skills in Seconds from a Single Human Video

arXiv:2607.20033v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The ability to acquire skills rapidly and effortlessly while retaining those already mastered is essential for r…

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DINS-IO: Learned Inertial Odometry via Differentiable INS Consistency

arXiv:2607.20232v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The training of learned inertial odometry depends on dense, high-precision position ground truth from motion cap…

Vicarious Surgical officially shutting down
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Vicarious Surgical officially shutting down

Vicarious Surgical raised about $300 million in total, most of that from a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) merger in 2021. The post Vicarious Surgica…

U.K.-based Humanoid secures $152M in Series A funding
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U.K.-based Humanoid secures $152M in Series A funding

Humanoid said it has reached a $1.35 billion valuation as it scales its AI-driven industrial robots and expands commercial deployments. The post U.K.-based Huma…