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Robotics company moves: funding rounds, product launches, partnerships, acquisitions and market entries.
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Lyte raises $165M to help robots better sense their surroundings
Lyte AI plans to use its second round of funding this year to scale production of its AI and perception capabilities. The post Lyte raises $165M to help robots …
Virtual Testing of Automated Driving Systems through Credible Simulations
arXiv:2609.03760v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Simulation is increasingly used to support safety-related decision-making in road transport, particularly for th…
Catalogue Photography as a Cold Start: Toward Deployable Carbide Burr Recognition
arXiv:2609.03995v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Verifying that manufactured batches of milling tools or carbide rotary burrs conform to production order sheet…
High-Altitude Balloon Station-Keeping with First Order Model Predictive Control
arXiv:2511.07761v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: High-altitude balloons (HABs) are common in scientific research due to their wide range of applications and …
Predictive Zonotope Reduction: Precise Runtime Monitoring under Uncertainty
arXiv:2609.03699v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robots operating in physical environments make control decisions based on uncertain sensor measurements, which c…
NVIDIA plans to acquire Hugging Face and keep AI development platform open
NVIDIA is already a major model contributor to Hugging Face, which recently surpassed 1 million datasets. The post NVIDIA plans to acquire Hugging Face and keep…
AIR to use Elmo Motion Control technology in uncrewed cargo aircraft
The partnership brings together Elmo's compact, high-power density servo drives and AIR's electric aviation design. The post AIR to use Elmo Motion Control tech…
Top 10 robotics stories of August 2026
August 2026's top 10 stories included large funding rounds, updates in the humanoid robot industry, and the latest physical AI models. The post Top 10 robotics …
Visko launches Orbis live model and closes pre-seed funding round
Visko says Orbis streams 4K video at 24 frames per second, responds to user intervention, and sustains hour-scale generation without drift. The post Visko launc…
The Structure of Merging Turbulent Jets Beneath a Small Quadrotor
arXiv:2608.30900v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The downwash wake of a hovering quadrotor governs both the vehicle's own performance and the safe spacing of m…
Data-Centric Neuromotor Interfaces for Portable Human-Machine Interaction
arXiv:2608.30301v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Dexterous human-machine interaction requires intuitive and expressive interfaces that can be efficiently deploye…
Skild AI unveils S1 flagship robot foundation model
Skild AI says its S1 robot foundation model enables robots to learn new tasks just by seeing a video of it being performed. The post Skild AI unveils S1 flagshi…
Reframe Systems raises $40M to scale its robotic microfactories for home building
Reframe Systems aims to build a network of automated microfactories near communities where homes are needed. The post Reframe Systems raises $40M to scale its r…
Deere faces headwinds in Q3 update and announces Reservoir R&D partnership
Deere beats Q3 expectations, raises guidance, and partners with Reservoir on a $10 million agtech AI initiative. The post Deere faces headwinds in Q3 update and…
EXL acquires physical AI model developer iMerit
The EXL and iMerit executives explain how their companies' combined expertise and platforms will help developers with reliable physical AI. The post EXL acquire…
Arbitrary-Order Hermite Interpolation of Rigid-Motion Jets via Hyper-Multidual Quaternions
arXiv:2608.27000v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study bilateral interpolation of finite-order rigid-motion jets represented by unit dual quaternions. An orde…
Beyond the Proving Ground: Independent Public-Road Testing of Assisted Lane Change Systems using LiDAR
arXiv:2608.26669v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Testing of commercial Advanced Driver Assistance Systems is essential to ensure safety and compliance during typ…
Rapid On-Robot Learning for Dynamic Manipulation Skills: Robot Juggling
arXiv:2608.26800v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present an online learning framework that enables a bimanual robot to acquire diverse juggling patterns direc…
Low-Resolution Perception for Robotic Packing
arXiv:2608.25874v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This work tackles the problem of scalable perception for robotic packing with low-cost, low-resolution depth sen…
Tutorial on Aided Inertial Navigation Systems: A Modern Treatment Using Lie-Group Theoretical Methods
arXiv:2603.07143v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: This tutorial presents a control-oriented introduction to aided inertial navigation systems using a Lie-grou…
Gatik brings in $200M to continue expanding autonomous trucking operations
Gatik said the funding will help it expand its model built around high-frequency regional routes connecting distribution centers and stores. The post Gatik brin…
X-MULTI: VLM-based Imaging Factor Disentanglement for Factor-Aware Image Synthesis
arXiv:2608.24563v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Imaging factor disentanglement in text-to-image generation aims to independently control image acquisition pro…
Vision-Language-Action Safety: Threats, Challenges, Evaluations, and Mechanisms
arXiv:2604.23775v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models are emerging as a unified substrate for embodied intelligence. This shif…
Evaluating Human and LLM-Generated Thematic Analysis in HRI for Vulnerable Populations: A Comparative and Ethical Analysis
arXiv:2608.21420v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Thematic analysis (TA) has long been regarded as an inherently human, reflexive, and interpretive process. Howev…
CIDER: Continual Interactive Distillation for Embodied Reinforcement Learning
arXiv:2608.21899v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Human-in-the-loop real-world reinforcement learning enables rapid acquisition of effective robotic manipulation …
Free-Energy-Gated Plasticity for Real-Time Online Motor Learning in Physical Human--Robot Interaction
arXiv:2608.23000v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Fully online embodied learning requires synaptic adaptation to acquire new behaviors while preserving previously…
RoboRacer Arena: Scaling High-Fidelity Autonomous Racing in Isaac Sim
arXiv:2608.23040v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: RoboRacer offers a standardized platform for research using 1:10-scale autonomous vehicles, but the variety of a…
XPeng Motors humanoid robot unit Dogotix raises $900M
Dogotix, the humanoid unit of XPeng Motors, has attained a valuation of $6.3 billion as it plans to produce robots at scale. The post XPeng Motors humanoid robo…
Mining beyond Earth with Space Robots: Exploration, Sampling, and Extraction
arXiv:2608.21358v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Space resource acquisition and utilization, commonly referred to as Space Mining, represent critical pathways fo…
ViTacPhys: Physical Property-Aware Grasping from Human Visual-Tactile Demonstrations
arXiv:2608.21355v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent vision-based action models have demonstrated strong capabilities in complex manipulation, but they rarely…