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Robots at work: warehouses, factories, farms, hospitals, construction sites and the automation reshaping them.
Robots at work: warehouses, factories, farms, hospitals, construction sites and the automation reshaping them.
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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…
Robotics roadmaps from around the world
What’s a robotics roadmap, and why should we care? Machines with pre-defined capabilities will soon be old-school. Future machines are expected to learn and ada…
OmniVTA: Visuo-Tactile World Modeling for Contact-Rich Robotic Manipulation
arXiv:2603.19201v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Contact-rich manipulation tasks, such as wiping and assembly, require accurate perception of contact forces,…
BooST: Bridging Semantics and Motions for Efficient Skill Transfer
arXiv:2608.10600v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Skill abstraction---the process of learning reusable and temporally extended behaviors---has emerged as a key pa…
Robust Sliding Mode and Admittance Control of Underactuated Aerial Manipulators for Contact-Based Inspection
arXiv:2608.10656v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Contact-based industrial inspection requires aerial platforms to maintain stable interaction while rejecting dis…
Deployment Is Not Destiny: Robot Recomposition in the Field with Unseen Software, Hardware, and Compute Payloads
arXiv:2608.11063v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The tight coupling of subsystems in most robots, though a natural consequence of their complexity, leads to mono…
PBD-AG: Persistent Baseline-Delta Active Graphs with Uncertainty-Aware Inspection for Long-Horizon Service Robots
arXiv:2608.10449v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-horizon service robots require persistent world models that can be built autonomously in unseen environment…
Webinar to discuss safety and scaling robot fleets in the warehouse
Industry experts will discuss how to scale mobile robots in the warehouse while maintaining both safety and productivity. The post Webinar to discuss safety and…
Self Supervised Learning from Automatically Generated Demonstrations for Visual Robotic Manipulation
arXiv:2608.07553v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robotic manipulation often requires object specific programming, manual data annotation, or calibrated perceptio…
AeroDPO: Unleashing Lightweight UAV Navigation with High-Fidelity Perception and Automated Preference Optimization
arXiv:2608.07557v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language Navigation for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV-VLN) requires rapid and reactive control in complex…
Reconfigurable Structural Robotic Assembly: Interlocking 3D Aggregations with Self-Aligning Compound Nested Lattice Modules
arXiv:2608.07576v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robotic construction systems often treat the material system and the robot as separate design problems, locating…
Stochastic Physics-Informed Neural Networks on Lie Groups for Learning Underwater Vehicle Dynamics
arXiv:2608.08356v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Accurate models of underwater vehicle motion are needed for autonomous execution of marine tasks like infrastruc…
SHRIMP: Iterative Refinement of Robot Task Plans
arXiv:2608.08884v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As collaborative robots have entered domains such as manufacturing, agriculture, and healthcare, programming or …
UnsDrive: Towards Robust End-to-End Autonomous Driving in Unstructured Scenes
arXiv:2608.09098v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: End-to-end planning has shown strong promise for autonomous driving, but most existing methods are designed for …
SpeedTuning: Speeding Up Policy Execution with Lightweight Reinforcement Learning
arXiv:2608.09138v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While learned robotic policies hold promise for advancing generalizable manipulation, their practical deployment…
Particle-Based Conformal Prediction for Contact-Aware Uncertainty Calibration in Stratified Configuration Spaces
arXiv:2608.09166v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reliable uncertainty representation is essential for deploying autonomous systems that interact with their envir…
SAFE-CHEM: Uncertainty-Aware Policy Switching for Robust Robotic Chemistry
arXiv:2608.09303v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The deployment of autonomous robotic systems in chemistry laboratories is accelerating experimental workflows an…
DH-VLM: Dual-Horizon Cooperative Latent Reasoning for Autonomous Driving
arXiv:2608.09333v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large-scale language models for autonomous driving enable enhanced global understanding and long-horizon plannin…
JEPA-WAM: Learning Vision-Language-Action Policies with Joint-Embedding World Modeling
arXiv:2608.09381v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robust robot control benefits from explicitly modeling state transitions, but video-generation world action mode…
VANE: Reliable Test-Time Training for Vision-Language-Action Models via Future Visual Representation Prediction
arXiv:2608.09448v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Test-time training (TTT) offers a lightweight way to adapt vision--language--action (VLA) policies from unlabele…
XPolicyLab: A Unified Standard and Open Ecosystem for Robot Policy Evaluation and Deployment
arXiv:2608.09892v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robot policy evaluation and deployment remain fragmented by model-specific software dependencies, data represent…
CADEngBench: It Looks Like CAD, but Does It Work? Evaluating Parametric Design, Assembly Reasoning, and Physics Simulation
arXiv:2608.09296v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A CAD model is not engineering-grade merely because it looks correct. It must satisfy design requirements, res…
A Height-Constrained 2-Point Minimal Solver for Pose Estimation from Active LED Markers with Event Cameras
arXiv:2608.09520v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In many autonomous applications requiring real-time localization, active marker-based systems are preferred du…
A Semantic Communication Approach to Fiducial Marker Processing in 5G-Enabled Edge SLAM
arXiv:2608.09620v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Autonomous robots increasingly rely on edge computing to offload computationally intensive perception tasks wh…
RAG-3DSG: Enhancing 3D Scene Graphs with Re-Shot Guided Retrieval-Augmented Generation
arXiv:2601.10168v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Open-vocabulary 3D Scene Graph (3DSG) can enhance various downstream tasks in robotics by leveraging s…
Model Predictive Control of Hybrid Dynamical Systems
arXiv:2604.21989v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The problem of controlling hybrid dynamical systems using model predictive control (MPC) is formulated…
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 …
Tate deploys 58 Hirebotics cobot welders across multiple facilities
Tate decided to move from traditional hand welding to an agile, cloud-connected automation network powered by Hirebotics. The post Tate deploys 58 Hirebotics co…