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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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How compact cobot integration enhances autonomous mobile robot applications
Cobots are quickly shaping the future of warehousing, with their use rising 10-fold from 2018 to 2025, Kassow said. The post How compact cobot integration enhan…
We know how to build smarter robots. Now, we need to learn smarter ways to test them
Atharv Kolhar, a staff test automation engineer at Figure AI, says the robotics industry needs a testing philosophy that scales alongside autonomy. The post We …
Orbbec shows AI-powered vision systems at Automate 2026
Orbbec presented industrial-grade 3D cameras for challenging automation scenarios, as well as AI integration for enhanced robotic perception. The post Orbbec sh…
Robot Talk Episode 162 – The robot doctor will see you now
Since the first robot-assisted surgery was performed, over 40 years ago, major advances in robotics, computer vision and artificial intelligence have fundamenta…
Play2Perfect: What Matters in Dexterous Play Pretraining for Precise Assembly?
arXiv:2606.26428v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-fingered robots promise the speed and dexterity of human hands, yet challenging problems such as precise a…
CycleRL: Sim-to-Real Deep Reinforcement Learning for Robust Autonomous Bicycle Control
arXiv:2603.15013v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Autonomous bicycles offer a promising agile solution for urban mobility and last-mile logistics. However, co…
Tactile-WAM: Touch-Aware World Action Model with Tactile Asymmetric Attention
arXiv:2606.26663v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: World Action Models (WAMs) generate actions together with predicted futures, offering a powerful interface for r…
Continual Robot Policy Learning via Variational Neural Dynamics
arXiv:2606.27353v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robots deployed in the real world rarely operate under a single fixed dynamics model: wind changes, payloads var…
Proposal-Conditioned Latent Diffusion for Closed-Loop Traffic Scenario Generation
arXiv:2606.27123v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Closed-loop traffic simulation remains challenging because it must generate interactive multi-agent behaviors th…
RouterVLA: Turning Smoke Tests into Supervision for Heterogeneous VLA Selection
arXiv:2606.27355v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study whether pre-deployment evaluation rollouts can be reused to supervise policy selection. Robot teams rou…
RobOralScan: Learning Active Intraoral Scanning for Robotic Dental Reconstruction
arXiv:2606.26955v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Intraoral scanning is widely used for digital optical impressions in prosthodontic, implant, and orthodontic tre…
ForesightSafety-VLA: A Unified Diagnostic Safety Benchmark for Vision-Language-Action Models
arXiv:2606.27079v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In embodied intelligence, safety is a prerequisite for reliable robot deployment in the physical world. Current …
Real-Time Safety Evaluation of Human Arm Operations Using a Wrist-Mounted IMU with PSM System
arXiv:2502.09241v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: This paper presents a novel approach to real-time safety monitoring in human-robot collaborative manufacturi…
Reinforcement Learning Enables Autonomous Microrobot Navigation and Intervention in Simulated Blood Capillaries
arXiv:2606.26154v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous microrobots navigating biological vasculature could enable targeted drug delivery and thrombolysis, y…
History-Conditioned Spatio-Temporal Visual Token Pruning for Efficient Vision-Language Navigation
arXiv:2603.06480v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Vision-Language Navigation (VLN) enables robots to follow natural-language instructions in visually grounded…
Hirebotics offers no-code, explosion-proof cobot for painting
Hirebotics' Cobot Painter supports stationary painting, with parts placed in a paint booth where robots perform all spraying operations. The post Hirebotics off…
Large-Scale Tunnel Air--Ground Collaboration With FLISP: Fast LiDAR-IMU Synchronized Path Planne
arXiv:2606.25393v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Hydropower tunnel inspection is critical for infrastructure integrity yet remains inefficient and hazardous usin…
RigPI: Dynamic Parameter Identification of Rigid Body via VLM-Seeded Differentiable Simulation
arXiv:2606.25212v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Accurate physical parameter identification of manipulated objects is fundamental to advanced robotic manipulatio…
An Integrated Hardware-Software Design for Low-Data Spatial Defect Detection in Robotic Visual Inspection with Hybrid Optoelectronic Neural Networks
arXiv:2606.25277v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: To address data overload and inefficient shape-level annotation in robotic visual inspection, this paper propose…
Stage-Aware and Roughness-Constrained Diffusion Policy for Multi-Stage Robotic Polishing
arXiv:2606.25754v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Polishing is a critical finishing process in high-end manufacturing fields such as aerospace, where surface qual…
MIL-LC: A Robust Magnetometer-Inertial-LiDAR Fusion Multimodal Localization Framework
arXiv:2606.25796v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Localization in challenging environments, such as GNSS-denied, geometrically repetitive, or textureless scenes c…
RAVEN: Long-Horizon Reasoning & Navigation with a Visuo-Spatio-Temporal Memory
arXiv:2606.25206v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-term robot deployment requires a compact and scalable memory that preserves fine-grained visual semantics, …
ARTOO-DARTU: Studying AR-HRC With AR Obstruction Mitigation During a Warehouse Task
arXiv:2606.25202v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Human-robot collaboration (HRC) often requires robot intentions and internal states to be conveyed to users fo…
ReaDy-Go: Real-to-Sim Dynamic 3D Gaussian Splatting Simulation for Environment-Specific Visual Navigation with Moving Obstacles
arXiv:2602.11575v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Visual navigation models often struggle in real-world dynamic environments due to limited robustness to the …
Deep Reinforcement Learning-Enhanced Event-Triggered Data-Driven Predictive Control for a 3D Cable-Driven Soft Robotic Arm
arXiv:2606.26048v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Soft robots are challenging to control due to their nonlinear and time-varying dynamics. Data-enabled predictive…
SurveilNav: Collaborative Object Goal Navigation with Robot and Surveillance System
arXiv:2606.25119v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: With the growing deployment of surveillance systems in factories, offices, and homes, integrating them with robo…
From Rubble Simulation to Active Magnetic Mapping: Quantum Sensing for Disaster Response
arXiv:2606.25957v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Locating survivors of building collapses within the first 72 hours is a critical challenge in disaster response,…
Mantis Robotics launches dual-arm, fenceless robot
Mantis said the robot allows for new flexibility in how to configure automation in complex, real-world environments. The post Mantis Robotics launches dual-arm,…
Grounding Generative Policies in Physics: Optimization-Guided Diffusion for Robot Control
arXiv:2606.24208v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Diffusion models sample effectively from high-dimensional, multimodal distributions, but their outputs may viola…
Explaining Failures of Cyber-Physical Systems with Actual Causality
arXiv:2606.24546v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern autonomous Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs), such as self-driving cars, face increasingly complex demands, a…