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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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VicOne releases free NVIDIA Isaac Sim cybersecurity extension based on DEF CON 34 research
VicOne says its free Radeis Extension for NVIDIA Isaac Sim enables developers to test robot cyber safety before deployment. The post VicOne releases free NVIDIA…
A ‘5-in-1’ seed-sized surgical robot
Scientists from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have developed a tiny seed-sized robot that can navigate across soft and uneven surf…
Representation Handoffs for OpenArm-Based Laboratory Mobile Manipulation
arXiv:2608.07154v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Open-source robotics and foundation models have lowered the barrier to embodied AI, yet language-guided laborato…
Benchmarking and Reasoning Distillation of Large Language Models for Feedback Controller Design in Complex Dynamical Systems
arXiv:2608.07004v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Although remarkable capabilities have been demonstrated by Large Language Models (LLMs) across scientific domain…
Automated Terminal-to-Housing Assembly System for Flat Ribbon Cable Harness
arXiv:2608.06996v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper presents a sensor-minimal automated assembly system for bidirectional single-row flat ribbon cable ha…
Unordered Landmark Visual Navigation
arXiv:2608.06833v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Image-goal navigation is a fundamental capability for embodied AI, yet its practical deployment is strained by s…
LyEvO: Lyapunov-Guided Evolutionary Optimization for Safe and Robust Sim-to-Real Policy Learning
arXiv:2608.06481v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Training controllers that are safe and robust in simulation, and systematically assessing their readiness for re…
Tacta Systems takes aim at high-skilled manufacturing work with TactaBot
Tacta Systems unveiled a three-part system, including its robotic hand, that enables users to teach its robot new dexterous skills. The post Tacta Systems takes…
Building robots that survive the warehouse
Nomagic says its real moat is production data, because the messiness of real warehouses is where robots either prove themselves or fail. The post Building robot…
ErgoSurf: Ergodic Control for the Coverage of Unknown Surfaces
arXiv:2608.06208v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Contact-centric tasks on surfaces, ranging from inspection and cleaning to sanding and polishing, require robots…
Robotic Nanoparticle Synthesis via Solution-based Processes
arXiv:2604.12169v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We present a screw geometry-based manipulation planning framework for the robotic automation of solution-bas…
Adaptive-WAM: Quality-Guided Early-Exit Planning from Intermediate Video-Diffusion Features
arXiv:2608.06008v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large video diffusion models provide rich spatiotemporal priors for autonomous driving, but existing world-actio…
Coordinated Multi-Robot Disassembly for Makespan Optimization of Large-Scale Assemblies
arXiv:2608.05830v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-robot task and motion planning for disassembly tasks requires robots to operate in confined workspaces whi…
Failing Gracefully: Mitigating Impact of Inevitable Robot Failures
arXiv:2608.05313v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Service robots operate in household environments shared with humans, pets, and everyday objects, where they are …
A System for Train Condition Monitoring and Structural Health Assessment of Rail Vehicles
arXiv:2608.05221v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The ongoing digitalization of rail systems and the increasing use of artificial intelligence (AI) are fundamenta…
How Robin, the robotic companion, keeps patients calm during hospital visits
Robin is deployed across 30 different health systems, and Expper has plans to deploy 10 more in different states. The post How Robin, the robotic companion, kee…
SAFECAST: Robust Failure Detection for VLA Policies with Contrast-Set Training and Calibration
arXiv:2608.04246v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language-action policies often fail under deployment-time distribution shifts such as clutter, distractor…
Structured LLM Reasoning for Zero-Shot Human--Robot Coordination Under Hidden Goals
arXiv:2608.04309v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present a structured large-language-model (LLM) architecture for zero-shot human--robot coordination in a coo…
A GitOps-Driven Annotation Catalog for Fully Automatic Railway Operations
arXiv:2608.04724v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Automatic train operation (ATO) at grade of automation 3 and above (GoA3-GoA4) requires robust AI-based percepti…
A Multi-Sensor Dataset for Monitoring the Operational Environment of Rail Vehicles
arXiv:2608.04704v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reliable environment monitoring is essential for the safe and efficient operation of automated railway systems…
SACK : Safe Active Continual Koopman Learning for Uncertain Systems with Contractive Guarantees
arXiv:2605.09659v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Koopman operator theory provides a powerful framework for representing nonlinear dynamics through a linear o…
Enabling Urgency-aware Robot Swarm Intralogistics using Smart IoT Tags
arXiv:2608.04721v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Warehouse items differ in how urgently they must be moved: perishable goods, pharmaceutical shipments, and just-…
RESample: A Robust Data Augmentation Framework via Exploratory Sampling for Robotic Manipulation
arXiv:2510.17640v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have shown strong manipulation capability when trained with large-scale …
Exact Model-Free Policy Iteration for Co-safe LTL Planning
arXiv:2608.05047v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This work studies model-free reinforcement learning for co-safe linear temporal logic (sc-LTL) objectives in f…
SiMDex: Mining Similar Egocentric Videos for Cross-Embodiment Dexterous Manipulation
arXiv:2608.04196v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent years have witnessed an explosive trend of scaling ego-centric human videos for robot manipulation, yet i…
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…
University of Florida opens new robotics lab dedicated to industrialized construction
Fueled by Autodesk, UF opened a robotics lab for industrialized construction to fight housing shortages and labor declines. The post University of Florida opens…
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…
Avnet and Weston Robot partner to launch edge AI inspection platform
Avnet and Weston Robot have partnered to launch an AI-powered autonomous inspection platform for complex industrial environments. The post Avnet and Weston Robo…
A Low-Cost Hybrid Reservoir Computing Model for Isolated Sign Language Video Recognition
arXiv:2608.03444v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Sign language recognition (SLR) enhances communication between hearing and hearing-impaired individuals. Althoug…