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Robots at work: warehouses, factories, farms, hospitals, construction sites and the automation reshaping them.
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903 storiesActive Spatial Inspection for Effective and Efficient Embodied Exploration
arXiv:2609.22385v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Achieving high task success and efficiency remains a central pursuit in embodied exploration. Existing framework…
REBOOT: From Failure to Recovery - A Dataset and Benchmark for Precision Assembly
arXiv:2609.22591v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robot learning policies fail in characteristic ways: they stall in uncertain states, drift during contact-rich a…
PRIMO: Prior-Informed Odometry from Human-Motion Tracking for Humanoid Robots
arXiv:2609.23610v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Simulation-trained humanoid proprioceptive odometry faces two transfer challenges: training trajectories generat…
HapticWAM: Distilling Imagined Touch into a World-Action Model without Inference-Time Tactile Sensing
arXiv:2609.23888v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Contact-rich manipulation requires estimating forces, slip and contact geometry that can remain ambiguous in sce…
G6D: Geometric Learning-Free RGB-D 6D Pose Solver for Robotic Manipulation
arXiv:2609.23566v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: 6D object pose estimation is fundamental to robotic manipulation and automation. Recent zero-shot methods have…
Design and Biomechanical Evaluation of a Lightweight Low-Complexity Soft Bilateral Ankle Exoskeleton
arXiv:2602.18569v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Many people could benefit from exoskeleton assistance during gait, for either medical or nonmedical purposes…
Industrial Kinematic Trajectory Model (IKTM): Coordinate-Free Autoregressive Generator
arXiv:2609.22173v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Mobility simulation supports logistics, safety, and communications planning in industrial environments such as…
Uranus: Building the Next-Generation Simulation Infrastructure for Embodied AI
arXiv:2609.24815v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Scalable simulation is essential for robot data generation, policy training, evaluation, and safe iteration, yet…
A Monolithic Force-Proprioception Soft Acutuator Enabled by Single-Material 3D printing
arXiv:2609.24499v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Pneumatic proprioceptive actuators integrate actuation and sensing for soft robots that attract interest due to …
HumynexSurg-1: A Curated Expert Liposuction Dataset
arXiv:2609.23885v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robot foundation models learn manipulation from large demonstration corpora, but surgery is missing from those c…
UniPoint: Unified Point-Level Sensor Fusion for Humanoid Locomotion Across Challenging Terrains
arXiv:2609.23666v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Open-world deployment requires humanoid robots to cross highly heterogeneous terrain safely, with perception tha…
Tip Manipulation in Soft Everting Robots via Wall Retraction and Deployable Fingers
arXiv:2609.23132v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Soft everting robots can traverse long, confined paths by continuously growing, yet active interaction remains l…
Physical-Touch Observability from Wrist Wrench in Granular Scooping
arXiv:2609.22852v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Mining and earthmoving are important real-world deployment settings for embodied intelligence. Autonomous transp…
DEXTERA: From a Single Image to Deployable Dexterous Manipulation via Real-to-Sim-to-Real
arXiv:2609.21045v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Collecting real-world robot data for dexterous manipulation is costly and time-consuming. While high-fidelity ph…
Robust Structureless Monocular Visual Inertial Initialization Exploiting Line Features and Vanishing Points
arXiv:2609.21186v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Accurate initialization is essential for reliable visual-inertial odometry (VIO), but it is often ill-conditione…
FAN: Foresight Action Normalization for Continual Adaptation of Vision-Language-Action Models
arXiv:2609.21358v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models pre-trained on large-scale, closed datasets have demonstrated remarkable suc…
A Novel Path-Tracking Algorithm for Automated Tractor-Trailer Forward and Backward Maneuvers
arXiv:2609.21718v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Fully autonomous tractor--trailer systems are increasingly deployed in logistics, agriculture, and industrial en…
Advancing Minimally Invasive Precision Surgery in Large Open Cavities with Robotic Flexible Endoscopy
arXiv:2511.14458v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Flexible robots hold great promise for enhancing minimally invasive surgery (MIS) by providing superior dext…
Provably Optimal Reinforcement Learning under Safety Filtering
arXiv:2510.18082v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Recent advances in reinforcement learning (RL) enable its use on increasingly complex tasks, but the l…
Synthesis and Deployment of Maximal Robust Control Barrier Functions through Adversarial Reinforcement Learning
arXiv:2604.13192v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Robust control barrier functions (CBFs) provide a principled mechanism for smooth safety enforcement u…
A Sim-to-Real Integration Pipeline for Training and Deployment of Chunk-Based VLA Manipulation Policies
arXiv:2609.21817v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have become a prominent paradigm for mapping multimodal inputs, including se…
Robotic Multiphase Interaction: Manipulating Coupled Liquid and Solid Dynamics with a World Model
arXiv:2609.21448v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This work presents \textit{Robotic Multiphase Interaction (RMI)}, a setting in which liquid enters a porous mate…
A Unified Dynamic Force Guidance Framework for Performance-Optimized Kinesthetic Teaching
arXiv:2609.21416v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Collaborative robots are increasingly deployed in industrial scenarios characterized by frequent product changeo…
MarineCraft: Enabling Rapid Prototyping of Underwater Robots via Modular Construction
arXiv:2609.21396v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Underwater robot development is often hindered by the complexities of waterproofing and wiring, which significan…
AirSplan: Risk-Aware Motion Planning for Quadrotors in Cluttered 3D Gaussian Splats
arXiv:2609.21226v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Quadrotors are increasingly deployed in applications such as agriculture, infrastructure inspection, and mainten…
AeRove: A Compact Bimodal Aerial-Terrestrial Drone with Rapid Bistable Reconfiguration for Close-Range Pipeline Inspection
arXiv:2609.20965v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Close-proximity pipeline inspection is challenging for standard drones due to high hovering power consumption, a…
A High-Payload Wall-Climbing Robot Using Passive Bistable Suction Cups
arXiv:2609.21584v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Wall-climbing robots capable of scaling vertical surfaces could help automate hazardous or labor intensive tasks…
DexPIE: Stable Dexterous Policy Improvement from Real-World Experience
arXiv:2606.09615v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Dexterous manipulation presents substantial challenges for imitation learning due to its high-dimensional ac…
Gripper-Aware Automatic Dense Packing of Irregular Objects
arXiv:2609.22062v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Automatic dense packing is widely desired in warehouse operations but remains a fundamental challenge in robotic…
ZeroTouch: Tactile-Supervised Visual Contact Estimation for Contact-Rich Manipulation
arXiv:2609.21726v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reliable robotic grasping benefits from estimating the evolving physical interaction and selecting a grasp-depen…