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529 storiesChoose What to Manipulate: Revealing Data Scaling Laws in Bounding-Box Guided Policies for Semantic Manipulation
arXiv:2602.11885v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Diffusion-based policies generalize poorly in semantic manipulation, a key obstacle to real-world deployment…
KUKA deploys Automation Management Platform for North American automakers
KUKA has deployed its Automation Management Platform at KTPO, a major manufacturing facility in Ohio. The post KUKA deploys Automation Management Platform for N…
FCC robot ruling shines a spotlight on U.S. policy; how next-gen AI can help warehousing
Osaro’s Derek Pridmore says warehouse robots are advancing, but real-world safety and reliability still depend on specialized, layered AI systems. The post FCC …
Procore Technologies acquires DroneDeploy for $845M
Procore will integrate DroneDeploy's visual intelligence technology to link the digital world with physical construction sites. The post Procore Technologies ac…
PAC-MAN: Perception-Aware CBF-RL for Whole-Body Safety in Humanoid Dodgeball
arXiv:2607.28623v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present PAC-MAN, a perception-aware CBF-RL framework that couples control-barrier safety with deployment-real…
When Robots Exchange Meaning: A Demo of Goal-Oriented Semantic Communications for Collaborative Robotics
arXiv:2607.28256v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Collaborative robotics is a representative task-oriented 6G use-case, where communication quality should be refl…
Active Lubrication of Transluminal Medical Instruments
arXiv:2506.07225v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Transluminal minimally invasive surgery uses natural orifices and small incisions to access internal a…
SharedAssembly: A Data Collection Approach via Shared Tele-Assembly
arXiv:2503.12287v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: High-precision, tight-clearance assembly demonstrations are indispensable for training tactile-aware robotic…
RedFlow: Redirect Failure into Action-Level Corrections for Flow-matching VLA Policy
arXiv:2607.27782v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Flow-matching Vision-Language-Action (VLA) policies have shown strong potential for robotic manipulation but oft…
Failure Detection for Surgical Robot Imitation Policies via Flow-Matching World Modeling
arXiv:2607.27511v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Imitation learning has shown increasing promise for autonomous robotic surgery, yet safe deployment remains chal…
One Future, Every Robot: Label-Efficient Collective-State Prediction with Decentralized JEPA
arXiv:2607.28443v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Can every robot in a swarm predict the same future collective state from only local observations and bandwidth-l…
Compact Task-Aligned Imitation Learning for Laboratory Automation
arXiv:2603.01110v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Robotic laboratory automation has traditionally relied on carefully engineered motion pipelines and task-spe…
DoorDash gains FAA certification to operate its own drone delivery program
The FAA approval came nearly a year after DoorDash unveiled its delivery robot and reflects its increasing interest in building automation in-house. The post Do…
Invariant Extended Kalman Filtering with Partial Orientation Measurement Integration: Theoretical Derivations and Application to Autonomous Surface Vessels
arXiv:2506.10850v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Autonomous surface vessels (ASVs) are increasingly vital for marine science, offering robust platforms for u…
PACE: Phase-Aware Chunk Execution for Robot Policies with Action Chunking
arXiv:2606.00537v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Recent vision-language-action and diffusion-based robot policies often use action chunking, where each polic…
Multi-Objective Compliance-Integrated Coevolution For Simulated And Real-World Deployment Of Multi-Robot Marine Autonomy
arXiv:2607.26279v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Collaborative robots are well-suited to maritime missions that benefit from coordination, such as the exploratio…
Visibility-Aware Cooperative Tracking with Decentralized LiDAR-Based Aerial Swarms
arXiv:2512.01280v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Autonomous aerial tracking with drones offers vast potential for surveillance, cinematography, and industria…
Reinforcement Learning on Cost-Constrained Quadrupedal Hardware
arXiv:2607.26434v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deploying learned control policies on low-cost robotic platforms introduces transport latencies and noisy motor …
Can Vision-Language-Action Models Learn from Real-World Data Continually without Forgetting?
arXiv:2605.26820v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models provide a promising foundation for general-purpose robotics, yet their r…
RoboMME-Interference: Benchmarking Robot Memory Under Interference
arXiv:2606.22338v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Robots deployed in realistic settings will accumulate experience across many sessions and tasks over their d…
Diff2DGS: Reliable Reconstruction of Occluded Surgical Scenes via 2D Gaussian Splatting
arXiv:2602.18314v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Real-time reconstruction of deformable surgical scenes is vital for advancing robotic surgery, improvi…
Track-Leakage-Free Hold-Out Self-Validation for Photogrammetric Reconstruction: Protocol, Sensitivity, and Limits
arXiv:2607.24852v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Automated photogrammetric inspection emits metric measurements from a 3D reconstruction whose own correctness …
INTACT: Isomorphic Intent-to-Action Learning for Search-Free World Models
arXiv:2607.26056v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Forward latent world models predict how actions change a scene, but recover actions for a desired change only th…
Tripody: An Overconstrained 3-SPR-like Parallel Robot for High-Reach Construction Tasks
arXiv:2607.25781v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Many ceiling construction tasks still rely on heavy serial manipulators that are difficult to deploy in cluttere…
Nanobot Algorithms for Treatment of Diffuse Cancer
arXiv:2509.06893v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Motile nanosized particles, or "nanobots", promise more effective and less toxic targeted drug deliver…
ENvue Medical develops robotic feeding tube placement system
ENvue Drive is designed to assist, not replace, the clinician, who retains full control of the procedure at all times. The post ENvue Medical develops robotic f…
The Curse of Precision: A Data Scaling Law for High-Precision Robotic Manipulation
arXiv:2607.23108v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While scaling laws for imitation learning have primarily focused on generalization in open-world settings, the r…
Imitation Learning for Robot Assistance in Open Surgery: A Multi-Policy Evaluation on Suture Following
arXiv:2605.28736v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: This study presents the first evaluation of general-purpose imitation learning for surgeon-robot collaborati…
ArmnetBench v0.1: Parallel Real-World Evaluation of Manipulation Policies on a Low-Cost Arm Farm
arXiv:2607.24481v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Real-world evaluation is a bottleneck in developing generalist robot manipulation policies. Each rollout require…
LabRobFail: A Benchmark for Robotic Failure Analysis in Chemical Self-driving Laboratories
arXiv:2607.23704v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The deployment of embodied agents in self-driving laboratories could accelerate scientific discovery, yet their …