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Robots at work: warehouses, factories, farms, hospitals, construction sites and the automation reshaping them.
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903 storiesrMuscle: Robotic Muscle Memory for Efficient Vision-Language-Action Model Inference
arXiv:2609.19104v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Factory work is a promising early scenario for embodied AI: assigning repetitive manual jobs to robots has clear…
DistAL: Distance-based Advantage Learning for VLA Fine-Tuning
arXiv:2609.18392v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language-action models (VLAs) have trans- formed the field of robotic manipulation in recent years by com…
Imitation Learning for Autonomous Driving in CARLA
arXiv:2609.17757v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Behavioral cloning trains a policy offline on expert demonstrations, but deployment is closed loop: each actio…
Benchmarking Visual-Inertial Odometry in Subterranean Environments Under Sensor Degradation, Miscalibration, and Dynamic Occlusion
arXiv:2609.18628v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Visual-inertial odometry (VIO) is a core capability for autonomous operation in GPS-denied subterranean environm…
A3P5 NEMESIS Integrated Rover Design for Environmental Reconnaissance and Robotic Sampling with Reproducible Mobility Analysis and an External Data Machine Learning Calibration Benchmark
arXiv:2609.18245v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A3P5 NEMESIS is a four-wheel rover intended to combine remote inspection, environmental observation and lightwei…
Vision-Language Grounded Task-Context-Aware Imitation Learning for Robotic Disassembly
arXiv:2609.17714v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Real-world robotic disassembly requires long-horizon execution, where robots must perform ordered sequences of m…
Flexible-body Modeling, Kinematic Identification, and Assembly Accuracy of Overconstrained Spatial Linkages
arXiv:2609.17627v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Overconstrained rational single-loop linkages are efficient, compact, and low-cost custom mechanisms, yet their …
Watch the ICRA keynote and plenary talks
The 2026 IEEE International Conference on Robotics & Automation (ICRA) was held in Vienna from the 1 – 5 June. The event brought together researchers…
Dense to MoE Adaptation for Compact Vision Language Action Policies
arXiv:2609.16503v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision language action (VLA) policies continue to grow in parameter count, making deployment on resource-constra…
The Robot Data Factory
arXiv:2609.16705v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Physical AI requires more than increasingly large robot datasets: intelligent robots acquire knowledge through c…
CAD-Based Relation Learning and Geometric-Symbolic Planning for Robotic Assembly
arXiv:2609.17263v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Assembly Sequence Planning (ASP) remains a challenging problem due to its combinatorial nature, making exhaustiv…
Real-Time Non-Contact Force Compensation for Wrist-Mounted Force/Torque Sensors in Haptic-Enabled Robotic Surgery Training
arXiv:2604.23696v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Haptic feedback has been a long-missed feature in robotic-assisted surgery, one that would allow surgeons to…
SafeFlow: Real-Time Text-Driven Humanoid Whole-Body Control via Physics-Guided Rectified Flow and Selective Safety Gating
arXiv:2603.23983v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Recent advances in real-time interactive text-driven motion generation have enabled humanoids to perform div…
A Programmable Optics Cloud Laboratory
arXiv:2609.16413v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Laboratory automation can improve experimental throughput, accessibility, and reproducibility, but many roboti…
The Neverwhere Visual Parkour Benchmark Suite
arXiv:2609.16443v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: State-of-the-art visual locomotion controllers are increasingly capable at handling complex visual environments,…
Tendon-Driven Continuum Robot with Modular Stiffness and In-Situ Self Pose Estimation
arXiv:2609.16256v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Continuum robots enable smooth shape morphing and safe interaction in confined environments. However, most exist…
Occupancy Network-Guided Autonomous Robotic Partial Nephrectomy
arXiv:2609.16186v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous soft-tissue cancer surgery has been limited to interventions on organ surfaces, because current syste…
CoAdapt: An LLM-based Framework for Adaptive Collaborative Perception in IIoT Robotic Swarms
arXiv:2609.16852v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Industrial IoT environments increasingly deploy autonomous mobile robots for tasks such as material handling, …
Optimized Wrench Polytope Analysis for Real-Time Stability Control of Legged Robots in Complex Multi-Contact Configurations
arXiv:2609.17405v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Legged robots offer a variety of automation applications in real-world scenarios. But areas that are difficult t…
Overcoming technical adoption barriers for mobile service robots in rehabilitation
arXiv:2609.16996v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Many publications on robotic systems in healthcare describe early-stage work on low technology readiness levels.…
When Faster VLA Deployment Changes Closed-Loop Behavior: Task Success-Latency Analysis of SmolVLA Across PyTorch and ONNX Variants
arXiv:2609.14146v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language-action (VLA) deployment can reduce inference latency while changing closed-loop task behavior. W…
X-WBC: A Cross-Embodiment Foundation Model for Humanoid Whole-Body Control
arXiv:2609.15213v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Scaling humanoid whole-body control toward general-purpose deployment requires large human motion corpora and tr…
Low Clearance Hinge Joint Mechanism Based on 3D Printing on Sheet Fabrication Methodology
arXiv:2609.15276v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper presents a low-clearance hinge joint mechanism based on the 3D printing on sheet fabrication method. …
S3-Tracker: Self-Supervised Surgical Tissue Tracking With Contrastive Random Walks
arXiv:2609.14313v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Robust point tracking in endoscopic videos is essential for computer-assisted intervention and autonomous robo…
PredTac: Learning Contact-Rich Manipulation with Predicted Touch
arXiv:2609.15198v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Contact-rich manipulation benefits from tactile feedback, yet physical tactile sensors introduce hardware, calib…
Assistance Torque Estimation via Dynamics-Aware Optimization for Lower-Limb Exoskeleton in Complex Environments
arXiv:2609.15352v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Ground-truth human joint torque estimation relies on motion capture systems, which suffer from limited outdoor u…
From Vision to Harvest: Benchmarking Vision-Language Models for Multi-Arm Robotic Fruit Harvesting
arXiv:2609.13606v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-arm robotic harvesting offers a promising path to improve harvesting efficiency and reduce reliance on man…
Beyond Single-Axis Testing: Paired Evaluation of Compound Robustness in Vision-Language-Action Policies
arXiv:2609.15940v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language-action policies are typically evaluated one perturbation at a time, providing a useful diagnosis…
A Vision Based Framework Integrating Attention and Action Cues for Interpretable Cognitive Workload Assessment in Human Robot Collaborative Assembly
arXiv:2609.15232v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The introduction of human-robot collaboration (HRC) in industrial assembly operations is revolutionizing the man…
Harnessing human expertise for high-precision robotic assembly in industrialized construction: A sample-efficient installer-in-the-loop interactive reinforcement learning framework
arXiv:2609.13234v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Industrialized construction imposes stringent precision requirements on robotic assembly of modular components s…