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Robots at work: warehouses, factories, farms, hospitals, construction sites and the automation reshaping them.
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529 storiesPhenology-based learning framework for yield estimation and harvest forecasting of raspberry fruits
arXiv:2411.00967v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The future of agriculture is intertwined with automation. Accurate fruit detection, yield estimation, …
Distributed Coordination for Resilient Multi-UAV Remote Sensing: A Photovoltaic Inspection Case Study
arXiv:2607.24482v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deploying multiple UAVs for remote sensing enables proportional reductions in mission time, but realizing these …
MAGS-SLAM: Monocular Multi-Agent Gaussian Splatting SLAM for Geometrically and Photometrically Consistent Reconstruction
arXiv:2605.10760v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Collaborative photorealistic 3D reconstruction from multiple agents enables rapid large-scale scene capture …
Co-planning of Flight Corridors and Communication Infrastructure for Urban Drone Logistics Networks
arXiv:2607.23989v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reliable wireless connectivity is essential for urban air mobility (UAM) networks in dense urban environments. I…
CReF: Cross-modal and Recurrent Fusion for Depth-conditioned Humanoid Locomotion
arXiv:2603.29452v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Stable traversal over geometrically complex terrain increasingly requires exteroceptive perception, yet prio…
A Cyclic Adaptation-Generalization Framework with Uncertainty-Guided Self-Paced Learning for Long-Term Brain-Machine Interfaces
arXiv:2607.24031v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Brain-Machine Interfaces (BMIs), which link the brain to external devices, hold great potential in rehabilitat…
$N_0$-VTLA: Scaling Vision-Tactile-Language-Action Model with Latent Tactile Tokens
arXiv:2607.23782v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present $N_0$-VTLA, a vision-tactile-language-action (VTLA) foundation model capable of (1) fine-grained cont…
FutureRTC: Real-Time Robot Execution with Anticipatory-Conditioned Action Chunking
arXiv:2607.24008v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Real-time deployment of Vision-Language-Action (VLA) policies necessitates asynchronous execution, wherein subse…
Kraken Technology raises Series B funding for autonomous vessels
Kraken Technology plans to use its funding to continue developing uncrewed surface vessels and localizing manufacturing around the world. The post Kraken Techno…
OpenNavMap: Multi-Session Appearance-Based Topometric Mapping for Scalable Visual Navigation
arXiv:2601.12291v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Scalable and maintainable maps are fundamental to large-scale navigation and the long-term deployment of rob…
A Monolithic Hand with Asymmetric Origami Bending and Dual-chamber Actuators
arXiv:2607.22320v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The passive adaptability inherent in soft robotic hands affords them advantages in applications that require saf…
Benchmarking the Safety of Large Language Models for Robotic Health Attendant Control
arXiv:2604.26577v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly considered for deployment as the control component of ro…
GRACE: Gradient-Free Robot Action Generation via Combined Diffusion-MPPI Posterior Mean Estimation
arXiv:2607.21661v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Diffusion policies generate multimodal robot action sequences from demonstrations, but steering them toward depl…
A Unified Framework for Automated Assembly Sequence and Production Line Planning using Graph-based Optimization
arXiv:2512.13219v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: This paper presents PyCAALP (Python-based Computer-Aided Assembly Line Planning), a framework for automated …
CorVS+: Correspondence-Driven Association of Video Trajectories and Sensors for Identity-Aware Person Localization in Warehouses
arXiv:2510.26369v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Logistics warehouses have struggled with labor shortages, but the inbound processes remain particularl…
Geometric 2D Scene Graph Generation
arXiv:2607.22325v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In production processes for consumer products, assembly instructions are essential not only for planning but a…
Drive As You Like: Multi-Head Diffusion with Reinforcement Learning for Personalized Driving
arXiv:2508.16947v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Despite significant progress, imitation learning-based autonomous driving planners remain largely restricted…
VoLN: Vision-Only Long-Horizon Navigation---Paradigm, Benchmark, and Method
arXiv:2607.21400v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) enables embodied agents to follow natural-language instructions. However, r…
FORGE-plus: Force-Budgeted Recovery for Contact-Rich Assembly with a Frozen LLM Supervisor
arXiv:2607.21227v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Force-conditioned reinforcement learning (RL) enables tight-clearance assembly under a commanded force ceiling, …
A real-time RGB-D perception pipeline for autonomous impact hammers in mining: self-filtering, rock segmentation and rock-breaking poses generation
arXiv:2607.20748v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Impact hammers, also known as rock-breakers, are essential machines in mining operations, where they perform sec…
ZONDA: Zero-shot Object Navigation with Dynamic Avoidance in Multi-floor Environments
arXiv:2607.21025v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In Object Goal Navigation task, existing methods are typically restricted to static and single-floor environment…
Scalable Low-Cost Laboratory Automation: A Digital Twin-Integrated Robotic Platform for Autonomous Liquid Handling (RAINBOTTM)
arXiv:2607.20662v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Laboratory automation accelerates discovery, yet its adoption is constrained by the high cost, proprietary desig…
Force-Aware Residual DAgger via Trajectory Editing for Precision Insertion with Impedance Control
arXiv:2603.04038v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Imitation learning (IL) has shown strong potential for contact-rich precision insertion tasks. However, its …
Safe and Scalable Multi-Drone Payload Transport via CBF-based Reinforcement Learning with Zero-Shot Sim-to-Real Transfer
arXiv:2607.20665v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-drone payload transportation has emerged as a promising research paradigm with potential applications in c…
Robostral Navigate
arXiv:2607.20785v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deploying navigation systems at scale requires a recipe that minimizes sensor assumptions, generalizes across ro…
Uber co-founder raises $1.7B for new robotics startup ATOMS
Travis Kalanick, the former CEO of Uber, said with ATOMS, he hopes to create physical automation to transform industry. The post Uber co-founder raises $1.7B fo…
Pressure-free growing robots for soft medical robotics
Researchers at the University of Leeds and collaborators from the University of California San Diego won the Best Paper Award at RoboSoft, the leading internati…
Optimal Placement of Docking Stations and Resident AUVs for Subsea Pipeline Inspection
arXiv:2607.19944v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A two-stage mixed-integer linear programming framework is introduced for subsea pipeline incident response pla…
Towards Miniature Humanoid Tele-Loco-Manipulation Using Virtual Reality and Reinforcement Learning
arXiv:2607.20399v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Full-sized humanoid robot capabilities have grown exponentially in recent years, aiming towards general-purpose …
Directional Mollification for Knot-Preserving $C^{\infty}$ Smoothing of Polygonal Chains with Explicit Curvature Bounds
arXiv:2603.21831v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We introduce the \textit{directional mollification} operator, which acts on polygonal chains to produce $C^{…