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Robots at work: warehouses, factories, farms, hospitals, construction sites and the automation reshaping them.
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903 storiesDecentralized Vision-Based Autonomous Aerial Wildlife Monitoring
arXiv:2508.15038v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Wildlife field operations demand efficient parallel deployment methods to identify and interact with specifi…
Learning Terrain-Aware Whole-Body Control for Perceptive Legged Loco-Manipulation
arXiv:2605.31343v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Legged manipulators integrate exceptional terrain adaptability along with mobile manipulation capabilities, …
ASIP-Planner: Adaptive Planning for UAV Surface Inspection in Partially Known Indoor Environments
arXiv:2605.11119v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Indoor infrastructure inspection, such as tunnels and industrial facilities, requires systematic surface cov…
A Multi-Vine Soft Robot Enabling Accessible Working Channel and Steering
arXiv:2609.03758v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Soft eversion robots, also known as vine robots, have attracted growing interest for navigation and inspection t…
Vision-Based Tactile Sensing for the Perception of the Object's Compliance and Hardness
arXiv:2510.12528v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Object compliance perception enables the identification of soft materials, supporting tasks such as fruit de…
SV-WAM: An Efficient Surround-View World-Action Model for End-to-End Autonomous Driving
arXiv:2609.03602v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: World models (WMs) have demonstrated strong potential for end-to-end autonomous driving by learning predictive…
Automated Weld Seam Recognition and 3D Mapping for Robotic Post Processing Using Photogrammetry and Semantic Segmentation
arXiv:2609.03970v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Accurate identification of weld seam geometries is essential for automated robotic post processing operations su…
Robot Aware Computational Design of Object Specific Passive Grippers for Additive Manufacturing
arXiv:2609.03761v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper presents an end-to-end computational pipeline that converts a selected object mesh, a measured object…
ARTiS: An Adaptive Robotic Gripper for Enhanced Tool Manipulation in Disassembly Applications
arXiv:2609.03362v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Grasping and holding tools while using them presents a considerable challenge not only for robots but also for h…
Autonomous robotic bridging using distributed swarm control without inter-agent communication
arXiv:2609.01394v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We describe SCARAB--Swarm-Capable Autonomous Robotic Aquatic Bridging. Using distributed swarm control and multi…
DSG: Dynamic 3D Scene Graph Construction for Embodied Agents in Changing Indoor Environments
arXiv:2609.00619v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In indoor environments, object positions frequently change due to human activities or embodied-agent interaction…
Optimal UGV-UAV Cooperative Partitioning and Inspection of Shortest Paths
arXiv:2604.25284v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We study cooperative shortest path planning for an unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) assisted by an unmanned aer…
Deploying and Evaluating a Smart-Agriculture Agentic Engine for Full-Season Soybean Farm Operations
arXiv:2609.00106v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This paper presents FAIRY, a full-stack smart-agriculture agent system developed for and deployed to an operat…
Federated Trust for Embodied Robot Capability Marketplaces
arXiv:2609.00404v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Robot capability marketplaces, the "app store for robot skills," are emerging as the deployment vector for LLM…
Facet-0: A Robotic Foundation Model for Contact-Rich Precise Manipulation
arXiv:2609.01596v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Real-world robotic assembly at sub-millimeter tolerances demands spatial precision, compliant interaction, and r…
Learn how physical AI is being used to do real work at RoboBusiness
Leaders at Amazon Robotics, Teradyne Robotics, and Cobot will discuss how they're applying physical AI to robots operating in customer environments. The post Le…
HowToRobot and Robotics Australia Group partner on platform to encourage robot adoption
The initiative is intended to help businesses in Australia identify automation opportunities, test them, and connect with local suppliers. The post HowToRobot a…
From spreadsheets to AI: Deere gives farmers new features in Operations Center, JD
John Deere has launched JD, an AI tool that turns historical farm data into actionable insights to boost profitability. The post From spreadsheets to AI: Deere …
Open-Source Autonomous Driving System Analysis and Multi-Disciplinary Hardware-in-the-Loop Research Paradigm with Reinforcement-Learning Testing and Large Language Models
arXiv:2608.30179v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Open-source autonomous driving systems provide an inspectable software foundation for intelligent vehicle rese…
Generalizable Multi-Agent Planning from Signal Temporal Logic Specifications via Diffusion
arXiv:2608.29490v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multi-agent systems in the real-world (e.g., drone swarms, autonomous cars, warehouse robots) must satisfy ric…
Agri-Sim: Agricultural Simulation Platform for Embodied Intelligence Evaluation in Greenhouse Robotics
arXiv:2608.29100v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agricultural-robot development requires simulation environments that can jointly support realistic scene constru…
DREAM: Deployment-Time Demonstration Generation via Real-to-Sim for Scalable Policy Adaptation
arXiv:2608.29078v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language-action (VLA) models have made strong progress in language-conditioned robot manipulation, but im…
Anomaly Detection on Small Industrial Components via Vision-Based Tactile Sensing
arXiv:2608.30506v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Automated inspection of small industrial components, including sub-centimetre-scale parts where defects are geom…
PAVE: Predictive Alignment and Value-Guided Evolution for World-Action Policies
arXiv:2608.30378v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Direct vision-language-action policies generate continuous robot actions efficiently, but standard behavior clon…
Training-Free Action Correction for VLA Model Failures via Language Feedback
arXiv:2608.29967v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models demonstrate strong semantic understanding yet exhibit systematic failures du…
SmoothRL: Online Reinforcement Learning During Asynchronous Execution
arXiv:2608.29768v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deploying robot policies in the physical world requires satisfying two fundamental desiderata: reliability and s…
AdaVLA: Adaptive Step Flow Matching for Training-free Acceleration of Vision-Language-Action Models
arXiv:2608.29208v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models, built upon Vision-Language Models (VLMs), have significantly enhanced robot…
Adversarial Calibration Attack on Autonomous Vehicles
arXiv:2608.28778v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous vehicles (AVs) rely on accurate camera-LiDAR calibration for multimodal sensor fusion. In practice, c…
A Degradation-Tolerance Benchmark for Camera-Only End-to-End Driving
arXiv:2608.29005v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Camera-only end-to-end (E2E) driving models are nearing deployment, where the camera stream is degraded by blur,…
On Adversarial Attacks In Acoustic Drone Localization
arXiv:2502.20325v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Multi-rotor aerial autonomous vehicles (MAVs, more widely known as "drones") have been generating incr…