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Robots at work: warehouses, factories, farms, hospitals, construction sites and the automation reshaping them.
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903 storiesZeva: In-Context Causal Learning for Generalizable Embodied Manipulation
arXiv:2608.30880v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generalizable embodied manipulation remains difficult to achieve through pretraining alone, due to unseen physic…
Autonomously Acquiring Robot Manipulation Skills with Language-Driven Quality-Diversity
arXiv:2608.30983v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Quality-diversity (QD) algorithms have been gaining traction in robot learning, where diverse motion primitive l…
Sampling-based Certified Planning with Graphs of Convex Sets
arXiv:2608.29770v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Planners on graphs of convex sets return trajectories that are collision-free by construction, provided the conv…
Failure or Drift? Evaluating Monocular SLAM under Synthetic and Real-World Corruptions
arXiv:2608.30690v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Visual SLAM is commonly evaluated on clean trajectories, although deployment failures are often caused by adve…
Multi-Group Pipe Routing under Permanent Geometric Occupancy: Problem, Benchmark, and Classical Baselines
arXiv:2608.28697v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Additive manufacturing (AM) enables compact hydraulic components whose internal fluid channels can follow free-f…
Dual Park-Ravani Interpolation of Rigid Motions: Acceleration-Field Continuity and Holonomic Hermite Repair
arXiv:2608.28826v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The Park-Ravani construction generates a twice continuously differentiable, frame-invariant spline on SO(3) by e…
Data-Centric Neuromotor Interfaces for Portable Human-Machine Interaction
arXiv:2608.30301v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Dexterous human-machine interaction requires intuitive and expressive interfaces that can be efficiently deploye…
AGRICAM: A Track-Mounted Crop Pollination Monitoring Robot
arXiv:2608.29237v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Insect pollination is critical for global food production, yet monitoring pollinators at commercial farm scale…
Remote Human and Robot Interaction for Greenhouse Gardening Using Virtual Reality
arXiv:2608.27545v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This study evaluates the effectiveness of remote human-robot interaction using virtual reality for leaf inspecti…
Picking Bins Empty: A Hierarchical Hybrid Approach with Online Self-Learning of Grasp Points for Reliable Industrial Bin-Picking
arXiv:2608.28175v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Bin-picking is a cornerstone of modern manufacturing, yet achieving complete bin clearance without manual interv…
FlowCorrect: Efficient Interactive Correction of Generative Flow Policies for Robotic Manipulation
arXiv:2602.22056v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Generative manipulation policies can fail catastrophically under deployment-time distribution shift, yet man…
Cooperative Risk-Aware Exploration in Heterogeneous Multi-Robot Systems Using Algorithmic Altruism
arXiv:2608.28409v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-robot systems are well-positioned for exploration in hazardous environments, but effective deployment requ…
One year in a forest: Analyzing the challenges of autonomous navigation in subarctic environments
arXiv:2608.27628v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Subarctic regions have the potential to see increased deployment of autonomous robots in applications including …
OceanGym: A Benchmark Environment for Underwater Embodied Agents
arXiv:2509.26536v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We introduce OceanGym, the first comprehensive benchmark for ocean underwater embodied agents, designe…
Transformer-Based Autonomous Driving Models and Deployment-Oriented Compression: A Survey
arXiv:2304.10891v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Transformer-based models are becoming a central paradigm in autonomous driving because they can captur…
Receding Fixed-Horizon Optimization for Near-Time-Optimal Trajectory Planning and Control
arXiv:2503.11072v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Time-optimal trajectory planning and control is central for autonomous vehicles, yet its application and rea…
Online Joint Calibration of Steering Offset and Planar LiDAR Extrinsics for Wheeled Mobile Robots
arXiv:2608.26789v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Accurate steering sensing and LiDAR-to-vehicle extrinsics are crucial for reliable path tracking in warehouse mo…
FlashVLA: Streaming Action Decoding for Fast and Asynchronous VLA Inference
arXiv:2608.27384v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models are increasingly promising for robotic manipulation, yet their real-world de…
Dynamic Haven Selection for Multi-Agent Pickup and Delivery in Constrained Warehouses
arXiv:2608.26939v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Space-efficient warehouse layouts often contain single-agent-width aisles and dead-end workstations where robo…
Fixed-Haven Reservation for Online Multi-Agent Pickup and Delivery in Dense Warehouses
arXiv:2608.26759v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Dense warehouses often contain single-lane aisles, dead ends, and tree-like guidepaths that leave little room …
Marine Autonomous Vehicle Fleet Scheduling to Maximise Scientific Impact
arXiv:2608.27271v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The marine science community increasingly relies on Marine Autonomous Vehicles (MAVs) to collect the critical …
Embodied Scene Rearrangement Planning
arXiv:2608.27371v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper introduces Embodied Scene Rearrangement Planning (ESRP), a novel task requiring embodied agents to re…
Teradyne Robotics ramps up fight against cobot copycats
Teradyne Robotics sued cobot maker JAKA over alleged patent infringement, marking its second battle with a Chinese cobot company in 2026. The post Teradyne Robo…
EgoNav: Bridging Learned Waypoints and Geometry-Aware Local Control for Robust Indoor Navigation
arXiv:2608.25642v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Image-goal navigation using lightweight topological maps is a practical paradigm for indoor robot deployment: th…
DESCENT: Directed Edge Scene Encoding for Airport Surface Movement Prediction
arXiv:2608.26002v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Advanced automation is a key technology for enhancing the safety of ground operations amidst the increasing dens…
Learning to Accelerate Vision-Language-Action Models through Adaptive Visual Token Caching
arXiv:2602.00686v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have demonstrated remarkable generalization capabilities in robotic mani…
VISTA: Visually Inferred Spatial ConTact Attention for Contact-Rich Manipulation
arXiv:2608.25872v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Contact-rich manipulation requires precise interaction feedback. While vision-centric imitation learning is prev…
Dynamic Modeling of a Welding Torch Umbilical and Its Impact on Robot Dynamics
arXiv:2608.25509v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robotic welding is widely used in industrial manufacturing, where the welding torch is often connected to the ge…
CRESSim-Neo: A Batched GPU Simulation Engine for Surgical Robotics and Robot Learning
arXiv:2608.25192v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce CRESSim-Neo, a batched GPU simulation engine for surgical robotics and robot learning. CRESSim-Neo …
Sequential Object Placement Optimization with Convex Decomposition
arXiv:2608.25162v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robotic object packing has been a core challenge for robotic deployment in logistics, industry, etc., due to the…