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Celona launches Orion agentic wireless platform built for physical AI and robotics
Celona launched Celona Orion, a unified agentic platform merging private 5G, Wi-Fi, cellular, and satellite into one network for physical AI. The post Celona la…
Q2 2026 robotics demand increased across industries, reports A3
A3 said that Q2 2026 robotics orders in food, electronics, and healthcare helped offset soft demand from automotive manufacturing. The post Q2 2026 robotics dem…
SEW-EURODRIVE adds economy series to its planetary servo gear unit portfolio
SEW-EURODRIVE's new P1.G, P2.G and P3.G gear units extend its existing PxG family below the P5.G, P6.G, and P7.G precision range. The post SEW-EURODRIVE adds ec…
Strengthening U.S. Army sustainment: TALUS to deliver autonomous distribution
A Stratom-led team won a U.S. Army contract to develop TALUS, an autonomous logistics system for contested environments. The post Strengthening U.S. Army sustai…
DAF Trucks to integrate Einride Driver to scale autonomous electric freight
Einride is integrating its self-driving software with PACCAR unit DAF Trucks and research at TNO to advance safe autonomous trucking. The post DAF Trucks to int…
OmniVTA: Visuo-Tactile World Modeling for Contact-Rich Robotic Manipulation
arXiv:2603.19201v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Contact-rich manipulation tasks, such as wiping and assembly, require accurate perception of contact forces,…
Learning in ImaginationLand: Omnidirectional Policies through 3D Generative Models (OP-Gen)
arXiv:2509.06191v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Recent 3D generative models, which are capable of generating full object shapes from just a few images, now …
The Impact of Operational-Data Fidelity when Assessing Safety-Critical Autonomous-Vehicle Software
arXiv:2608.10025v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: For safety-critical software, data from the software's operational past (e.g. a sequence of success and failure …
Protection Levels for Vision-Based Pose Estimation
arXiv:2608.10023v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-based navigation complements Global Navigation Satellite Systems, but certification demands integrity gua…
AECNav: Active Evidence Consolidation for Efficient Zero-Shot Open-Vocabulary Object Navigation
arXiv:2608.10817v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Zero-shot object-goal navigation (ZSON) in open-vocabulary scenarios is challenging, as it requires a robot to l…
Enabling Scalable Kinesthetic Teaching via Observer-based Hand-guiding with Active Support
arXiv:2608.10847v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Kinesthetic teaching through robot hand-guiding provides a natural interface for collecting demonstrations in im…
Aerial Layouting: Design and Control of a Compliant and Actuated End-Effector for Precise In-flight Marking on Ceilings
arXiv:2608.10987v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Aerial robots have demonstrated impressive feats of precise control, such as dynamic flight through openings or …
Risk-Aware Kinodynamic Motion Planning Under Uncertainty For Safe Navigation on Planetary Environments
arXiv:2608.11175v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: For autonomous space exploration, robotic agents need to perform motion planning in which environmental interact…
Surgical WAM: A World-Action Model for Data-Efficient Surgical Robot Learning
arXiv:2608.11204v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Learning reliable surgical manipulation policies is bottlenecked by the scarcity of action-labeled demonstration…
Dual Stress: Runtime Safety Monitoring for Safety-Constrained MPC Navigation
arXiv:2608.10791v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Runtime hazard monitors for autonomous naviga- tion are conventionally built from geometric quantities: predicte…
When Your State Estimator Has Lost The Plot: Detecting Estimator Failures Via Spectral Analysis
arXiv:2608.10623v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reliable onboard state estimation is essential for safe robotic operation, yet unmodeled disturbances, such as s…
Precise Top-Layer Fabric Segmentation for Fabric Destacking with Edge- and Shape-Aware Deep Networks
arXiv:2608.10648v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Fabric destacking requires precise segmentation of the topmost fabric layer, a task complicated by subtle fabr…
Autonomous Exploration-Based Precise Mapping for Mobile Robots through Stepwise and Consistent Motions
arXiv:2503.17005v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: This paper presents an autonomous exploration framework. It is designed for indoor ground mobile robots that…
Diffusion-Based Impedance Learning for Contact-Rich Manipulation Tasks
arXiv:2509.19696v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Learning-based methods excel at robot motion generation but remain limited in contact-rich physical interact…
Influence of Operator Expertise on Robot Supervision and Intervention
arXiv:2601.15069v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: With increasing levels of robot autonomy, robots are increasingly being supervised by users with varying lev…
Injecting Hallucinations in Autonomous Vehicles: A Component-Agnostic Safety Evaluation Framework
arXiv:2510.07749v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Perception failures in autonomous vehicles (AV) remain a major safety concern because they are the basis for…
Whole-Body Planning for Humanoids Navigating Confined Spaces via Self-Collision Avoidance References
arXiv:2608.10220v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Humanoid locomotion in highly confined environments requires navigating dense environmental obstacles and comple…
Real-World Cooperative Bimanual Dexterous Grasp of Large Objects from Single-View Observations
arXiv:2608.10383v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Bimanual dexterous grasping of large objects is a critical challenge in robotic manipulation. However, most exis…
Nonlinear Model Predictive Control via Sequential Convex Programming for Drone-to-Drone Docking
arXiv:2608.10542v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous mid-air docking of multi-rotor vehicles under disturbance-driven target motion poses a constrained no…
BooST: Bridging Semantics and Motions for Efficient Skill Transfer
arXiv:2608.10600v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Skill abstraction---the process of learning reusable and temporally extended behaviors---has emerged as a key pa…
Toward the Cognitive--Physical Limits of Embodied Intelligence through a World-Model-Centric Autonomous Racing Agent
arXiv:2608.10618v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Embodied artificial intelligence aims to develop agents that perceive, reason, and act through continuous intera…
OAA: Three Phases of Vocal Guidance in Human-Drone Teleoperation
arXiv:2608.10651v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Voice-guided teleoperation requires systems that adapt to the evolving dynamics of human guidance. Yet most voic…
Dreamer-SAC: Off-Policy Learning in Latent World Models for Sample-Efficient Autonomous Driving
arXiv:2608.10386v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Sample-efficient reinforcement learning for autonomous driving is often limited by the trade-off between data …
Hidden in Plain Sight: Diffusion-Based Unrestricted Robotic Attacks on Vision-Language-Action Models
arXiv:2608.10393v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have shown strong capabilities in controlling robots across diverse manipu…
Automatic Field-of-View Adjustment for a View-Expansive Microscope via LSTM-Based Gaze and Pipette Motion Interpretation
arXiv:2608.10401v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) operators frequently adjust the field-of-view (FOV) during procedures,…