News
Daily robotics industry news: humanoids, industrial automation, drones, autonomous systems and the companies building them.
Daily robotics industry news: humanoids, industrial automation, drones, autonomous systems and the companies building them.
Latest in News
4147 storiesFrom Real-Time Planning to Reliable Execution:Scalable Coordination for Heterogeneous Multi-Robot Fleets in Industrial Environments
arXiv:2607.00591v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: With the increasing deployment of heterogeneous robot fleets in industrial environments, efficient coordination …
What's Hidden Matters: Identifying Planning-Critical Occluded Agents using Vision-Language Models
arXiv:2607.00283v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous vehicles must safely navigate complex environments where planning-critical agents may be hidden from …
Towards Metric-Agnostic Trajectory Forecasting
arXiv:2607.01133v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Accurate trajectory forecasting of surrounding traffic participants is a core capability for autonomous drivin…
Rule-VLN: Bridging Perception and Compliance via Semantic Reasoning and Geometric Rectification
arXiv:2604.16993v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: As embodied AI transitions to real-world deployment, the success of the Vision-and-Language Navigation…
Distributed Multi Robot Lunar Cargo Transportation via Phase Decomposed Reinforcement Learning
arXiv:2607.00160v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modular reconfigurable robotic systems provide a scalable solution for cooperative surface operations in future …
Multi-Embodiment Robotic Retargeting via Guided Diffusion Model
arXiv:2505.20857v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Motion retargeting for specific robot from existing motion datasets is one critical step in transferring mot…
NOVA: Next-step Open-Vocabulary Autoregression for 3D Multi-Object Tracking in Autonomous Driving
arXiv:2603.06254v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Generalizing across unknown targets is critical for open-world perception, yet existing 3D Multi-Objec…
Trajectory Learning with Graph Representations for Social Robot Navigation
arXiv:2607.00028v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous mobile robots are expected to exhibit socially compliant navigation for minimizing pedestrian disturb…
BiliVLA: Scene-Aware Vision-Language-Action Model with Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Biliary Endoscopic Navigation
arXiv:2606.23531v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) demands precise endoscopic navigation and stable bilia…
VolumeDP: Modeling Volumetric Representation for Manipulation Policy Learning
arXiv:2603.17720v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Imitation learning is a prominent paradigm for robotic manipulation. However, existing visual imitation meth…
Robots Ask the Way: Communication-Enabled Social Navigation
arXiv:2607.01044v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Assistive autonomous robots operating in multi-agent environments require efficient strategies to locate specifi…
EmbodimentSemantic: A Spatial Scene-Graph Dataset and Benchmark for Vision-Language Models on Embodied Manipulation Trajectories
arXiv:2607.00020v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Spatial grounding remains a key limitation of vision-language-action (VLA) systems for robotic manipulation. Whi…
RoboWorld: Fast and Reliable Neural Simulators for Generalist Robot Policy Evaluation
arXiv:2607.01060v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Video world models are emerging as a scalable alternative for evaluating generalist robot policies, bypassing th…
Domain Arithmetic: One-Shot VLA Adaptation under Environmental Shifts
arXiv:2607.00666v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models often fail to perform the same learned tasks under environmental shifts, suc…
Structured 4D Latent Predictive Model for Robot Planning
arXiv:2607.01166v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Video predictive models are emerging as a powerful paradigm in robotics, offering a promising path toward task g…
3D Point World Models: Point Completion Enables More Accurate Dynamics Learning
arXiv:2607.00148v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Learning predictive models of the world enables robotic control through planning, potentially allowing robots to…
Urban Deceleration Behavior Modes Under Scene Context: An Early-Kinematic Classifier from Argoverse 2 Multi-Agent Trajectories
arXiv:2607.00027v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Urban deceleration is one of the most empirically studied yet least taxonomically organized behaviors in car-fol…
Learning Dexterous Manipulation Using Contact Wrench Guidance From Human Demonstration
arXiv:2607.00033v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Dexterous robot manipulation can benefit from the abundance of human demonstrations, but transferring such demon…
ASPIRE: Agentic /Skills Discovery for Robotics
arXiv:2607.00272v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Traditional robot programming is challenging: it requires orchestrating multimodal perception, managing physical…
Unleashing More Actions via Action Compositional Training for VLA Models
arXiv:2607.00351v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language-Action models excel at robotic manipulation, driven by the scale and diversity of demonstration …
Technical Report: Asynchronous Distributed Trajectory Estimation of Multi-Robot Systems
arXiv:2607.01106v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Distributed trajectory estimation arises in many applications across robotics, but existing implementations typi…
AD-MPCC: Adaptive Differentiable Model Predictive Contouring Control for Autonomous Racing
arXiv:2607.00141v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper presents Adaptive Differentiable Model Predictive Contouring Control (AD-MPCC), a framework for auton…
Joint Discovery of Object and Action Symbols through Effect Prediction for Robotic Manipulation Planning
arXiv:2607.00031v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: To perform complex manipulation planning, autonomous robots are required to abstract continuous, high-dimensiona…
FAR: Failure-Aware Retry for Test-Time Recovery and Continual Policy Improvement
arXiv:2607.01111v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robot policies inevitably encounter failures when deployed in real environments. Naive retries often repeat the …
Invariant Stochastic Filtering on SE(3) for Inertial-Encoder State Estimation of Serial Rigid Manipulators
arXiv:2607.00026v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: An invariant extended Kalman filter (IEKF) is developed for state estimation of serial rigid manipulators with a…
A Unified Benchmark for RCM-Constrained Visual Servoing: Modeling-Controller Interaction and Robustness Analysis in Laparoscopic Robots
arXiv:2607.00030v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In robot-assisted laparoscopic minimally invasive surgery (MIS), accurate enforcement of the remote center of mo…
From Technical Metrics to User Perception: A User Study of a Multimodal Human-Robot Interaction System for Object Detection and Grasping
arXiv:2607.00530v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Improvements in the technical performance of human--robot interaction (HRI) systems do not automatically transla…
Iterated Invariant EKF for 3D Landmark-Aided Inertial Navigation
arXiv:2607.00145v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Inertial navigation systems aided by three-dimensional landmark measurements constitute a fundamental problem in…
PhyPush: One Push is All You Need for Sensorless Physical Property Estimation with Physics-Guided Transformers
arXiv:2605.26284v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Accurately estimating object mass and friction is fundamental to reliable robotic manipulation. While intera…
HydraCollab: Adaptive Collaborative-Perception for Distributed Autonomous Systems
arXiv:2607.00191v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Collaborative-perception enables multi-robot systems to enhance situational awareness by sharing perceptual info…