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Daily robotics industry news: humanoids, industrial automation, drones, autonomous systems and the companies building them.
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4146 storiesSimulating Infant First-Person Sensorimotor Experience via Motion Retargeting from Babies to Humanoids
arXiv:2604.27583v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Motion retargeting from humans to human-like artificial agents is becoming increasingly important as h…
SimTO: A two-stage, simulation-driven topology optimization framework for bespoke soft robotic grippers
arXiv:2601.19098v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Soft robotic grippers are essential for grasping delicate, geometrically complex objects in manufacturing, h…
AlignDrive: Aligned Lateral-Longitudinal Planning for End-to-End Autonomous Driving
arXiv:2601.01762v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Practical autonomous driving requires models that generalize by reasoning through spatial-temporal possibili…
DexLink Hand: A Compact, Affordable, 16-DOF Linkage-Driven Hand with Human-Like Dexterity
arXiv:2606.17418v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Dexterous robotic hands face a longstanding trade-off among dexterity, compactness, and affordability. Particula…
When Robots Sleep: Offline Skill Consolidation for Shared-Policy Robot Learning
arXiv:2606.17493v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robots that learn over long deployments must add new skills without losing the shared policy structure that make…
ERQA-Plus: A Diagnostic Benchmark for Reasoning in Embodied AI
arXiv:2606.17639v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generalist embodied agents require more than object recognition: they must reason about spatial relations, actio…
Accountability in Autonomous Drone-Based Firefighting: Insights From a Field Trial
arXiv:2606.17831v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: There is a growing research field exploring how autonomous drones can enhance emergency response effectiveness. …
From Ad Hoc Pilots to Repeatable Patterns: Structuring Drone Collaboration in Emergency Services with DroneLets
arXiv:2606.17839v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Drones hold promise for supporting emergency services, but their integration into workflows remains ad hoc and c…
Uncertainty Quantification for Flow-Based Vision-Language-Action Models
arXiv:2606.18043v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language-action models (VLAs) combine vision-language backbones with expressive generative action heads t…
Beyond Failure Recovery: An Engagement-Aware Human-in-the-loop Framework for Robotic Systems
arXiv:2606.18189v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Conventional human-in-the-loop approaches typically involve users only when a robot encounters failure or uncert…
Visual Verification Enables Inference-time Steering and Autonomous Policy Improvement
arXiv:2606.18247v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robots deployed in the real world should learn from their experience and improve over time. This requires a mech…
Credibility-Weighted Pricing of Autonomous Vehicle Liability Under Operational Design Domain Shift
arXiv:2606.17451v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Automated Driving System deployments create a foundational ratemaking challenge: sparse experience, shifting o…
ConTrack: Constrained Hand Motion Tracking with Adaptive Trade-off Control
arXiv:2606.03177v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Human demonstrations provide strong priors for robot manipulation, yet it is non-trivial to transfer them to…
Any2Any: Efficient Cross-Embodiment Transfer for Humanoid Whole-Body Tracking
arXiv:2605.23733v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Whole-body tracking (WBT) models have become a key foundation for humanoid robots, enabling them to imitate …
When Life Gives You BC, Make Q-functions: Extracting Q-values from Behavior Cloning for On-Robot Reinforcement Learning
arXiv:2605.05172v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Behavior Cloning (BC) has emerged as a highly effective paradigm for robot learning. However, BC lacks a sel…
Physical Imitation Learning: Distilling Control Policies into Passive Elasticity
arXiv:2604.00611v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Due to brain-body co-evolution, animals' intrinsic body dynamics play a crucial role in their energy-efficie…
RLRC: Reinforcement Learning-based Recovery for Compressed Vision-Language-Action Models
arXiv:2506.17639v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Vision-Language-Action models (VLA) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities and strong potential in comple…
ThinkingVLA: Interleaved Vision and Language Reasoning for Robotic Manipulation
arXiv:2606.17937v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Most Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models map observations directly to actions without explicit reasoning, limiti…
ACE-Ego-0: Unifying Egocentric Human and Robotic Data for VLA Pretraining
arXiv:2606.17200v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models benefit from large-scale and diverse embodied data, yet scaling robot trajec…
Qwen-RobotManip Technical Report: Alignment Unlocks Scale for Robotic Manipulation Foundation Models
arXiv:2606.17846v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Foundation models in language and multimodality achieve strong generalization by aligning heterogeneous data und…
GASE: Gaussian Splatting-Based Automated System for Reconstructing Embodied-Simulation Environments
arXiv:2606.17520v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Training embodied agents in the real world requires skilled operators and expensive hardware. Simulation environ…
ParkingTransformer: LLM-Enhanced End-to-End Trajectory Planning for Autonomous Parking
arXiv:2606.17082v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: End-to-end autonomous parking has emerged as a critical task within the realm of autonomous driving. However, ex…
MagicSim: A Unified Infrastructure for Executable Embodied Interaction
arXiv:2606.17511v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robot learning and embodied agents now require simulation to serve as a shared execution substrate linking contr…
MuseVLA: An Adaptive Multimodal Sensing Vision-Language-Action Model for Robotic Manipulation
arXiv:2606.17598v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Humans naturally leverage diverse sensing modalities to interact with the physical world, while most Vision-Lang…
Transformer-Based Warm-Starting for Feasible and Optimal Terminal Approach to Tumbling Objects with Space Manipulators
arXiv:2606.17317v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Real-time trajectory generation for on-orbit robotic servicing is challenging due to the nonlinear coupling betw…
Abstention-Aware Personalized Object Rearrangement via Uncertainty-Guided LLM Assistance
arXiv:2606.17309v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robotic assistance in household environments requires not only predicting where objects should be placed, but al…
Qwen-RobotNav Technical Report: A Scalable Navigation Model Designed for an Agentic Navigation System
arXiv:2606.18112v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agentic navigation systems require a base navigation model whose observation strategy can be externally reconfig…
Pegasus Tech Ventures launches $60M fund for physical AI startups
Pegasus and CYBERDYNE will invest in startups developing robotics, physical AI, healthcare, automation, and intelligent systems. The post Pegasus Tech Ventures …
Genesis AI launches Eno general-purpose robot
Genesis plans to begin Eno’s production and targeted customer deployments by the end of 2026, with home deployments coming later. The post Genesis AI launches E…
Kawasaki Robotics to debut RL030N physical AI platform at Automate
Kawasaki Robotics says its 8-DoF robot, Pulseboard inspection tech, and other systems will show its vision for intelligent automation. The post Kawasaki Robotic…