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4146 storiesWAM4D: Fast 4D World Action Model via Spatial Register Tokens
arXiv:2606.14048v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: World action models (WAMs) have recently shown promise in jointly modeling future observations and executable …
CADET: Physics-Grounded Causal Auditing and Training-Free Deconfounding of End-to-End Driving Planners
arXiv:2606.14438v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: End-to-end (E2E) autonomous-driving planners trained by imitation are prone to statistical shortcuts: they assoc…
Benchmarking Vision-Language-Action Models on SO-101: Failure and Recovery Analysis
arXiv:2606.08881v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have demonstrated strong generalization in robotic manipulation, yet exi…
Hy-Embodied-0.5-VLA: From Vision-Language-Action Models to a Real-World Robot Learning Stack
arXiv:2606.14409v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In this report, we present Hy-Embodied-0.5-VLA, abbreviated as HyVLA-0.5, an end-to-end system that spans the fu…
Short-Horizon Position Accuracy of Single-Track Models: Implications for Motion Planning of Autonomous Vehicles
arXiv:2606.14216v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Accurate and computationally efficient vehicle models are essential for motion planning of autonomous vehicles, …
Elastic Queries Reinforcement Learning: Self-Aware Policy Execution for VLA Models
arXiv:2606.14375v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language-action (VLA) models are powerful action generators for robot manipulation, but they are typicall…
From Attacks to Curricula: Learnability-Guided Adversarial Training for Safe Autonomous Driving
arXiv:2606.14032v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Closed-loop adversarial training improves autonomous driving safety by exposing policies to rare safety-critical…
ORCA: A Platform for Open-Source Dexterity Research
arXiv:2606.14561v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robotics manipulation research increasingly focuses on two-finger parallel grippers for their effectiveness, aff…
AnyGoal: Vision-Language Guided Multi-Agent Exploration for Training-Free Lifelong Navigation
arXiv:2606.13878v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: End-to-end navigation policies trained on large simulation corpora degrade sharply when transferred to out-of-di…
Burro introduces Grande 44 with proven outdoor autonomy built for heavy industry
The 44 hp Burro Grande brings more than 1 million hours of real-world experience to industrial towing, site logistics, and facilities operations. The post Burro…
Entangled robotic matter with cohesive motion
By Syl Kacapyr Cornell engineers have developed a robotic collective that behaves less like a machine and more like a material that flows, reshapes and adapts t…
Modernizing the global economy with industrial robotics is needed but not inevitable
While service robotics adoption grows, industrial automation faces greater demand and bigger obstacles, notes a columnist. The post Modernizing the global econo…
Windows for robots: Edge AI expands usability
Before Windows, only engineers and computer scientists could work with computers. Edge AI is causing a similar accessibility shift for robotics. The post Window…
MassRobotics announces the winners of 2026 Robotics Medal and Rising Star awards
Allison Okamura and Ayoung Kim won MassRobotics' 2026 Robotics Medal and Rising Star Medal, which honor women in robotics. The post MassRobotics announces the w…
AI in Warehousing: Akash Gupta’s vision for the future
Explore how GreyOrange's software revolutionizes warehouse automation with AI, transforming logistics into dynamic, predictive ecosystems. The post AI in Wareho…
Robotics Summit panel explores the state of humanoid robot design
At the Robotics Summit & Expo, experts weighed in on humanoid robotics today — and the ability to achieve a $20,000 price point tomorrow. The post Robotics…
Gatik to bring autonomous freight to PepsiCo’s North American supply chain
The partnership focuses on PepsiCo’s regional transportation networks, where it moves products daily from site to site. The post Gatik to bring autonomous freig…
Robot Talk Episode 160 – Robotic blacksmiths, with Edward Mehr
Claire chatted to Edward Mehr from Machina Labs about their RoboCraftsman that shapes complex metal parts for the aerospace, defence, and automotive industries.…
Sparse2Act: Learning Action-Aligned Sparse 3D Representations for Cross-Domain Robot Manipulation
arXiv:2606.12759v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Explicit 3D representations are attractive for manipulation because they expose object shape, workspace geometry…
EmbodiSteer: Steering Embodiment-Agnostic Visuomotor Policies with Joint-Space Guidance for Zero-Shot Cross-Embodiment Deployment
arXiv:2606.12965v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Scalable robot imitation learning relies on large-scale heterogeneous data from diverse robots or body-free data…
Y-BotFrame: An Extensible Embodied Agent Framework for Quadruped Robot Assistants
arXiv:2606.13049v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Quadruped robots are capable of traversing a wide range of complex terrains with high flexibility. As highly mob…
EA-WM: Event-Aware World Models with Task-Specification Grounding for Long-Horizon Manipulation
arXiv:2606.13053v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Pretrained-feature world models provide a useful substrate for robot imagination, but visual or latent predictio…
WT-UMI: Tactile-based Whole-Body Manipulation via Force-Supervised Contact-Aware Planning
arXiv:2606.13232v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Whole-body humanoid manipulation of bulky, deformable, and shared-load objects requires distributed contact sens…
MCR-Bionic Hand: Anatomical Structural Priors for Dexterous Manipulation
arXiv:2606.13601v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Dexterous robotic hands are usually formulated as high dimensional active control systems governed by degrees of…
MaskWAM: Unifying Mask Prompting and Prediction for World-Action Models
arXiv:2606.13515v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: World Action Models (WAMs) present a promising paradigm for robotic control via video prediction. However, cur…
LabVLA: Grounding Vision-Language-Action Models in Scientific Laboratories
arXiv:2606.13578v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Scientific laboratories increasingly rely on AI systems to reason about experiments, but the physical act of d…
Learning Robot Safety from Sparse Human Feedback using Conformal Prediction
arXiv:2501.04823v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Ensuring robot safety can be challenging; user-defined constraints can miss edge cases, policies can become …
$\texttt{WEAVER}$, Better, Faster, Longer: An Effective World Model for Robotic Manipulation
arXiv:2606.13672v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The potential impacts of world models (WMs, i.e., learned simulators) on robotics are far-reaching -- policy eva…
NavWAM: A Navigation World Action Model for Goal-Conditioned Visual Navigation
arXiv:2606.13494v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Goal-conditioned visual navigation requires a robot to act under partial observability by anticipating how its m…
Humor Style Drives Laughter, Topic Shapes Acceptability: Evaluating Bilingual Personal and Political Robot-Delivered AI Jokes
arXiv:2606.13256v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Humor plays a central role in human social relationships, and recent advances in computational humor create new …