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2456 storiesASVSim (AirSim for Surface Vehicles): A High-Fidelity Simulation Framework for Autonomous Surface Vehicle Research
arXiv:2506.22174v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The transport industry has recently shown significant interest in unmanned surface vehicles (USVs), specific…
Homotopy-Aware Corridor Generation without Predefined Reference Paths
arXiv:2607.29513v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generating safe corridors is essential for collision-free robotic motion planning, yet most existing methods rel…
Balancing of Humanoid with Object Mass: Trade-off Analyses and Lifting Control
arXiv:2607.29625v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The demand for humanoid loco-manipulation tasks with an object has recently increased, and most existing control…
TacPrint: A Wearable Fingertip Tactile Sensor for Human-to-Robot Contact Reproduction
arXiv:2607.29231v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Human-centric data collection is emerging as a significant paradigm for robot skill acquisition, but seamlessly …
TRACT: Temporally Routed Action Chunks with Chronological Phase Authority for Contact-Rich Manipulation
arXiv:2607.29285v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Action chunking shortens the effective decision horizon of robot imitation learning by predicting multiple futur…
ActFovea: Runtime Safeguarding for VLA Policies via Spatiotemporal Visual-Action Consistency
arXiv:2607.29169v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language-action (VLA) policies achieve strong performance in robotic manipulation but remain vulnerable t…
Auto-JEPA: A Latent World Model of Continuous Intent for End-to-End Autonomous Driving
arXiv:2607.29031v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Existing autonomous-driving world models typically perform dense prediction of future videos, occupancy states, …
ST-WAM: Semantic-Temporal World Action Model for Robust Manipulation under Visual Distribution Shifts
arXiv:2607.28993v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: World Action Models (WAMs) have emerged as a promising paradigm by jointly modeling robot actions and future vis…
FBFM: A Training-Free Asynchronous Feedback Mechanism for Flow-Matching in World-Action Models Execution
arXiv:2607.29235v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Although world-action models (WAMs) enhance long-horizon robot control by predicting visual evolution before act…
CLIFT: Turning Gemini Robotics On-Device into Humanoid Specialists via Non-Invasive Closed-Loop Iterative Fine-Tuning
arXiv:2607.29172v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While robot foundation models are growing increasingly capable, the strongest models are typically trained on pr…
HAM-VLN: Harnessing Hierarchical Agentic Memory for Zero-Shot Vision-and-Language Navigation
arXiv:2607.29600v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-and-language navigation (VLN) enables robots to follow instructions in previously unseen environments. Re…
Event-Based Upper-Body Humanoid Teleoperation Under Challenging Illumination
arXiv:2607.29227v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present a real-time upper-body human-to-humanoid motion imitation framework driven by neuromorphic event-base…
Temporal Policy: History-Initialized Action Generation for Robotic Learning from Demonstration
arXiv:2607.29482v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: By relying on independent couplings from uninformative Gaussian priors, standard diffusion and flow matching mod…
Shepherding UAV Swarm with Action Prediction Based on Movement Constraints
arXiv:2604.17189v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: In this study, we propose a new sheepdog-inspired control method for a swarm of small unmanned aerial vehicl…
Bootstrapping Self-Supervised Learning of Binary Classification Using Error Bounds: A Case Study on a Robotic Insertion Task
arXiv:2607.29640v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Flexible manufacturing requires rapid deployment of solutions and minimal setup time to remain competitive. An e…
RAPiD: Reward-Guided Consistency Distillation of Diffusion Planners for Real-Time Autonomous Driving
arXiv:2602.07339v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Diffusion-based trajectory planners can model multi-modal driving behavior, but their iterative denois…
Google DeepMind says Gemini Robotics 2 enables full body control
Gemini Robotics 2 enables robots to reason through every movement, unlocking a broad range of tasks, DeepMind said. The post Google DeepMind says Gemini Robotic…
Top 10 robotics stories of July 2026
In July, large funding rounds, new approaches to robot training, and new robot models drew our readers attention. The post Top 10 robotics stories of July 2026 …
KUKA deploys Automation Management Platform for North American automakers
KUKA has deployed its Automation Management Platform at KTPO, a major manufacturing facility in Ohio. The post KUKA deploys Automation Management Platform for N…
FCC robot ruling shines a spotlight on U.S. policy; how next-gen AI can help warehousing
Osaro’s Derek Pridmore says warehouse robots are advancing, but real-world safety and reliability still depend on specialized, layered AI systems. The post FCC …
Procore Technologies acquires DroneDeploy for $845M
Procore will integrate DroneDeploy's visual intelligence technology to link the digital world with physical construction sites. The post Procore Technologies ac…
RMBench: Memory-Dependent Robotic Manipulation Benchmark with Insights into Policy Design
arXiv:2603.01229v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Robotic manipulation policies have made rapid progress in recent years, yet most existing approaches give li…
SeedPolicy: Horizon Scaling via Self-Evolving Diffusion Policy for Robot Manipulation
arXiv:2603.05117v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Imitation Learning (IL) enables robots to acquire manipulation skills from expert demonstrations. Diffusion …
PAC-MAN: Perception-Aware CBF-RL for Whole-Body Safety in Humanoid Dodgeball
arXiv:2607.28623v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present PAC-MAN, a perception-aware CBF-RL framework that couples control-barrier safety with deployment-real…
Simulation of Surgical Suturing Using Position-Based Dynamics and the Material Point Method for Robot Reinforcement Learning
arXiv:2607.27494v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advances in robotics research have created a strong demand for high-performance simulators. Surgical robo…
When Robots Exchange Meaning: A Demo of Goal-Oriented Semantic Communications for Collaborative Robotics
arXiv:2607.28256v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Collaborative robotics is a representative task-oriented 6G use-case, where communication quality should be refl…
Machines that know they are aging: a framework for hardware-aware autonomous intelligence
arXiv:2607.28451v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous systems inevitably age, yet their artificial intelligence typically assumes hardware remains in its o…
Corrigible Assistance in One Round: Pragmatic-Pedagogic Best Response
arXiv:2607.27508v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Assistance games formalize human-robot collaboration under asymmetric information: the human knows the goal, whi…
DexDirect: Direct Kinesthetic Arm Guidance for Efficient Dexterous Demonstration Collection
arXiv:2607.27784v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Scalable collection of dexterous manipulation demonstrations remains a major bottleneck for robot learning. High…
ARCSnake V2: Mechanical Adaptations For An Amphibious Multi-Domain Screw-Propelled Snake-Like Robot
arXiv:2511.11970v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Robotic exploration in extreme environments, such as caves, oceans, and extraplanetary surfaces, poses signi…