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
2456 storiesGoal-Oriented Semantic Communication for ISAC-Enabled Robotic Obstacle Avoidance
arXiv:2603.02291v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We investigate an integrated sensing and communication (ISAC)-enabled BS for the unmanned aerial vehicle (UA…
LabEvolver: Training-Free Experience Evolution for Safe and Grounded Wet-Lab Agents
arXiv:2607.27690v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce LabEvolver, a training-free framework that equips safe and grounded wet-lab agents with episodic me…
X-NavDP: Generalizing Navigation Diffusion Policy to Novel Behavior and Embodiments with Group Q-score Reweighted Matching
arXiv:2607.28560v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Pretraining navigation diffusion policies rely on large-scale expert demonstrations. These data are typically ge…
HALO: Heterogeneous Admission through Localized Obligations for Safe Agentic Execution
arXiv:2607.27636v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent agentic AI systems may return a heterogeneous response containing notices, requests, handoffs, and acti…
Cross-Embodiment Transfer via Behavior-Aligned Representations
arXiv:2607.27549v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent progress in large-scale imitation learning for robot manipulation has been driven by leveraging datasets …
CLAM: Continuous Latent Action Models for Robot Learning from Unlabeled Demonstrations
arXiv:2505.04999v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Learning robot control policies from demonstrations typically requires action-labeled expert data, which is …
SharedAssembly: A Data Collection Approach via Shared Tele-Assembly
arXiv:2503.12287v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: High-precision, tight-clearance assembly demonstrations are indispensable for training tactile-aware robotic…
RedFlow: Redirect Failure into Action-Level Corrections for Flow-matching VLA Policy
arXiv:2607.27782v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Flow-matching Vision-Language-Action (VLA) policies have shown strong potential for robotic manipulation but oft…
Failure Detection for Surgical Robot Imitation Policies via Flow-Matching World Modeling
arXiv:2607.27511v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Imitation learning has shown increasing promise for autonomous robotic surgery, yet safe deployment remains chal…
One Future, Every Robot: Label-Efficient Collective-State Prediction with Decentralized JEPA
arXiv:2607.28443v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Can every robot in a swarm predict the same future collective state from only local observations and bandwidth-l…
Arm2Air: Cross-Embodiment Skeleton Transfer for 3D Relay Formation
arXiv:2607.27627v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) relay networks can restore connectivity after communication infrastructure is dama…
A Robust Placeability Metric for Model-Free Unified Pick-and-Place Reasoning
arXiv:2510.14584v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Reliable manipulation of previously unseen objects remains a fundamental challenge for autonomous robotic sy…
World Action Planner: Generalizable Decision-Making with Action-Conditioned World Models
arXiv:2607.27599v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Building generalizable agents for diverse applications remains a fundamental challenge. While imitation learni…
Ultrafast Sampling-based Kinodynamic Planning via Differential Flatness
arXiv:2603.16059v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Motion planning under dynamics constraints, i.e, kinodynamic planning, enables safe robot operation by gener…
Compact Task-Aligned Imitation Learning for Laboratory Automation
arXiv:2603.01110v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Robotic laboratory automation has traditionally relied on carefully engineered motion pipelines and task-spe…
REFINE-DP: Diffusion Policy Fine-tuning for Humanoid Loco-manipulation via Reinforcement Learning
arXiv:2603.13707v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Humanoid loco-manipulation requires coordinated task-space motion planning with stable loco-manipulation com…
Metrics vs Surveys: An Analysis for Human-Aligned Benchmarking in Social Robot Navigation
arXiv:2510.02941v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Social, also called human-aware, navigation is a key challenge for integrating mobile robots into human envi…
SUNSET - A Sensor-fUsioN based semantic SegmEnTation exemplar for ROS-based self-adaptation
arXiv:2601.13732v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The fact that robots are getting deployed more often in dynamic environments, together with the increasing c…
Relational Scene Graphs for Object Grounding of Natural Language Commands
arXiv:2602.04635v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Robots are finding wider adoption in human environments, increasing the need for natural human-robot interac…
It's Not Just More Demos: Counterfactual Action Sensitivity Coverage for Data-Efficient Robust Robot Imitation
arXiv:2607.27261v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Visuomotor imitation learning has demonstrated success for manipulation tasks. However, the trained policies rem…
A Three-Stage Offline SDRE-Based Control Framework for Human Motion Reproduction on a Suspended Bipedal Robot
arXiv:2506.04680v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Evaluating lower limb exoskeletons directly with human subjects can expose users to risk when actuator fault…
TacWAM: Anchor-Guided World Action Model with Mechanics-Aware Tactile Prediction
arXiv:2607.28391v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: World Action Models (WAMs) combine future-state prediction with robot action generation, but existing approaches…
RoboBRIDGE: A Modular Framework for Bridging Policies to Robust Real-World Robotic Agents
arXiv:2607.27881v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have attracted growing interest as a scalable approach to robotic manipulati…
TEA-AgriVLN: Traversability Estimation Alarm for Agricultural Vision-and-Language Navigation
arXiv:2607.28474v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-and-Language Navigation in Continuous Environments (VLN-CE) requires an agent to follow a natural languag…
SemAnCorr: Semantic Anchored Correspondence for Zero-Shot Manipulation Skill Transfer
arXiv:2607.28382v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Transferring manipulation skills across object instances that share functionality but differ in geometry remains…
Learning Social Robot Navigation By Sensing Human Legs
arXiv:2607.27922v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robots navigating among pedestrians typically sense their surroundings with a 2D LiDAR mounted close to the grou…
DoorDash gains FAA certification to operate its own drone delivery program
The FAA approval came nearly a year after DoorDash unveiled its delivery robot and reflects its increasing interest in building automation in-house. The post Do…
5 Physical AI Infrastructure Platforms Shaping Robotics in 2026
From accelerated computing and simulation to data operations, open-source tooling, validation engineering, and continuous learning, these five platforms represe…
Teradyne Robotics revenue rises 33% year over year in Q2
Teradyne Robotics said growth in the U.S. and in AI were big drivers for its revenue increase in the second quarter of 2026. The post Teradyne Robotics revenue …
Practice Makes Policies: Bootstrapping and Consolidating Robotic Capabilities from Zero Human Demonstrations
arXiv:2607.26809v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: General-purpose robotic manipulation requires robots to perform diverse tasks in open-world environments while i…