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Daily robotics industry news: humanoids, industrial automation, drones, autonomous systems and the companies building them.
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4146 storiesA Morphing Aerial Robot With Thruster-Integrated Flexible Continuum Links for Shape Adaptive Aerial Manipulation
arXiv:2609.19328v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In recent years, aerial manipulation has attracted increasing attention as a key to expand the application of ae…
SemSafe-3DGS: Semantic Risk-Aware Active Navigation in Uncertain 3D Gaussian Splatting Maps
arXiv:2609.19330v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous robots operating in partially observed environments must navigate safely while acquiring observations…
ViLoMan: Learning Visual-Proprioceptive Whole-Body Loco-Manipulation Skills for Humanoid Robots
arXiv:2609.19340v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Humanoid loco-manipulation requires adaptive whole-body coordination to seamlessly integrate locomotion and phys…
Kinematics-Grounded Agentic AI for Robotic Additive Manufacturing Process Planning
arXiv:2609.19347v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robotic additive manufacturing (AM) extends material-extrusion printing beyond gantry kinematics but makes proce…
Design and Experimental Validation of a 3D Printed Torsional Series Elastic Actuator for Safe Human Robot Interaction
arXiv:2609.19367v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Ensuring intrinsic safety in physical human robot interaction (pHRI) is a critical requirement for social and se…
Enhancing the Perception of Safety and Comfort during Physical Human-Robot Handshake Interactions by Integrating Flexible Elements into a Robotic Arm
arXiv:2609.19375v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Safety and comfort in human-robot physical in-teractions are essential aspects in the development of social tech…
From Rollout to Reset: A Graph-Based Harness for Autonomous Long-Horizon Manipulation Evaluation
arXiv:2609.19413v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robot manipulation policies are improving quickly, and real-robot evaluation remains the standard evidence for t…
From Wizard-of-Oz Human-Robot Dialogue Collection to a Taxonomy of Robot Response Decisions: A Retrospective Analysis of Assistive Pilot Interactions
arXiv:2609.19447v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robots that follow natural-language instructions in everyday indoor environments must act on incomplete human ut…
GLAMDRING: Gait Learning And Morphology co-Design via Reinforcement LearnING of CPGs
arXiv:2609.19452v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robots are moving out of the structured factory floor and into unstructured environments such as disaster sites,…
Pose-aware Legged Robot Semantic Exploration with Omnidirectional Perception in Confined Unknown Environments
arXiv:2609.19460v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Semantic exploration in confined environments requires both environment mapping and detailed observation of targ…
FASA: Feedback-Aware Sampling Adaptation for Efficient Diffusion-Based VLA Models
arXiv:2609.19475v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Diffusion-based Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models achieve strong performance in embodied tasks, but their iter…
PIVOT: Perception-aware Independent Viewpoint Online Optimization
arXiv:2609.19510v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A fundamental assumption in robotic perception is that the sensor's field of view (FoV) is fixed relative to the…
SLAMSqueezeBench: Comparing SLAM Systems under Resource Constraints
arXiv:2609.19533v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) is one of the services running on an autonomous robot. It is typica…
Navigate or Relocate? Planning Among Movable Obstacles in Unknown Environments
arXiv:2609.19541v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Conventional robot planning methods seek collision-free paths to a goal but fail when all paths are blocked. In …
Tele-Traversability: Rethinking Traversability for Teleoperated Ground Robots in Terrain Navigation
arXiv:2609.19577v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Teleoperation, a human-in-the-loop control scheme, allows a human operator to remotely command and guide a mobil…
Recovering Aggressively Pruned Vision-Language-Action Models with Offline Hidden-State Distillation
arXiv:2609.19579v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language-action (VLA) models let robots follow language instructions, but their language backbones of sev…
OmniCalib: Target-Free, Task-Structured Self-Calibration for Humanoid Robots
arXiv:2609.19582v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Assembly, wear, and component replacement perturb the sensor extrinsics and joint zeros encoded by a humanoid CA…
Quantifying Mechanical Intelligence in Legged Robots with Information Theory
arXiv:2609.19588v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Mechanical intelligence, loosely defined as the reduction in control burden afforded by a robot's physical form,…
WorldContact: A Contact-Centric World Model for Scalable Robot Learning
arXiv:2609.19600v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Adapting robots to new objects and tasks requires interaction experience that can be costly to obtain. We presen…
ReShoot: Generative Visual Domain Randomization of Recorded Robot Demonstrations for Visuomotor Policy Learning
arXiv:2609.19661v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Imitation-learned robot policies are frequently overfit to the visual conditions present in their training demon…
Runtime Safety Filtering for Two-Terminal Hazards in Robotic Battery Recycling
arXiv:2609.19665v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Runtime safety filters for learned manipulation policies typically define unsafe states as unions of object-wise…
Towards High-DoF Dexterous Manipulation through VLA Post-Training
arXiv:2609.19666v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Imitation-learned vision--language--action (VLA) foundation models acquire broad manipulation capabilities by sc…
VAST: V2X/Dynamic Map-Aware Autonomous Driving Systems Validation Toolchain
arXiv:2609.19681v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Cooperative autonomous driving in the IoT-to-Edge-to-Cloud continuum requires system-level validation across veh…
Decoupling Physical Speed from Path Parameterization in Singularity-Free Guiding Vector Fields
arXiv:2609.19726v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The existing singularity-free guiding vector field (SF-GVF) with an additional virtual coordinate can eliminate …
Equivariant Filter Design for Acoustic and Depth Aided Inertial Navigation Systems
arXiv:2609.19742v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) navigating without GPS typically fuse inertial measurements with acoustic …
LIFD: Anchored Diffusion for 3D-Aware Scene Memory in Robotic Manipulation
arXiv:2609.19796v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robotic manipulation under partial observability requires spatial information that extends beyond the current vi…
Affective Shared Autonomy: Temporal Affect Dynamics and Subjective Evaluation in Bimanual Teleoperation Tasks
arXiv:2609.19802v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Physical teleoperation integrates human cognitive flexibility with robotic precision, yet demanding manipulation…
HEROIC: Heterogeneous Evidential Reasoning for Open-Vocabulary Identification and Cross-Robot Collaboration
arXiv:2609.19803v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-agent heterogeneous air-ground robot teams are attractive for open world search, with applications for rec…
Vehicle Trajectory Prediction via Neural Fusion of Multiple EKF-Based Trajectory Candidates
arXiv:2609.19813v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Predicting the future trajectories of surrounding vehicles in autonomous driving is important for collision risk…
RotateIt! Fast and Reliable Single-Arm Garment Unfolding via Online-Adaptive Dynamic Rotation
arXiv:2609.19817v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robotic garment unfolding is essential for downstream tasks, yet quasi-static methods require repeated actions, …