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2456 storiesDeployment Is Not Destiny: Robot Recomposition in the Field with Unseen Software, Hardware, and Compute Payloads
arXiv:2608.11063v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The tight coupling of subsystems in most robots, though a natural consequence of their complexity, leads to mono…
JEPA-WAM: Stage-Level Joint-Embedding Prediction for World-Action Models in Robot Manipulation
arXiv:2608.10780v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generalist robot policies aim to map multimodal observations and linguistic task instructions to actions across …
TCAM for Autonomous Deformable Manipulation: The RMC2 Champion System for WBCD 2026 Track 4
arXiv:2608.10718v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This technical report describes the RMC2 Team's champion solution for the WBCD 2026 Track 4: Deformable Manipula…
A 26-Gram Tailless Butterfly-Inspired Flapping-Wing Robot with Onboard Attitude Control
arXiv:2602.06811v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Butterfly-inspired flapping-wing robots use broad compliant wings and low-frequency actuation, but pronounce…
Multisource Human-in-the-Loop Digital Twin Testbed for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles in Mixed Traffic Flow
arXiv:2603.17751v5 Announce Type: replace Abstract: In the emerging mixed traffic environments, Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CAVs) have to interact with s…
Defense drone developer Cambridge Aerospace raises $300M
The round comes just months after the Cambridge Aerospace's $200 million Series B funding in April. The post Defense drone developer Cambridge Aerospace raises …
PlusAI reaches key milestones ahead of launching its autonomous trucks
Since the start of the year, PlusAI said it has improved the safety validation, operational maturity, and efficiency of SuperDrive. The post PlusAI reaches key …
The 370-billion-dollar race: How integrated design can help humanoid manufacturers succeed in a rapidly growing market
The future of humanoid robotics is closer than most people realize. The post The 370-billion-dollar race: How integrated design can help humanoid manufacturers …
Webinar to discuss safety and scaling robot fleets in the warehouse
Industry experts will discuss how to scale mobile robots in the warehouse while maintaining both safety and productivity. The post Webinar to discuss safety and…
Generalizing deep reinforcement learning across cable-driven parallel robot configurations with actuator-level policies
arXiv:2608.07546v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Cable-driven parallel robots (CDPRs) present diverse configurations and complex control challenges, which can be…
Self Supervised Learning from Automatically Generated Demonstrations for Visual Robotic Manipulation
arXiv:2608.07553v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robotic manipulation often requires object specific programming, manual data annotation, or calibrated perceptio…
You Don't Need To Stay in The Loop: An Agentic Robotics Loop for Robot-Policy Improvement
arXiv:2608.07555v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Coding agents such as Claude Code and Codex close the software loop: a main agent manages the loop, subagents an…
Learning Physical Interaction: A Survey of Tactile- and Force-aware Robot Learning
arXiv:2608.07558v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Physically grounded robot intelligence requires robots to perceive, reason about, and regulate their interaction…
Reconfigurable Structural Robotic Assembly: Interlocking 3D Aggregations with Self-Aligning Compound Nested Lattice Modules
arXiv:2608.07576v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robotic construction systems often treat the material system and the robot as separate design problems, locating…
LIRA: Local Cross-Layer Information Routing for Vision-Language-Action Decoding
arXiv:2608.07596v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models transform representations from pretrained vision-language models (VLMs) into…
AdaDexGrasp: Adaptive Dexterous Grasping via 3D Visuo-Tactile Representation Fusion
arXiv:2608.07600v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Humans achieve stable and adaptive grasps by seamlessly integrating visual perception and tactile feedback, a ca…
A Reconfigurable Tracked Robot for Enhanced Obstacle Traversal Through Movable Articulation Point and Internal Mass Relocation
arXiv:2608.07624v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tracked robots are widely used in unstructured environments; however, their obstacle traversal capability is fun…
H\"older Signed Distance: A Differentiable, Signed, Parallelizable Metric for Robotics
arXiv:2608.07707v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Computing distances between sets is essential in robotic motion planning and control, where differentiable gradi…
Complete, Scalable, and Robust Prioritized Planning for Multi-Robot Ordered Storage and Retrieval at Maximum Capacity
arXiv:2608.07734v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Automated warehouses face a fundamental trade-off between maximizing storage density and achieving high retrieva…
Enhancing Autonomous Vehicle Navigation with a Clothoid-Based Lateral Controller
arXiv:2608.07740v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This study introduces an advanced lateral control strategy for autonomous vehicles using a clothoid-based approa…
CoCoNav: Conformal Control for Safe Robot Navigation in Crowds
arXiv:2608.07751v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Safe and efficient robot navigation in crowds requires anticipating pedestrian motion despite uncertain and pote…
Drone-Assisted UAV-UGV Collaboration for Autonomous Navigation in Snow-Covered Terrain
arXiv:2608.07797v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper presents a collaborative UAV-UGV navigation framework for high-altitude, snow-covered terrain, where …
A Mixed-Stiffness Anthropomimetic Fingertip Broadens the Operating Range for Coin Grasping
arXiv:2608.07887v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robotic grasping of thin, flat objects such as coins on hard surfaces remains challenging because conventional m…
Auditing Instruction-Trajectory Mismatches in Multimodal Robot Demonstrations
arXiv:2608.07895v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robot demonstration datasets used to train vision-language-action policies can contain a subtle but harmful fail…
4D-WAM: Infusing Spatiotemporal Awareness into World Action Models through Trajectory Fields
arXiv:2608.08023v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Building on recent advances in world models, World Action Models (WAMs) jointly model video prediction and actio…
DA-NBV: A Direction-Aware Next-Best-View Planner for Efficient 3D Reconstruction of Ships at Sea
arXiv:2608.08025v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Accurate 3D reconstruction of ships at sea is important for maritime supervision, damage assessment, and autonom…
Compiling and Benchmarking Task-State Horizons for Embodied Agents
arXiv:2608.08036v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Frontier agentic models are increasingly deployed as high-level planners for long-horizon embodied tasks. Existi…
Event-Time Hybrid Optimal Control for Robotic Table Tennis Serves
arXiv:2608.08157v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robotic table tennis serves require high ball velocity and spin while respecting the robot's kinodynamic limits.…
Multi-modal Interactive Control of Robotic Arm based on Offline Large Language Models
arXiv:2608.08183v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) have significantly revolutionized the modern society with numerous advanced interac…
Scalable High-Speed Lateral Control for Single-Body and Articulated Autonomous Vehicles
arXiv:2608.08293v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper presents a scalable lateral control framework for robust path tracking of single-body and articulated…