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Daily robotics industry news: humanoids, industrial automation, drones, autonomous systems and the companies building them.
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2480 storiesDSBench: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Evaluating External and In-Cabin Risks
arXiv:2511.14592v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Vision-Language Models (VLMs) show great promise for autonomous driving, but their suitability for safety-cr…
Real-Time sEMG-Based Telecontrol of an Assistive Robotic Arm Using a 1D Convolutional Neural Network
arXiv:2607.16310v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Motor impairments affecting the upper limb significantly reduce autonomy in daily activities, particularly for t…
Leveraging Two Robotic Arms for Tight Assembly Performance Gains
arXiv:2607.17876v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We provide a novel end-to-end framework for the execution of an assembly operation by two robotic arms, given th…
MEVION: Low-Cost Open-Source Data Collection System for Powerful and High-Speed Dual-Arm Manipulation
arXiv:2607.17970v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The global competition for developing robotic foundation models is intensifying. Among the data collection syste…
Test-Time Scaling for World Action Models via Zero-Shot Geometric Evaluation
arXiv:2607.17454v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Test-time scaling improves foundation-model inference by spending additional computation, but robot control requ…
Disturbance-Aware Flight for Aerial Robots in Narrow Space
arXiv:2607.17476v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous flight of aerial robots in narrow space remains challenging due to strong aerodynamic disturbances an…
Stability and Comfort in Mobile Robot-Pedestrian Interactions
arXiv:2607.17604v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Mobile robots in public spaces must ensure pedestrians' comfort, and yet empirical studies of walkers' subjectiv…
Boston Dynamics to discuss the art behind human-robot interaction
Boston Dynamics experts will share insights into design considerations for safe human-robot interaction in a webinar. The post Boston Dynamics to discuss the ar…
BrainCo demonstrates brain-controlled robot AI platform
During BrainCo's demo, the mind-controlled robotic arm completed tasks that require precision, such as grasping a cup or picking up an apple. The post BrainCo d…
Building robots for unpredictable, infrastructure-free environments
Real-world robotics success requires building infrastructure-free systems that thrive in unpredictable, harsh outdoor environments. The post Building robots for…
AGIBOT unveils four embodied AI products for real-world operations at WAIC
AGIBOT said its demoes and industrial deployments show its progress in turning embodied AI capabilities into repeatable workflows. The post AGIBOT unveils four …
Interactive world simulator for robot policy training and evaluation
Imagine you want to teach a robot to push an object on a table. The standard recipe in robot learning is to collect hundreds of expert demonstrations on a real …
SLAC: Safe and Efficient Real-Robot Reinforcement Learning via Unsupervised Simulation Pre-Training
arXiv:2506.04147v5 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Building capable household and industrial robots requires mastering the control of versatile, high-degree-of…
AC-VLA: Robust Out-of-Distribution Action Execution via Compositional Learning
arXiv:2607.15714v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models excel at end-to-end robotic manipulation but struggle with out-of-distributi…
ContactFusion: Stochastic Poisson Surface Maps from Visual and Contact Sensing
arXiv:2503.16592v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Robust and precise robotic assembly entails insertion of constituent components. Insertion success is hinder…
Environment Design for Reliable Shared Autonomy with Probabilistic Guarantees
arXiv:2607.15487v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Shared autonomy enables humans and robots to collaboratively perform tasks by combining human input with autonom…
MindDrive: A Vision-Language-Action Model for Autonomous Driving via Online Reinforcement Learning
arXiv:2512.13636v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Current Vision-Language-Action (VLA) paradigms in autonomous driving primarily rely on Imitation Learn…
Learning Reach-Avoid Task with Reinforcement Learning: Vectorized Simulation and Benchmark
arXiv:2607.15935v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) has a longstanding tradition in addressing the reach-avoid task problem, espec…
NeuroCommitSSM: Decision-Centric Shared Autonomy for Safe Assistive Manipulation via EEG-EMG-ET Commit Readiness
arXiv:2607.15395v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present NeuroCommitSSM, a decision-centric framework that models when to execute, not just what to do, for sa…
EgoExoMoCap: Distributed Ego-Exo Human Motion Capture
arXiv:2607.15868v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Human motion capture from head-mounted devices (HMDs) offers a scalable way to acquire real-world human motion…
Embodied Active Learning under Limited Annotation and Navigation Budget for Object Detection
arXiv:2607.15974v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper studies how to adapt a computer vision object detector to an unknown environment under both a robot n…
A Generative Partially Specified Finite State Machine Approach to Complex Behaviour Planning
arXiv:2607.15674v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous robots operating in dynamic environments require behaviour planning systems that combine reactivity, …
EGO: a Recursive and Self-Referential Cognitive Architecture for Artificial General Intelligence
arXiv:2507.14011v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) is interpreted as an emergent property of autonomous and self-or…
Towards Artificial Nerves: Biomimetic Optical-Fiber Tactile Sensing for Robots
arXiv:2607.15746v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robotic systems increasingly demand tactile sensing that approaches the adaptability and resolution of human ski…
Beyond Frontiers: Scene-Anomaly Guided Autonomous Exploration
arXiv:2607.15828v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous exploration of unknown 3D environments is traditionally driven by coverage-maximizing geometric heuri…
ImprovedVBGS: Real-time Continual Variational Bayes Gaussian Splatting
arXiv:2607.15542v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: On-the-fly reconstruction is a key requirement for many applications in robotics and autonomous navigation. Va…
RAVEN: Reinforcement-Adaptive Visibility-Graph Planning for Robust Humanoid Navigation with Collision-Free MPC
arXiv:2607.15701v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Humanoid navigation in dynamic environments requires long-horizon planning while respecting short-horizon dynami…
VTLoc: Learning-based Tactile Contact Localization in Visual Point Clouds
arXiv:2607.16146v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision and touch are complementary modalities essential for robotic perception and manipulation. While vision pr…
MuxGel: Simultaneous Dual-Modal Visuo-Tactile Sensing via Spatially Multiplexing and Deep Reconstruction
arXiv:2603.09761v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: High-fidelity visuo-tactile sensing is important for precise robotic manipulation, yet most vision-based tac…
On the Use of AI-Driven Immersive Digital Technologies for Designing and Operating UAVs
arXiv:2407.16288v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Uncrewed Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) offer agile, cost-effective, and efficient solutions for communication relay…