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2480 storiesDeployment-Ready UWB Localization for Industrial Ground Robots with Automatic Anchor Calibration and Terrain-Aware Fusion
arXiv:2607.15807v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Ultra-Wideband (UWB) ranging has become a viable option for industrial Autonomous Mobile Robot (AMR) localizatio…
Robust Silicone Pour Casting and Sensor Embedding Procedures for Soft Robotic Actuators
arXiv:2607.15422v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Soft robots are well-suited for applications such as rehabilitation and surgery that require adaptable and safe …
Implicit Virtual Leader: Decentralized Vision-Only Relative Pose Estimation for Multi-Robot Formations
arXiv:2607.15708v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Classical leader-follower formation control suffers from single points of failure and error propagation, and rel…
See, Learn, Assist: Safe and Self-Paced Robotic Rehabilitation via Video-Based Learning from Demonstration
arXiv:2603.14160v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: In this paper, we propose a novel framework that allows therapists to teach robot-assisted rehabilitation ex…
MemoGuard: An Adaptive Runtime for Guarding Against Memory Traps in Communication-Limited Robot Navigation
arXiv:2607.15589v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Communication-limited robots in mission-critical scenarios such as disaster inspection and search-and-rescue mus…
EmbodiedDiffusion: End-to-End Traversability-Guided Visual Diffusion for Heterogeneous Robot Navigation
arXiv:2512.02851v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Visual traversability estimation is central to autonomous navigation, yet most approaches either rely on pro…
Risk-Aware Preference Learning for Stochastic Outcomes
arXiv:2607.15483v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Learning reward functions from human preferences is a widely used approach for aligning robot behavior with user…
Holistic Fusion: Task- and Setup-Agnostic Robot Localization and State Estimation with Factor Graphs
arXiv:2504.06479v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Seamless operation of mobile robots in challenging environments requires low-latency local motion estimation…
Let the Body Follow: Coupled Egocentric Control for Whole-Body Robot Teleoperation
arXiv:2607.16095v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Whole-body teleoperation requires users to coordinate perception, manipulation, posture, and mobility across mul…
Dynamics-Aware Meta-Imitation for Generalization to Unseen Robotic Manipulation
arXiv:2607.15880v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Imitation Learning aims to learn skills from extensive observations and demonstrations for robots, so it suffers…
Handroid: Bridging Dexterous Hand and Humanoid
arXiv:2607.16187v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Dexterous hands and humanoid robots are typically developed as distinct embodiments: the former enable contact-r…
IMBench: A Benchmark for Intuitive Robotic Manipulation
arXiv:2607.15641v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Humans combine reasoning and motor control to solve complex manipulation tasks under diverse constraints. They b…
Connectivity Maintenance and Recovery for Multi-Robot Motion Planning
arXiv:2510.03504v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Connectivity is crucial in many multi-robot applications, yet balancing connectivity maintenance and fleet t…
PACE: Persona Adaptation through Conversational Elicitation in Human-Robot Interaction
arXiv:2607.15579v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Equipping humanoid robots with coherent and adaptable personas is crucial for fostering natural, engaging, and t…
Passive Phase-Oriented Impedance Shaping for Rapid Acceleration in Soft Robotic Swimmers
arXiv:2603.03537v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Rapid acceleration and burst maneuvers in underwater robots depend less on maintaining precise resonance and…
Learning a System-Level Surrogate for Hydraulic Excavators: A Simulation-to-Real LSTM Approach
arXiv:2607.15656v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Developing autonomous hydraulic excavators is constrained by limited access to physical machines and the high co…
A Task-Space Receding Horizon Controller for Fast Collision Avoidance
arXiv:2607.15733v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Real-time collision avoidance for robotic manipulators requires fast reactions to unexpected obstacle motion and…
How to avoid the teleoperation trap in robotics development
Teleoperation is necessary for training humanoid robots, but reinforcement learning and simulation are still necessary, says Flexion's CEO. The post How to avoi…
Palm Garden AI develops Coherence Guard relational decision layer for human-facing robots
Palm Garden AI is developing a hardware-agnostic software layer, including Coherence Guard, for human-robot interaction and relationships. The post Palm Garden …
Weave Robotics launches Isaac, its first mobile humanoid robot
Weave Robotics has listed the features of its Isaac wheeled bimanual manipulator robot for household and office use. The post Weave Robotics launches Isaac, its…
Founder of Maximo discusses how robotics is accelerating solar construction
Maximo founder Deise Yumi Asami discusses the process of automating solar construction with robotics. The post Founder of Maximo discusses how robotics is accel…
Undergrads’ weed-killing robot wins top prize
Andrew James (from left), Neil Morrison, Natalia Kurz and Michael Neiss work on a prototype of their weed-killing robot ahead of The Farm Robotics Challenge, wh…
With new funding, Monumental plans to bring its construction robots to the U.S.
Monumental acts as a subcontractor during construction tasks. Contractors pay the company for finished walls rather than for robots. The post With new funding, …
Assessing Physical Frailty and Fall-Risk Indicators with Social Robots: An in situ Evaluation with Older Adults
arXiv:2607.15156v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Frailty assessments are crucial to evaluate the risk of adverse events and the health and social care needs of o…
Semantic Audio-driven Understanding for Dynamic Humanoid Whole Body Control
arXiv:2607.14182v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advances in humanoid robotics and reinforcement learning have enabled the acquisition of highly expressiv…
MIND-CAVs: Multi-Intelligence Negotiation and Decision System for CAVs based on Intent-Driven Autonomy
arXiv:2607.14688v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern autonomous vehicles largely operate as isolated agents: they rely on on-board perception and decision mod…
RoboTTT: Context Scaling for Robot Policies
arXiv:2607.15275v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent robot foundation models operate with single-step or short-history visuomotor context. We introduce Test-T…
UniSteer: Unified Noise Steering for Efficient Human-Guided VLA Adaptation
arXiv:2605.10821v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Diffusion-based vision-language-action (VLA) models have emerged as strong priors for robotic manipulation, …
Reinforcement Learning for the Full Strawberry Harvesting Process: Obstacle Separation, Detachment, and Placement
arXiv:2607.14708v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Severe occlusions and deformable plant structures introduce complex contact dynamics that challenge robotic stra…
BridgeFlow: Fast and Robust SE(2)-Equivariant Motion Planning with Flow Matching
arXiv:2607.14725v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In robotic motion planning, equivariance to rigid body transformations is crucial for robust spatial generalizat…