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4147 storiesConnectivity-Aware Graph Extension for Decentralized Multi-Robot Exploration
arXiv:2609.00804v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Exploring unknown environments with multiple UAVs requires coordination under intermittent communication, making…
Non-Prehensile Throwing: A Reinforcement Learning Perspective
arXiv:2609.00771v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robotic throwing enables fast object transport and extends a robot's reachable workspace beyond traditional pick…
One Print, Many Moves: Monolithic Origami-inspired Folding Actuator for Composable Soft Multi-DoF Systems
arXiv:2609.00751v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Conventional soft robot actuators excel in compliance, but their uncontrolled deformations compromise accuracy a…
ADAPT: Agile Diffusion Action Priors for Robust and Steerable Online Text-Driven Humanoid Control
arXiv:2609.00677v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present ADAPT, an end-to-end framework for interactive, text-conditioned humanoid whole-body control. Unlike …
Human-robot conversation with multiple participants in noisy public spaces
arXiv:2609.00648v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: For noisy real-world environments such as those in open public spaces, spoken dialogue systems for both autonomo…
Risk-Aware Decision-Making for Autonomous Overtaking: A World Model-Based Mixture-of-Experts Framework
arXiv:2609.00385v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous highway overtaking demands foresighted decision-making to handle complex interactions, stochastic tra…
Top 10 robotics stories of August 2026
August 2026's top 10 stories included large funding rounds, updates in the humanoid robot industry, and the latest physical AI models. The post Top 10 robotics …
Visko launches Orbis live model and closes pre-seed funding round
Visko says Orbis streams 4K video at 24 frames per second, responds to user intervention, and sustains hour-scale generation without drift. The post Visko launc…
Learn how physical AI is being used to do real work at RoboBusiness
Leaders at Amazon Robotics, Teradyne Robotics, and Cobot will discuss how they're applying physical AI to robots operating in customer environments. The post Le…
The Missing Layer in Robot Safety Assurance
Why robot safety assurance must account for attacks that can change how a machine sees, decides, and acts. The post The Missing Layer in Robot Safety Assurance …
HowToRobot and Robotics Australia Group partner on platform to encourage robot adoption
The initiative is intended to help businesses in Australia identify automation opportunities, test them, and connect with local suppliers. The post HowToRobot a…
From spreadsheets to AI: Deere gives farmers new features in Operations Center, JD
John Deere has launched JD, an AI tool that turns historical farm data into actionable insights to boost profitability. The post From spreadsheets to AI: Deere …
Scale-Plan: Scalable Language-Enabled Task Planning for Heterogeneous Multi-Robot Teams
arXiv:2603.08814v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Long-horizon task planning for heterogeneous multi-robot systems is essential for deploying collaborative te…
TriPilot-FF: Coordinated Whole-Body Teleoperation with Force Feedback
arXiv:2602.09888v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Mobile manipulators broaden the operational envelope for robot manipulation. However, the whole-body teleope…
Cross-Modal Visuo-Tactile Representation Learning with Action Chunking Transformers for Contact-Rich Manipulation
arXiv:2602.00514v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Tactile feedback is important for contact-rich robotic manipulation, yet effective use of tactile observatio…
Open-Source Autonomous Driving System Analysis and Multi-Disciplinary Hardware-in-the-Loop Research Paradigm with Reinforcement-Learning Testing and Large Language Models
arXiv:2608.30179v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Open-source autonomous driving systems provide an inspectable software foundation for intelligent vehicle rese…
Asynchronous Cooperative Online Learning for Multi-Robot Control under Computational Delays
arXiv:2608.29562v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Ensuring the safe operation of multi-agent systems (MASs) under uncertain environments is crucial for cooperat…
Generalizable Multi-Agent Planning from Signal Temporal Logic Specifications via Diffusion
arXiv:2608.29490v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multi-agent systems in the real-world (e.g., drone swarms, autonomous cars, warehouse robots) must satisfy ric…
Agri-Sim: Agricultural Simulation Platform for Embodied Intelligence Evaluation in Greenhouse Robotics
arXiv:2608.29100v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agricultural-robot development requires simulation environments that can jointly support realistic scene constru…
DREAM: Deployment-Time Demonstration Generation via Real-to-Sim for Scalable Policy Adaptation
arXiv:2608.29078v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language-action (VLA) models have made strong progress in language-conditioned robot manipulation, but im…
LARC: Lazy Adaptive Reachability Certification of Robot Manipulator Trajectories
arXiv:2608.29767v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Discrete trajectory checks can miss collisions between sampled robot states. Reachability-based certification bo…
DARP: A Calibrated Dual-Arm RGB-D-IR Dataset for Multi-View Robotic Perception
arXiv:2608.31002v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robotic perception from a single viewpoint is often limited by self-occlusion and incomplete surface visibility.…
A Dual-Cam Parallel Elastic Actuator with Shared Gas-Spring Compensation for Humanoid Ankles
arXiv:2608.30832v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: To improve torque capacity and energy efficiency of humanoid ankles, this paper proposes a 2-DoF parallel elasti…
Learning to infer and manipulate through distributed whole-arm interaction in a soft robot
arXiv:2608.30773v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In animals such as elephants and octopuses, acquiring non-visual information about an object and physically enga…
PAVE: Predictive Alignment and Value-Guided Evolution for World-Action Policies
arXiv:2608.30378v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Direct vision-language-action policies generate continuous robot actions efficiently, but standard behavior clon…
Contrast-Free Autonomous Navigation of Untethered Endovascular Microrobots Using Single-Plane Fluoroscopy
arXiv:2608.30220v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reliable three-dimensional (3D) navigation of magnetically actuated untethered microrobots remains a major barri…
Rethinking Language's Role in Efficient VLA for Autonomous Vehicles: Toward Smarter, Trustworthy Driving
arXiv:2608.30144v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models are reshaping autonomous driving (AD) by unifying perception, reasoning, and…
SmoothRL: Online Reinforcement Learning During Asynchronous Execution
arXiv:2608.29768v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deploying robot policies in the physical world requires satisfying two fundamental desiderata: reliability and s…
DriftingVLA: Native One-Step Vision-Language-Action Generation via Per-Dimension Temporal Drifting
arXiv:2608.29749v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Conventional flow-based vision-language-action (VLA) models support expressive continuous action generation but …
Task-Relevant Feature-Dynamics Fidelity Enables Zero-Shot Sim-to-Real Transfer for Robotic Ultrasound Scanning
arXiv:2608.29516v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robotic ultrasound policies operating directly on B-mode images require extensive interaction data, whereas real…