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2482 storiesDo Robots Really Need Anthropomorphic Hands? A Comparison of Human and Robotic Hands
arXiv:2508.05415v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Human manipulation skills represent a pinnacle of voluntary motor functions, requiring the coordination of m…
TRIG: Trajectory-Rig Decoupled Metric Geometry Learning
arXiv:2607.05801v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-centric autonomous driving requires accurate metric geometry and ego-motion estimation from synchronize…
SIEVE: Structure-Aware Data Selection for Imitation Learning with VLA Models
arXiv:2607.06442v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models are typically trained by imitation learning on large-scale robot demonstrati…
Physics-Regularized Machine Learning for Proprioceptive Vehicle Localization Using Onboard Sensors
arXiv:2607.05663v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Accurate and robust localization is essential for autonomous mobility systems in real-world environments. While …
Optimal Transport Q-Learning for Flow Policy Steering and Acceleration
arXiv:2607.06262v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Diffusion and flow policies have recently demonstrated remarkable performance in robotic applications by accurat…
Co-STAR: Cognitive Stimulation Therapy by an Autonomous Robot for Dementia -- A One-Week In-Home Study
arXiv:2607.05709v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Cognitive therapies have been shown to enhance the quality of life and well-being of people living with dementia…
ABB Robotics includes vSLAM navigation in F712 autonomous forklift
The Flexley Stacy F712 forklift uses vision to navigate, works with other robots, and complies with safety standards, says ABB Robotics. The post ABB Robotics i…
HIVE brings in $15M to build physical AI for industrial machines
HIVE has deployed its technology across several sites in Scandinavia, operating autonomously across different machines. The post HIVE brings in $15M to build ph…
Tesollo initiates IPO process while developing humanoid hands
Tesollo, a South Korean robotic hand specialist, has officially begun preparations for its initial public offering. The post Tesollo initiates IPO process while…
A Digital Twin Framework for Traffic-Aware UAV Pavement Monitoring in Open-Traffic Conditions
arXiv:2606.20742v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: UAV-based pavement inspection can reduce the cost and risk of road-surface monitoring, but real-world deploy…
Cross-Embodiment Robot Manipulation via a Unified Hand Action Space
arXiv:2607.03570v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robot manipulation policies are typically tied to specific robotic hand embodiments, limiting the transfer of le…
Rational Inverse Reasoning: Few-Shot Imitation by Inferring Intent through Planning
arXiv:2508.08983v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Humans can learn a new manipulation task from one or two demonstrations and then perform it in a new room, w…
SutureFormer: Learning Surgical Trajectories via Goal-conditioned Offline RL in Pixel Space
arXiv:2603.26720v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Predicting surgical needle trajectories from endoscopic video is critical for robot-assisted suturing, enabl…
Towards Data-Driven Metrics for Social Robot Navigation Benchmarking
arXiv:2509.01251v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: This paper presents a joint effort towards the development of a data-driven Social Robot Navigation metric t…
BEVLM: Distilling Semantic Knowledge from LLMs into Bird's-Eye View Representations
arXiv:2603.06576v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The integration of Large Language Models (LLMs) into autonomous driving has attracted growing interest…
CG-MuTra: Continuously-Gated Multi-Terrain Adaptive Recovery for Unified Humanoid Fall Recovery and Locomotion
arXiv:2606.08922v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Falling is an inherent risk for humanoid robots operating in unstructured environments. Existing reinforceme…
A Survey of Reinforcement Learning-Based Motion Planning for Autonomous Driving: Lessons Learned from a Driving Task Perspective
arXiv:2503.23650v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL), with its ability to explore and optimize policies in complex, dynamic dec…
CLEAR: Closed-Loop Reinforcement Learning at Scale for End-to-End Autonomous Driving
arXiv:2607.02841v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: End-to-end autonomous driving (E2E-AD) aims to directly map raw sensor information to driving actions. Recently,…
Exp2VLA: Enabling Vision-Language-Action for Drone Navigation from Expert Demonstrations
arXiv:2607.03146v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language-action (VLA) models open a new path toward intuitive robot control by directly linking perceptio…
EVA-Client: A Unified Data Collection, Inference, and Deployment Framework for Embodied Policies on Real Robots
arXiv:2607.02646v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present EVA-Client, an open-source framework for deployment, data collection, and evaluation of trained manip…
Worldscape-MoE: A Unified Mixture-of-Experts World Model for Scalable Heterogeneous Action Control
arXiv:2607.03964v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: World models are rapidly becoming a core infrastructure for embodied intelligence and interactive agents: they p…
Continuous-Time Gaussian Belief Trees for Motion Planning
arXiv:2607.02884v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We address sampling-based motion planning for continuous-time stochastic systems under process and measurement u…
Autonomous Search for Sparsely Distributed Visual Phenomena through Environmental Context Modeling
arXiv:2603.10174v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) are increasingly used to survey coral reefs, yet efficiently locating …
Beyond Point-Attached Semantics: Object-Centric Semantic Fields for Generalizable Manipulation
arXiv:2607.03163v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generalizable robot manipulation requires stable 3D understanding of functional object parts, such as handles, t…
Longitudinal-Motion-Aware Lateral Control for Autonomous Vehicles: A Robust Nonlinear Control Framework
arXiv:2607.02924v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As autonomous vehicles (AVs) operate in increasingly dynamic traffic conditions, lateral control must be perform…
CRISP: A Spatiotemporal Camera-Radar Backbone for Driving via Forecasting-Based World-Model Pretraining
arXiv:2607.04541v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Camera-radar (CR) fusion is a practical sensing configuration for autonomous driving, but existing models are …
A Vision Based System for Guided and Collaborative Reconstruction of Fragmented Documents
arXiv:2607.03621v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This paper presents the development and evaluation of a collaborative system for real-time reconstruction of f…
Glance-Say: Multimodal Human-Robot Collaboration and Intent Recognition via Sticky Glance
arXiv:2603.06121v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Gaze and speech are promising interaction modalities for individuals with motor impairments, yet robust inte…
Geometry-Aware Motion Latents for Learning Robust Manipulation Policies
arXiv:2607.04714v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Learning motion latents for robotic manipulation heavily relies on extracting motion patterns from visual sequen…
Trajectory-Anchor Optimization for Overconfident Thermal Visual Place Recognition: Zero-Leakage OOD Auditing and Kidnapped-Robot Recovery
arXiv:2607.04745v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern thermal visual place recognition (TIR-VPR) frontends based on foundation models achieve remarkable closed…