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Daily robotics industry news: humanoids, industrial automation, drones, autonomous systems and the companies building them.
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2482 storiesDriveVA: Video Action Models are Zero-Shot Drivers
arXiv:2604.04198v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Generalization is a central challenge in autonomous driving, as real-world deployment requires robust …
AMBUSH: Collaborative Capture in Complex Environments with Neural Acceleration
arXiv:2607.01029v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Collaborative capture of dynamic targets is common in nature as an essential strategy for weaker species against…
AutoSpeed: Annotation-Free Stage-Adaptive Motion Speed Learning for Robot Manipulation
arXiv:2607.01051v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Different stages of manipulation tasks exhibit varying levels of difficulty, suggesting stage-dependent motion s…
FurnitureVLA: Learning Long-Horizon Bimanual Furniture Assembly with Vision-Language-Action Model
arXiv:2607.01212v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Current work on robot furniture assembly mostly focuses on toy-scale settings or single-arm manipulation. We int…
[Preprint] Dynamic Modeling, Gait Synthesis, and Control of a Novel Subsurface Bore Propagator
arXiv:2607.00569v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In this article, we present dynamic modeling, gait synthesis, and feedback control design for a modular novel su…
Robust Operational Space Control with Conformal Disturbance Bounds for Safe Redundant Manipulation
arXiv:2607.00424v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Redundant robotic manipulators operating in constrained and human-interactive environments require accurate task…
Enhancing Hardware Fault Tolerance in Machines with Reinforcement Learning Policy Gradient Algorithms
arXiv:2407.15283v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Industry is moving toward autonomous, network-connected machines that detect and adapt to changing con…
Beyond Line of Sight: Hybrid Validation of V2X Collective Perception in Complex Scenarios
arXiv:2607.00874v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper introduces a probabilistic framework and hybrid validation methodology for V2X-enabled Collective Per…
KungfuBot: Physics-Based Humanoid Whole-Body Control for Learning Highly-Dynamic Skills
arXiv:2506.12851v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Humanoid robots are promising to acquire various skills by imitating human behaviors. However, existing algo…
Learning Expert Strategy for Autonomous Robotic Endovascular Intervention via Decoupled Procedural Execution
arXiv:2607.00066v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Endovascular interventions are high-stakes procedures requiring precise device operation within complex and tort…
Neural Surface and Reflectance Modelling from 3D Radar Data
arXiv:2603.25623v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Robust scene representation is essential for autonomous systems to safely operate in challenging low-visibil…
ROSA: A Robotics Foundation Model Serving System for Robot Factories
arXiv:2607.01088v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robotics foundation models (RFMs) are making general-purpose robots increasingly practical for factory deploymen…
Search-Based Spatiotemporal and Multi-Robot Motion Planning on Graphs of Space-Time Convex Sets
arXiv:2607.00444v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Spatiotemporal motion planning, especially in multi-robot settings, requires robots to reason about collision-fr…
Stop Pretending Social Robots Are Inevitable
arXiv:2607.00142v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper takes issue with the recent themes of both the RO-MAN and the HRI conferences for their portrayal of …
Where Am I? Semantic Map Grounding via Vision-Language Models for Multi-Modal Localization
arXiv:2607.01079v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We address robot localization in GPS-denied indoor environments by reframing it as a semantic reasoning task rat…
From Real-Time Planning to Reliable Execution:Scalable Coordination for Heterogeneous Multi-Robot Fleets in Industrial Environments
arXiv:2607.00591v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: With the increasing deployment of heterogeneous robot fleets in industrial environments, efficient coordination …
What's Hidden Matters: Identifying Planning-Critical Occluded Agents using Vision-Language Models
arXiv:2607.00283v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous vehicles must safely navigate complex environments where planning-critical agents may be hidden from …
Towards Metric-Agnostic Trajectory Forecasting
arXiv:2607.01133v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Accurate trajectory forecasting of surrounding traffic participants is a core capability for autonomous drivin…
Rule-VLN: Bridging Perception and Compliance via Semantic Reasoning and Geometric Rectification
arXiv:2604.16993v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: As embodied AI transitions to real-world deployment, the success of the Vision-and-Language Navigation…
Distributed Multi Robot Lunar Cargo Transportation via Phase Decomposed Reinforcement Learning
arXiv:2607.00160v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modular reconfigurable robotic systems provide a scalable solution for cooperative surface operations in future …
Multi-Embodiment Robotic Retargeting via Guided Diffusion Model
arXiv:2505.20857v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Motion retargeting for specific robot from existing motion datasets is one critical step in transferring mot…
NOVA: Next-step Open-Vocabulary Autoregression for 3D Multi-Object Tracking in Autonomous Driving
arXiv:2603.06254v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Generalizing across unknown targets is critical for open-world perception, yet existing 3D Multi-Objec…
Trajectory Learning with Graph Representations for Social Robot Navigation
arXiv:2607.00028v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous mobile robots are expected to exhibit socially compliant navigation for minimizing pedestrian disturb…
BiliVLA: Scene-Aware Vision-Language-Action Model with Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Biliary Endoscopic Navigation
arXiv:2606.23531v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) demands precise endoscopic navigation and stable bilia…
VolumeDP: Modeling Volumetric Representation for Manipulation Policy Learning
arXiv:2603.17720v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Imitation learning is a prominent paradigm for robotic manipulation. However, existing visual imitation meth…
Robots Ask the Way: Communication-Enabled Social Navigation
arXiv:2607.01044v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Assistive autonomous robots operating in multi-agent environments require efficient strategies to locate specifi…
EmbodimentSemantic: A Spatial Scene-Graph Dataset and Benchmark for Vision-Language Models on Embodied Manipulation Trajectories
arXiv:2607.00020v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Spatial grounding remains a key limitation of vision-language-action (VLA) systems for robotic manipulation. Whi…
RoboWorld: Fast and Reliable Neural Simulators for Generalist Robot Policy Evaluation
arXiv:2607.01060v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Video world models are emerging as a scalable alternative for evaluating generalist robot policies, bypassing th…
Domain Arithmetic: One-Shot VLA Adaptation under Environmental Shifts
arXiv:2607.00666v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models often fail to perform the same learned tasks under environmental shifts, suc…
Structured 4D Latent Predictive Model for Robot Planning
arXiv:2607.01166v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Video predictive models are emerging as a powerful paradigm in robotics, offering a promising path toward task g…