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2456 storiesLearning When to See and When to Feel: Adaptive Vision-Torque Fusion for Contact-Aware Manipulation
arXiv:2604.01414v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Vision-based policies have achieved a good performance in robotic manipulation due to the accessibility and …
Optimizing Trajectory-Trees in Belief Space: An Application from Model Predictive Control to Task and Motion Planning
arXiv:2605.01860v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: This paper explores the benefits of computing arborescent trajectories (trajectory-trees) instead of commonl…
Anomaly-Informed Confidence Calibration for Vision-Based Safety Prediction
arXiv:2605.21109v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Reliable confidence estimates are important for safely deploying vision-based controllers in autonomous raci…
Global-Local Attention Decomposition for Terrain Encoding in Humanoid Perceptive Locomotion
arXiv:2606.00637v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Although reinforcement learning has significantly advanced humanoid locomotion, perceptive policies still st…
DiSCo: Diffusion Sequence Copilots for Shared Autonomy
arXiv:2603.22787v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Shared autonomy combines human user and AI copilot actions to control complex systems such as robotic …
RynnValue: Scaling Robotic Value Foundation Models with Temporal Distance
arXiv:2608.09853v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: General-purpose reward models are increasingly the bottleneck for scaling robot learning, yet the recipe for lea…
GWM-VLA: Geometry-Aware Latent World Modeling for Vision-Language-Action Learning
arXiv:2608.07619v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models achieve strong robotic manipulation performance but often degrade under visu…
Unsupervised Point Cloud Registration with Self-Distillation
arXiv:2409.07558v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Rigid point cloud registration is a fundamental problem and highly relevant in robotics and autonomous…
Epically Powerful: An open-source software and mechatronics infrastructure for wearable robotic systems
arXiv:2511.05033v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Epically Powerful is an open-source robotics infrastructure that streamlines the underlying framework of wea…
DAP-Pose: Deep Temporal Alignment and Physics-aware Cross-modal Sensor Fusion for Robust Pose Estimation
arXiv:2607.23755v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Robust and accurate pose estimation with multi-modal sensors is fundamental for autonomous vehicles and mobile…
Entanglement-Free Trajectory Planning for Tethered Mobile Robots with a Slack Tether
arXiv:2608.09860v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In motion planning algorithms for tethered mobile robots, the entanglement state of the tether is a critical asp…
Removing Infrastructure Barriers in Human-Robot Collaboration Through Wireless Reconfigurable Cells
arXiv:2608.09658v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Human-Robot Collaboration (HRC) plays a vital role in dynamic, high mix, low volume industrial scenarios such as…
Anchor-Based AI Approach for Pre-Crash Object Detection Utilizing Micro-Doppler Signatures in Automotive Radar
arXiv:2608.08701v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Advanced automated driving presents significant potential to improve modern automotive safety systems, but it de…
PhysX-CoT: Structured Physical Reasoning from a Single Image to Simulation-Ready 3D Assets
arXiv:2608.08053v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Simulation-ready 3D assets are central to robotics and embodied AI. Generating them from a single image is usual…
Hadrian raises $1.37B to accelerate U.S. defense, aerospace manufacturing
The raise values Hadrian at $7.87 billion. It is Hadrian's second funding round this year, following a round in January 2026. The post Hadrian raises $1.37B to …
RoboStore launches Robo Inc. to help U.S. organizations deploy robots
RoboStore, a distributor of Unitree's legged robots, has launched Robo Inc. to serve as a U.S.-based manufacturer and integrator. The post RoboStore launches Ro…
Tate deploys 58 Hirebotics cobot welders across multiple facilities
Tate decided to move from traditional hand welding to an agile, cloud-connected automation network powered by Hirebotics. The post Tate deploys 58 Hirebotics co…
VicOne releases free NVIDIA Isaac Sim cybersecurity extension based on DEF CON 34 research
VicOne says its free Radeis Extension for NVIDIA Isaac Sim enables developers to test robot cyber safety before deployment. The post VicOne releases free NVIDIA…
A ‘5-in-1’ seed-sized surgical robot
Scientists from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have developed a tiny seed-sized robot that can navigate across soft and uneven surf…
A Disturbance in the Force: Force Actuation on the RAVEN II Surgical Robot with Parallel Motor-Cable Units
arXiv:2608.06488v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Difficulty in haptic feedback for surgical robots has been a long-term problem for decades. In recent years, lea…
SyncSBC: Decentralized Swarm Behavior Prediction for Synchronized Autonomous Control
arXiv:2608.06587v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robot swarms utilize many independent limited-sensing agents to produce complex emergent behaviors without requi…
SoRoMoX: Fast, Differentiable, and Parallelizable Soft Robot Models
arXiv:2608.06650v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reduced-order models based on Cosserat-rod theory are now well established, and modeling theory is no longer the…
Hoverflie: An empirical investigation of rotor shrouds to transform micro air vehicles into multi-modal hovercraft
arXiv:2608.06707v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Small rotorcraft intended for use indoors or around the built environment have extremely limited flight duration…
R2S-EGO: Dual-Proxy Refinement for Sparse-Capture Real-to-Sim
arXiv:2608.06827v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Real-to-sim (R2S) depends on scene representations that render observations along robot ego trajectories, yet de…
When Coordination Becomes a Threat: Communication Attacks in LLM-Controlled Multi-Robot Systems
arXiv:2608.06830v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used as high-level planners in embodied multi-robot systems, enabl…
Cross-View Action Consistency for Camera-Robust Vision-Language-Action Policies
arXiv:2608.06965v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language-action (VLA) policies fine-tuned from a fixed scene camera can fail when the camera is moved, ev…
Representation Handoffs for OpenArm-Based Laboratory Mobile Manipulation
arXiv:2608.07154v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Open-source robotics and foundation models have lowered the barrier to embodied AI, yet language-guided laborato…
Ising Acceleration for Multi-Robot Multi-Target Planning
arXiv:2608.06803v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Ising machines are emerging as promising hardware for combinatorial optimization. With recent advances in CMOS…
Accurate Trajectory Tracking with Model Predictive Contouring Control for Bird-Scale Flapping-Wing MAVs
arXiv:2605.06042v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Flapping-wing micro aerial vehicles offer quieter and safer operation than rotary-wing drones, yet achieving…
EchoVLA: Robotic Vision-Language-Action Model with Synergistic Declarative Memory for Mobile Manipulation
arXiv:2511.18112v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Recent progress in Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models has enabled embodied agents to interpret multimodal i…