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2480 storiesYou Only Touch Once: 6-DoF Object Pose Estimation from Single Tactile Contact
arXiv:2606.28899v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Accurate 6-DoF object pose estimation is fundamental to robotic manipulation, yet vision-based methods often fai…
Insights behind Kinisi’s acquisition by Bear Robotics
Brennand Pierce, founder and CEO of Kinisi Robotics, discusses the company's approach to physical AI and its acquisition by Bear Robotics. The post Insights beh…
Advantages of hypoid gearing over worm, bevel and bevel-planetary
Right-angle gearing often requires engineers to compromise between torque capacity and mechanical efficiency. Hypoid gearing offers a balance of mechanical effi…
MBody AI expands service robotics operations to eleven states and Canada
MBody AI has deployed its hardware-agnostic Orchestrator platform to Florida and California, with a pilot in Ontario. The post MBody AI expands service robotics…
BMW Group deploys Figure 03 humanoid after tests with previous version
The Figure 02 robot supported the production of more than 30,000 BMW X3 vehicles over 11 months in South Carolina. The post BMW Group deploys Figure 03 humanoid…
PPO-EAL: Exact Augmented Lagrangian Proximal Policy Optimization for Safe Robotic Control
arXiv:2606.27861v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) has emerged as a promising solution to accomplish complex robotic control tasks; how…
AI-Driven Synthesis for High-Tech System Design: Automating Innovation
arXiv:2606.28126v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This article addresses the combinatorial complexity inherent in modern high-tech system design by presenting a…
FailSafe: Reasoning and Recovery from Failures in Vision-Language-Action Models
arXiv:2510.01642v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Recent advances in robotic manipulation have integrated low-level robotic control into Vision-Language Model…
Translation as a Bridging Action: Transferring Manipulation Skills from Humans to Robots
arXiv:2606.28133v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study whether we can learn novel manipulation skills from human actions to a bi-manual robot with parallel gr…
CWI: Composite Humanoid Whole-Body Imitation System for Loco-manipulation
arXiv:2606.27676v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Achieving everyday tasks with humanoid robots requires coordinating stable locomotion with versatile manipulatio…
KISS-IMU: Self-supervised Inertial Odometry with Motion-balanced Learning and Uncertainty-aware Inference
arXiv:2603.06205v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Inertial measurement units (IMUs), which provide high-frequency linear acceleration and angular velocity mea…
Unleashing Infinite Motion: Scaling Expressive Quadrupedal Motion via Generative Video Priors
arXiv:2606.28237v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Quadruped robots have achieved remarkable locomotion, yet their behavioral repertoire remains confined to a few …
Data Scaling Laws in Imitation Learning for Robotic Manipulation
arXiv:2410.18647v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Data scaling has revolutionized fields like natural language processing and computer vision, providing model…
MobileManiBench: Simplifying Model Verification for Mobile Manipulation
arXiv:2602.05233v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Vision-language-action models have advanced robotic manipulation but remain constrained by reliance on the l…
Drop-Then-Recovery: How Redundant Are Vision-Language-Action Models?
arXiv:2606.27755v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models enable instruction-driven robotic manipulation, but they inherit oversized l…
S$^2$-VLA: State-Space Guided Vision-Language-Action Models for Long-Horizon Manipulation
arXiv:2606.27872v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have demonstrated strong capabilities in robotic manipulation, but their per…
DIM-WAM: World-Action Modeling with Diverse Historical Event Memory
arXiv:2606.27677v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: World-action models have shown promising robot-manipulation performance by jointly predicting future visual stat…
PhysisForcing: Physics Reinforced World Simulator for Robotic Manipulation
arXiv:2606.28128v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Video generation models have emerged as a promising paradigm for embodied world simulation. However, both gene…
Spacecraft Fiducial Marker for Autonomous Rendezvous, Proximity Operations, and Docking
arXiv:2606.27566v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robotic operations in space are challenging due to the harsh environment and the high cost of failure. Fiducial …
VLM-Guided Visual Place Recognition for Planet-Scale Geo-Localization
arXiv:2507.17455v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Geo-localization from a single image at planet scale (essentially an advanced or extreme version of th…
DIVER: Reinforced Diffusion Breaks Imitation Bottlenecks in End-to-End Autonomous Driving
arXiv:2507.04049v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Most end-to-end autonomous driving methods rely on imitation learning from single expert demonstration…
Image-based Geo-localization for Robotics: Are Black-box Vision-Language Models there yet?
arXiv:2501.16947v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The advances in Vision-Language models (VLMs) offer exciting opportunities for robotic applications in…
Learn Structure, Adapt on the Fly: Multi-Scale Residual Learning and Online Adaptation for Aerial Manipulators
arXiv:2603.11638v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Autonomous Aerial Manipulators (AAMs) are inherently coupled, nonlinear systems that exhibit nonstationary a…
PA-BiCoop: A Primary-Auxiliary Cooperative Framework for General Bimanual Manipulation
arXiv:2606.28192v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Bimanual manipulation is essential for advanced robotic systems because it offers higher efficiency and flexibil…
Physics-Guided Robotic Radiation Source Localization along Arbitrary Measurement Paths in Unstructured Environments
arXiv:2606.27624v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Using robots to estimate the location of the radiation source is an effective way to improve efficiency and safe…
LXD-SLAM: LiDAR+X Dense SLAM with $\sum_{i=0}^{5}C_5^i$ Configurable Sensor Combinations
arXiv:2606.27811v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) is essential for autonomous systems, yet achieving reliable, global…
When Multi-Robot Systems Meet Agentic AI:Towards Embodied Collective Intelligence
arXiv:2606.27929v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Embodied AI is increasingly becoming agentic, shifting robots from perception--control pipelines towards closed-…
SceneBot: Contact-Prompted General Humanoid Whole Body Tracking with Scene-Interaction
arXiv:2606.27581v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Current humanoid reinforcement-learning policies excel at free-space motions but struggle with contact-rich task…
Point of View: How Perspective Affects Perceived Robot Sociability
arXiv:2603.28272v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Ensuring that robot navigation is safe and socially acceptable is crucial for comfortable human-robot intera…
Booster Lab: A Data-Centric Pipeline for Learning Deployable Humanoid Locomotion Policies
arXiv:2606.27813v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Humanoid robot motion learning requires not only task-oriented control policies but also physically feasible and…