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2480 storiesOmniRobotHome: A Multi-Camera Home Platform for Real-Time Human-Robot Interaction
arXiv:2604.28197v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Robots in homes must continuously sense the people around them, yet most prior work relies on limited or off…
Real-Time Safety Evaluation of Human Arm Operations Using a Wrist-Mounted IMU with PSM System
arXiv:2502.09241v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: This paper presents a novel approach to real-time safety monitoring in human-robot collaborative manufacturi…
LAMP: Lane-Aligned Motion Primitives for Feasible Trajectory Prediction
arXiv:2606.26661v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Motion forecasting is essential for autonomous driving systems to enable safe decision-making and planning in co…
Reinforcement Learning Enables Autonomous Microrobot Navigation and Intervention in Simulated Blood Capillaries
arXiv:2606.26154v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous microrobots navigating biological vasculature could enable targeted drug delivery and thrombolysis, y…
History-Conditioned Spatio-Temporal Visual Token Pruning for Efficient Vision-Language Navigation
arXiv:2603.06480v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Vision-Language Navigation (VLN) enables robots to follow natural-language instructions in visually grounded…
Unsupervised Memory-Enhanced Video Transformers: Obstacle Detection for Autonomous Agricultural Rover
arXiv:2606.26151v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While autonomous rovers have become indispensable to precision farming, achieving consistent operational safety …
Robust.AI chooses Aptiv PULSE sensor for Gen 3 Carter mobile robot
Aptiv provides sensor fusion from radar and vision using AI to enable Robust.AI's Carter robot to move safely around people. The post Robust.AI chooses Aptiv PU…
Hirebotics offers no-code, explosion-proof cobot for painting
Hirebotics' Cobot Painter supports stationary painting, with parts placed in a paint booth where robots perform all spraying operations. The post Hirebotics off…
ARM Institute expands RoboticsCareer.org into physical AI
RoboticsCareer.org now lists the growing job opportunities in physical AI and enables employers to connect to qualified talent. The post ARM Institute expands R…
ForceBand: Learning Forceful Manipulation with sEMG
arXiv:2606.26093v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Human demonstrations are a scalable data source for learning robot manipulation policies. However, common source…
RARM: Confidence-Gated Progress Reward Modeling for RL in Manipulation
arXiv:2606.22027v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Reinforcement learning for robot manipulation is often bottlenecked by reward design, especially in long-hor…
Learning Robot Visual Navigation in Crowds via Intention-Aware Scene Representations
arXiv:2606.26047v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robot crowd navigation requires the ability to infer human intentions while accounting for the structural constr…
RoboRouter: Training-Free Policy Routing for Robotic Manipulation
arXiv:2603.07892v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Research on robotic manipulation has developed a diverse set of policy paradigms, including vision-language-…
FAR-LIO: Enabling High-Speed Autonomy through Fast, Accurate, and Robust LiDAR-Inertial Odometry
arXiv:2606.26010v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robust and accurate odometry estimation is essential in modern robotics. In environments characterized by highly…
AeroCast: Probabilistic 3D Trajectory Prediction for Non-Cooperative Aerial Obstacles via Transformer-MDN Architecture
arXiv:2606.25122v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous aerial vehicles operating in shared airspace must predict the future positions of non-cooperative obs…
Learning Perceptive Platform Adaptive Locomotion Controllers for Quadrupedal Robots
arXiv:2606.25179v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Universal quadrupedal locomotion remains limited by the difficulty of integrating perception across diverse robo…
HEART: Coordination of Heterogeneous Expert Agents for Physically Grounded Robotic Task Planning
arXiv:2606.25404v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) can reason over complex instructions but often fail to satisfy the physical and spa…
G2DP: Diffusion Planning with Spatio-Temporal Grid Guidance
arXiv:2606.26017v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In autonomous driving, diffusion-based planners have emerged as a promising paradigm for robust motion planning …
RigPI: Dynamic Parameter Identification of Rigid Body via VLM-Seeded Differentiable Simulation
arXiv:2606.25212v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Accurate physical parameter identification of manipulated objects is fundamental to advanced robotic manipulatio…
fARfetch: Enabling Collocated AR-HRC in Large Visually Diverse Environments with VLM-Driven AR Content Adaptation
arXiv:2606.25162v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Augmented Reality (AR) can improve collocated human-robot collaboration by making robot state and intent visible…
Emcar: Embodied Controller for Animating Robots
arXiv:2606.26008v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This chapter describes EMCAR, a novel software tool for programming robot motion that leverages the unique affor…
1000 Rallies: An Event-Camera Dataset and Real-Time Learned Ball-State Estimation for Robotic Table Tennis
arXiv:2606.25620v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robotic table tennis has emerged as a compelling benchmark for real-time robotic perception due to its fast ball…
Causality-Based Parametric Control Barrier Function for Safe Multi-Vehicle Interaction
arXiv:2606.25134v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Safe control has been widely studied in various safety-critical applications, for instance, autonomous driving. …
GRAFT: Graph-Based Affordance Transfer via Part Correspondence
arXiv:2606.25241v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generalizing robotic manipulation to unseen objects remains challenging, as learning-based approaches require ma…
An Integrated Hardware-Software Design for Low-Data Spatial Defect Detection in Robotic Visual Inspection with Hybrid Optoelectronic Neural Networks
arXiv:2606.25277v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: To address data overload and inefficient shape-level annotation in robotic visual inspection, this paper propose…
RoDyn: Taming Interactive Robot-Dynamic 2.5D World Model for Robotic Manipulation
arXiv:2510.09036v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Learned world models hold significant potential as neural simulators for robotic manipulation. However, prev…
Stage-Aware and Roughness-Constrained Diffusion Policy for Multi-Stage Robotic Polishing
arXiv:2606.25754v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Polishing is a critical finishing process in high-end manufacturing fields such as aerospace, where surface qual…
MIL-LC: A Robust Magnetometer-Inertial-LiDAR Fusion Multimodal Localization Framework
arXiv:2606.25796v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Localization in challenging environments, such as GNSS-denied, geometrically repetitive, or textureless scenes c…
Beyond a Shadow of a Doubt: Close Proximity Geometry Reconstruction Using FMCW Radar Shadow Effects
arXiv:2606.25829v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reliable perception in adverse conditions remains challenging for autonomous systems, as cameras and LiDAR degra…
Spotlighting Task-Relevant Features: Object-Centric Representations for Better Generalization in Robotic Manipulation
arXiv:2601.21416v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The generalization capabilities of robotic manipulation policies are heavily influenced by the choice of vis…