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2456 storiesRigid-Covert GNSS Spoofing of UAV Swarms: A Structural Blind Spot, Its Detection Limit, and Absolute-Anchor Defenses
arXiv:2608.06885v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Cooperative UAV-swarm defenses commonly cross-check GNSS positions against measured inter-drone geometry. We s…
Detection and Ranging of Transient Extrinsic Contacts Based on 6D Dynamic Tactile Sensing
arXiv:2608.07075v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Delicate manipulation often involves transient and subtle collisions between a grasped object and the environmen…
AutoIntervene: Calibrated Intervention for Action-Chunking Imitation Learning Policies
arXiv:2608.07065v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Action-chunking visuomotor policies learn from demonstrations and improve temporal consistency by predicting sho…
C2Dex: Contact-Consistent Reconstruction and Retargeting for Dexterous Manipulation from Monocular Video
arXiv:2608.07045v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: High-quality demonstrations for dexterous robot manipulation are costly and difficult to collect, whereas monocu…
A Haptic Robot Finger Designed for Guqin Instrument Playing
arXiv:2608.07002v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: With the rapid advancement of humanoid robotics and embodied intelligence technologies, numerous musical instrum…
How Should I Pick a Foundation Model for My Robot? In Favor of a Community Evaluation Framework for Social Robots
arXiv:2608.06898v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Researchers who seek to build social robot applications on foundation models are faced with a difficult question…
Panoramic Multimodal Semantic Occupancy Prediction for Quadruped Robots
arXiv:2603.13108v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Panoramic imagery provides holistic 360{\deg} visual coverage for environmental perception in quadruped robo…
Robot guide with multi-agent control and automatic scenario generation with LLM
arXiv:2509.10317v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The article describes the development of a hybrid social robot control architecture to overcome the limitati…
Beyond Visibility: Real-Time Surface Accessibility Fields from Sparse LiDAR
arXiv:2608.06412v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Understanding which surfaces in a scene are physically accessible to a given tool is fundamental for robotic i…
Unordered Landmark Visual Navigation
arXiv:2608.06833v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Image-goal navigation is a fundamental capability for embodied AI, yet its practical deployment is strained by s…
Is Forward Prediction Enough? Physical State Grounding for JEPA World Models
arXiv:2608.06799v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Learning structured and control-relevant latent representations remains a key challenge for world models. Recent…
AtlasVLA: Persistent World-Ego State Modeling for Vision-Language-Action Models
arXiv:2608.06729v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have advanced embodied AI, their fundamentally reactive paradigm sever…
CrossTracer: Cross-Embodiment Navigation via VLA Model Reasoning and Trace Residuals Adapting
arXiv:2608.06688v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language-action (VLA) models provide strong semantic priors for robot navigation, but they often ignore e…
Analog Devices returns as strategic sponsor to aid MassRobotics startups
Analog Devices Inc. is supporting MassRobotics startups with Analog Garage and participating in events including RoboBusiness. The post Analog Devices returns a…
Experts look ahead at the next 20 years of robotics at RoboBusiness
At Robobusiness, leaders in robotics will explore the technologies, opportunities, and challenges that will shape the next twenty years. The post Experts look a…
Tacta Systems takes aim at high-skilled manufacturing work with TactaBot
Tacta Systems unveiled a three-part system, including its robotic hand, that enables users to teach its robot new dexterous skills. The post Tacta Systems takes…
Building robots that survive the warehouse
Nomagic says its real moat is production data, because the messiness of real warehouses is where robots either prove themselves or fail. The post Building robot…
Avatar Robotics raises seed round to address industrial labor constraints
Avatar Robotics raised $6.5 million in funding to scale humanoid robots and remote teleoperation across industrial supply chains. The post Avatar Robotics raise…
AI agents create virtual playgrounds to help robots get crucial training data
A new system developed at MIT uses three agents to piece together the objects, walls, and overall look of a 3D scene. Its realistic recreations of indoor spaces…
$\omega$-0: A Latent Predictive World Action Model for Concurrent Humanoid Loco-Manipulation
arXiv:2608.06375v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Humanoid household tasks often require concurrent loco-manipulation, where the robot must move, adjust posture, …
LoDA: A Level of Detection Aware Method and a Multimodal Sensing Benchmark for Object Level Change Detection
arXiv:2608.05356v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: High-definition 3D LiDAR maps are important for autonomous driving and smart-city services, which require reli…
Hijacking Robots with a Piece of Paper: A Systematic Study of Physical Prompt Injection in VLM-Controlled Robots
arXiv:2608.05715v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language Models (VLMs) are increasingly deployed as planners in robotic systems, where they translate nat…
Robot Learning from Human Demonstrations: Handwritten Alphabet Trajectories and Human-Likeness Evaluation
arXiv:2608.06221v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Learning from demonstration (LfD) provides a developmental framework through which robots can develop motor skil…
XEWorld: Can Action-Conditioned World Models Generalize to Unseen Robot Embodiments?
arXiv:2608.05799v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Action-conditioned world models are promising learned simulators for robotic manipulation, yet evaluating them e…
SkillMemo: Expert-guided Skill Memory Framework for Compositional Embodied Manipulation
arXiv:2608.05970v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Embodied visuomotor models, including Diffusion Policy (DP) and Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models, have demons…
Robotic Nanoparticle Synthesis via Solution-based Processes
arXiv:2604.12169v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We present a screw geometry-based manipulation planning framework for the robotic automation of solution-bas…
IcFuzz: Fuzzing Isaac Sim with Semantic Stage Guidance and Multi-level Mutation
arXiv:2608.06088v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robotics simulators serve as a foundational infrastructure for embodied AI, facilitating safe and scalable robot…
Adaptive-WAM: Quality-Guided Early-Exit Planning from Intermediate Video-Diffusion Features
arXiv:2608.06008v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large video diffusion models provide rich spatiotemporal priors for autonomous driving, but existing world-actio…
Coordinated Multi-Robot Disassembly for Makespan Optimization of Large-Scale Assemblies
arXiv:2608.05830v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-robot task and motion planning for disassembly tasks requires robots to operate in confined workspaces whi…
Parallel-in-Time Nonlinear Optimal Control via GPU-native Sequential Convex Programming
arXiv:2603.10711v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Real-time solution of nonlinear optimal control problems remains challenging on embedded robotic hardware, w…