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2480 storiesSampling Strategies for Robust Universal Quadrupedal Locomotion Policies
arXiv:2510.07094v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: This work focuses on sampling strategies of configuration variations for generating robust universal locomot…
FAULHABER focuses on torque, noise, and power with new GPT gearheads
FAULHABER says its new GPT gearheads work with motors in its standard range and provide more performance with a compact design. The post FAULHABER focuses on to…
Reservoir acquires Contain to scale agtech startups
Reservoir has acquired agriculture finance platform Contain,, naming founder Nicola Kerslake general partner to help scale AI startups. The post Reservoir acqui…
Mantis Robotics launches dual-arm, fenceless robot
Mantis said the robot allows for new flexibility in how to configure automation in complex, real-world environments. The post Mantis Robotics launches dual-arm,…
Humanoid maker Agility Robotics to go public through SPAC merger
Agility Robotics will merge with Churchill Capital Corp XI, raising $620 million to advance Digit v5 and fulfill growing customer orders. The post Humanoid make…
Grounding Generative Policies in Physics: Optimization-Guided Diffusion for Robot Control
arXiv:2606.24208v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Diffusion models sample effectively from high-dimensional, multimodal distributions, but their outputs may viola…
Varying Bundle Size Reactive Multi-Task Assignment using Selective Cost Estimation for Multi-Agent Systems
arXiv:2606.24462v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper presents a scalable framework for multi-robot task allocation in complex environments where estimatin…
Supervise What Survives: Geometry-Guided VLA Adaptation from Synthetic Robot Videos
arXiv:2606.24448v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models require large-scale video-action pairs, yet real teleoperation remains scarc…
G$^3$VLA: Geometric inductive bias for Vision-Language-Action Models
arXiv:2606.24472v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language-action (VLA) models have made rapid progress in generalist robot manipulation by harnessing sema…
Explaining Failures of Cyber-Physical Systems with Actual Causality
arXiv:2606.24546v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern autonomous Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs), such as self-driving cars, face increasingly complex demands, a…
Flow as Flow: Modeling Robot Velocity Fields as Probability Velocity Fields for Flow-Based Object Manipulation
arXiv:2606.23090v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Cross-embodiment data have become central to training robotic foundation models. To leverage such heterogene…
PanoVine: Whole-Body Visuomotor Control for Soft Growing Vine Robot
arXiv:2606.22923v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Vine robots, a class of soft, growing robots, are suitable for navigating complex and confined environments …
Wh0: Generative World Models as Scalable Sources of Egocentric Human Hand Manipulation Data
arXiv:2606.22136v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Scaling dexterous manipulation requires generalization across objects, scenes, and tasks, yet existing data …
Beyond Monotonic Progress: Retry-Supervised Value Learning for Robot Imitation
arXiv:2606.24633v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Human demonstrations for robot imitation learning often contain mistakes and corrective behaviors, such as impre…
TACTFUL: Tactile-Driven Exploration For Object Localization and Identification in Confined Environments
arXiv:2606.24712v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Humans effortlessly locate and identify objects by touch alone, even without vision. In contrast, robotic system…
Critique of Agent Model
arXiv:2606.23991v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: What is an agent? What constitutes agency? With the rise of Large Language Model (LLM) systems marketed as ``c…
MuTRAP: Multi-trigger Trojans Attacking Robot Task Planning Systems
arXiv:2504.17070v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Robots need task planning methods to achieve goals that require more than one action. Recently, large pretra…
MILE: A Mechanically Isomorphic Hand Exoskeleton and Visuotactile Robotic Hand for Data Collection in Dexterous Manipulation
arXiv:2512.00324v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Dexterous robotic hands are expected to perform complex, contact-rich object manipulation, but learning such…
Face versus Body Tracking for Human-Robot Interaction: An Egocentric Dataset
arXiv:2606.03694v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Meaningful human-robot interaction (HRI) requires a robot to continuously assess user engagement through per…
SkyJEPA: Learning Long-Horizon World Models for Zero-Shot Sim-to-Real Control of Quadrotors
arXiv:2606.23444v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Accurate dynamics models are critical for informed decision-making in robotic systems, particularly for agil…
TEXEDO : Test Time Scaling for Controller-aware Language-conditioned Humanoid Motion Generation
arXiv:2606.22998v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Text-conditioned motion generation is a promising interface for programming humanoid robots, yet current gen…
A Pairwise Human-Human Interaction Detection and Recognition Framework for Mobile Service Robots
arXiv:2602.22346v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Autonomous mobile service robots, such as lawnmowers or cleaning robots, operating in human-populated enviro…
Debate2Create: Robot Co-design via Multi-Agent LLM Debate
arXiv:2510.25850v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We introduce Debate2Create (D2C), a multi-agent LLM framework that formulates robot co-design as structured,…
Reward-Centered ReST-MCTS: A Robust Decision-Making Framework for Robotic Manipulation in High Uncertainty Environments
arXiv:2503.05226v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Monte Carlo tree search is attractive for robotic manipulation because it can improve action selection throu…
From Open Waters to Enclosed Cabins: ProteusVPR for Cross-Scene Visual Place Recognition in Maritime Perception and Cabin Inspection
arXiv:2606.24234v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Autonomous robotic inspection in maritime environments presents unique challenges for Visual Place Recognition…
Vision-Language Model Reasoning for Contextual Semantic Mapping in Intralogistics
arXiv:2606.24814v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous mobile robots operating in intralogistics environments rely on geometric maps for localization and na…
Optimization-based Safe Trajectory Planning for Autonomous Ground Vehicle in Multi-Floor Scenarios
arXiv:2606.24631v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The development of trajectory planning strategies for autonomous ground vehicles (AGVs) represents a prevailing …
Decentralized Pose Graph Riemannian Optimization for Object-based Multi-Robot SLAM
arXiv:2606.24489v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Pose graph optimization (PGO) is a key back-end component for state estimation in networked multi-robot simultan…
FT-WBC: Learning Fault-Tolerant Whole-Body Control for Legged Loco-Manipulation
arXiv:2606.24466v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Legged manipulators combine the mobility of legged platforms with the manipulation capability of robotic arms. H…
NoContactNoWorries: Estimating Contact through Vision and Proprioception for In-Hand Dexterous Manipulation
arXiv:2606.24450v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Perceiving physical contact is fundamental to dexterous manipulation. While robots often rely on dedicated hardw…