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Daily robotics industry news: humanoids, industrial automation, drones, autonomous systems and the companies building them.
Daily robotics industry news: humanoids, industrial automation, drones, autonomous systems and the companies building them.
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2456 storiesContrastive Action-Image Pre-training for Visuomotor Control
arXiv:2606.17256v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Existing vision encoders for robotics face a fundamental bottleneck: robotic datasets lack the scale necessary f…
EgoInfinity: A Web-Scale 4D Hand-Object Interaction Data Engine for Any-View Robot Retargeting and Video-to-Action Robot Learning
arXiv:2606.17385v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Internet videos constitute the largest reservoir of embodied human manipulation knowledge, yet converting arbitr…
Damage Adaptation in Seconds for Architected Materials
arXiv:2606.17394v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Adaptation to damages and in-situ physical repairs is essential for long-term robot autonomy, yet challenging ou…
Where Should Action Generation Begin? A Learnable Source Prior for Generative Robot Policies
arXiv:2606.17408v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generative robot policies typically begin action generation from an observation-independent standard Gaussian di…
AnnotateAnything: Automatic Annotation of 3D Assets for Robot Manipulation
arXiv:2606.17446v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Simulation enables scalable robot data collection, but raw 3D assets provide only geometry, lacking the semantic…
ED3R: Energy-Aware Distributed Disaster Detection Enabled by Cooperative Robotic Agents
arXiv:2606.17739v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robotics are expected to support environmental monitoring and natural disaster management, where decisions must …
HumanoidArena: Benchmarking Egocentric Hierarchical Whole-body Learning
arXiv:2606.17833v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Humanoid robots promise whole-body interaction in human-centered environments, but scalable policy learning rema…
SPARK: Low Latency Single-Camera 3D Pose Estimation for Autonomous Racing using Keypoints
arXiv:2606.17936v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In autonomous racing, fast detection of other participants' movements is required to plan safe, collision-free t…
Extracting Semantics: LLM-Guided Automatic Population of Robot Ontology from URDF
arXiv:2606.17073v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While commonsense knowledge may suffice for virtual agents, embodied robots interacting with humans require grou…
Beyond Benchmarks: Continuous Edge Inference for Fine-Grained Roadside Perception
arXiv:2606.17241v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Continuous AI inference on resource-constrained edge hardware introduces deployment effects that are largely i…
DriveJudge: Rethinking Autonomous Driving Evaluation with Vision-Language Models
arXiv:2606.17362v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Autonomous driving has shifted towards end-to-end policy learning, where reliable, interpretable policy evalua…
TerraTransfer: Learning End-to-End Driving Policies Without Expert Demonstrations
arXiv:2606.17386v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: End-to-end autonomous driving has achieved state-of-the-art performance on benchmarks and real-world deploymen…
WeaveLA: Event Driven Cross-Subtask Latent Memory Weaving for Repetitive Robot Manipulation
arXiv:2606.17463v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) policies have achieved remarkable single-step manipulation, yet they remain britt…
GeneralVLA-2: Geometry-Aware Reconstruction and Governed Memory for Robot Planning
arXiv:2606.17480v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Generalist vision-language-action systems need object-centric 3D evidence and reusable manipulation experience…
Learn to Quantify Social Interaction with Constraints for Pedestrian Walking
arXiv:2606.17897v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Long-term human path forecasting in crowds is critical for autonomous moving platforms (like autonomous drivin…
Memory as a Wasting Asset: Pricing Flash Endurance for Embodied Agents, and the Limits of Doing So
arXiv:2606.18144v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A robot's flash endurance is a non-renewable stock: every persisted write spends one of a few thousand program…
SSIL: Self-Supervised Imitation Learning for End-to-End Driving
arXiv:2308.14329v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: In autonomous driving, the end-to-end (E2E) driving approach that predicts vehicle control signals directly …
OpenTie: Open-vocabulary Sequential Rebar Tying System
arXiv:2509.00064v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Robotic practices on the construction site emerge as an attention-attracting manner owing to their capabilit…
OmniRetarget: Interaction-Preserving Data Generation for Humanoid Whole-Body Loco-Manipulation and Scene Interaction
arXiv:2509.26633v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: A dominant paradigm for teaching humanoid robots complex skills is to retarget human motions as kinematic re…
Can Vision Foundation Models Navigate? Zero-Shot Real-World Evaluation and Lessons Learned
arXiv:2603.25937v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Visual Navigation Models (VNMs) promise generalizable, robot navigation by learning from large-scale visual …
Simulating Infant First-Person Sensorimotor Experience via Motion Retargeting from Babies to Humanoids
arXiv:2604.27583v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Motion retargeting from humans to human-like artificial agents is becoming increasingly important as h…
SimTO: A two-stage, simulation-driven topology optimization framework for bespoke soft robotic grippers
arXiv:2601.19098v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Soft robotic grippers are essential for grasping delicate, geometrically complex objects in manufacturing, h…
AlignDrive: Aligned Lateral-Longitudinal Planning for End-to-End Autonomous Driving
arXiv:2601.01762v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Practical autonomous driving requires models that generalize by reasoning through spatial-temporal possibili…
DexLink Hand: A Compact, Affordable, 16-DOF Linkage-Driven Hand with Human-Like Dexterity
arXiv:2606.17418v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Dexterous robotic hands face a longstanding trade-off among dexterity, compactness, and affordability. Particula…
When Robots Sleep: Offline Skill Consolidation for Shared-Policy Robot Learning
arXiv:2606.17493v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robots that learn over long deployments must add new skills without losing the shared policy structure that make…
ERQA-Plus: A Diagnostic Benchmark for Reasoning in Embodied AI
arXiv:2606.17639v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generalist embodied agents require more than object recognition: they must reason about spatial relations, actio…
Accountability in Autonomous Drone-Based Firefighting: Insights From a Field Trial
arXiv:2606.17831v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: There is a growing research field exploring how autonomous drones can enhance emergency response effectiveness. …
From Ad Hoc Pilots to Repeatable Patterns: Structuring Drone Collaboration in Emergency Services with DroneLets
arXiv:2606.17839v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Drones hold promise for supporting emergency services, but their integration into workflows remains ad hoc and c…
Uncertainty Quantification for Flow-Based Vision-Language-Action Models
arXiv:2606.18043v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language-action models (VLAs) combine vision-language backbones with expressive generative action heads t…
Beyond Failure Recovery: An Engagement-Aware Human-in-the-loop Framework for Robotic Systems
arXiv:2606.18189v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Conventional human-in-the-loop approaches typically involve users only when a robot encounters failure or uncert…