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2456 storiesCuriosity-Diffuser: Curiosity Guide Diffusion Models for Reliability
arXiv:2503.14833v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: One of the bottlenecks in robotic intelligence is the instability of neural network models. This leads to ri…
Zero-shot Sim2Real Transfer for Magnet-Based Tactile Sensor on Insertion Tasks
arXiv:2505.02915v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Tactile sensing is an important sensing modality for robot manipulation. Among different types of tactile se…
Structured LLM Reasoning for Zero-Shot Human--Robot Coordination Under Hidden Goals
arXiv:2608.04309v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present a structured large-language-model (LLM) architecture for zero-shot human--robot coordination in a coo…
Design and Flight of an Ion-propelled Micro Hovercraft Leveraging Ground Proximity Effects
arXiv:2608.04343v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Electroaerodynamic propulsion is compelling for use in micro air vehicles due to its silent and solid-state natu…
Kitchen Robotic Manipulation utilizing Foundation Models
arXiv:2608.04042v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deploying robots in everyday human environments requires perception systems that are both robust and adaptable t…
Explicit Language Memory for Long-Horizon Planning in Vision-Language-Action Models
arXiv:2608.04765v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language-action (VLA) models provide a unified paradigm for connecting visual perception, language unders…
A GitOps-Driven Annotation Catalog for Fully Automatic Railway Operations
arXiv:2608.04724v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Automatic train operation (ATO) at grade of automation 3 and above (GoA3-GoA4) requires robust AI-based percepti…
RORA: Realistic Object Reconstruction with Articulation
arXiv:2608.04842v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Replicating real-world environments into simulation by realistic visual representation like NeRF and 3D Gaussian…
Differential 6-DOF Pose Estimation with Provable First-Order Immunity to Camera Calibration Errors
arXiv:2608.04673v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Accurate six-degree-of-freedom (6-DOF) motion estimation is essential for robotic manipulation, autonomous sys…
Geometry-Aware Sampling-Based Motion Planning on Riemannian Manifolds
arXiv:2602.00992v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: In many robot motion planning problems, task objectives and physical constraints induce non-Euclidean geomet…
A Multi-Sensor Dataset for Monitoring the Operational Environment of Rail Vehicles
arXiv:2608.04704v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reliable environment monitoring is essential for the safe and efficient operation of automated railway systems…
BridgeVLA++: A Data-Efficient, Generalizable, and Memory-Augmented Vision-Language-Action Framework for 3D Manipulation
arXiv:2608.05042v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Leveraging pre-trained vision-language models (VLMs) to construct vision-language-action (VLA) models has emerge…
SCOPE: Field-of-View-Aware Path Planning in Unknown 3D Environments via Safety-Volume Certification
arXiv:2608.04420v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Safe navigation with a body-mounted limited-field-of-view sensor requires the complete robot-inflated volume of …
Enabling Urgency-aware Robot Swarm Intralogistics using Smart IoT Tags
arXiv:2608.04721v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Warehouse items differ in how urgently they must be moved: perishable goods, pharmaceutical shipments, and just-…
RESample: A Robust Data Augmentation Framework via Exploratory Sampling for Robotic Manipulation
arXiv:2510.17640v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have shown strong manipulation capability when trained with large-scale …
From Transparent Labware Segmentation to Collision Avoidance: A Real-Time Edge-Aware Perception Pipeline
arXiv:2608.04769v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper presents an edge-aware instance segmentation framework that enables real-time robotic collision avoid…
Static Timing Orchestration for Tree-Structured Robot Control Firmware
arXiv:2608.04600v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As robotic systems become increasingly complex, generating control firmware from structural description files ha…
Feasibility of Embedded Photoplethysmography Sensing in Short-Duration Tactile Interactions With Pocket-Sized Robots Using IMU- and Confidence-Based Filtering
arXiv:2608.04242v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Ubiquitous companion robots offer a promising avenue for immediate anxiety relief in children, yet their effecti…
Approximate Multi-Objective Search Under Rulebooks
arXiv:2608.04398v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robotic planning often involves multiple objectives with complex priority relationships, such as safety, efficie…
Suppression Sticks, Locality Is Fragile: A Closed-Loop Target-and-Control Audit of Task-Vector Negation in VLA Policies
arXiv:2608.04692v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Task-vector arithmetic offers a closed-form way to modify a model, yet its behavioral locality remains unclear i…
SiMDex: Mining Similar Egocentric Videos for Cross-Embodiment Dexterous Manipulation
arXiv:2608.04196v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent years have witnessed an explosive trend of scaling ego-centric human videos for robot manipulation, yet i…
AI-based single-shot structured-light depth reconstruction for real-time laparoscopic surgical guidance
arXiv:2608.05109v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Significance. Accurate intraoperative depth perception is important for autonomous and semi-autonomous robotic…
SafeLand: Safe Autonomous Landing in Unknown Environments with Bayesian Semantic Mapping
arXiv:2603.17430v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Autonomous landing of uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) in unknown, dynamic environments poses significant saf…
Learning Direct Control Policies with Flow Matching for Autonomous Driving
arXiv:2605.14832v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We present a flow-matching planner for autonomous driving that directly outputs actionable control trajector…
A Vision-based Control Framework for Real-time Autonomous UUV Operations
arXiv:2608.04723v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper presents a fully integrated vision-based framework for real-time and robust localization, autonomous …
Moove raises $250M to build infrastructure for autonomous vehicles
The funding will support Moove's expansion of its autonomous fleet ownership and robotics-first depot infrastructure “Nests.” The post Moove raises $250M to bui…
University of Florida opens new robotics lab dedicated to industrialized construction
Fueled by Autodesk, UF opened a robotics lab for industrialized construction to fight housing shortages and labor declines. The post University of Florida opens…
GAM Enterprises to produce Schaeffler’s PSC gear reducers
Acquiring the IP from this core supplier allows GAM to vertically integrate its supply chain and expand its manufacturing capabilities. The post GAM Enterprises…
Avnet and Weston Robot partner to launch edge AI inspection platform
Avnet and Weston Robot have partnered to launch an AI-powered autonomous inspection platform for complex industrial environments. The post Avnet and Weston Robo…
Why perception is the key to scaling industrial autonomy
Autonomy is no longer just about robotic motor skills. It encompasses machine awareness, dynamic decision-making, multi-vehicle coordination, and spatial precis…