News / #robotics Tag Robotics 184 articles archived under #robotics · RSS Sign in to follow arXiv — Machine Learning research 30m ago A Linear Matching Bandit Approach to Online Multi-Human Multi-Robot Teaming arXiv:2606.29221v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We address the problem of online multi-human multi-robot teaming through the lens of a linear matching bandit framework, where a learner assigns robots with unknown features from a fixed pool to distinct sets of human agents over… 15 Ars Technica — AI news-outlet 7h ago South Korea to spend $1T on more memory chip production and humanoid robots South Korea targets physical AI lead and commercial humanoid robots by 2028. 9 r/MachineLearning community 13h ago I do historical swordfighting and noticed AI struggles to track it. I’m building an open dataset to help fix this. Does my schema make sense? [P] Hi everyone, I’m a historical swordfighter (HEMA practitioner), and while I’m not a computer vision engineer or a roboticist, I’ve been reading a lot about the current bottlenecks in embodied AI, specifically around the Sim2Real gap and thin-object tracking. It occurred to me… 18 TechCrunch — AI news-outlet 14h ago Robot hand company settles Tesla trade secret suit and announces $11M raise Jay Li doesn’t recommend getting sued by Tesla if you’re trying to get a startup off the ground. But he does think his company, Proception, might be better off for having endured the experience. “I think it’s kind of like a resilience test, or pressure… 15 Import AI (Jack Clark) community 15h ago Import AI 463: Self-improving robots; a 10k Chinese GPU cluster; and an elegiac essay for the human era What eras bookend our interregnum? 36 arXiv — Machine Learning research 1d ago Support-Constrained RL Enables Real-World Policy Improvement without Real-World Experience arXiv:2606.27475v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Robots trained on real world data tend to be imprecise, slow, and brittle to perturbations. Improving these policies with reinforcement learning (RL) is an appealing alternative, but this process often requires expensive training… 28 arXiv — Machine Learning research 1d ago Physics-Guided Robotic Radiation Source Localization along Arbitrary Measurement Paths in Unstructured Environments arXiv:2606.27624v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Using robots to estimate the location of the radiation source is an effective way to improve efficiency and safety. Existing methods focus on planning the robot's path to achieve precise estimation, typically approaching the… 19 MIT News — AI research 3d ago LLMs help robots understand vague instructions and focus on key details To help robots do chores in places like homes and factories, a new approach from MIT uses one language model to clarify users’ instructions, then another to ignore irrelevant info. 19 arXiv — Machine Learning research 4d ago Revisiting Action Factorization for Complex Action Spaces arXiv:2606.26574v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Many real-world control problems involve hybrid discrete-continuous action spaces. For example, steering and signaling in autonomous driving, and aiming and firing in robotics or video-games. Despite real-world hybrid factorization… 10 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 4d ago Charting the Growth of Social-Physical HRI (spHRI): A Systematic Review Pipeline Augmented by Small Language Models arXiv:2606.26382v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Social-physical human-robot interaction (spHRI) has grown rapidly across robotics, human-computer interaction, human-robot interaction, and haptics. Yet, fragmented terminology and inconsistent methodologies make systematic… 35 Hugging Face Daily Papers research 4d ago In-Context World Modeling for Robotic Control Abstract ICWM enables robot policies to infer system variables from self-generated interactions, allowing adaptation to novel configurations without parameter updates by treating system identification as an in-context adaptation problem. Generated by… 8 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 5d ago RAVEN: Long-Horizon Reasoning & Navigation with a Visuo-Spatio-Temporal Memory arXiv:2606.25206v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Long-term robot deployment requires a compact and scalable memory that preserves fine-grained visual semantics, grounds observations in space and time, and enables efficient storage and retrieval. In this paper, we propose RAVEN,… 21 Hugging Face Daily Papers research 5d ago EBench: Elemental Diagnosis of Generalist Mobile Manipulation Policies Abstract EBench is a comprehensive simulation benchmark for evaluating generalist mobile manipulation policies across diverse tasks and dimensions, revealing distinct capability profiles and generalization patterns among state-of-the-art models. Generated by… 18 Hugging Face Daily Papers research 5d ago InSight: Self-Guided Skill Acquisition via Steerable VLAs Abstract InSight enables autonomous skill acquisition for vision-language-action models through primitive-action level steerability and automated demonstration generation. Generated by Qwen/Qwen2.5-Coder-32B-Instruct Vision-language-action (VLA) models can learn manipulation… 19 TechCrunch — AI news-outlet 5d ago Agility Robotics plans to go public via SPAC in a $2.5B deal Agility Robotics, the humanoid robotics startup that spun out of Oregon State University in 2015, expects to generate $620 million in proceeds. 13 NVIDIA Developer Blog official-blog 5d ago Accelerating BEV Pooling on NVIDIA GPUs for Physical AI Applications An increasingly common design pattern for autonomous vehicles (AVs), robotics, and spatial AI systems is bird's-eye-view (BEV) perception. BEV models project... 31 Hugging Face Daily Papers research 5d ago EventVLA: Event-Driven Visual Evidence Memory for Long-Horizon Vision-Language-Action Policies Abstract EventVLA addresses long-horizon robotic manipulation challenges by introducing a sparse visual evidence memory framework with visual anchors and dynamic Keyframe Evidence Memory module for improved task performance. Generated by Qwen/Qwen2.5-Coder-32B-Instruct Memory… 23 Hugging Face Daily Papers research 5d ago World Value Models for Robotic Manipulation Abstract World Value Model combines world models with value estimation to provide accurate task progression assessment and improve robotic policy learning from mixed-quality data. Generated by Qwen/Qwen2.5-Coder-32B-Instruct Generalist value models play a pivotal role in scaling… 6 arXiv — Machine Learning research 6d ago Verifiable Foundation Models for Robot Safety arXiv:2606.23754v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Deploying foundation models for robot control raises a central challenge: the expressive power that enables rich, multimodal perception also makes these models opaque and difficult to analyze formally, rendering them intractable… 4 arXiv — Machine Learning research 6d ago RE4: Transformation-aware Imitation of Object Interactions Using Manipulation Modes arXiv:2606.24403v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Object interaction tasks have been a focus of advances in imitation learning. End-to-end methods, dominated by diffusion and flow-based variants have shown leaps in performance while sacrificing interpretability. Object-centric… 23 Hugging Face Daily Papers research 6d ago ShotcreteDepth: A Bi-modal Dataset for Robust Robotic Depth Perception in Shotcrete Construction Environments Abstract A bi-modal construction domain dataset combining stereo RGB and LiDAR data under challenging environmental conditions is introduced for autonomous system perception research. Generated by Qwen/Qwen2.5-Coder-32B-Instruct We introduce ShotcreteDepth, a bi-modal dataset… 22 Hugging Face Daily Papers research 6d ago Foresight: Failure Detection for Long-Horizon Robotic Manipulation with Action-Conditioned World Model Latents Abstract A failure detection framework for long-horizon robotic tasks uses action-conditioned world models and functional conformal prediction to monitor manipulation trajectories with only final task labels. Generated by Qwen/Qwen2.5-Coder-32B-Instruct Long-horizon tasks are… 8 Hugging Face Daily Papers research 7d ago PoLAR: Factorizing Extent and Mode in Latent Actions for Robot Policy Learning Abstract PoLAR introduces a geometrically structured latent action representation in hyperbolic space that separates transition extent from transition mode, improving robotic policy learning performance. Generated by Qwen/Qwen2.5-Coder-32B-Instruct Latent action pretraining… 12 MIT News — AI research 7d ago New chip could help tiny robots traverse complex environments Researchers combined an efficient algorithm with dedicated hardware to rapidly generate 3D maps for navigation using minimal memory and power. 10 Ars Technica — AI news-outlet 7d ago GM installs robots at flagship EV factory after laying off 1,300 workers US autoworkers union warns of robot automation as dark factory future looms. 23 NVIDIA Developer Blog official-blog 7d ago Inside NVIDIA Halos for Robotics: A Full-Stack Functional Safety System for Physical AI Physical AI—robots working autonomously alongside people in factories, warehouses, hospitals, and homes—is arriving faster than most expected. Traditional... 12 Hugging Face Daily Papers research 7d ago GeneralVLA-2: Geometry-Aware Reconstruction and Governed Memory for Robot Planning Abstract GeneralVLA-2 addresses limitations in vision-language-action systems by introducing GeoFuse-MV3D for improved 3D reconstruction and an enhanced KnowledgeBank for better memory management in robotic manipulation tasks. Generated by Qwen/Qwen2.5-Coder-32B-Instruct… 32 Hacker News — AI on Front Page community 10d ago Hyundai buys Boston Dynamics Article URL: https://startupfortune.com/hyundai-takes-full-control-of-boston-dynamics-as-softbank-exits-for-325-million/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48600312 Points: 227 # Comments: 118 12 Hugging Face Daily Papers research 10d ago ImageWAM: Do World Action Models Really Need Video Generation, or Just Image Editing? Abstract ImageWAM demonstrates that pretrained image editing models can effectively replace video generation in world action models for robot control, achieving better performance with reduced computational costs. Generated by Qwen/Qwen2.5-Coder-32B-Instruct World Action Models… 25 Hugging Face Daily Papers research 10d ago ENPIRE: Agentic Robot Policy Self-Improvement in the Real World Abstract ENPIRE framework enables autonomous robotics research through a closed-loop system that automates policy improvement via environment feedback, policy refinement, and evolutionary code optimization. Generated by Qwen/Qwen2.5-Coder-32B-Instruct Achieving dexterous robotic… 27 Hugging Face Daily Papers research 10d ago DragMesh-2: Physically Plausible Dexterous Hand-Object Interaction with Articulated Objects Abstract DragMesh-2 enables dexterous hand-object interaction through contact-driven manipulation, with PICA enhancing robustness under varying contact loads without tactile feedback. Generated by Qwen/Qwen2.5-Coder-32B-Instruct Dexterous interaction with articulated objects is… 19 Hugging Face Daily Papers research 10d ago HumanScale: Egocentric Human Video Can Outperform Real-Robot Data for Embodied Pretraining Abstract Egocentric human video can effectively replace teleoperated robot trajectories for embodied model pretraining, achieving better performance with reduced data collection costs. Generated by Qwen/Qwen2.5-Coder-32B-Instruct Embodied foundation models are expected to… 22 Hugging Face Daily Papers research 10d ago Playful Agentic Robot Learning Abstract Embodied robots learn reusable skills through self-directed play and exploration, then apply these skills to improve performance on downstream tasks without additional training. Generated by Qwen/Qwen2.5-Coder-32B-Instruct Current agentic robot systems can write… 4 Hugging Face Daily Papers research 11d ago Reinforcement Learning-Guided Retrieval with Soft Fusion for Robust Multimodal Imitation Learning under Missing Modalities Abstract RL4IL enables robust robotic manipulation under sensor dropout by using reinforcement learning to retrieve relevant demonstrations and cross-attention fusion to impute missing modalities without retraining. Generated by Qwen/Qwen2.5-Coder-32B-Instruct Robotic systems… 23 r/LocalLLaMA community 11d ago My suitcase robot gets high now off a real gas sensor wired straight into the LLM sampler. Smoke raises temperature/top_p/top_k live, so his speech genuinely gets loopier and never repeats. Follow-up on Sparky, my offline suitcase robot I keep overdeveloping. He gets high now, and there's no scripted "stoned mode" anywhere in it. A real MQ-2 gas sensor sits in the case. Every 0.5s I read it against an adaptive clean-air baseline and turn a smoke hit into a 0 to 10… 30 Hugging Face Daily Papers research 11d ago MolmoMotion: Forecasting Point Trajectories in 3D with Language Instruction Abstract 3D point motion forecasting model predicts object trajectories from visual history and language goals, demonstrating superior performance on benchmarks and transferring effectively to robot manipulation and video generation tasks. Generated by… 4 Hugging Face Daily Papers research 11d ago PAIWorld: A 3D-Consistent World Foundation Model for Robotic Manipulation Abstract PAIWorld enhances diffusion-transformer world models with geometric awareness and cross-view attention to improve multi-view 3D consistency for robotic manipulation tasks. Generated by Qwen/Qwen2.5-Coder-32B-Instruct World foundation models (WFMs) are powerful… 18 arXiv — Machine Learning research 12d ago Stealthy World Model Manipulation via Data Poisoning arXiv:2606.18697v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Model-based learning agents use learned world models to predict future states, plan actions, and adapt to new environments. However, the process of updating world models from collected experience creates a training-time attack… 18 arXiv — Machine Learning research 12d ago Strategic Feature Selection arXiv:2606.18867v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: When algorithmic predictors inform resource allocation in high-stakes domains such as healthcare, these predictors must account for strategic manipulation of input features. The typical solution is to redesign the predictor itself… 35 Hugging Face Daily Papers research 12d ago Kairos: A Native World Model Stack for Physical AI Abstract Kairos is a native world model framework that learns from diverse experiences, maintains persistent states through hybrid temporal attention, and supports efficient deployment for physical AI applications. Generated by Qwen/Qwen2.5-Coder-32B-Instruct World models are… 33 Hugging Face Daily Papers research 12d ago Guava: An Effective and Universal Harness for Embodied Manipulation Abstract A harness framework for embodied tool use combines high-level reasoning with external modules, enabling compact models to perform complex manipulation tasks with minimal training data. Generated by Qwen/Qwen2.5-Coder-32B-Instruct Language models trained on large-scale… 15 Hacker News — AI on Front Page community 12d ago A robot is sprinting towards you. Do you want it running on Claude or Grok? Article URL: https://openrouter.ai/blog/insights/royale-last-agent-standing/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48576824 Points: 244 # Comments: 189 25 Ars Technica — AI news-outlet 12d ago AI coding agents taught robots how to install GPUs and cut zip-ties NVIDIA’s self-improvement program for robots enlists teams of AI coding agents. 13 TechCrunch — AI news-outlet 12d ago Collecting robot training data is dirty, unglamorous work. Some AI labs are already paying XDOF to do it If physical AI is going to match the accomplishments of LLMs, there's a data problem that needs to be solved. 33 Hugging Face official-blog 12d ago From the Hugging Face Hub to robot hardware with Strands Agents and LeRobot Back to Articles a]:hidden"> From the Hugging Face Hub to robot hardware with Strands Agents and LeRobot Enterprise Article Published June 17, 2026 Upvote 4 Sundar Raghavan rsundaraws amazon Cagatay Cali cagataydev amazon A walkthrough of the LeRobot integration in Strands… 28 Hugging Face Daily Papers research 12d ago Text-Vision Co-Instructed Image Editing Abstract A unified text-visual image editing framework is presented that combines semantic intent from textual instructions with spatial guidance from visual prompts to achieve more precise and faithful image manipulation. Generated by Qwen/Qwen2.5-Coder-32B-Instruct Existing… 16 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 13d ago Incumbent Advantage: Brand Bias and Cognitive Manipulation Dynamics in LLM Recommendation Systems arXiv:2606.17443v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are becoming a major way for consumers to find products, but we do not yet understand how brands compete in this new channel. We study brand dynamics in LLM recommendations using skincare products --… 11 MIT News — AI research 13d ago Could AI tell you where you left your keys? A new spatial memory system for robots efficiently captures details about the objects they see while exploring their environment. 17 Hugging Face Daily Papers research 13d ago MotionVLA: Vision-Language-Action Model for Humanoid Motion Abstract A dual-stream frequency tokenizer and autoregressive model are proposed to improve humanoid motion generation by separately encoding pose and physical dynamics, achieving better diversity and consistency compared to single-codebook approaches. Generated by… 11 Hugging Face Daily Papers research 13d ago ACE-Ego-0: Unifying Egocentric Human and Robotic Data for VLA Pretraining Abstract A unified Vision-Language-Action pretraining framework leverages heterogeneous data sources including human egocentric videos and robot trajectories through a reliability-aware training approach that improves performance on embodied AI tasks. Generated by… 6 Page 1 of 4 · 184 articles Older →
