News / #robotics Tag Robotics 500 articles archived under #robotics · RSS Sign in to follow r/MachineLearning community 3mo ago Why first person video may matter for robot learning[D] I can see why first-person video might help a robot model, but not because the robot can copy a human hand. The joints, reach, timing, and control space are all different. What may transfer is the sequence of visual attention: which object enters view, what changes before… 20 Hugging Face Daily Papers research 3mo ago Robostral Navigate Abstract Deploying navigation systems at scale requires a recipe that minimizes sensor assumptions, generalizes across robot embodiments, and trains efficiently. Yet, today's best systems depend on depth sensors, multi-camera rigs, or pre-built maps, limiting the hardware they… 33 Hugging Face Daily Papers research 3mo ago TableVerse: A Large-scale Tabletop Dataset with Real-world Grounded Layouts for Generalizable Manipulation Abstract The development of generalizable robotic manipulation policies is inherently bounded by the availability of large-scale, high-fidelity scene data. While recent automated synthesis methods attempt to bridge this gap via text-to-layout hallucination or simplified… 5 Latent.Space news-outlet 3mo ago [AINews] Black Forest Labs FLUX 3 - Multimodal Flow Models that beat Seedance 2.0, Gemini Omni and Grok Imagine, and FLUX-mimic video-action robotics model A HUGE win for BFL! 22 Hugging Face Daily Papers research 3mo ago SLAM in Low-Light Environments: Project Report Abstract Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) is one of the fundamental problems in robotics, as it enables autonomous operations in real-world scenarios. Under low illumination, reduced contrast, sensor noise, and motion blur degrade both feature extraction and feature… 15 Hugging Face Daily Papers research 3mo ago SeededGrasp: Language-Guided Grasping in Complex Scenes with Multiple Embodiments Abstract Practical robotic grasping in complex scenes requires both 3D spatial reasoning and alignment with task-specific requirements. Vision-language models (VLMs) offer a natural way to specify these requirements using language, but existing approaches either use a VLM to… 37 arXiv — Machine Learning research 3mo ago Towards Torque-Driven Reinforcement Learning for Quadruped Locomotion arXiv:2607.18365v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) for legged robots is advancing locomotion, demonstrating its ability to adapt to new and challenging terrain. Traditionally, these RL locomotion frameworks are position-based, making the policy less… 25 Hugging Face Daily Papers research 3mo ago Generalizable VLA Finetuning via Representation Anchoring and Language-Action Alignment Abstract Finetuning a pretrained vision-language model (VLM) on robot demonstrations via behavior cloning (BC) has become the standard recipe for vision-language-action (VLA) policies. However, BC finetuning progressively overwrites the pretrained representations that support… 31 TechCrunch — AI news-outlet 3mo ago Travis Kalanick’s robotics company raises $1.7B, led by a16z Uber is also investing in Travis Kalanick's company Atoms, which has made gauzy claims about using industrial AI to modernize the world. 6 Ars Technica — AI news-outlet 3mo ago Hyundai claims humanoid robot plan is not part of talks with striking workers Union previously warned automaker that any robot deployment must be negotiated. 21 Hugging Face Daily Papers research 3mo ago Masked Visual Actions for Unified World Modeling Abstract Video models absorb rich priors over how the visual world moves, interacts, and responds to contact, making them promising substrates for robotic world modeling. The central challenge is how to communicate action to such models in a form aligned with the visual space in… 27 arXiv — Machine Learning research 3mo ago Deep learning-based prediction of time-resolved adhesive forces in viscoelastic Hertzian contacts arXiv:2607.19060v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Fast prediction of the response of adhesive soft viscoelastic contacts represents a current challenge in soft robotics and for gripping and manipulation tasks. Determining the complete time-resolved force trajectory requires full… 34 Hugging Face official-blog 3mo ago The State of Simulation for Physical AI: An Overview Back to Articles a]:hidden"> The State of Simulation for Physical AI: An Overview Enterprise + Article Published July 21, 2026 Upvote - Johnny Nuñez Cano johnnynv nvidia Mitesh Patel mitp nvidia Asier Arranz asiernvidia nvidia lior ben horin liorbenhorin-nv nvidia Raymond Lo… 23 TechCrunch — AI news-outlet 3mo ago Gritt exits stealth with $34 million for robots to build solar plants—then, everything else Gritt is coming out of stealth with $34 million and plan to automate the hardest tasks on construction sites. 31 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 3mo ago Cross-Branch Conflict as a Shield: Safeguarding Facial Identities in Unified Multimodal Image Editing arXiv:2607.16898v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Unified multimodal models (UMMs) have recently demonstrated powerful instruction-based image editing capabilities, but they also raise serious concerns about unauthorized manipulation of personal portraits. Existing adversarial… 9 Hugging Face Daily Papers research 3mo ago JoyNexus: Service-Oriented Multi-Tenant Post-Training for VLA Models Abstract The post-training of Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models is essential due to the diversity of simulators, robot embodiments, and task objectives. Existing compute services, whether offered as direct accelerator rental or batch-workload submission, typically allocate an… 13 Hugging Face official-blog 3mo ago Grabette: an open system to record robot-manipulation data Back to Articles a]:hidden"> Grabette: an open system to record robot-manipulation data. And build a shared dataset, together. Published July 21, 2026 Update on GitHub Upvote 5 Steve Nguyen SteveNguyen pollen-robotics Claire Houziel chouziel pollen-robotics Gaelle Lannuzel… 17 Hugging Face official-blog 3mo ago Introducing Cosmos 3 Edge Back to Articles a]:hidden"> Introducing Cosmos 3 Edge Enterprise + Article Published July 20, 2026 Upvote - Pranjali Joshi PranjaliJoshi nvidia Saeed Babamohamadi SaeedBabamohamadi nvidia The real world is vast and to operate in it physical AI systems need to understand how a… 32 NVIDIA Developer Blog official-blog 3mo ago Integrate NVIDIA Omniverse RTX Sensor Simulation Into Existing Apps Developers building 3D, design, simulation, robotics, and industrial digital twin applications need ways to bring physical AI capabilities into the tools and... 12 Hugging Face Daily Papers research 3mo ago See like a Robot: Robot-Centric Pointmaps for Vision-Language-Action Models Abstract Vision-language-action (VLA) models predict robot actions from visual observations and language instructions. These actions are defined in the robot's own 3D coordinate frame, yet most VLAs observe the scene in the camera frame, creating a frame mismatch between where… 16 r/LocalLLaMA community 3mo ago MiniCPM-Robot model series - MiniCPM-RobotManip & MiniCPM-RobotTrack 🚀 MiniCPM enters the physical world — enabling robots to understand, remember, and act. We open-source MiniCPM-Robot, our first embodied AI model series, including: 🤖 MiniCPM-RobotManip — a 1.5B general-purpose Vision-Language-Action (VLA) model for robotic manipulation. 🐕… 23 Hacker News — AI on Front Page community 3mo ago Xiaomi-Robotics-1 Article URL: https://robotics.xiaomi.com/xiaomi-robotics-1.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48974454 Points: 215 # Comments: 150 9 Hugging Face Daily Papers research 3mo ago Xiaomi-Robotics-1: Scaling Vision-Language-Action Models with over 100K Hours of Real-World Trajectories Abstract We present Xiaomi-Robotics-1, a foundational vision-language-action (VLA) model capable of (1) following diverse language instructions to perform a wide range of mobile manipulation tasks in unseen environments out-of-the-box, and (2) efficiently adapting to novel… 21 r/LocalLLaMA community 3mo ago How long before Chinese models fully surpass US models? Given the rate at which they have been advancing, I predict we are six months away from a leapfrog moment. EDIT - For those responding “never - they just copy everything”, how is that working out for EV and robotics? The idea that China is still some backwater knock-off empire… 14 r/LocalLLaMA community 3mo ago SigLIP 2 text embedding on CPU with Rust + ONNX We’re building a robotics data platform with a lot of images, video, and text metadata. For search, we use SigLIP 2. GPUs handle batched asynchronous image/video embedding and indexing, while this small Rust + ONNX Runtime service handles live text queries on CPU. Both land in… 37 TechCrunch — AI news-outlet 3mo ago Agility Robotics plants its flag in Tesla’s backyard Agility is opening a new training center for its Digit robots in Fremont, California. 29 TechCrunch — AI news-outlet 3mo ago Patreon stops asking AI bots not to scrape — and starts blocking them Patreon is strengthening its defenses against AI scraping by working with Cloudflare to block bots that train AI models on creators’ content without permission. The move marks a shift away from relying on websites using robots.txt alone to actively block unauthorized AI training. 36 Hugging Face Daily Papers research 3mo ago SUFLECA: Scaling Up Feature Learning for CAD-to-image Alignment Abstract CAD-to-image alignment aims to estimate an object's 9D pose (rotation, translation, and anisotropic scale) from a single RGB image, enabling applications in robotics and augmented reality. Recent zero-shot methods use visual foundation models to match image regions to… 22 Hugging Face Daily Papers research 3mo ago RoboTTT: Context Scaling for Robot Policies Abstract Recent robot foundation models operate with single-step or short-history visuomotor context. We introduce Test-Time-Training Robot Policies (RoboTTT), a robot model and training recipe that scale visuomotor context to 8K timesteps, three orders of magnitude beyond… 29 arXiv — Machine Learning research 3mo ago Active Real-World Factor-Based Evaluation for Generalist Robot Policies arXiv:2607.14439v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generalist robot manipulation policies trained on large, diverse datasets have shown remarkable promise across a wide range of tasks. However, rigorously evaluating these policies remains a fundamental challenge. Real-world… 18 arXiv — Machine Learning research 3mo ago Never Too Late for Force: Accelerating VLA Post-Training with Reactive Force Injection arXiv:2607.14236v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Pretrained vision-language-action (VLA) policies provide strong language-conditioned manipulation knowledge, but they remain largely vision-driven and can struggle once manipulation enters contact states where the scene is… 27 arXiv — Machine Learning research 3mo ago DiMaS: Distribution Matching for Steering Vision-Language-Action Models arXiv:2607.14280v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Flow-matching-based vision-language-action (VLA) models have emerged as powerful policies for robotic manipulation, yet a critical capability remains underexplored: fine-grained behavioral control, the ability to govern how a… 22 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 3mo ago MEMORA: Embodied Action Memory from Egocentric Videos for Reasoning and Planning arXiv:2607.14252v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Long-horizon robot planning requires more than predicting what actions will do next; it also requires memory of the embodied experience that makes future goals interpretable. People do not plan from the present scene alone: they… 36 Ars Technica — AI news-outlet 3mo ago Fear of humanoid robots spurs human workers to strike at Hyundai auto factory Hyundai aims to deploy 25,000 Atlas robots starting with US factories in 2028. 11 Hugging Face Daily Papers research 3mo ago SPEAR: A Simulator for Photorealistic Embodied AI Research Abstract Interactive simulators have become powerful tools for training embodied agents and generating synthetic visual data, but existing photorealistic simulators suffer from limited generality, programmability, and rendering speed. We address these limitations by introducing… 14 Latent.Space news-outlet 3mo ago 🔬 The Lab of the Future Should Feel Like a Data Center — Andy Beam & Rafa Gómez-Bombarelli, Lila Sciences Lila is betting that science, not the internet, is the last untapped source of training data. We went to find out what that actually looks like in a room full of robots. 30 arXiv — Machine Learning research 3mo ago Where Should RL Post-Training Compute Go? Model Size, Search, Learning, and Feedback arXiv:2607.13389v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement Learning (RL) post-training is increasingly used to adapt foundation models for reasoning, planning, and feedback-driven robot-learning pipelines, but constrained post-training resources are often summarized by a… 17 arXiv — Machine Learning research 3mo ago HRIBench: Benchmarking Interaction-Centric Human-Robot Collaboration arXiv:2607.13056v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Current vision-language-action (VLA) benchmarks primarily evaluate isolated manipulation skills while leaving human-robot interaction structure largely unmodeled. However, real-world collaboration fundamentally requires… 12 Hugging Face Daily Papers research 3mo ago GigaWorld-Policy-0.5: A Faster and Stronger WAM Empowered by AutoResearch Abstract World Action Models (WAMs) improve robot policy learning by jointly modeling actions and future visual observations, using future scene evolution as dense supervision for physically grounded action generation. However, a common design in existing WAMs is to explicitly… 8 NVIDIA Developer Blog official-blog 3mo ago Develop Lightweight USD Runtimes Faster with AI Agents OpenUSD is an open, extensible framework that provides a common scene description language for physical AI. It enables teams to bring CAD data, simulation... 34 r/MachineLearning community 3mo ago Looking for JEPA devil advocates [R] I am currently doing research on world models, specially in tje field of robot learning, and, as probably most of you alredy know, JEPA-like models are mentioned over and over. I read the main recent papers from lecun as well as other research groups, and I personally think the… 12 r/MachineLearning community 3mo ago All major robotics and VLA papers, ranked and benchmarked in a single place [P] Hi folks, There is now a dedicated Robotics page on Papers with Code that lists the major benchmarks, trending papers with linked code, and open-source artifacts. Find it here: https://paperswithcode.co/tasks/robotics… 24 Simon Willison community 4mo ago simonw/pedalican simonw/pedalican Clearly I wasn't paying attention when these were first announced back in May, but today I accidentally activated a "pet" in Codex Desktop - a little animated robot, reminiscent of Clippy - and then learned you can create your own. So I did, and now I have a… 35 Hugging Face Daily Papers research 4mo ago Xiaomi-Robotics-U0: Unified Embodied Synthesis with World Foundation Model Abstract Recent foundation image and video generation models offer strong generalization and controllability, but their direct application to embodied scenarios is limited by requirements for multi-view consistency, geometric coherence, and robot embodiment constraints. Existing… 14 Hugging Face Daily Papers research 4mo ago EgoSteer: A Full-Stack System Towards Steerable Dexterous Manipulation from Egocentric Videos Abstract Steerability is a defining capability of generalist robot policies, yet remains largely absent in dexterous-hand systems for lack of large-scale, language-aligned, and action-accurate demonstration data. To address this bottleneck, we present a full-stack system that… 4 Hugging Face Daily Papers research 4mo ago ABot-AgentOS: A General Robotic Agent OS with Lifelong Multi-modal Memory Abstract Recent VLM and VLA systems have improved robotic perception and action prediction, yet long-horizon embodied agents still require a general runtime layer for reasoning, memory, tool use, verification, and cross-embodiment execution. We present ABot-AgentOS, a general… 14 TechCrunch — AI news-outlet 4mo ago Uber’s product chief on hotels, robotaxis, and why the company doesn’t want to be “everything for everyone” Uber Chief Product Officer Sachin Kansal walks TechCrunch through the company's financial-services ambitions, its increasingly complicated relationship with Waymo, its new AV Labs data operation, and how AI is starting to show up in ways riders and drivers will actually notice. 15 TechCrunch — AI news-outlet 4mo ago Hermes agent maker Nous Research in talks for new funding at $1.5B valuation The company is raising at least $75 million, led by Robot, with significant participation from USV and other prominent investors. 37 MIT News — AI research 4mo ago AI agents create virtual playgrounds to help robots get crucial training data “SceneSmith” system uses collaborative AI agents to create realistic 3D environments of places like kitchens, hotels, and living rooms, where robots can simulate everyday chores. 17 Google DeepMind official-blog 4mo ago Empowering India’s next generation of innovators with ATL Saathi Google and AIM launched ATL Saathi, a Gemini-powered AI tool empowering Indian educators in robotics labs. 15 Page 6 of 10 · 500 articles ← Newer Older →
