#Automation

Articles (30)

• 🇺🇸 New humanoid robots replacing workers in factories — 09/04/2026 [USA]

  Meet 'Digit', a humanoid robotic worker made by Agility Robotics, now part of a new wave of robots replacing workers at companies like Schaeffler, Toyota, and GXO. NBC News' Brian Cheung takes a look.

  Related: #Future of Work, #Industrial Technology
• 🇺🇸 AI can push your Stream Deck buttons for you — 01/04/2026 [USA]

  If you're tired of controlling Stream Deck devices by manually pushing buttons, then good news: Elgato will now let you delegate that task to a chatbot instead. The Stream Deck 7.4 software update rel...

  Related: #AI Integration
• 🇺🇸 Anthropic’s Claude Code gets ‘safer’ auto mode — 25/03/2026 [USA]

  Anthropic has launched an "auto mode" for Claude Code, a new tool that lets AI make permissions-level decisions on users' behalf. The company says the feature offers vibe coders a safer alternative be...

  Related: #AI Safety
• 🇺🇸 OpenAI is throwing everything into building a fully automated researcher — 20/03/2026 [USA]

  OpenAI is refocusing its research efforts and throwing its resources into a new grand challenge. The San Francisco firm has set its sights on building what it calls an AI researcher, a fully automated...

  Related: #AI Research, #Innovation, #Competition
• 🇺🇸 FailureMem: A Failure-Aware Multimodal Framework for Autonomous Software Repair — 19/03/2026 [USA]

  arXiv:2603.17826v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multimodal Automated Program Repair (MAPR) extends traditional program repair by requiring models to jointly reason over source code, textual issue d...

  Related: #Software Repair
• 🇬🇧 How AI is actually changing day-to-day work — 18/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>University professors and Amazon workers are wrestling with profound shifts</p><p>Hello, and welcome to TechScape. I’m your host, Blake Montgomery, chuffed about One Battle After Another’s big win ...

  Related: #Productivity, #Workflow, #Technology
• 🇺🇸 DRCY: Agentic Hardware Design Reviews — 18/03/2026 [USA]

  arXiv:2603.15672v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Hardware design errors discovered after fabrication require costly physical respins that can delay products by months. Existing electronic design aut...

  Related: #Hardware Design
• 🇺🇸 Automating Document Intelligence in Statutory City Planning — 17/03/2026 [USA]

  arXiv:2603.13245v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: UK planning authorities face a legislative conflict between the Planning Act, which mandates public access to application documents, and the Data Prote...

  Related: #Urban Planning
• 🇺🇸 daVinci-Env: Open SWE Environment Synthesis at Scale — 16/03/2026 [USA]

  arXiv:2603.13023v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Training capable software engineering (SWE) agents demands large-scale, executable, and verifiable environments that provide dynamic feedback loops f...

  Related: #Software Engineering
• 🇬🇧 This CEO warns that Democratic voters are most at risk from automation | Arwa Mahdawi — 14/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>Palantir’s CEO says the platforms will have a vast effect on the electoral landscape … especially women. Is it a warning or a sales pitch?</p><p>Don’t you just love AI? It has inundated the interne...

  Related: #Politics
• 🇺🇸 Agentic Design Review System — 13/03/2026 [USA]

  arXiv:2508.10745v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Evaluating graphic designs involves assessing it from multiple facets like alignment, composition, aesthetics and color choices. Evaluating designs...

  Related: #AI Design
• 🇺🇸 Automatic Generation of High-Performance RL Environments — 13/03/2026 [USA]

  arXiv:2603.12145v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Translating complex reinforcement learning (RL) environments into high-performance implementations has traditionally required months of specialized e...

  Related: #AI Research
• 🇺🇸 Agentic Control Center for Data Product Optimization — 12/03/2026 [USA]

  arXiv:2603.10133v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Data products enable end users to gain greater insights about their data by providing supporting assets, such as example question-SQL pairs which can b...

  Related: #Data Optimization
• 🇺🇸 OSExpert: Computer-Use Agents Learning Professional Skills via Exploration — 10/03/2026 [USA]

  arXiv:2603.07978v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: General-purpose computer-use agents have shown impressive performance across diverse digital environments. However, our new benchmark, OSExpert-Eval, i...

  Related: #AI Learning
• 🇺🇸 AutoFigure-Edit: Generating Editable Scientific Illustration — 10/03/2026 [USA]

  arXiv:2603.06674v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: High-quality scientific illustrations are essential for communicating complex scientific and technical concepts, yet existing automated systems remai...

  Related: #Scientific Illustration
• 🇺🇸 A Multi-Agent System Enables Versatile Information Extraction from the Chemical Literature — 09/03/2026 [USA]

  arXiv:2507.20230v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: To fully expedite AI-powered chemical research, high-quality chemical databases are the foundation. Automatic extraction of chemical information fr...

  Related: #Chemical Informatics
• 🇺🇸 Why China’s humanoid robot industry is winning the early market — 28/02/2026 [USA]

  China’s push into humanoid robots is accelerating, with domestic firms shipping more units and iterating faster than U.S. competitors in a still-nascent market.

  Related: #Artificial Intelligence (AI), #Robotics, #Manufacturing, #Government Policy
• 🇺🇸 Is AI killing jobs? The vacancy data tells a different story — 28/02/2026 [USA] Related: #Artificial Intelligence, #Job Market, #Economic Analysis, #Employment Trends
• 🇺🇸 Sportswear brand On launches South Korea robot factory to tackle supply chain risk — 25/02/2026 [USA] Related: #Supply Chain, #Trade Policy, #Manufacturing Innovation
• 🇺🇸 EvoCut: Strengthening Integer Programs via Evolution-Guided Language Models — 16/02/2026 [USA]

  arXiv:2508.11850v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Integer programming (IP) is central to many combinatorial optimization tasks but remains challenging due to its NP-hard nature. A practical way to ...

  Related: #Artificial Intelligence, #Optimization
• 🇺🇸 ToolSelf: Unifying Task Execution and Self-Reconfiguration via Tool-Driven Intrinsic Adaptation — 10/02/2026 [USA]

  arXiv:2602.07883v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agentic systems powered by Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable potential in tackling complex, long-horizon tasks. However, their ...

  Related: #Artificial Intelligence, #Machine Learning
• 🇺🇸 InternAgent-1.5: A Unified Agentic Framework for Long-Horizon Autonomous Scientific Discovery — 10/02/2026 [USA]

  arXiv:2602.08990v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce InternAgent-1.5, a unified system designed for end-to-end scientific discovery across computational and empirical domains. The system is b...

  Related: #Artificial Intelligence, #Scientific Research
• 🇺🇸 Scalable Delphi: Large Language Models for Structured Risk Estimation — 10/02/2026 [USA]

  arXiv:2602.08889v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Quantitative risk assessment in high-stakes domains relies on structured expert elicitation to estimate unobservable properties. The gold standard - th...

  Related: #Artificial Intelligence, #Risk Management
• 🇺🇸 Leveraging Adaptive Group Negotiation for Heterogeneous Multi-Robot Collaboration with Large Language Models — 10/02/2026 [USA]

  arXiv:2602.06967v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multi-robot collaboration tasks often require heterogeneous robots to work together over long horizons under spatial constraints and environmental un...

  Related: #Robotics, #Artificial Intelligence
• 🇺🇸 Towards Adaptive, Scalable, and Robust Coordination of LLM Agents: A Dynamic Ad-Hoc Networking Perspective — 10/02/2026 [USA]

  arXiv:2602.08009v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-agent architectures built on large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated the potential to realize swarm intelligence through well-crafted coll...

  Related: #Artificial Intelligence, #Networking
• 🇺🇸 NAAMSE: Framework for Evolutionary Security Evaluation of Agents — 10/02/2026 [USA]

  arXiv:2602.07391v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI agents are increasingly deployed in production, yet their security evaluations remain bottlenecked by manual red-teaming or static benchmarks that f...

  Related: #Cybersecurity, #Artificial Intelligence
• 🇺🇸 Aster: Autonomous Scientific Discovery over 20x Faster Than Existing Methods — 10/02/2026 [USA]

  arXiv:2602.07040v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce Aster, an AI agent for autonomous scientific discovery capable of operating over 20 times faster than existing frameworks. Given a task, a...

  Related: #Artificial Intelligence, #Scientific Research
• 🇺🇸 ST-Raptor: An Agentic System for Semi-Structured Table QA — 10/02/2026 [USA]

  arXiv:2602.07034v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Semi-structured table question answering (QA) is a challenging task that requires (1) precise extraction of cell contents and positions and (2) accurat...

  Related: #Artificial Intelligence, #Data Science
• 🇺🇸 ANCHOR: Branch-Point Data Generation for GUI Agents — 10/02/2026 [USA]

  arXiv:2602.07153v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: End-to-end GUI agents for real desktop environments require large amounts of high-quality interaction data, yet collecting human demonstrations is expe...

  Related: #Artificial Intelligence, #Machine Learning
• 🇺🇸 RuleSmith: Multi-Agent LLMs for Automated Game Balancing — 09/02/2026 [USA]

  arXiv:2602.06232v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Game balancing is a longstanding challenge requiring repeated playtesting, expert intuition, and extensive manual tuning. We introduce RuleSmith, the...

  Related: #Artificial Intelligence, #Game Development