#Robotics

Articles (30)

• 🇺🇸 Alibaba leads $290 million investment for building a new kind of AI model as LLM limits emerge — 10/04/2026 [USA]

  Startup Shengshu plans to use the money for a "general world model," paving the way for more practical robot applications.

  Related: #Artificial Intelligence, #Technology Investment
• 🇺🇸 Logical Robots: Declarative Multi-Agent Programming in Logica — 09/04/2026 [USA]

  arXiv:2604.06629v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present Logical Robots, an interactive multi-agent simulation platform where autonomous robot behavior is specified declaratively in the logic pro...

  Related: #Programming Paradigms, #Artificial Intelligence
• 🇺🇸 AEROS: A Single-Agent Operating Architecture with Embodied Capability Modules — 09/04/2026 [USA]

  arXiv:2604.07039v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Robotic systems lack a principled abstraction for organizing intelligence, capabilities, and execution in a unified manner. Existing approaches eithe...

  Related: #Artificial Intelligence, #System Architecture
• 🇺🇸 KITE: Keyframe-Indexed Tokenized Evidence for VLM-Based Robot Failure Analysis — 09/04/2026 [USA]

  arXiv:2604.07034v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present KITE, a training-free, keyframe-anchored, layout-grounded front-end that converts long robot-execution videos into compact, interpretable ...

  Related: #Artificial Intelligence, #Computer Vision
• 🇺🇸 Flow Motion Policy: Manipulator Motion Planning with Flow Matching Models — 09/04/2026 [USA]

  arXiv:2604.07084v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Open-loop end-to-end neural motion planners have recently been proposed to improve motion planning for robotic manipulators. These methods enable pla...

  Related: #Artificial Intelligence, #Motion Planning
• 🇺🇸 World4RL: Diffusion World Models for Policy Refinement with Reinforcement Learning for Robotic Manipulation — 23/03/2026 [USA]

  arXiv:2509.19080v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Robotic manipulation policies are commonly initialized through imitation learning, but their performance is limited by the scarcity and narro...

  Related: #Reinforcement Learning, #Diffusion Models
• 🇺🇸 Multimodal Fused Learning for Solving the Generalized Traveling Salesman Problem in Robotic Task Planning — 23/03/2026 [USA]

  arXiv:2506.16931v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Effective and efficient task planning is essential for mobile robots, especially in applications like warehouse retrieval and environmental monitor...

  Related: #Optimization, #AI
• 🇺🇸 Adaptive Relative Pose Estimation Framework with Dual Noise Tuning for Safe Approaching Maneuvers — 23/03/2026 [USA]

  arXiv:2507.16214v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Accurate and robust relative pose estimation is crucial for enabling challenging Active Debris Removal (ADR) missions targeting tumbling dere...

  Related: #Safety, #Autonomous Systems
• 🇺🇸 Beyond the Desk: Barriers and Future Opportunities for AI to Assist Scientists in Embodied Physical Tasks — 23/03/2026 [USA]

  arXiv:2603.19504v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: More scientists are now using AI, but prior studies have examined only how they use it 'at the desk' for computer-based work. However, given that sci...

  Related: #AI in Science
• 🇺🇸 The Robot's Inner Critic: Self-Refinement of Social Behaviors through VLM-based Replanning — 23/03/2026 [USA]

  arXiv:2603.20164v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Conventional robot social behavior generation has been limited in flexibility and autonomy, relying on predefined motions or human feedback. This stu...

  Related: #AI Ethics
• 🇺🇸 Do you want to build a robot snowman? — 22/03/2026 [USA]

  On the latest episode of the Equity podcast, we recapped CEO Jensen Huang’s GTC keynote and debated what it means for Nvidia’s future.

  Related: #Seasonal Projects
• 🇺🇸 Goldman shares latest updates on Tesla’s Optimus project — 21/03/2026 [USA] Related: #Technology, #Finance
• 🇺🇸 What happened at Nvidia GTC: NemoClaw, Robot Olaf, and a $1 trillion bet — 20/03/2026 [USA]

  CEO Jensen Huang took the stage at Nvidia’s GTC conference this week in his signature leather jacket to deliver a two-and-a-half-hour keynote, projecting $1 trillion in AI chip sales through 2027, dec...

  Related: #AI Innovation, #Corporate Strategy
• 🇺🇸 Unitree plans Shanghai IPO, testing interest in humanoid robots — 20/03/2026 [USA]

  Chinese startup Unitree Robotics on Friday filed an initial public offering application to the Shanghai ​Stock Exchange, seeking to ​raise about $610 million.

  Related: #Finance, #Technology
• 🇺🇸 Scaling Sim-to-Real Reinforcement Learning for Robot VLAs with Generative 3D Worlds — 20/03/2026 [USA]

  arXiv:2603.18532v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The strong performance of large vision-language models (VLMs) trained with reinforcement learning (RL) has motivated similar approaches for fine-tuni...

  Related: #AI Training, #Simulation
• 🇺🇸 REST: Receding Horizon Explorative Steiner Tree for Zero-Shot Object-Goal Navigation — 20/03/2026 [USA]

  arXiv:2603.18624v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Zero-shot object-goal navigation (ZSON) requires navigating unknown environments to find a target object without task-specific training. Prior hierar...

  Related: #Navigation
• 🇺🇸 Offload or Overload: A Platform Measurement Study of Mobile Robotic Manipulation Workloads — 20/03/2026 [USA]

  arXiv:2603.18284v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Mobile robotic manipulation--the ability of robots to navigate spaces and interact with objects--is a core capability of physical AI. Foundation mode...

  Related: #Workload Optimization
• 🇺🇸 Amazon acquires Rivr, maker of a stair-climbing delivery robot — 19/03/2026 [USA]

  Amazon and Jeff Bezos had previously invested in the startup.

  Related: #Acquisition, #Logistics
• 🇺🇸 Amazon acquires startup Rivr to test robots for 'doorstep delivery' — 19/03/2026 [USA]

  The company expects to test ways it can use Rivr's robots to help with "doorstep delivery" and to "improve safety outcomes" for delivery drivers.

  Related: #Acquisition, #Delivery
• 🇺🇸 Employees had to restrain a dancing humanoid robot after it went wild at a California restaurant — 19/03/2026 [USA]

  A dancing robot in a Haidilao hot pot restaurant boogied down a little too hard.

  Related: #Safety
• 🇺🇸 EVA: Aligning Video World Models with Executable Robot Actions via Inverse Dynamics Rewards — 19/03/2026 [USA]

  arXiv:2603.17808v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Video generative models are increasingly used as world models for robotics, where a model generates a future visual rollout conditioned on the curren...

  Related: #AI Alignment
• 🇺🇸 KineVLA: Towards Kinematics-Aware Vision-Language-Action Models with Bi-Level Action Decomposition — 19/03/2026 [USA]

  arXiv:2603.17524v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In this paper, we introduce a novel kinematics-rich vision-language-action (VLA) task, in which language commands densely encode diverse kinematic at...

  Related: #AI Integration
• 🇺🇸 EmergeNav: Structured Embodied Inference for Zero-Shot Vision-and-Language Navigation in Continuous Environments — 19/03/2026 [USA]

  arXiv:2603.16947v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Zero-shot vision-and-language navigation in continuous environments (VLN-CE) remains challenging for modern vision-language models (VLMs). Although t...

  Related: #AI Navigation
• 🇺🇸 Generative Control as Optimization: Time Unconditional Flow Matching for Adaptive and Robust Robotic Control — 19/03/2026 [USA]

  arXiv:2603.17834v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Diffusion models and flow matching have become a cornerstone of robotic imitation learning, yet they suffer from a structural inefficiency where infe...

  Related: #AI Optimization
• 🇺🇸 Identifying Latent Actions and Dynamics from Offline Data via Demonstrator Diversity — 19/03/2026 [USA]

  arXiv:2603.17577v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Can latent actions and environment dynamics be recovered from offline trajectories when actions are never observed? We study this question in a setti...

  Related: #Machine Learning
• 🇺🇸 ExpertGen: Scalable Sim-to-Real Expert Policy Learning from Imperfect Behavior Priors — 18/03/2026 [USA]

  arXiv:2603.15956v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Learning generalizable and robust behavior cloning policies requires large volumes of high-quality robotics data. While human demonstrations (e.g., t...

  Related: #AI Training
• 🇺🇸 Large Reward Models: Generalizable Online Robot Reward Generation with Vision-Language Models — 18/03/2026 [USA]

  arXiv:2603.16065v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reinforcement Learning (RL) has shown great potential in refining robotic manipulation policies, yet its efficacy remains strongly bottlenecked by th...

  Related: #AI, #Machine Learning
• 🇺🇸 You've Got a Golden Ticket: Improving Generative Robot Policies With A Single Noise Vector — 18/03/2026 [USA]

  arXiv:2603.15757v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: What happens when a pretrained generative robot policy is provided a constant initial noise as input, rather than repeatedly sampling it from a Gauss...

  Related: #AI Optimization
• 🇺🇸 Towards the Vision-Sound-Language-Action Paradigm: The HEAR Framework for Sound-Centric Manipulation — 18/03/2026 [USA]

  arXiv:2603.16086v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While recent Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have begun to incorporate audio, they typically treat sound as static pre-execution prompts or focus...

  Related: #Multimodal AI, #Sound Processing
• 🇺🇸 Active Causal Structure Learning with Latent Variables: Towards Learning to Detour in Autonomous Robots — 16/03/2026 [USA]

  arXiv:2410.20894v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) Agents and Robots must be able to cope with everchanging environments and tasks. They must be able to activel...

  Related: #AI Learning