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59 stories from 3 sources in the last 48 hours, every one in English. Each links to its publisher.
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NVIDIA launches GR00T 2 and Isaac Lab 3.0 at CoRL
The Robot Report
A range of developers, including RLWRLD, Skild AI, and Flexion, are already using NVIDIA’s latest technology. | Source: NVIDIA NVIDIA Corp. today introduced GR00T 2, its updated open frontier world action model, and Isaac Lab 3.0, the…
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Boston Dynamics adds wheels to Atlas humanoid to test whole-body control
The Robot Report
Bridging the divide between deterministic physics-based control and policy-driven adaptation, Boston Dynamics released a video today showing its Atlas humanoid using wheels to move around. The “experiment” combined classical model-based…
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How to minimize Wi-Fi roaming interruptions for autonomous mobile robots
The Robot Report
Wi-Fi connectivity needs to be reliable for real-time mobile robot management. Source: Synaptics An autonomous mobile robot or AMR may cross dozens of Wi-Fi coverage zones during a single shift. Each transition creates a small but…
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Can Agentic Robotics Solve Robotics’ Data Scaling Problem?
IEEE Spectrum Robotics
Robotics companies are investing heavily in the belief that data will solve the most difficult problems in robotics. Once AI systems have ingested enough data from human demonstrations, the thinking goes, robots will be able to perform the…
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MosaicIMU: Composing Carrier Experts for Generalizable Neural Inertial Odometry
arXiv cs.RO (Robotics)
arXiv:2606.09355v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Robust inertial odometry is essential for various carriers when external sensing is unreliable. Learning-based methods reduce integration drift by capturing local motion priors, but these…
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Closed-Form 6-DoF Pose Estimation of Medical Tools via Gradiometer-Based Electromagnetic Localization System
arXiv cs.RO (Robotics)
arXiv:2606.01946v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Electromagnetic tracking \added[]{is promising for} remote navigation of endoluminal \added[]{medical tools}. However, existing six-degree-of-freedom (6-DoF) pose recovery approaches…
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ObjView-Bench: Rethinking Difficulty and Deployment for Object-Centric View Planning
arXiv cs.RO (Robotics)
arXiv:2605.10707v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Object-centric view planning is a core component of active geometric 3D reconstruction in robotics, yet existing evaluations often conflate object complexity, planning difficulty, budget…
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Evolving Drone Morphologies for Agile Flight
arXiv cs.RO (Robotics)
arXiv:2502.01197v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The design of multicopter drones has remained almost the same since their inception. While conventional designs work well in many cases, they may not be optimal in specific tasks. This…
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Adaptive Collision Sensitivity for Efficient and Safe Human-Robot Collaboration
arXiv cs.RO (Robotics)
arXiv:2409.20184v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: What is considered safe for a robot operator during physical human-robot collaboration (HRC) is specified in corresponding HRC standards (e.g., ISO 10218-2:2025). The regime that allows…
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Locating Contact on Tendon-Driven Continuum Robots From Tendon Measurements Alone via Constrained Moving Horizon Estimation
arXiv cs.RO (Robotics)
arXiv:2611.09877v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tendon-driven continuum robots can reach through constrained spaces, but contact along their bodies is invisible to the sensors at their motors. We show that this is a structural limitation…
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Autonomous Whole-body Loco-manipulation Using a Snake Robot
arXiv cs.RO (Robotics)
arXiv:2611.09777v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Snake robots can leverage their hyper-redundant morphology for both locomotion and manipulation through distributed body contact but whole-body loco-manipulation is particularly challenging…
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ODEAction: From Predicting Chunks to Evolving Actions
arXiv cs.RO (Robotics)
arXiv:2611.09672v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language-action (VLA) models typically generate actions in chunks, organizing continuous robot execution into separately predicted segments and thus introducing potential…
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DKWBC: Decoupling Motion Tracking and Balancing for Humanoid Whole-Body Control
arXiv cs.RO (Robotics)
arXiv:2611.09605v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Humanoid whole-body control requires a robot to track diverse reference motions while maintaining balance under gravity, torque limits, contact switching, and external disturbances. Existing…
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Lightweight Path-Aware Frontier Re-ranking for LiDAR-Based UAV Exploration
arXiv cs.RO (Robotics)
arXiv:2611.09561v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous 3D exploration with UAVs requires efficient target selection under limited flight time and onboard computation. In conventional Euclidean-distance-based frontier pipelines…
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CucumberVision at the Edge: Accuracy, Throughput, and Energy of RGB-D Cucumber Sizing on Jetson Orin Nano and Raspberry Pi 4
arXiv cs.RO (Robotics)
arXiv:2611.09490v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Non-contact fruit sizing from RGB-D imagery reaches sub-centimetre accuracy on workstation hardware, but in-field grading requires the same pipeline to run on a low-power single-board…
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Horizon-Coupled Obstacle Guidance for Relative-Action Diffusion Policies
arXiv cs.RO (Robotics)
arXiv:2611.09340v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Real-world robot deployment requires adapting learned policies to unseen obstacles without collecting new demonstrations or retraining. Existing policy-level guidance often applies obstacle…
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Task-Driven Closed-Loop Design Optimization of Passively Morphing Quadrotors for Contact-Mediated Narrow Gap Traversal
arXiv cs.RO (Robotics)
arXiv:2611.09272v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Aerial robots operating in cluttered environments may encounter openings narrower than their nominal width. Existing passively morphing drones reduce their width upon traversal, but they…
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SUGARv2: Learning Diverse Visual Humanoid Loco-Manipulation Skills from Synthesized Interaction References
arXiv cs.RO (Robotics)
arXiv:2611.09266v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Scaling up visual humanoid loco-manipulation skill acquisition requires reducing the human effort needed as tasks and spatial configurations expand, particularly in demonstration collection…
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Auditing Grasp Feasibility Predictors with Planner-Verified Counterfactuals
arXiv cs.RO (Robotics)
arXiv:2611.09130v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Grasp-feasibility predictors report near-perfect accuracy on Task and Motion Planning benchmarks, but high accuracy on these benchmarks does not verify that a predictor uses the collision…
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Toward the Era of Agentic Embodied Intelligence
arXiv cs.RO (Robotics)
arXiv:2611.09124v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Foundation models increasingly guide robot actions, yet sustained autonomy requires efficient control and failure recovery. We introduce A2-MEAS, an embodied multi-agent framework built…
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Robust Readout of Cross-Point Resistive Arrays via Time-Domain Optimization
arXiv cs.RO (Robotics)
arXiv:2611.09059v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Cross-point resistive arrays are attractive for high-density tactile sensing because they reduce wiring complexity. However, conventional frequency-based readout methods can become inaccurate…
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FASTFUNNELS: Agile Multi Robot Navigation in Narrow Spaces via Adaptive Dynamic Funnels
arXiv cs.RO (Robotics)
arXiv:2611.09005v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We focus on the problem of high-speed multi-robot navigation in cluttered spaces with tight spatial constraints. A key challenge is balancing safety with agility, as existing methods often…
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RevoSim: Scalable Multimodal Tactile Simulation for Dexterous Manipulation
arXiv cs.RO (Robotics)
arXiv:2611.08939v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present RevoSim, a scalable and high-fidelity multimodal tactile simulator for the BrainCo Revo3 hand that jointly models 285 piezoresistive taxels and five visuotactile fingertips…
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Wellness Robots and the Path to Full Autonomy
arXiv cs.RO (Robotics)
arXiv:2611.08930v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper introduces the autonomous wellness robot as a distinct category of socially assistive system, defined by its capacity to continuously assess and respond across the seven ICAA…
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PRISM: Primitive Routing via In-context Skill Mixing for Retentive VLA Adaptation
arXiv cs.RO (Robotics)
arXiv:2611.08917v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models promise a single language-conditioned policy adaptable to many manipulation behaviors, yet deployment additionally requires skill retention and…
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Polarization calibration of fisheye cameras using skylight in the wild
arXiv cs.RO (Robotics)
arXiv:2611.08911v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Skylight polarization provides directional cues for robotic navigation, but fisheye lens effects and analyzer imperfections can degrade polarization measurements across the field of view. We…
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FATHOM: World-Model-Guided Diffusion Action-Trajectory Selection for Sparse-Marker AUV Tracking
arXiv cs.RO (Robotics)
arXiv:2611.08898v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reliable relative tracking is fundamental to cooperative autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs), yet remains challenging under nonlinear vehicle dynamics and degraded underwater visual…
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Lodos-v2: An Efficient Primal Formulation of the Exact Frictional Contact Problem
arXiv cs.RO (Robotics)
arXiv:2611.08868v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Lodos-v2 is a GPU-based simulation framework for massively parallel rigid-body dynamics with contact. It is specifically designed to achieve high throughput in scenes involving collisions…
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What Limits mmWave Human-State Sensing for Robot Perception?
arXiv cs.RO (Robotics)
arXiv:2611.08863v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Assistive robots and search-and-rescue platforms require reliable human state sensing in smoke, darkness, and privacy-sensitive environments, where cameras and LiDAR may be unreliable…
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ActPrune: Action-Grounded Visual Token Pruning for Efficient Vision-Language-Action Models
arXiv cs.RO (Robotics)
arXiv:2611.08827v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language-action (VLA) models perform versatile manipulation tasks from language instructions, but their inference cost limits how fast a robot can respond in closed-loop control…
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It Takes Two to Tangram: Multi-Agent Object Centric Reinforcement Learning for Assembly
arXiv cs.RO (Robotics)
arXiv:2611.08814v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Geometric assembly requires fine spatiotemporal coordination to place parts without causing collisions or deadlocks under tight clearances. To address this, we present an object-centric…
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ForPC: Force-Aware Whole-Body Control for Precise Humanoid Cart Pushing
arXiv cs.RO (Robotics)
arXiv:2611.08664v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Humanoid robots are expected to take over strenuous material handling in manufacturing, logistics, and healthcare, where operating existing wheeled carts would let them move heavy loads…
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CS-Pi: Constraint-Satisfying Flow Policy Sampling
arXiv cs.RO (Robotics)
arXiv:2611.08654v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A flow-matching policy deployed in the field must often satisfy a constraint that was absent from its demonstrations, such as avoiding an obstacle it has never seen. Retraining for every new…
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RoboFQE: Rollout-Free Evaluation of Visual Robot Policies from Offline Trajectories
arXiv cs.RO (Robotics)
arXiv:2610.18699v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Evaluating robot policies before deployment typically requires producing new trajectories through real-world execution, simulators, or learned world models. These rollout-based approaches…
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RADAR Perception for Dynamic Obstacle Avoidance onboard small-scale Quadrotor UAVs
arXiv cs.RO (Robotics)
arXiv:2608.01855v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Fast dynamic obstacle avoidance (DOA) on uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) demands not only low-latency control and actuation but also reliable, long-range perception to detect obstacles…
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SGM-SLAM: Scene Graph Matching for Data-Efficient Distributed SLAM
arXiv cs.RO (Robotics)
arXiv:2606.16881v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We introduce a data-efficient distributed Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) framework for multi-robot operation in GPS-denied and communication-constrained environments. The…
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CLAW: Continuous Latent Action World Models via Adversarial Regularization
arXiv cs.RO (Robotics)
arXiv:2606.04130v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We introduce CLAW, a fully end-to-end self-supervised framework for learning a world model jointly with continuous latent action representations directly from action-free videos. Our…
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Modular magnetic soft robotic catheter enables visualized intervention in the pancreatobiliary tree
arXiv cs.RO (Robotics)
arXiv:2601.14837v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Diagnosis and therapy in the pancreatobiliary tree are limited by access. Guidewires reach deep into the ducts but are blind, whereas cholangioscopes provide vision but are too large to…
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ManiTaskGen: A Comprehensive Task Generator for Benchmarking and Improving Vision-Language Agents on Embodied Decision-Making
arXiv cs.RO (Robotics)
arXiv:2505.20726v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Building embodied agents capable of accomplishing arbitrary tasks is a core objective towards achieving embodied artificial general intelligence (E-AGI). While recent work has advanced…
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Sketch-MoMa: Teleoperation for Mobile Manipulator via Interpretation of Hand-Drawn Sketches
arXiv cs.RO (Robotics)
arXiv:2412.19153v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: To use assistive robots in everyday life, a remote control system with common devices, such as 2D devices, is helpful to control the robots anytime and anywhere as intended. Hand-drawn…
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Scenario Orchestration for Closed-loop Policy Evaluation of Autonomous Driving
arXiv cs.RO (Robotics)
arXiv:2611.09888v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Scenario-based simulation is central to evaluating autonomous-driving policies, but a scenario scripted before execution (i.e., with predetermined, fixed actor routes and speeds) may not…
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A wearable input/output interface learns personalized models of haptic perception
arXiv cs.RO (Robotics)
arXiv:2611.09708v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Wearable haptic interfaces deliver physical stimuli to the skin, yet perceived locations vary widely across users and diverge from actuator locations, particularly for emergent…
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LACART: Lookahead-Augmented Collision Avoidance and Reference Tracking Strategies for Safety-Critical Robots
arXiv cs.RO (Robotics)
arXiv:2611.09640v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous racing provides a demanding testbed for collision avoidance under tight geometric and computational constraints. Building on a recent conference contribution and a master's…
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Extended Model-Based Learned Inertial Odometry
arXiv cs.RO (Robotics)
arXiv:2611.09584v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Inertial odometry is a compelling approach to state estimation for agile quadrotor flight due to its affordability, low weight, and robustness to perceptual degradation. However, relying only…
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Mechanical Interaction Sensing for Robotic Kiwifruit Handling with an Optoelectronic Soft Suction Cup
arXiv cs.RO (Robotics)
arXiv:2611.09468v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robotic handling of delicate fruit benefits from compliant contact and quantitative sensing of the mechanical interaction at the end-effector. This study investigates an optoelectronic soft…
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MDF++: Visuo-Tactile World Action Model with End-to-end Representation Learning
arXiv cs.RO (Robotics)
arXiv:2611.09293v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recently, world-action models (WAMs) have emerged as a powerful framework for robot manipulation. By jointly modeling action generation and future observation prediction, WAMs can act and…
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EGT: Execution-Grounded Traversability through Learned Closed-Loop Trajectory Distributions
arXiv cs.RO (Robotics)
arXiv:2611.09270v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Rough terrain traversability is often estimated through point-wise roll, pitch, or force-angle margins along a planned path. However, these metrics are often inaccurate and overly…
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TPS-A*: Path Planning for Any-Shape Vehicles with Certified Collision Checking in Trajectory Parameter Space
arXiv cs.RO (Robotics)
arXiv:2611.09210v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Global planners for ground vehicles usually approximate the vehicle by a disk, trading safety against conservativeness, while exact-footprint checking pays for every candidate motion, pose…
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Safe Circumnavigation on Heterogeneous Orbits: A Range-Only HOCBF-QP Framework for Nonholonomic Multi-Agent Systems
arXiv cs.RO (Robotics)
arXiv:2611.09112v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Circumnavigating a stationary target with a team of robots requires each robot to hold its own standoff distance, to stay evenly spaced from its neighbours, and to avoid collisions with the…
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When to Trust the BIM: Identifiability-Aware LiDAR-Inertial--BIM Fusion under As-Built Deviations
arXiv cs.RO (Robotics)
arXiv:2611.09045v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Building information models (BIM) can provide a global geometric reference for robot localization with LiDAR-inertial odometry (LIO). However, as-built deviations from the as-designed model…
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HOC2R: Hand-Object Contact Trajectories for Human-to-Robot Motion Transfer
arXiv cs.RO (Robotics)
arXiv:2611.08920v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Human videos contain abundant object-manipulation demonstrations, but they do not directly provide motion cues that a robot can follow. We present HOC2R, a Hand-Object Contact trajectory…
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DexHOT: Learning Hand-Object Configuration Transfer for Dexterous Manipulation
arXiv cs.RO (Robotics)
arXiv:2611.05119v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Dexterous manipulation involves not only moving objects, but also arranging the hand around them to maintain useful contacts and enable subsequent actions. Yet many learning-based systems…
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Lodos: A Lightweight Simulator Designed for Contact-Rich Interactions with Detailed Meshes
arXiv cs.RO (Robotics)
arXiv:2611.08872v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In recent years, massively parallelized rigid-body simulation has played a central role in robotics research, enabling rapid progress in areas such as reinforcement learning, stochastic…
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VICTR: Value-Informed In-Context Learning for Vision-Language-Action Models
arXiv cs.RO (Robotics)
arXiv:2611.08698v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advances in robot foundation models have highlighted the potential of in-context learning (ICL) for adapting robot behavior from demonstrations without further fine-tuning. Previous…
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Localizing and Editing the Goal Representation of a Vision-Language-Action Model
arXiv cs.RO (Robotics)
arXiv:2611.08895v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Operators can state safety constraints for robots as prohibitions such as "do not put the bowl on the stove". We study whether OpenVLA follows such prohibitions and where it represents the…
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Multi-bounce Drum Roll with Optimized Active Tricks to Leverage Soft Embodiment
arXiv cs.RO (Robotics)
arXiv:2609.08490v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: This paper presents a soft robotic drummer for accurate and efficient drum rolls. High-frequency drum rolls require the "multi-bounce technique," where a drumstick bounces multiple times…
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EvoPlan: Evolutionary Neuro-Symbolic Robot Planning with Spatio-Temporal Guarantees
arXiv cs.RO (Robotics)
arXiv:2607.06724v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: LLM-based robot planners are fluent but cannot guarantee that their plans are executable or safe. Classical PDDL planners can guarantee symbolic validity, but only once the problem is…
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DexTeleop-0: Force-Aware Bimanual Dexterous Teleoperation with Ego-Centric Perception towards Shared Autonomy
arXiv cs.RO (Robotics)
arXiv:2606.23431v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Fine-grained, bimanual dexterous manipulation remains a foundational challenge in robotics. Embodiment gaps hinder accurate kinematic mapping, and visual tracking alone does not regulate…
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ARM Institute consortium grows to more than 500 organizations
The Robot Report
The annual ARM Institute member meeting takes place in Pittsburgh. Source: ARM Institute The Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing, or ARM Institute last week said that that its member consortium has grown to include more than 500…