Robotics

Astribot Hits Billion-Dollar Valuation After Rapid Series B Close

Shenzhen-based embodied AI startup Astribot has become the latest Chinese robotics company to achieve unicorn status, closing a Series B...

Vbot Delivers First Robot Dog to Horizon Robotics Founder, Marking Consumer Embodied AI Milestone

Embodied AI company Vbot delivered its first robot dog to Horizon Robotics founder Dr. Yu Kai, becoming the first personal user of the...

COMPUTEX 2026 Highlights Taiwan’s Pivotal Role in Global AI Industry Transformation

COMPUTEX 2026 highlights key applications spanning AI servers, edge computing, robotics, automation, smart mobility, next-generation...

DAIMON Robotics Wants to Give Robot Hands a Sense of Touch

This article is brought to you by DAIMON Robotics . This April, Hong Kong-based DAIMON Robotics has released Daimon-Infinity , which it...

Q-FE: A Quantum-Native 6G Far-Edge Architecture Securing Industrial IoT Digital Twins via CSIDH-PQC and Asynchronous Federated Learning

arXiv:2606.03611v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Sixth-generation (6G) wireless networks will underpin ultra-dense Industrial IoT...

JAKA Robotics Unveils Compact 1.22m Humanoid Robot JAKA Pi for Education and Service

JAKA Robotics, a Shanghai-based company headquartered in the Minhang District's Dalian Bay innovation hub, has launched the JAKA Pi, a...

Unitree Files for IPO, Aiming to Become 'First Embodied Intelligence Stock'

Unitree Technology, a globally leading high-performance general-purpose robotics company, is set to have its initial public offering...

JD.com Unveils 'Wolf Pack' Robot Matrix at World Intelligent Industry Expo

JD.com showcased its comprehensive "Wolf Pack" robot matrix at the 2026 World Intelligent Industry Expo, covering aerial, ground, and...

Pudu Robotics eyes Hong Kong listing amid geopolitical risks

Proposed Chinese Robot Ban Is Latest U.S. Tech Sovereignty Move

The American Security Robotics Act, a bipartisan bill introduced in March by Senators Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) and Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and...

“Data, not hardware, is the real bottleneck in humanoids”: Matrix Robotics CEO Allen Zhang

The hum of ambition at BEYOND Expo 2026 makes for a fitting backdrop to a conversation about machines that walk, grasp, and think. e27...

AI is not replacing jobs, it is quietly redefining how much one person is expected to do

We were told technology would save time. For decades, every major productivity breakthrough came with the same promise: automation would...

From Korea to ASEAN: 10 startups building bridges at Echelon Singapore 2026

As Southeast Asia’s startup and investment ecosystem continues to expand, GBSA, Gyeonggido Business & Science Accelerator, is bringing...

The algorithmic realignment of global FMCG strategy: How agentic AI is rewriting the cola wars

The integration of artificial intelligence within digital marketing is rapidly moving beyond simple operational automation and entering...

Too Much of a Good Thing: When sim2real Efforts Impede Policy Learning (And What to Do About It)

arXiv:2606.02636v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While sim2real efforts are necessary for effective policy transfer to hardware, there is...

Fixed-Time Dynamic Landing of Quadrotors using Adaptive Unscented Kalman Filtering and Nonlinear Model Predictive Control

arXiv:2606.02658v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper introduces an estimation and control framework for dynamic landing of...

Motion Planning in Dynamic Environments: A Survey from Classical to Modern Methods

arXiv:2606.02677v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Motion planning in dynamic environments requires robots to continuously adapt their...

See Less, Specify More: Visual Evidence Budgets for Generalizable VLAs

arXiv:2606.02735v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generalization remains a central bottleneck for vision-language-action (VLA) models:...

SeeTraceAct: Visibility-Aware Latent Planning from Cross-Embodiment Demonstration Videos

arXiv:2606.02745v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language-action models (VLAs) are promising general-purpose robot policies, but...

Hybrid Adaptive Kalman Filtering for Data-Efficient Joint Tracking and Classification

arXiv:2606.02767v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Kalman filtering performance is highly sensitive to model mismatch and noise covariance...

Direct Informed Sampling on Riemannian Manifolds via Loewner Order Lower Bounds

arXiv:2606.02879v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Informed sampling techniques accelerate sampling-based motion planners by focusing the...

Impact of a Soft Wearable Back-Support Device on Postural Stability during Trip-Like Perturbations

arXiv:2606.02888v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The effectiveness of a soft wearable back-support device in enhancing postural stability...

Improved Postural Stability Using a Lightweight Semi-Active Soft Back Support Device Under Standing Perturbations

arXiv:2606.02928v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Older adults are particularly susceptible to falls following perturbations during...

SCOPE: Real-Time Natural Language Camera Agent at the Edge

arXiv:2606.02951v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deploying language-driven agents in robotics requires evaluations that reflect...

Hybrid Dynamics Modeling for a Flexible 2-DoF Robotic Arm

arXiv:2606.02969v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper examines three approaches for modeling the dynamics of a flexible-link 2-DoF...

MARIO: Motion-Augmented Real-Time Multi-Sensor Inertial Odometry

arXiv:2606.02996v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Inertial odometry (IO) using only Inertial Measurement Units (IMUs) provides a...

ModuLoop : Low-Level Code Generation using Modular Synthesizer and Closed-Loop Debugger for Robotic Control

arXiv:2606.03047v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive performance across various...

TTT-VLA: Test-Time Latent Prompt Optimization for Vision-Language-Action Models

arXiv:2606.03127v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models trained on large-scale data have made remarkable...

How Visible Are Silent Manipulation Failures? An Observability Study of False-Success Detection in Simulated Robot Episodes

arXiv:2606.03134v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Imitation-learning policies for robot manipulation inherit the quality of the success...

ConTrack: Constrained Hand Motion Tracking with Adaptive Trade-off Control

arXiv:2606.03177v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Human demonstrations provide strong priors for robot manipulation, yet it is non-trivial...

GeoSem-WAM: Geometry- and Semantic-Aware World Action Models

arXiv:2606.03188v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent World Action Models (WAMs) have demonstrated impressive capabilities in embodied...

Toward Gripper-Integrated Active Electrosense for Pre-Contact Sensing in Underwater Soft Grippers

arXiv:2606.03204v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Underwater manipulation often occurs under degraded visibility due to turbidity, glare,...

BotDirector: Robot Storytelling Across the Symmetrical Reality with Multi-modal Interactions

arXiv:2606.03223v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robot storytelling offers a unique blend of technological innovation and creative...

GeoAlign: Beyond Semantics with State-Guided Spatial Alignment in VLA Models

arXiv:2606.03240v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Current Vision--Language--Action (VLA) models often optimize for semantic grounding,...

AirDreamer: Generalist Drone Navigation with World Models

arXiv:2606.03252v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Navigating a drone in unseen and cluttered environments requires reliable generalization...

EaDex: A Cross-Embodiment Dexterous Manipulation Framework from Low-Cost Demonstrations

arXiv:2606.03268v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Dexterous manipulation learning has long been hindered by the high costs of data and...

SplitAdapter: Load-Aware Humanoid Loco-Manipulation via Factorized Adaptation

arXiv:2606.03297v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Humanoid loco-manipulation requires stable whole-body control under varying object...

RobotValues: Evaluating Household Robots When Human Values Conflict

arXiv:2606.03312v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While household robots are often evaluated based on task completion, everyday domestic...

GPU-Parallel Multi-Task Reinforcement Learning with Demonstration Guided Policy Optimization

arXiv:2606.03335v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large scale GPU-parallel reinforcement learning has changed what can be trained in robot...

Autonomous Navigation System for Library Service Robot Based on Unitree Go2 Edu

arXiv:2606.03340v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Libraries require autonomous robots to move quietly through narrow aisles while...