Robotics & embodiment

TouchBridge: Tactile-Conditioned Human-to-Robot Transfer for Dexterous Manipulation

Robotics & embodiment · preprint

Human demonstrations offer an efficient and scalable source of data for dexterous robot manipulation, but differences in sensing and hand morphology complicate the transfer of

RoboAtom: Large-scale Atomic-Action Supervision for Robot Learning

Robotics & embodiment · preprint

Fine-grained action annotations can support skill reuse and compositional generalization in robot policies. However, robot datasets typically provide task-level instructions without subtask annotations. Although some

PhysVLMM: Interaction-Conditioned Physical Belief Maps for Articulated Objects in Robot Scene Maps

Robotics & embodiment · preprint

Mobile robots must open doors and drawers, yet their scene maps record what each object is and whether it has moved, not how it will

LLM-guided Planar Loco-Manipulation for Quadruped Robots

Robotics & embodiment · preprint

Robotic navigation typically assumes a collision-free route to the goal exists; in cluttered environments with movable obstacles, however, reaching the goal may require physical interaction.

Securing the Robotics Supply Chain

Robotics & embodiment · preprint

This paper sets out what a sustained federal research and investment agenda would need to include to close that gap--not within a single budget cycle,

A Conveyor Belt Mechanism for Repositionable Magnetic Coupling Between Continuum Robots

Robotics & embodiment · preprint

This work proposes a novel conveyor belt mechanism enabling continuous, active repositioning of functional elements along the body of a tendon-driven continuum robot. Up to

Learning Safe Flow Matching Robot Policies from Binary Feasibility Oracles

Robotics & embodiment · preprint

Robot foundation models increasingly rely on flow-based action generation for general-purpose manipulation, yet the generated actions are not guaranteed to satisfy physical constraints such as

SwapBot: Tool-Centric Robot Manipulation via Interchangeable End-Effectors and Tactile Sensing

Robotics & embodiment · preprint

Robot manipulation in everyday environments inherently involves substantial tool usage. Seemingly simple household tasks, such as cooking pan-fried tofu, require forceful cutting, delicate brushing, and

MUSBRIC: LEGO-Compatible Pneumatic Muscle Bricks for Reconfigurable Musculoskeletal Robots

Robotics & embodiment · preprint

Musculoskeletal robots combine compliant actuators with articulated skeletons, but exploring alternative configurations often requires repeated fabrication. We present MUSBRIC, a modular hardware platform and accompanying

Genie 4: A new generation of world simulation

Robotics & embodiment · provider_announcement

Genie 4: our new world model unlocking unprecedented realism in real-time simulation.

Gemini 4 Argon for Robotics

Robotics & embodiment · provider_announcement

5 Steps to Create SimReady Assets for Robotics with Frontier AI Models

Robotics & embodiment · primary_technical_publication

Preparing CAD assets for robotics simulation requires more than converting geometry to OpenUSD: developers must configure and validate materials, collision...