Waymo expands its coverage area in San Francisco and LA by 80 square miles each, bringing its total coverage area in California to 250 square miles (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/688202/waymo-sf-la-service-area-expand-robo…
Dynamic Collaborative Material Distribution System for Intelligent Robots In Smart Manufacturing
Ziren Xiao, Ruxin Xiao, Chang Liu, Xinheng Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11723
from my link log —
ai.robots.txt: A list of AI agents and robots to block.
https://github.com/ai-robots-txt/ai.robots.txt
saved 2025-01-16
Gondola: Grounded Vision Language Planning for Generalizable Robotic Manipulation
Shizhe Chen, Ricardo Garcia, Paul Pacaud, Cordelia Schmid
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11261
Bedrock Ocean, which has developed an autonomous underwater vehicle to map the ocean floor using sonar and magnetic sensors, raised a $25M Series A-2 (Tim De Chant/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/10/bedrock-ocean-dredges-u…
Robotic System for Chemical Experiment Automation with Dual Demonstration of End-effector and Jig Operations
Hikaru Sasaki, Naoto Komeno, Takumi Hachimine, Kei Takahashi, Yu-ya Ohnishi, Tetsunori Sugawara, Araki Wakiuchi, Miho Hatanaka, Tomoyuki Miyao, Hiroharu Ajiro, Mikiya Fujii, Takamitsu Matsubara
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.…
Pittsburgh-based Gecko Robotics, which makes robots to inspect infrastructure, raised a $125M Series D at a $1.25B valuation, up from $633M in December 2023 (Ian Thomas/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/12/gecko-robotics-…
Control Architecture and Design for a Multi-robotic Visual Servoing System in Automated Manufacturing Environment
Rongfei Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11387
ExoStart: Efficient learning for dexterous manipulation with sensorized exoskeleton demonstrations
Zilin Si, Jose Enrique Chen, M. Emre Karagozler, Antonia Bronars, Jonathan Hutchinson, Thomas Lampe, Nimrod Gileadi, Taylor Howell, Stefano Saliceti, Lukasz Barczyk, Ilan Olivarez Correa, Tom Erez, Mohit Shridhar, Murilo Fernandes Martins, Konstantinos Bousmalis, Nicolas Heess, Francesco Nori, Maria Bauza Villalonga