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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…

Exclusive: Bedrock Ocean dredges up $25M to map the seafloor with robots | TechCrunch
Bedrock Ocean wants to use autonomous underwater vehicles to make mapping the seafloor faster and cheaper.

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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

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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

Dynamic Collaborative Material Distribution System for Intelligent Robots In Smart Manufacturing
The collaboration and interaction of multiple robots have become integral aspects of smart manufacturing. Effective planning and management play a crucial role in achieving energy savings and minimising overall costs. This paper addresses the real-time Dynamic Multiple Sources to Single Destination (DMS-SD) navigation problem, particularly with a material distribution case for multiple intelligent robots in smart manufacturing. Enumerated solutions, such as in \cite{xiao2022efficient}, tackle t…

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Gondola: Grounded Vision Language Planning for Generalizable Robotic Manipulation
Shizhe Chen, Ricardo Garcia, Paul Pacaud, Cordelia Schmid
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11261

Gondola: Grounded Vision Language Planning for Generalizable Robotic Manipulation
Robotic manipulation faces a significant challenge in generalizing across unseen objects, environments and tasks specified by diverse language instructions. To improve generalization capabilities, recent research has incorporated large language models (LLMs) for planning and action execution. While promising, these methods often fall short in generating grounded plans in visual environments. Although efforts have been made to perform visual instructional tuning on LLMs for robotic manipulation,…

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-…

Gecko Robotics raises $125 million in deal valuing critical infrastructure startup over $1 billion
Gecko Robotics, which uses robots and AI to inspect and monitor critical infrastructure, has raised a $125 million, bringing its valuation to $1.25 billion.

Waymo temporarily limits service in SF, Austin, and Atlanta, and stops service in LA, as US cities prepare for protests against federal immigration policies (Aarian Marshall/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/ahead-of-protests-waymo-adjusts…

Ahead of Protests, Waymo Scales Back Robotaxi Service Nationwide
A week after five robot cars were burned in Los Angeles, the Google sister company isn’t taking risks.

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.…

Robotic System for Chemical Experiment Automation with Dual Demonstration of End-effector and Jig Operations
While robotic automation has demonstrated remarkable performance, such as executing hundreds of experiments continuously over several days, it is challenging to design a program that synchronizes the robot's movements with the experimental jigs to conduct an experiment. We propose a concept that enables the automation of experiments by utilizing dual demonstrations of robot motions and jig operations by chemists in an experimental environment constructed to be controlled by a robot. To verify t…

Control Architecture and Design for a Multi-robotic Visual Servoing System in Automated Manufacturing Environment
Rongfei Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11387

Control Architecture and Design for a Multi-robotic Visual Servoing System in Automated Manufacturing Environment
The use of robotic technology has drastically increased in manufacturing in the 21st century. But by utilizing their sensory cues, humans still outperform machines, especially in micro scale manufacturing, which requires high-precision robot manipulators. These sensory cues naturally compensate for high levels of uncertainties that exist in the manufacturing environment. Uncertainties in performing manufacturing tasks may come from measurement noise, model inaccuracy, joint compliance (e.g., el…

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

ExoStart: Efficient learning for dexterous manipulation with sensorized exoskeleton demonstrations
Recent advancements in teleoperation systems have enabled high-quality data collection for robotic manipulators, showing impressive results in learning manipulation at scale. This progress suggests that extending these capabilities to robotic hands could unlock an even broader range of manipulation skills, especially if we could achieve the same level of dexterity that human hands exhibit. However, teleoperating robotic hands is far from a solved problem, as it presents a significant challenge …