ROBOTS
The dice my hands roll: how diffusion policies learned to vote on a move
KeyStone and DSSP both fight the brittleness of diffusion-based robot action policies — judge-free consensus sampling and full-history conditioning, explained.
One sparse factor, three passes: DiffPhD rewires the soft-body solver stack
DiffPhD, a GPU differentiable solver, stays stable at 100x stiffness contrast and runs 10x faster — bringing gradient-based form-finding to the AEC desk.
The cheapest tactile sensor is a camera you already own
EgoTouch infers contact, force and pressure from egocentric video — no tactile hardware at inference. Inside the systems move behind scalable robot touch.
TypeScript breaks into the robot-software stack — Flue, Mastra, and the DACH read
Flue and Mastra ship TypeScript agent runtimes in 2026 — and the robot-software dependency graph just shifted. Read it carefully before you commit.
ROS 2 Lyrical Luth lands with 2031 support — the robot-software topology shifted
ROS 2 Lyrical Luth lands with support to 2031 as OpenHarmony, LeRobot, and humanoid factories redraw the robot-software dependency graph for DACH labs.
Truss that grabs: VTT's hybrid control collapses the structure-actuator boundary
VTT's new hybrid control turns truss structures into manipulators — one static equilibrium model does the work of three controllers. PAZ on robot topology.
A Few-Shot PINN Reconstructs a 6-DoF Robot — What's Your Real Dependency Graph?
A May 2026 arXiv paper hits under 1% shape error on a 6-DoF concentric-tube robot with few-shot data. Why your Python robotics stack matters now.
MAGS-SLAM: many cameras, no LiDAR — collaborative Gaussian mapping and its ETH Zurich roots
The first RGB-only multi-agent Gaussian Splatting SLAM lets cheap cameras co-map a site without LiDAR — with a build kit and its ETH Zurich roots.
Edge AI Gets a Brain: Self-Adaptive MEC Architectures for Human-Robot Workflows
arXiv:2604.13542v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The growth of compute-intensive AI tasks highlights the need to mitigate the processing costs and improve performance and energy efficiency. This necessitates the integration of intelligent agents as architectural adaptation superv
FCBV-Net: The Robot That Finally Learns to Smooth Any Shirt, Not Just One
arXiv:2508.05153v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Category-level generalization for robotic garment manipulation, such as bimanual smoothing, remains a significant hurdle due to high dimensionality, complex dynamics, and intra-category variations. Current approaches often stru