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Published August 19, 2026

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2026-08-16 ~ 2026-08-19 · 63 top Robotics stories. Click a title to open the source.

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2026-08-19🇺🇸 Robotics TomorrowroboticsA3 and Mahoning County Career & Technical Center Expand Access to No-Cost Robotics Training in Ohio
2026-08-19🇺🇸 Robotics TomorrowroboticsElectromate Makes the Case for Hands-On Robotics Education with Dobot

2026-08-19🌐 The Robot ReportroboticsFORT Robotics to take safety stack public via SPAC merger

2026-08-18🇺🇸 IEEE Spectrum RoboticsTrade pressDrones With Claws Perch on Arctic Icebergs

2026-08-18🇺🇸 Robotics TomorrowroboticsTrossen Robotics and Stereolabs, an Ouster Subsidiary, Partner to Put High-Fidelity Stereo Vision at the Heart of Physical AI Data Collection

2026-08-18🇺🇸 Robotics TomorrowroboticsLG ELECTRONICS ACCELERATES ROBOTICS COLLABORATION WITH NVIDIA

2026-08-18🌐 The Robot ReporthumanoidUnichem acquires Loomia to accelerate entry into the humanoid ‘skin’ market

2026-08-18🇺🇸 Robotics TomorrowroboticsFORT Robotics to Go Public via Business Combination with Newbury Street II Acquisition Corp to Advance the Safety of Physical AI

2026-08-18🌐 arXiv cs.ROrobotModeling and Control of an Eel-Inspired Soft Robot for Design Optimization

2026-08-18🌐 arXiv cs.ROrobotReal-time Estimator of Actuator Control and Health (REACH) on an Eel-Inspired Soft Robot

2026-08-18🌐 arXiv cs.ROSLAMGeometry-Aware Online Mapping for 3D Gaussian Splatting SLAM

2026-08-18🌐 arXiv cs.ROrobotSkillComposer: Learning Reusable Skills for Natural-Language Robot Programming

2026-08-18🌐 arXiv cs.ROSLAMHP2-SLAM: Adaptive Hybrid ICP for Robust and Efficient LiDAR SLAM

2026-08-18🌐 arXiv cs.ROrobotNPU Offloading of a Frozen Visual Encoder for Robot Policy Training

2026-08-18🌐 arXiv cs.ROSLAMMotionGS-SLAM: Event-Modulated Gaussian Splatting for Motion-Blur Robust SLAM

2026-08-18🌐 arXiv cs.ROrobotMax-Q Selective Imitation for Human-in-the-Loop Online Robot Learning

2026-08-18🌐 arXiv cs.ROrobotGUIDER: Evaluating Goal-Free Human Intent Inference for Teleoperated Manipulation on Real-Robot Data

2026-08-18🌐 arXiv cs.ROrobotDetachable Wire Drive : Reconfigurable Robot Architecture with Shared Actuators

2026-08-18🌐 arXiv cs.ROroboticsVision-Based Tactile Intelligence for Robotics: Sensing, Learning, and Embodied Manipulation

2026-08-18🌐 arXiv cs.ROrobotMistyPilot: Enabling Social-Robot Control through Multi-Agent LLM Skill Orchestration

2026-08-18🌐 arXiv cs.ROautonomousNot All History Helps: Velocity-Aware Selective Memory for Long-Horizon End-to-End Autonomous Driving

2026-08-18🌐 arXiv cs.ROhumanoidTac4Loco: Learning Spatiotemporal Plantar Pressure Representations for Humanoid Locomotion

2026-08-18🌐 arXiv cs.ROrobotGrouping Auction-Consensus Algorithm for Decentralized Task Allocation in Multi-Robot Systems

2026-08-18🌐 arXiv cs.ROroboticsRevisiting Open-Loop Execution in Robotics: Toward Reactive, Higher-Performing Policies

2026-08-18🌐 arXiv cs.ROrobotLearning Varying Physical Therapist-Patient Interactions for Robot-mediated Upper Limb Task-Specific Training

2026-08-18🌐 arXiv cs.ROrobotSurgVIL: Scaling Surgical Robot Imitation Learning with Open-source Surgical Videos

2026-08-18🌐 arXiv cs.ROhumanoidRoboStriker: Latent-Space Strategic Games for Autonomous Humanoid Boxing

2026-08-18🌐 arXiv cs.ROrobotRobot-Body-Aware Traversal Risk Graph Planning for Wheeled-Legged Robots in Complex Terrain

2026-08-18🌐 arXiv cs.ROrobotThrowing a Tight Spiral American Football by a Humanoid Robot

2026-08-18🌐 arXiv cs.ROrobotDesign Optimization for Large High-Force Soft Robot Manipulators Under Gravitational Loads

2026-08-18🌐 arXiv cs.ROrobotAdaptive Repulsive Pheromone Clustering for Foraging Robot Swarms

2026-08-18🌐 arXiv cs.ROhumanoidHAF: Adapting Generalist VLAs to Humanoid Whole-Body Loco-manipulation via Hierarchical Action Flow and Spectral Latent RL

2026-08-18🌐 arXiv cs.ROrobot$\tau_0$-VLA: a Hierarchical Robot Foundation Model with World-Model-Guided Test-Time Computation

2026-08-18🌐 arXiv cs.ROrobotDon't Drop the BATON: Long-Horizon Robot Manipulation via Agentic Subtask Exploration and Transition-aware Memory

2026-08-18🌐 arXiv cs.ROrobotFollowUpBot: An LLM-Based Conversational Robot for Automatic Postoperative Follow-up

2026-08-18🌐 arXiv cs.ROactuatorAdmissibility-Preserving Control for Strict-Feedback Nonlinear Systems with Asymmetric Actuator Constraints

2026-08-18🌐 arXiv cs.ROrobotPluralistic Human-Robot Interaction: Designing for Robot Interaction with Diverse Communities

2026-08-18🌐 arXiv cs.ROrobotFully distributed and resilient source seeking for robot swarms

2026-08-18🌐 arXiv cs.ROrobotTwo by Two: Learning Multi-Task Pairwise Objects Assembly for Generalizable Robot Manipulation

2026-08-18🌐 arXiv cs.ROrobotRelay-Based Coordination for Energy-Efficient Multi-Robot Pickup and Delivery

2026-08-18🌐 arXiv cs.ROrobotDiSA-IQL: Offline Reinforcement Learning for Robust Soft Robot Control under Distribution Shifts

2026-08-18🌐 arXiv cs.ROrobotTowards a Unified Understanding of Robot Manipulation: A Comprehensive Survey

2026-08-18🌐 arXiv cs.ROrobotEmbodied Robot Manipulation in the Era of Foundation Models: Planning and Learning Perspectives

2026-08-18🌐 arXiv cs.ROhumanoidRoboMirror: Understand Before You Imitate for Video to Humanoid Locomotion

2026-08-18🌐 arXiv cs.ROrobotMiDAS: A Multimodal Data Acquisition System and Dataset for Robot-Assisted Minimally Invasive Surgery

2026-08-18🌐 arXiv cs.ROrobotGrounding Robot Generalization in Training Data via Retrieval-Augmented VLMs

2026-08-18🌐 arXiv cs.ROhumanoidLearning Versatile Humanoid Manipulation with Touch Dreaming

2026-08-18🌐 arXiv cs.ROrobotEvoScene-VLA: Evolving Scene Beliefs Inside the Action Decoder for Chunked Robot Control

2026-08-18🌐 arXiv cs.ROautonomousMulti-Agent Embodied Autonomous Driving (MAEAD): From V2X Information Exchange to Shared World Models

2026-08-18🌐 arXiv cs.ROrobotThe functional and temporal roles of gaze evolve across the phases and constraints of multi-stage robot-mediated manipulation

2026-08-18🌐 The Robot ReportroboticsFive years of operation shape Diligent Robotics rollout of Moxi 2.0

2026-08-18🌐 The Robot ReportrobotSurgeons use da Vinci surgical robot to perform common cardiac surgery

2026-08-18🌐 Mobile Robot GuideroboticsWetour Robotics works to scale Orchestra physical AI for warehouses

2026-08-18🌐 The Robot ReportrobotHow Generalist uses human demonstration data for robot learning

2026-08-18🇺🇸 IEEE Spectrum RoboticsTrade pressIs Shipyard Welding the Right First Job for Humanoid Robots?

2026-08-17🇺🇸 Robotics TomorrowroboticsReshaping the Physical World: Gravis Robotics Raises $200M for Construction Autonomy

2026-08-17🇺🇸 Robotics TomorrowroboticsDiligent Robotics, a Serve Robotics Company, Begins Rolling Out Moxi 2.0

2026-08-17🇺🇸 Robotics TomorrowrobotServe Launches Robot Delivery with Wonder, Adding Grubhub to Its Growing Delivery Network

2026-08-17🇺🇸 Robotics TomorrowdroneUber and Zipline Partner to Bring Drone Delivery to Millions of Americans Share

2026-08-17🇺🇸 Robotics TomorrowhumanoidSeeing Machines launches Physical AI Platform to power the next generation of humanoid robots

2026-08-17🌐 The Robot ReportautonomousGravis Robotics raises $200M for autonomous construction

2026-08-17🇨🇳 Unitree RoboticsrobotUnitree New Robot Preview: “Superman” Breaking the Limits of Humanity

2026-08-16🌐 The Robot ReportroboticsHow robotics is revolutionizing stroke rehabilitation