Robotics has traditionally used modular pipelines. Perception, planning, and control sit in separate systems and connect through hand-tuned interfaces. This approach works for simple, well-defined ...
Xiaomi is best known for smartphones, smart home gear, and the occasional electric vehicle update. Now it wants a place in robotics research too. The company has announced Xiaomi-Robotics-0, an ...
To be useful in more dynamic and less structured environments, robots need artificial intelligence trained on a variety of sensory inputs. Microsoft Corp. today announced Rho-alpha, or ρα, the first ...
"We manufacture time by making robots useful." LAS VEGAS, Jan. 6, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- At Sharpa, our mission is to build robots that are useful in our daily lives. We believe robots should help us ...
Abstract: In this paper, for manipulating flexible objects, e.g., connecting a grounding wire with the power line, in live-maintaining of power substations, we propose an action-level vision-language ...
Instructions for cuda 12.8 (Nvidia 50-- series cards): To get started with loading and running OpenVLA models for inference, we provide a lightweight interface that leverages HuggingFace transformers ...
Safely achieving end-to-end autonomous driving is the cornerstone of Level 4 autonomy and the primary reason it hasn’t been widely adopted. The main difference between Level 3 and Level 4 is the ...
VITRA is a novel approach for pretraining Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models for robotic manipulation using large-scale, unscripted, real-world videos of human hand activities. Treating human hand as ...