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Pursuit-evasion is the 3D, multi-agent version of tag, where matching who chases whom decides the outcome, and a new GitHub release gives the field the shared benchmark it has been improvising without.
A preprint steers deep neural network navigation testing toward regions where an explainability method called Integrated Gradients flags the model as least confident, finding more transferable failures than blind search on a LeoRover small wheeled
The arXiv preprint merges equality and inequality constraints into one geometry. The paper reports 100% on its own test suite, with hard collision checks still separate.
A simulation study finds 2-3 replanning rounds deliver nearly the same coverage as a fully adaptive drone, 15x faster, at a 12% cost premium.
Auterion's vendor-neutral tube array decouples the airframe from the box, packs 30% more drones into the same volume, and lets militaries swap suppliers without replacing the launcher.
Pegasus 1.6, TwelveLabs' first egocentric video model, reads first-person footage from a worker-mounted camera to extract the grip, slip-recovery, and tool-interaction cues today's robots still miss.
Tel Aviv startup FireDome opens US operations with a ground-based autonomous launcher that lays retardant firebreaks before fire crews arrive.
The Sept. 22 grant to XTEND lets a payload sensor request course changes, alter the operator's display, or trigger defensive maneuvers, while the operator keeps mission-critical authority.
Teradyne, the semiconductor test and robotics company, takes a strategic stake in Bright Machines to wire its collaborative robots into AI and data center production.
Blocking new foreign-made robots is forcing deployers to decide where the AI actually runs: on the device, or in someone else's cloud.
Safeworld runs thousands of simulated humans at a robot's control software before it meets a real one, a verification layer the AI-driven robot era will need built.
ProAct, a vision-language-action model, anchors each action chunk in the robot's last motion and a predicted future frame. Reported as an arXiv preprint, not yet peer-reviewed.