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#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Sep 2026

WetRobo: A Reproducible Robot Kit for Coding Agents in Biological Laboratories

Automating biological research requires general-purpose, reproducible robot systems that allow individual wet-lab researchers to delegate robot tasks without performing teleoperation or neural-network training. Vision-language-action policies have been proposed for general-purpose arms, but can lose performance when th...

Yuna Oikawa, Kei Endo, Takanori Uzawa et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Missing Bridges: Composition-Aware Active Imitation Learning

This work introduces Adaptive Agents via Latent Topologies (AALT), which requests demonstrations that maximize expected gains in start-goal connectivity and shows that this objective is formally tied to information gain about task reachability.

M. Jacobson, A. H. Qureshi, Ye-Xiang Xue · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Imitation Learning for Autonomous Driving in CARLA

This work studies how much closed-loop driving competence a compact multimodal policy can acquire from offline demonstrations in the CARLA simulator, and reports offline metrics and distinguish measured results from qualitative closed-loop observations.

Jordy Kieto · 1 citation

QDTraj: Exploration of Diverse Trajectory Primitives for Articulated Objects Robotic Manipulation

This paper automatically generates different robot low-level trajectory primitives to manipulate given object articulations and proposes a method based on Quality-Diversity algorithms that leverages sparse reward exploration in order to generate a set of diverse and high-performing trajectory primitives for a given man...

Mathilde Kappel, Mahdi Khoramshahi, Louis Annabi et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Sep 2026

SafeFlow: Real-Time Text-Driven Humanoid Whole-Body Control via Physics-Guided Rectified Flow and Selective Safety Gating

Recent advances in real-time interactive text-driven motion generation have enabled humanoids to perform diverse behaviors. However, kinematics-only generators often exhibit physical hallucinations, producing motion trajectories that are physically infeasible to track with a downstream motion tracking controller or uns...

Hanbyel Cho, Sang-Hun Kim, Jeonguk Kang et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

FluxVLA Engine: A One-Stop VLA Engineering Platform for Embodied Intelligence

FluxVLA Engine is presented, an open, configuration-driven platform that turns heterogeneous embodied-policy components into a reproducible data-to-deployment workflow and targets the engineering bottlenecks separating promising embodied-learning algorithms from reproducible evaluation and dependable deployment.

Yin-Hao Li, Wei-Xin Mao, Zi-Han Lan et al. · 3 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

ProxiDex: Learning Dynamics-Guided Proximity Policy for Dexterous Manipulation

ProxiDex is presented, a dynamics-guided proximity policy framework that treats hand-object proximity as an interaction state for dexterous manipulation, and adaptively reweights proximity tokens across manipulation phases and uses dynamics-consistency supervision to guide policy inference, stabilizing action generatio...

Yu-Shan Bai, Bo-Yu Zheng, Zhi-Yang Mao et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

UDAV: Uncertainty-Driven Adaptive VLM Waypoint Planner

UDAV, an Uncertainty-Driven Adaptive VLM Waypoint Planner for UAV-guided UGV navigation is presented, demonstrating that stochastic VLM predictions provide both a stronger nominal route and an actionable uncertainty signal for selectively mitigating large planning errors.

G. Farhani, Shabnam Shabani · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

AssemblyGrid v1: A Benchmark for Multi-Robot Production with Temporary Coalitions, Local Information, and Geometric Constraints

AssemblyGrid v1 is introduced, a reproducible benchmark for repeated multi-robot production that combines explicit process progression, decentralized observations, material transfer, temporary multi-robot coalitions, productive concurrency, and geometry-dependent feasibility within one task-level formulation.

Fouad Bahrpeyma, David Heik, Dirk Reichelt · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Bridging Learned Visual Perception and Symbolic Belief-Space Planning

A third paradigm is introduced, VLM-as-probabilistic-grounder, a novel approach that captures the uncertainty of VLM predicate groundings as a probability distribution over symbolic states that enables planning in belief space and producing robust plans under uncertainty.

Guy Azran, Michael Navat, Sarah Keren · 1 citation

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MIT News · Artificial Intelligence Nov 5, 2026

Clearing up a robot’s fuzzy memory

A new system identifies and corrects unreliable object descriptions stored in a robot’s memory, improving the robot’s ability to interact with its environment.

Google DeepMind Blog Oct 13, 2026

Gemini 4 Argon for Robotics

Discover Gemini 4 Argon for robotics: leading the ERQA benchmark with physical reasoning, zero-shot control, Real2Sim, and agentic workflows.

Microsoft Research Blog Sep 23, 2026

Offloaded inference for real-world physical AI robotics

Robots are getting smarter, but how can their hardware match that growth? New Microsoft Research findings show that moving AI inference beyond the robot can improve task success, boost efficiency, and support more advanced physical AI workloads. The post Offloaded inference for real-world physical AI robotics appeared first on Microsoft Research.

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