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#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Weave: Learning Whole-Body Dexterous Loco-Manipulation from Human-Object Interactions

Weave is presented, a unified framework for learning whole-body dexterous humanoid-object interaction from captured human demonstrations that converts captured human-object interactions into executable robot-object references through contact-aware retargeting and approach-motion completion.

Liu Cao, Xing-Ze Wu, Jing-Zhi Cui et al. · 2 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

The Neverwhere Visual Parkour Benchmark Suite

The Neverwhere Benchmark Suite is developed, comprised of over sixty 3D Gaussian Splatting reconstructions of urban indoor and outdoor scenes, to encourage large-scale and reproducible robot evaluation by making it easier to create and integrate Gaussian splats-based reconstructions into simulated continuous testing se...

Zi-Yu Chen, Henghui Bao, Hao-Ran Chang et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Aug 2026

EMODY Flow: Emotion-Aware Audio-Driven Full-Body Motion Generation

This work presents EMODY Flow, a lightweight flow-matching framework that attaches to a frozen Qwen-3 Omni model and reuses its internal Mimi audio-codecs to condition two parallel DiT generators - one for SMPL-X body pose, one for FLAME facial expressions.

H. Agarwal, Xavier Alameda-Pineda, Olivier Perrotin · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

ENCP: Episode-Normalized Conformal Prediction for Vision-and-Language Navigation

Episode-Normalized Conformal Prediction (ENCP) is proposed, which rescales a nonconformity score by the policy's residual confidence and calibrates one maximum score per episode and can provide model-agnostic uncertainty estimates, which might be useful for determining when a VLN agent should defer to a more capable pr...

Vicky Feliren, A. Asyhari, Muhamad Risqi U. Saputra · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

Learning Options for Compositional Motor Control with Adapter Banks

The ability to generalize to novel motor sequences within the closed-loop control setting is demonstrated, improving on the generalization error of a task-input-conditioned multitask baseline by upto order of magnitude.

Sreejan Kumar, M. Mattar, Lea Duncker · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

Autonomous Droplet Navigation via Model-Based Reinforcement Learning

Precise manipulation of liquid droplets underpins lab-on-a-chip platforms for diagnostics, chemical synthesis, and biological assays. Yet autonomous droplet transport through confined geometries of varying complexity remains an open challenge. Droplets exhibit contact-angle hysteresis, deformability, and capillary pinn...

Rajneesh Anand, M. Kothare · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Sep 2026

STAGE: Diagnosing Semantic Transfer at Grounded Execution in Embodied Agents

Embodied language grounding requires more than identifying the referent of an instruction: recovered semantics must also control the action an agent exposes. We study this missing link as a semantic-action gap, where instruction semantics are recoverable but weakly expressed in native continuous actions. We introduce S...

Baosheng Jin, Yushen Liang, Hua Shen · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

A Personalized Dynamic Balance Evaluation Paradigm for Hip Exoskeleton-Assisted Walking under Unexpected Ground Perturbations

Hip exoskeletons may improve recovery from unexpected gait perturbations, yet personalizing assistance remains difficult because balance is multidimensional and human-in-the-loop experiments are small-sample and noisy. We present a participant-specific composite balance cost that integrates seven biomechanical sub-metr...

Yun Chen, Oluwasegun Akinniyi, Qiang Zhang · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

Learning Multi-Agent Task Assignment and Navigation in the Factory: from Simulation to Real Robots

Feature-fusion Multi-Agent Proximal Policy Optimization (FMAPPO) is proposed, which fuses 2D LiDAR measurements with task-specific state information to enable safe decentralized multi-robot task assignment and navigation and demonstrates that the learned decentralized policies can coordinate multiple robots to service...

A. Abdalwhab, Giovanni Beltrame, David St-Onge · 0 citations
#machine learning Open access Jun 2026

S3-Tracker: Self-Supervised Surgical Tissue Tracking With Contrastive Random Walks

This work proposes a self-supervised Track-Any-Point approach that learns from unlabeled surgical videos by establishing global pixel correspondences and inferring point trajectories through contrastive random walks, and achieves performance comparable to existing semi-supervised approaches while implicitly handling ti...

Jiaming Zhang, Zi-Jian Wu, Mehran Armand et al. · 0 citations

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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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