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#robotics Preprint Sep 2026

A Robot Among People:From Social Imitation to the Social Becoming of Human Groups

This work understands robots in public spaces not in terms of autonomy or intelligence, but as a relational capacity, which implies designing robots not in the authors' image or for their utility, but grounded in their needs in being and becoming together.

Victor Tuan Vu Pham, Judith Dörrenbächer, Thomas H. Weisswange et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Mar 2026

An Empirical Markov Chain Car-Following (MC-CF) Model

The proposed Markov Chain Car-Following (MC-CF) model provides a robust and scalable foundation for simulating population-level stochastic traffic behavior that requires no behavioral parameter calibration, making it well-suited for the data-rich future of intelligent transportation.

Sungyong Chung, Yanlin Zhang, Nachuan Li et al. · 0 citations

AnyView: Synthesizing Any Novel View in Dynamic Scenes

It is found that most baselines drastically degrade in performance, as they require significant overlap between viewpoints, while AnyView maintains the ability to produce realistic, plausible, and spatiotemporally consistent videos when prompted from $\textit{any}$ viewpoint.

Basile Van Hoorick, Dian Chen, Shun Iwase et al. · 12 citations · ⚡1
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

VertexCBF: Improving Neural Control Barrier Functions via Vertex-Restricted Control Search

This paper approximate the stationary Hamilton--Jacobi value function using a neural network trained via a combination of physics-informed and sparsely supervised learning and proposes VertexCBF, a framework for learning neural CBFs in a scalable, systematic, and explainable way.

Bojan Derajić, Sebastian Bernhard, Wolfgang Hönig · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

Efficient Vision-Language-Action Management and Serving for Robot Factories

Robion is designed, the first VLA serving and management system for multi-robot, multi-model requests on multi-GPU edge servers that meets SLOs and enables flexible model placements on multi-GPU servers, and integrates an intelligent traffic controller.

Dionysios Adamopoulos, Nattapol Chanpaisit, Basel Fakhri et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Sep 2026

Scenario-Independent Criticality Assessment and Prediction for Vulnerable Road Users in Autonomous Driving

Increasing safety is the primary objective of automated vehicles. Achieving this goal requires reliable safety metrics that incorporate safety-relevant factors such as object type, velocity, and criticality. A key capability of such metrics is the distinction between critical and non-critical objects, which is addresse...

J\"org Gamerdinger, Victor Schwarzenberger, Philipp Schmid et al. · 0 citations

PhysCodeBench: Benchmarking Physics-Aware Symbolic Simulation of 3D Scenes via Self-Corrective Multi-Agent Refinement

The Self-Corrective Multi-Agent Refinement Framework is proposed, which decouples physics-aware error correction from code generation through specialized agents and nearly triples the physical-assertion pass rate of the best proprietary baseline and retains its advantage under cross-engine transfer.

Tianyidan Xie, Pei-Yu Wang, Jia-Xin Hu et al. · 7 citations · ⚡2

OA-NBV: Occlusion-Aware Next-Best-View Planning for Human-Centered Active Perception on Mobile Robots

Occlusion-Aware Next-Best-View Planning for Human-Centered Active Perception on Mobile Robots (OA-NBV), an occlusion-aware NBV pipeline that autonomously selects the next traversable viewpoint to obtain a more complete view of an occluded human.

Bo Hu, Chang-Ming Chang, J. Ge et al. · 4 citations · ⚡1
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2025

DropVLA: An Action-Level Backdoor Attack on Vision-Language-Action Models

DropVLA is presented, an action-level backdoor attack that forces a reusable action primitive to execute at attacker-chosen decision points under a realistic pipeline-black-box setting with limited data-poisoning access, using a window-consistent relabeling scheme for chunked fine-tuning.

Zong-Huan Xu, Jiayu Li, Yun-Han Zhao et al. · 5 citations
#artificial intelligence Conference Open access Mar 2025

FLOAT Drone: A Fully-actuated Coaxial Aerial Robot for Close-Proximity Operations

How to endow aerial robots with the ability to operate in close proximity remains an open problem. The core challenges lie in the propulsion system’s dual-task requirement: generating manipulation forces while simultaneously counter-acting gravity. These competing demands create dynamic coupling effects during physical...

Jun-Xiao Lin, Shuhang Ji, Yu-Ze Wu et al. · 12 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

ASTRIL-MPC: Autonomous Traversal Framework of Articulated Tracked Robots with Language-Guided Neural-Kinematic MPC

In urban search and rescue, articulated tracked robots (ATRs) must traverse structured but contact-rich environments such as stairwells and cluttered building interiors. Reliable autonomy remains challenging because robot-terrain interaction (RTI) is hybrid and discontinuous, and effective flipper-track coordination is...

Zhe Gan, Yan-Bo Chen, Li-Rong Che 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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