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#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Comfort by Construction: Adaptive, Comfort-Bounded Action Spaces for Learned Driving Policies

Data-driven driving simulators command accelerations and steering rates from a fixed grid without constraining the realized accelerations and jerks. As a result, reinforcement-learning policies inflate safety metrics through abrupt, last-second maneuvers that lie far outside the range of human driving and would be unac...

Anna Rothenhäusler, Daniel Jost, Raghu Rajan et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

UniPart: Towards Zero-shot Language-Grounded 3D Part Segmentation for Embodied Interaction

UniPart, a feed-forward cross-modal 3D Transformer that conditions CLIP text embedding, is introduced, a feed-forward cross-modal 3D Transformer that achieves strong zero-shot results on open-vocabulary part benchmarks and transfers to language-conditioned part grasping in real world.

Xinqiang Yu, Zekun Qi, Jia-Wei He et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Sep 2026

A Multi-Vehicle Dataset with Camera, LiDAR, and Radar Sensors and Scanned 3D Models for Custom Auto-Annotation using RTK-GNSS

Datasets are a crucial element in the development of perception algorithms. They relate sensor measurement data to annotated reference information and allow for the deduction of sensor and object characteristics. In autonomous driving, the reference data commonly consist of semantic image segmentation, point-wise assoc...

Philipp Berthold, Bianca Forkel, Mirko Maehlisch · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

IMPLY: Physically Anchored Consistency for World-Model Rollouts

IMPLY reads the physics each rollout implies by inverting a simulator and scores a set of rollouts by how well one object explains all of them, anchored to two calibration pushes the model has observed, and shows that this is not enough.

Aman Mehta, Riya Baviskar · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Amortized Low-Rank Adaptation for Model-Based Reinforcement Learning

CLAW (Context-conditioned Low-rank Adaptation of World models), which addresses the problem of adapting a world model to an unknown test-time environment, drawn from a known environment family, using only a few episodes of interaction by using a hypernetwork to generate low-rank adapters at test time.

Fernando Palafox, David Fridovich-Keil · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Pelican-Sim 1.0: A General World Model Simulator for Embodied Intelligence

In this technical report, we propose Pelican-Sim 1.0, a general world model simulator for embodied intelligence that predicts future observations from visual context and robot actions to support downstream learning and decision making. The model incorporates four key design features: (1) Unified action representation:...

Shi-Long Zou, Shi-Lin Zhang, Yingji Zhang et al. · 1 citation
#artificial intelligence Open access Sep 2026

Decentralized Evolution of Hexapod Gaits with Independent Leg Controllers

This paper presents a novel approach to hexapod locomotion by evolving each leg's gait independently through a decentralized evolutionary algorithm, reducing the complexity of gait optimization and highlighting the potential of decentralized strategies for scalable and adaptive robotic systems.

Gary B. Parker, J. Asaro, Jim O'Connor · 0 citations
#robotics Preprint Aug 2026

SHRIMP: Iterative Refinement of Robot Task Plans

SHRIMP is introduced, a system that allows users to automatically generate a hierarchical robot primitive plan using natural language and iteratively revise their plan through re-prompting and explicit correction, and once satisfied, execute it on the physical robot.

Mya Schroder, Yuna Hwang, Callie Y. Kim et al. · 0 citations
#robotics Preprint Aug 2026

ValueFormer: A Causal Transformer Value Function with Stage-Aware Labels for Semi-Autonomous Vision-Language-Action Policies

ValueFormer is presented, a compact policy-agnostic causal transformer over a frozen DINOv3 backbone that emits two per-frame signals in one forward pass: a smooth Monte Carlo value, V_mc, for advantage estimation and a sharp binary value for online mistake detection, targets that pull in opposite directions by design.

Inkyu Sa, Konstantin Stulov, Rajat Bhageria · 1 citation
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

ActSafeGuard: Differentiable and Training-Aligned Constraint Enforcement for Flow-Matching Policies

ActSafeGuard is introduced, a differentiable and training-aligned safeguard layer for flow-matching based policies that integrates hard action feasibility into policy learning, not merely treating safety as an inference-time external component.

Jian-Ming Ma, Rong-Jun Jin, Xia-Xi Si 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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