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#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

2AM: Grounding Agent-Side Memory as Guidance for Steerable Action Models in Long-Horizon Manipulation

2AM shows that task memory can remain Agent-side and shows that Action Model capability depends not only on what the policy has learned, but on how precisely the Agent can steer it, and isolates this question through a deliberately constrained design.

Yu-Tong Hu, Feng Chen, Xue-Zhi Cao et al. · 2 citations · ⚡2
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

A Mathematical Theory of Pragmatic Information

We propose a mathematical theory of pragmatic information that connects communication, control, and decision-making. Its central notion is the isoteleia mapping, which formalizes equifinality: distinct semantic paths that lead to the same optimal action are treated as pragmatically equivalent. This mapping yields a thr...

Kai Niu, Ping Zhang · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

ReactHuman: A Physics-Grounded Benchmark for Human-Like Reactive Decision-Making in Embodied Multimodal LLMs

Reacting to sudden physical hazards is both a meaningful test of embodied intelligence and a hard requirement for deploying multimodal large language models (MLLMs) as the decision core of household robots, and ReactHuman is the first physics-grounded benchmark for human-like reactive decision-making.

Yi-Zhan Li, Jian-Xing You, Meng-Yang Xiong et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Aug 2026

Self-Evolving Embodied Agents via Skill-Harness Evolution

This work proposes SHAPER, a self-evolving framework for train-free embodied adaptation that keeps model parameters frozen and improves the non-parametric agent system by evolving reusable skills and a context-code harness through target-environment rollouts.

Pei-Dong Wang, Zhiming Ma, Ying Chang et al. · 7 citations · ⚡1

Wiggle and Go! System Identification for Zero-Shot Dynamic Rope Manipulation

This work introduces Wiggle and Go!, a two-stage framework for zero-shot rope manipulation: a brief, safe wiggle action is observed to predict descriptive rope parameters, which then conditions a trajectory optimizer for zero-shot goal-conditioned execution.

Arthur Jakobsson, Abhinav Mahajan, Karthik Pullalarevu et al. · 1 citation · ⚡1
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Organizational Principles Enable Collective Intelligence in Embodied AI

Collective intelligence depends not only on the capabilities of individual members, but also on how those members are organized. Yet artificial multi-agent systems are typically assembled using fixed organizational structures, even when the physical tasks they perform impose fundamentally different coordination require...

Zheng-Ran Ji, J. Hyun, Bo-Yuan Chen · 1 citation
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

Reflex-Informed Neuromuscular Reinforcement Learning for Muscle-Driven Locomotion

Muscle-driven locomotion provides a physically grounded approach to generating realistic human movement. However, achieving both physiological plausibility and adaptability to changes in musculoskeletal capacity and external disturbances remains a fundamental challenge. To address this limitation, we propose a Reflex-I...

Jian Zhou, Xing-Yu Zhang, Rui Ma et al. · 1 citation
#machine learning Preprint Open access Sep 2026

ObstaDiff: Generalizable Diffusion Policy Learning via Obstacle-aware Representations

Imitation learning has achieved impressive results in robotic manipulation, yet most existing approaches assume clean backgrounds and lack explicit mechanisms for obstacle-aware motion generation. Extending such policies to cluttered, real-world scenes with unstructured obstacles remains a key generalization challenge....

Jiawen Wang, Kevin Yao, Khalid Jawed · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

HuRo: Robotizing Human Videos for Scalable VLA Pretraining

A robotization pipeline is developed that converts heterogeneous human videos into robot-aligned observations and action trajectories while inferring missing intermediate signals across annotation levels and constructs the HuRo dataset, comprising about 630K robotized episodes and 142M processed frames from five human-...

Jinho Jeong, Se June Joo, Jaehyun Kang et al. · 2 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Topological Necessities: Mechanism-Invariant Strategic Subgoals for Cross-Embodiment Goal-Conditioned Control

This work studies a route-conditioned order of unavoidable stages that every successful executor must traverse, recoverable from offline trajectories and belonging to none of them: a route-conditioned order of unavoidable stages that every successful executor must traverse.

Hao Shi, Xi Li · 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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