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#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

TOPS: Reshaping Flow Source and Transport for Multi-Task Robot Manipulation

Flow-based policies for language-conditioned multi-task manipulation commonly share a single $\textit{Gaussian}$ source prior and a common linear transport path across tasks. However, reliably executing multiple tasks with distinct motion requirements remains challenging for a shared policy. We introduce $\textbf{TOPS}...

Tuo An, Chuhao Zhou, Jiahua Dong et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

REACH: An RL-based Hierarchical Humanoid Crawling Framework for Adaptable Confined Space Traversal

Humanoid locomotion in confined spaces requires continuous height adaptation across multiple locomotion modes, yet most existing approaches remain limited to height-adjustable bipedal walking. We present REACH, an RL-based hierarchical framework that enables a Unitree G1 humanoid to traverse height-constrained environm...

Shengzhang Xu, Yuning Guo, Weiyi Hu et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

RoboAuto: Autonomous Robot Program Search through Multi-Level Physical Understanding

This work introduces RoboAuto, a framework for robot program search that explicitly organizes physical understanding at the object, scene, and interaction levels through three components and shows that the knowledge base transfers across simulators and embodiments, and that program search performance scales with its si...

Bu-Zhao Liu, Jia-Ning Ye, Xiu Yuan et al. · 1 citation
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

HIDRA: Hierarchical Dual-Routing Attention for Replay-Free Lifelong Imitation Learning

Robotic agents operating in real-world environments must adapt continuously from a stream of multimodal demonstrations, often under constraints that preclude storing or revisiting past data. In this replay-free, single-pass lifelong imitation learning setting, sequential updates can progressively distort the representa...

Fanqi Yu, Matteo Tiezzi, Cigdem Beyan et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

cuArms: GPU-Accelerated Conflict-Based Planning for Multi-Arm Manipulation

Multi-arm manipulation has the potential to dramatically improve the throughput, efficiency, and dexterity of many manipulation tasks. Recent work coordinates multiple robot arms in a shared workcell by allocating and scheduling tasks for greater parallelism, jointly planning multi-arm motions, or directly learning mul...

Philip Huang, Fabio Ramos, Jiaoyang Li et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Rollback: Experience Backtracking in World Models for Policy Improvement

This work introduces Rollback, a policy improvement paradigm that turns world models from passive simulators into counterfactual engines, and builds a scalable training system that unifies distributed world-model search with asynchronous real-robot execution, forming a self-reinforcing cycle.

Jia-Yi Luo, Yang Zhang, Li-Liang Chen et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Polarity--Time Interaction and Multi-Level Reliability for Event-Based Spacecraft Pose Estimation

Sparse event responses produce uneven keypoint errors whose effects on spacecraft pose depend on correspondence geometry and the reliability of successive observations. We present a reliability-aware framework connecting polarity--time localization, geometric recovery, event--CAD refinement, and trajectory optimization...

Yonglong Zhang, Zongwu Xie, Yang Liu · 0 citations
#robotics Preprint Oct 2026

Making Self-Driving Laboratories Auditable:A Unified Framework for Hybrid Actions,Measurements, and Safe Execution

Self-driving laboratories (SDLs) are laboratory systems that couple experimental planning, automated execution, and measurement feedback in a closed loop. Integrating flexible robot control with the typed application programming interfaces (APIs) and continuous measurements exposed by laboratory instruments remains an...

Zi-Han Zhang, Ze-Yu Wu, Xin Zhang et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

ArrayTac: A Closed-Loop Piezoelectric Tactile Platform for Continuously Tunable Rendering of Shape, Stiffness, and Friction

Human touch depends on the integration of shape, stiffness, and friction, yet existing tactile displays cannot render these cues together as continuously tunable, high-fidelity signals for intuitive perception. We present ArrayTac, a closed-loop piezoelectric tactile platform that simultaneously renders these three tac...

Tianhai Liang, Shiyi Guo, Baiye Cheng et al. · 0 citations
#robotics Preprint Oct 2026

Revisiting Direct Control: A Field Evaluation of Sensor Fusion Efficacy in Teleoperating Full-Scale Autonomous Vehicles via Bird's Eye View

In autonomous driving, robot teleoperation serves as a critical safety fallback mechanism, requiring operators to assume direct control in the event of system failure. While recent research has pivoted toward high-level supervisory control or simulation-based studies, these approaches often fail to capture the physical...

Stanisław Kuczma, S. Tadeja, Michał R. Nowicki · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

From Language to Drives: A Multimodal Framework for Aligning Autonomous Robots with Human Purposes

This work explores a multimodal approach to the alignment of the behavior of open-ended learning autonomous robots with human purposes through the use of large language models as cultural enablers. While autonomous robots can generate their own skills and goals through interaction with the environment, they often lack...

Diana Cerdas-Vargas, Alejandro Romero, Richard J. Duro · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

High-resolution tactile observation makes hidden racket-control mechanisms learnable

Experts can master fine hand-object manipulation skills, yet limited conscious perception of rapid tactile interactions hinders their ability to articulate the underlying control mechanisms. Badminton racket control requires rapid, fine hand-force coordination, providing a demanding testbed for uncovering these mechani...

Haoyang Tian, Zhengwei Li, Houcheng Li 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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