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#robotics Jul 2026

From Language to Navigation Goals: A Vision-Language Approach for Semantic Navigation of Mobile Robots Using RGB-D Perception

Experimental results show that the framework successfully interprets both direct commands and contextual requests, generates meaningful natural-language feedback, and navigates towards the desired target.

Jose Martínez-Fajardo, Pablo Pueyo, F. Caballero et al. · 0 citations
#robotics Review Aug 2026

ConfAL-WM: Confidence-Guided Active Learning for Action-Conditioned World Models

Experiments on RoboTwin2.0 show that confidence-guided selection improves post-training efficiency, while dense frame and patch weighting further enhances prediction quality and embodied trajectory consistency compared with scalar reward, progress, and judge-based scoring baselines.

Xiang Liu, Kun Wu, Miao Liu et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Aug 2026

Adaptation of Generalist Robot Policies with Minimal Data

A central goal in robot learning is to move beyond task-specific human data collection toward robots that improve through autonomous interaction. Yet fully autonomous learning remains difficult with current policies: sparse rewards and weak zero-shot exploration make it unlikely that a robot will discover successful be...

Shreyas Kowshik, Sreyas Venkataraman, L. Wang et al. · 1 citation
#robotics Jul 2026

VIA: Visual Interface Agent for Robot Control

This work presents VIA (Visual Interface Agent for robot control), a framework that recasts robot control as an agentic task: an off-the-shelf FM-powered agent drives a manipulator through a browser-based 3D interface by taking screenshots, issuing intuitive commands, observing the outcome, and adjusting.

Hengyuan Hu, Priya Sundaresan, Jensen Gao et al. · 4 citations
#robotics Preprint Jul 2026

Jetson-PI: Towards Onboard Real-Time Robot Control via Foresight-Aligned Asynchronous Inference

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have achieved impressive performance on diverse embodied tasks. However, deploying VLA models on low-power onboard devices, such as the Jetson Orin, remains challenging due to their high computational complexity, which leads to substantial inference latency and low control frequency....

Zebin Yang, Qi Wang, Yun-He Wang et al. · 1 citation
#machine learning Preprint Aug 2026

Fine-Tuning VLAs with Self-Demonstrated Generative Control for Multi-Task Manipulation

This paper proposes a self-supervised method that generates online interaction rollouts from the zero-shot VLA as additional training data for finetuning and demonstrates the success of this approach across test sets probing generalization on a real ALOHA robot and a new simulation benchmark in RoboTwin.

Prachi Garg, Steve Xing, Prahit Yaugand et al. · 0 citations

GaP: A Graph-as-Policy Multi-Agent Self-Learning Harness For Variational Automation Tasks

Graph-as-Policy (GaP) is introduced, a multi-agent coding harness that generates directed computation graphs with perception, planning, and control nodes from a Modular Open Robot Skill Library (MORSL), and can achieve success rates that significantly outperform baselines.

Kai-Peng Chen, Shuang-Yu Xie, Letian Fu et al. · 2 citations
#robotics Jul 2026

PACE: Persona Adaptation through Conversational Elicitation in Human-Robot Interaction

PACE (Persona Adaptation through Conversational Elicitation), a novel framework for the interactive generation and deployment of structured personas on the Ameca humanoid robot, introduces an Interactive Persona Elicitation Pipeline, enabling the robot to dynamically synthesize a tailored, psychologically grounded iden...

Peizhen Li, Longbing Cao, Megani Rajendran et al. · 0 citations
#robotics Preprint Aug 2026

Feelium: A Touchable Blimp Body for Aerial Telepresence

Feelium is a blimp-based telepresence platform that enables visual embodiment and touch interaction through its inflatable skin that turns the skin into a shared surface between remote and co-located partners.

George Xi Wang, Heng-Hao Li, Shan Lin et al. · 0 citations
#computer vision Jun 2026

RoboTrustBench: Benchmarking the Trustworthiness of Video World Models for Robotic Manipulation

It is found that current models often generate visually coherent videos, but struggle with constraint reasoning, counterfactual grounding, physical interaction, and unsafe-instruction suppression, and results show that visual quality and surface-level instruction following are insufficient for trustworthy robotic video...

Huiqiong Li, Jia-Yu Wang, Zhiting Mei et al. · 4 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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