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#robotics Preprint Aug 2026

WAM-OPD: On-Policy Distillation for World Action Models

WAM-OPD, a deployment-consistent post-training recipe for a video-first WAM, is introduced and it is suggested that dense teacher supervision on student-induced histories is a promising post-training interface for video-first WAMs.

Liu Yang, Zhuang Jiang, Chenchao Sheng et al. · 2 citations
#computer vision Preprint Aug 2026

GlanceWAM: Sparse Test-Time Imagination for World-Action Models

GlanceWAM is introduced, which decouples imagination from control within a single video DiT: an asynchronous proposer glances ahead on a slow clock to imagine a single lookahead frame seconds into the future in the background, while an action head decodes action chunks at control rate purely in latent space without blo...

Lin-Han Wang, Zi-Jian An, Mingyuan Zhang et al. · 3 citations
#robotics Jul 2026

World Action Planner: Generalizable Decision-Making with Action-Conditioned World Models

This work proposes World Action Planner, a robot planning system that leverages the reasoning capabilities of Vision-Language Models (VLMs) and the physical grounding of a multi-task pose-image conditioned world model, significantly outperforming state-of-the-art end-to-end policy models such as VLAs and WAMs.

Xiangcheng Zhang, Yilun Du · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Aug 2026

LM-X: Explainable Vision--Language--Action Modeling via Progress, Event, and Uncertainty Prediction

LM-X is introduced, which organizes prediction across task, event, and motor scales without claiming anatomical correspondence and shows that explicit multi-timescale predictive state can strengthen control while exposing interpretable internal estimates.

Jin Lou, Zhi Jing, Xu-Peng Wang et al. · 0 citations
#computer vision Jul 2026

Semantic Anchoring for Robotic Action Representations

This work examines whether a robot's action representations preserve the semantic structure captured by pretrained encoders and introduces a plug-and-play method that anchors action representations to a semantic manifold while decomposing representations into a shared semantic channel and a private channel, all discard...

Yuan Xu, Youheng Shi, Chengyang Li et al. · 0 citations
#robotics Preprint Jul 2026

FleetScape: A Mixed Reality Sandtable for Spatial Supervision and Control of Scalable Drone Fleets

This work presents FleetScape, a Mixed Reality (MR) sandtable system that externalizes layered real-time mission, safety, and environmental data while enabling fluid transitions between manual intervention and autonomous supervision and shows that FleetScape supports situational awareness through layered spatial repres...

Peisen Xu, Jérémie Garcia, Peter Cleveland et al. · 0 citations
#robotics Open access Feb 2026

Ethical Asymmetry in Human-Robot Interaction – An Empirical Test of Sparrow’s Hypothesis

It is found that the MPA significantly influenced the PMPA and perceived virtue scores, and the best-fitting model to describe the relationship between PMPA and PVS was cubic, which is symmetrical in nature.

Min-Ying Wang, Christoph Bartneck, Michael-John Turp et al. · 0 citations

FlowCorrect: Efficient Interactive Correction of Generative Flow Policies for Robotic Manipulation

The results clearly demonstrate that FlowCorrect learns from very few demonstrations and enables fast, sample-efficient, incremental, human-in-the-loop corrections of generative visuomotor policies at deployment time in real-world robotics.

Edgar Welte, Yitian Shi, R. Wolf et al. · 4 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Aug 2026

Macro-Operator Generation and Predicate Selection for TAMP Operator Learning

This system discovers causally linked action pairs directly from the training data, where one action produces exactly the condition that the next one requires, and turns each pair into a new operator, and not only accelerates planning but, in certain domains, determines solvability in practice.

Can Emir Bora, Emre Ugur · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Aug 2026

Meta-Ctrl: Guaranteed Plan Generation by Decoupling Syntactic and Semantic Constraints

Meta-Ctrl is proposed, a constrained-decoding framework that guarantees the encoded constraints while preserving the base LM's plan quality, and is demonstrated on a real tabletop robot, where every generated plan satisfies its preconditions and goals by construction.

Gwen Yidou-Weng, Edward Sun, Tian-Yi Ma 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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