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#robotics Jul 2026

What Can Latent World Models Know? Physical Parameter Identifiability in Multimodal Predictive Representations

A central premise of latent world models is that predicting the future forces a representation to internalize the physics of its environment. Which physical quantities does a trained latent actually contain, and what decides this? We answer with controlled interventions in POKEWORLD, an interactive environment whose vi...

Kai-Zhen Tan, Xin Xu, Siru Tao et al. · 2 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Jul 2026

MEMORA: Embodied Action Memory from Egocentric Videos for Reasoning and Planning

The overall results show that editable, consolidated memory can supply remembered context for robot planning, and full MEMORA--combining editing, typed stores, and consolidation--achieves the strongest aggregate results among the evaluated memory conditions.

Zihao Yu, Xiu Yuan, Chongjie Zhang · 0 citations
#robotics Preprint Open access Aug 2026

CoToGrasp: Contact-Topology-Conditioned Dexterous Grasp Synthesis via Canonical Workspace Learning

CoToGrasp is a novel generative framework that synthesizes diverse, stable grasps strictly conditioned on specific contact topologies, and introduces a feature-based canonical workspace that projects local object features into a unified gripper-centric domain, effectively decoupling the semantic functional intent from...

Julien Mérand, Boris Meden, Li-Ming Chen et al. · 1 citation
#robotics Preprint Aug 2026

Evidence-Gated Task and Motion Planning with Vision-Language Models

Evidence Acquisition and Feasibility Gating (EAFG) is proposed, a framework that acquires visual evidence through VLM-generated exploratory subgoals and TAMP-based execution and applies a feasibility gate to decide whether to proceed with task planning, acquire further evidence, or halt.

Tsunehiko Tanaka, Matthew Stephenson, Alistair Macvicar et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Jul 2026

Mission-Level Runtime Assurance for LLM-Assisted ISR Swarms over a Verification-Aware Fabric

Swarms of LLM-assisted autonomous robots are increasingly proposed for cooperative intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) in contested environments. A growing class of their assurance failures arises not within any single platform but across the swarm: individually-compliant actions compose into a mission...

Nikolaos Kekatos, Stylianos Basagiannis, Panagiotis Katsaros et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Aug 2026

Efficient Dynamic Shielding for Parametric Safety Specifications

Shielding has emerged as a promising approach for ensuring safety of AI-controlled autonomous systems. The algorithmic goal is to compute a shield, which is a runtime safety enforcement tool that needs to monitor and intervene the AI controller's actions if safety could be compromised otherwise. Traditional shields are...

Davide Corsi, Kaushik Mallik, Andoni Rodriguez et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Aug 2026

Thinking in a Low-Resource Language: What SFT Builds, What RL Fixes, What Accuracy Cannot See

Take three frontier mixture-of-experts models (Alibaba, OpenAI, NVIDIA; 3.6-4.0B active parameters each) and fine-tune them to reason in a low-resource language. On accuracy benchmarks almost nothing happens, and the benchmark itself is noise at this scale: changing only the random seed moves the score by 7.7 points, m...

Ayoub Kirouane, Christos Petrocheilos · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Aug 2026

Iterative Grasp Pose Refinement: A Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach for 2D Vision

A reinforcement learning-based framework for robotic grasp refinement, integrating keypoint-based object representations with a Deep Q-Network (DQN), is proposed, offering a scalable and adaptable solution for contact-rich manipulation tasks.

Amir Arsalan Nematollahi, Shayan Ahmadi, M. T. Masouleh et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Aug 2026

Communication Reduction via Semantic-Based Encoding in DMPC Using LSTMs

This work employs encoder-decoder networks built around long-short term memory (LSTM) cells in a distributed optimization algorithm that allows unprecedented reconstruction accuracy or the usage of different prediction-horizon lengths without the necessity to retrain.

Torben Schiz, P. H. Nardelli, Henrik Ebel · 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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