Category
1,589 papers
Hierarchical multi-robot exploration decouples frontier allocation from local navigation, making systems brittle in dynamic environments. Without awareness of execution difficulty, allocators may send robots toward frontiers whose routes are congested or unsafe, causing bottlenecks, oscillatory replanning, and redundan...
Trajectory optimization is a cornerstone of modern robot autonomy, enabling systems to compute trajectories and controls in real-time while respecting safety and physical constraints. However, it has seen limited usage in spaceflight applications due to its heavy computational demands that exceed the capability of most...
SceneBloom is introduced, an agentic framework that combines visual layout sampling with contract-guided 3D compilation that attains the highest visual quality and physical stability among the compared methods and is the only method with no detected mesh collisions and out-of-bounds objects.
Robust reinforcement learning (RL) is critical for reliable real-world deployment, where policies may fail under diverse shifts and disruptions. Existing robust RL algorithms offer a rich set of mechanisms and principles, yet two major barriers limit their broader potential: limited algorithm reusability and an unclear...
Reach audiences
Advertise in front of researchers, engineers, and readers.
Collecting high-quality demonstrations remains a central bottleneck for learning dexterous manipulation. Teleoperation records executable robot actions, but it requires a complete robot setup and places the burden of coordinating many finger joints on the operator. Human demonstrations are easier to collect, but their...
Navigating complex, high-dimensional biological search spaces necessitates scalable physical and computational intelligence to explore beyond local optima through iterative self-play across ideation, experimentation, and automation. Translating experimental designs into reliable physical execution remains bottlenecked...
Unrecognized anomalies in critical infrastructure can rapidly cascade into catastrophic physical or operational failures. Current anomaly detection approaches often rely on direct access to the monitored system by utilizing onboard sensors, such as motor encoders, to detect anomalous states. However, legacy hardware of...
Inspired by infants' ability to learn novel tasks by imitating others, in this work we evaluate to what extent Conditional Neural Processes can autonomously learn representations of actions that are informative about their underlying goal. We show that the addition of an attention mechanism in the hidden space fosters...
Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have emerged as powerful general-purpose robot policies, but their successes and failures remain difficult to diagnose and understand. In this work, we show that sparse autoencoder (SAE) representations of OpenVLA activations contain outcome-predictive information and can be used to...
Long-horizon robot tasks require retaining and using past information. We integrate Test-Time Training (TTT), which stores context in fast weights, into InternVLA-A1 and Pi0.5 to study action generation conditioned on human demonstrations through training on paired demonstrations and robot trajectories. We implement me...
Safe Evidential Real-World Reinforcement Learning (SEVI), a framework for reliability-aware safety intervention during real-world policy learning, is proposed and an Evidential Safety Critic is introduced that estimates both future constraint-violation risk and epistemic uncertainty in a single forward pass.
Preference-based reinforcement learning (PbRL) has emerged as a promising paradigm for learning robot behaviors aligned with human intent. However, its scalability is fundamentally limited by the need to collect expensive human preference labels for every new task. In this work, we present PrefO2O, an offline-to-online...
A Blog post by Ai2 on Hugging Face
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.
Discover Gemini 4 Argon for robotics: leading the ERQA benchmark with physical reasoning, zero-shot control, Real2Sim, and agentic workflows.
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.
A Blog post by Amazon on Hugging Face
We use cookies to run the site and, with your consent, for analytics and to show ads. See our Cookie Policy.
