PrT-Flow (Probability-Tractable Flow Matching), which computes probability density while retaining multimodal, multi-step action generation, and demonstrates that invertible networks with tractable probability densities can learn effective robot policies and support SAC-style actor-critic training.
World action models (WAMs) are a category of policy models that ex- plicitly predict both actions and future world states. They have been shown to outperform action-only models across various robotic manipulation tasks. How- ever, representing the future with full-frame video prediction can be computation- ally expensi...
Qin-Xi Yu, Wen-Zhou Ding, Gloria X. Wang et al.· 0 citations
Evaluating VLA policies on real robots is costly, time-consuming, and difficult to reproduce, making real-to-sim simulation essential for scalable evaluation. While 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) enables rapid real-to-sim scene generation, the reconstruction quality required for reliable policy evaluation remains unquant...
Hiroki Nishizawa, Takehiko Ohkawa, Nicola Scianca et al.· 0 citations
Autonomous quadrotor flight in cluttered environment is an key capability for tasks like inspection and search. Navigation policies trained in simulation and transferred to hardware can fly at high speed in open space, but they can still collide as obstacle clearance shrinks. We attribute most of these collisions to a...
Aditya Azad, Arthur Huang, Guan-Rui Li· 0 citations
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SE(3)-equivariance provides a useful geometric inductive bias for visuomotor policies, encoding that actions covary with rigid transformations of the observation. However, existing SE(3)-equivariant visuomotor policies build this bias on a global equivariance assumption that treats the entire observation as governed by...
Xinzhe Chen, Liqi Huang, Sihua Ren et al.· 0 citations
Achieving complex, long-horizon robot behavior remains challenging because successful execution depends on skills grounded in a robot's physical affordances. Existing training-task distributions are often handcrafted or sampled from large language models (LLMs), relying on semantic plausibility rather than embodiment-s...
Teleoperation is widely used to collect high-quality demonstrations for robot learning. Dexterous manipulation, however, requires coordinated control of motion and contact forces. Operators can specify motion, but struggle to reproduce the subtle force adjustments of human manipulation without feeling the robot's conta...
Ying Yuan, David Held, Jitendra Malik et al.· 1 citation
Frontier large language models (LLMs) now reason about space well enough to program robots, yet the world models behind robot policies are implicit, held in network weights or predicted video, and cannot be inspected or corrected directly. We present D-World, an explicit world-language-action model built on the Sense,...
Existing embodied navigation tasks commonly assume that traversability and object states remain fixed during an episode. Yet reaching a goal may require opening a door to access a room and then opening a container to reveal a hidden target. We formulate interactive navigation beyond reachability, unifying channel-induc...
Delun Li, Xueyao Wei, Rui Chen et al.· 0 citations
Physical AI is commonly formulated around an explicitly specified task: given a goal or instruction, a system perceives, reasons, and acts. In many real-world settings, however, important tasks emerge from continuously changing world states before a person explicitly formulates them. We study this complementary problem...
Zhenhua Yang, Jiafeng Liang, Xingyu Zhou et al.· 0 citations
Vision-Language-Action models (VLAs) have achieved high success rates on familiar manipulation tasks, yet it remains unclear whether such scores reflect genuine zero-shot generalization and perturbation robustness. Existing evaluation frameworks provide limited capability-level diagnosis and combinatorial perturbation...
Jun Xiao, Rui Ye, Dong-Run Cao et al.· 0 citations
Deploying robots in human-shared environments requires deciding not only how to navigate, but also when dedicated social signals are worth emitting. Classic observation-based inference can be misleading in such settings: confounding factors may bias the estimated relationship between a signal and the task outcome, lead...
Francesco Baldo, Luca Castri, Gloria Beraldo et al.· 0 citations
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.
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.