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#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Nov 2026

Asynchronous Robot Policies

Scaling vision-language foundation models has significantly advanced generalist robot manipulation, but the increased model scale introduces computational latency that degrades real-time physical reactivity. Existing Vision-Language-Action (VLA) architectures execute high-level semantic reasoning and action ex- ecution...

Sombit Dey, Luc Van Gool, Danda Pani Paudel · 0 citations
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Trajectory Evaluation via Rollout-Free World Model for End-to-end Autonomous Driving

Although existing candidate trajectory evaluators have substantially improved end-to-end planning accuracy, their underlying mechanism remains suboptimal. Model-based evaluators typically make scoring future-aware by explicitly predicting candidate-conditioned future states over the planning horizon, which we term roll...

Jun-Zhe Wang, Jin-Qing Zhang, Qing-Jie Liu · 0 citations
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Do Agentic Policies Need to Look at Every Step? Geometric Abstraction for Reasoning and Action

Recent multimodal language models can reason directly about robot scenes, but it is unclear whether they need to repeatedly reinterpret raw visual observations at every step of an interaction. We propose shifting routine spatial reasoning from images to text and symbols through a 3D geometric abstraction that is refres...

Yihang Liu, Yiming Chen, Mingzhe Zheng · 0 citations
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LLMs as MDP Designers: A Dependency-Aware Agentic Framework for Automated Robot Policy Generation

We investigate the automated generation of executable robot reinforcement learning (RL) policies from natural-language task descriptions. Rather than using large language models (LLMs) as execution-time decision makers, we use them as designers that construct RL pipelines before deployment, including Markov decision pr...

Hong Je-Gal, Jinwoo Kim, Chanbin Yi et al. · 0 citations
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Cycle WAM: Coupling Action and Video through Cycle Consistency

Recent advances in video modeling have driven substantial progress in world action models (WAMs). Existing approaches exploit pretrained video priors by decoding actions from latent representations or inferring them from generated videos. The underlying link is causal: robot actions produce changes in the scene, and vi...

Qinglin Yang, Jiepeng Wang, Yuxing Huang et al. · 0 citations
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CLARA: A Cognitively-Driven Clarification Framework for Grounding Ambiguous Requests

Robotics and AI systems are increasingly deploying large vision-language models (LVLMs) to follow high-level instructions, from routine household chores to more complex organizational tasks. Yet, broad directives like "clean the room" or "organize the desk" frequently omit crucial details about user preferences and spe...

Dimitrios Bekris, Marios Glytsos, Panagiotis P. Filntisis et al. · 0 citations
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DiMuRe: Diagnosis-Guided Multilevel Recovery for Robotic Task Execution

Disturbances can invalidate the conditions required by a robot's next action even when much of its task program remains useful. A recovery system must therefore choose a response suited to the current state. We present DiMuRe (diagnosis-guided multilevel recovery), a framework for robot-use agents that uses phase-speci...

Renkai Yi, Yuwei Wu, Haoyu Zhang et al. · 0 citations
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A Practical Causal Framework for Autonomous Mobile Robots: From Simulation to Real-World Human Environments

Causal inference has emerged as a powerful paradigm enabling robots to make safe, efficient decisions by reasoning about the ``why'' behind events. However, its real-world application is hindered by the difficulty of collecting causal data, especially in human-populated environments where training takes time, while use...

Luca Castri, Gloria Beraldo, Nicola Bellotto · 0 citations
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RoboScope Kit: Unified Interfaces for Fast and Scalable Embodied-AI Evaluation

Simulation benchmarks are the standard way to compare robot policies, but each benchmark brings its own evaluator, observation layout, and action convention, and evaluation is slow: 500 RoboTwin Easy episodes with one simulator and one model on one GPU take 359.7 minutes. Profiling the official StarVLA evaluator shows...

Deng-Ke Wu, Yifan Jin, Yida Yang et al. · 0 citations
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AIRoA-0: Long-Horizon, Precise, Cross-Embodiment Manipulation from Handheld Data

AIRoA-0 (A-0) is a bimanual manipulation system learned from 16,151 hours of handheld demonstrations, with no robot data collected at any stage. The demonstrations are recorded with YUBI, our open-source handheld gripper, which lets people record manipulation data anywhere with no robot present. From a single instructi...

Yueh-Hua Wu, Kei Ota, Hanlong Li et al. · 0 citations
#robotics Preprint Open access Nov 2026

When Architectural Spaces Start to Act

Architectural spaces are increasingly gaining robotic capabilities. Architectural robots such as robotic partitions, ceilings, furniture, facades, and other spatial components can autonomously move and reconfigure in response to occupants' needs and activities. Yet, when architectural robots start shaping the spatial c...

Alex Binh Vinh Duc Nguyen · 0 citations
#robotics Preprint Oct 2026

Robot Navigation and Canine Welfare: A Pilot Study Surfacing Challenges for Cross-Species Legibility and Proxy Validity in Animal-Machine Interaction

Autonomous delivery robots increasingly share residential spaces with companion animals, yet navigation behavior is rarely designed with animal welfare in mind. This paper presents a pilot study evaluating a curve-out maneuver, a laterally arcing pass-by trajectory triggered at the dog's alert distance, proposed as a c...

Hao-Xiang Zhang, Nancy Smith · 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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