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An embodiment-aware controller is formulated, the Universal Embodiment Engine (UEE), that infers the operator's embodiment and visuo-proprioceptive cue weighting from implicit gaze and pupil signals and task outcome, and chooses bounded device settings under explicit preferences, cast as a discrete Active Inference age...
This paper presents a novel autonomous robotic assembly framework for constructing stable structures without relying on predefined architectural blueprints. Instead of following fixed plans, construction tasks are defined through targets and obstacles, allowing the system to adapt more flexibly to environmental uncerta...
The sim-to-real gap remains a critical challenge in robotics, hindering the deployment of algorithms trained in simulation to real-world systems. We propose a flexible Real-to-Sim-to-Real (RSR) framework whose central contribution is an information-theoretic cost function that explicitly accounts for sim-to-real discre...
Robot navigation in dynamic, human-centered environments requires socially-compliant decisions grounded in robust scene understanding. Recent Vision-Language Models (VLMs) exhibit promising capabilities such as object recognition, common-sense reasoning, and contextual understanding, capabilities that align with the nu...
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The analysis of the imitation objective shows how narrow conditional action support can leave grounded and instruction-keyed solutions indistinguishable on the demonstrations, and motivates Equivariant Counterfactual Training (ECT), which acts at two levels.
Accurate human torque estimation is crucial for enabling task-agnostic control in robotic exoskeleton systems. However, estimation errors may cause mismatches between the robot assistance and the human intention, degrading controllability and task performance. In this paper, we address this issue by formally defining m...
Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have recently incorporated world models to provide richer dynamic supervision beyond sparse action labels. However, explicitly predicting future images or videos may include control-irrelevant appearance, while guidance derived from holistic future visual representations and shared g...
Does memory-dependent control need nonlinear recurrent dynamics? We study simulated air-hockey defence under temporary loss of puck tracking. A DreamerV3 teacher outperforms a memoryless policy under tracking loss, while resetting the teacher's recurrent state sharply reduces performance, which demonstrates that the ta...
While Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models enable flexible action generation, their generalization across diverse environmental elements, including manipulated objects, destinations, and backgrounds, is limited by the lack of diversity in robotic training data. Trained end-to-end on such data, VLAs tend to exploit visua...
Behavior cloning provides an offline route to autonomous-driving policy learning, but mean-squared-error regression is poorly matched to demonstrations in which one observation admits several valid actions. Diffusion policies can represent conditional multimodal action distributions, yet their closed-loop performance m...
Stochastic differential equations (SDEs) can be studied via It\^{o} calculus and rough path theory. For stochastic optimal control, these two frameworks give distinct Pontryagin Maximum Principle (PMP) optimality conditions with forward-backward SDEs (FBSDEs) or rough differential equations. We show that the adjoint eq...
Neural trajectory predictors can reach low prediction error while violating dynamics, actuator limits, or state constraints, especially when controls are unobserved and dynamics are partially specified. We introduce the Markovian Dynamics Enforcer (MaDE), a time-invariant post-hoc operator mapping state-transition prop...
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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
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