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#robotics Preprint Sep 2026

WSM-Aware HRI: An IoT-Enhanced Framework for Early Detection and Norm-Guided Repair of Failures with LLM Guidance

WSM-Aware HRI is proposed, an IoT-enhanced modular framework that unifies diverse HRI breakdowns as World-State Mismatches (WSMs) between a human's instruction-implied assumptions and a robot's grounded world model built from multimodal perception and digital augmentation.

Han-Lin Zhang, Yu-Quan Wang, Tian-Wei Zhang et al. · 0 citations

DroneShield-AI: A Multi-Modal Sensor Fusion Framework for Real-Time Autonomous Drone Threat Detection, Behavioral Intent Classification, and Swarm Intelligence in Contested Airspace

This v2 revision reports measured results on the completed implementation of DroneShield-AI, a unified open framework integrating six processing layers: RF signal classification, acoustic motor-signature detection, YOLOv8-based visual detection, evidence-weighted sensor fusion, a Behavioral Intent Classification Engine...

Marius Bayizere · 0 citations

ProcVLM: Learning Procedure-Grounded Progress Rewards for Robotic Manipulation

ProcVLM is presented, a progress-aware vision-language model that learns procedure-grounded progress as a dense reward signal for manipulation and improves embodied procedural reasoning and yields more discriminative trajectory-internal progress estimates than representative baselines.

You-He Feng, Han Shi, Haoyang Li et al. · 11 citations

Universal Pose Pretraining for Generalizable Vision-Language-Action Policies

Pose-VLA is proposed, a decoupled paradigm that separates VLA training into a pre-training phase for extracting universal 3D spatial priors in a unified camera-centric space, and a post-training phase for efficient embodiment alignment within robot-specific action space.

Haitao Lin, Hanyang Yu, Jingshun Huang et al. · 11 citations
#machine learning Review Aug 2025

AI-driven Dispensing of Coral Reseeding Devices for Broad-scale Restoration of the Great Barrier Reef

Coral reefs are on the brink of collapse, with climate change, ocean acidification, and pollution leading to a projected 70-90% loss of coral species within the next decade. Reef restoration is crucial, but its success hinges on introducing automation to upscale efforts. In this work, we present a highly configurable A...

Scarlett Raine, Emilio Olivastri, Benjamin Moshirian et al. · 3 citations
#machine learning Review Aug 2024

A Survey on Reinforcement Learning Applications in SLAM

This study explores the application of RL in the context of SLAM by enabling the agent to iteratively interact with and receive feedback from its environment, which facilitates the acquisition of navigation and mapping skills, thereby enhancing the robot's decision-making capabilities.

Mohammad Dehghani Tezerjani, Mohammad Khoshnazar, Mohammadhamed Tangestanizadeh et al. · 13 citations

Fast LeWorldModel

Fast LeWorldModel (Fast-LeWM), a fast latent world model that replaces repeated local rollout with action-prefix prediction, improves average success over LeWM while substantially reducing planning time, achieving lower open-loop latent loss whose growth becomes significantly slower as the rollout horizon increases.

Yuntian Gao, Xiang Xu · 15 citations · ⚡4
#machine learning Preprint Open access Sep 2026

ACSAC: Adaptive Chunk Size Actor-Critic with Causal Transformer Q-Network

Long-horizon, sparse-reward tasks pose a fundamental challenge for reinforcement learning, since single-step TD learning suffers from bootstrapping error accumulation across successive Bellman updates. Actor-critic methods with action chunking address this by operating over temporally extended actions, which reduce the...

Qian Chen, Junqiao Zhao, Hongtu Zhou et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

Statistical Learning of Contractive Dynamical Representations for Composite Adaptive Control

A statistically principled hard expectation-maximization procedure is introduced, with a Kalman smoother in the hard E-step, to identify dynamical representations of disturbance whose latent evolution is uniformly contractive, which yields a composite adaptive tracking controller with predictive capability and provable...

Min Kim, José Leonardo Brenes, Fred Y. Hadaegh et al. · 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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