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#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

AD-WM: Action-Discriminative World Models for Counterfactual Model Predictive Control

AD-WM, an action-discriminative joint-embedding world model for counterfactual MPC, is introduced, which combines residual latent dynamics with predictor-level action-recovery regularization, using inverse dynamics and a normalized recovery objective motivated by conditional mutual information.

Jia-Bin Qiu, Zi-Xuan Chen, Hong-Ye Cao et al. · 1 citation
#artificial intelligence Preprint Aug 2026

Evolve Vision-Language-Action Model into an Agent with On-the-fly Tool-use

ART is a tool-injection framework that tunes any VLA model to leverage off-the-shelf tool modules for low-level vision, high-level affordance, and embodiment enhancement, and ART reduces the complexity of the action solution space through tool-use, which improves generalizability across different tasks but also reduces...

Ding-Ge Yi, Yanzhao Yu, Xi-Li Dai et al. · 1 citation

EA-WM: Event-Aware Generative World Model with Structured Kinematic-to-Visual Action Fields

EA-WM is presented, an Event-Aware Generative World Model that effectively closes the loop between kinematic control and visual perception, and introduces event-aware bidirectional fusion blocks that modulate cross-branch attention, capturing object state changes and interaction dynamics.

Zhaoyang Yang, Yurun Jin, Lizhe Qi et al. · 5 citations

MessyKitchens: Contact-rich object-level 3D scene reconstruction

This work introduces MessyKitchens, a new dataset with real-world scenes featuring cluttered environments and providing high-fidelity object-level ground truth in terms of 3D object shapes, poses and accurate object contacts, and builds on the recent SAM 3D approach for single-object reconstruction and extends it with...

J. Ansari, Ran Ding, Fabio Pizzati et al. · 2 citations · ⚡1
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2023

A Scalable Multi-Robot Framework for Decentralized and Asynchronous Perception-Action-Communication Loops

A decentralized Perception-Action-Communication system for multi-robot teams that enables them to collaborate in large scale, outdoor environments and upholds crucial properties for field-deployable robot collectives: scalability, resiliency and repeatability.

Saurav Agarwal, Frederic Vatnsdal, Romina García Camargo et al. · 2 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Where Should I Join? Robot Group Joining via Language-Guided Goal Prediction

Language-grounded robot group joining is formulated: given an observation and a natural-language description of a target group, the robot identifies the relevant group members and predicts socially compliant joining poses, and this method achieves competitive grounding accuracy with sub-second inference and outperforms...

Zi-Lin Fang, Zi-Shuo Wang, Gim Hee Lee et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Frozen Flows Forget: Diagnosing and Restoring Lost Motion in a Latent-flow World Model

Latent world models that integrate a flow in a frozen self supervised latent space train stably and cheaply, yet silently lose the property manipulation depends on most: motion. The pretrained flow never moves the manipulated object; retraining it with latent-only losses only trades stillness for teleport-like motion....

Xi-Wen Chen, Rigaudiere Z. Li, Zhi-Ruo Zhou et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

MemBodied: Recurrent Associative Memory for Vision-Language-Action Models

Findings support MemBodied as a practical alternative to expanding the policy context for history-dependent manipulation, a fixed-size episodic memory with two complementary components: an associative state that records interactions across policy calls and an episode anchor that preserves a compact representation of th...

Tej Deep Pala, N. Majumder, Bryce Goh et al. · 1 citation
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Controlling Collectives of AI Agents in Reasoning Space with Spatial Transformers

This work proposes COMPASS, a scalable, decentralized multi-robot architecture for controlling large collectives of agentic robots with reasoning space feedback control, and shows that reasoning feedback works best when composed with a compact learned token.

Frederic Vatnsdal, Roshan Gopal, Romina García Camargo et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Open access Aug 2026

Safe Multi-Robot Coordination via VLM–LLM Reasoning and Reachability Analysis

This study presents a centralized safety aware M2M framework for cooperative goal-directed navigation in a heterogeneous mobile robot system composed of a vision-capable robot and a cameraless robotic vehicle that can approve safe motion, trigger conservative replanning or holding behavior, and preserve a strict separa...

Mohamed Dwedar, Ahmad Hafez, Alexander Jesser et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

InfiNoVA: Infinite Novel View Augmentation for Viewpoint Invariant Robot Policies

InfiNoVA is introduced, a data-augmentation framework that converts synchronized multi-camera demonstrations into a dense distribution of geometrically consistent training views that improves frame-level fidelity and temporal consistency while reducing task-critical hallucinations observed in generative novel-view synt...

Sai Puneeth Reddy Gottam, Elmar Rueckert, Vedant Dave · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

InternW0: A Foundational Physical World Model for Efficient Real-World Interactions

This work introduces InternW0, the first instantiation of the InternW physical world model series from Shanghai AI Laboratory, built around omnimodal interfaces, asynchronous multi-frequency processing, and local physical modeling under partial observations and external influences.

Ji-Song Cai, Yao Mu, Gan-Lin Yang 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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