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#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

VORL-EXPLORE: A Hybrid Learning Planning Approach to Multi-Robot Exploration in Dynamic Environments

Hierarchical multi-robot exploration decouples frontier allocation from local navigation, making systems brittle in dynamic environments. Without awareness of execution difficulty, allocators may send robots toward frontiers whose routes are congested or unsafe, causing bottlenecks, oscillatory replanning, and redundan...

Ning Liu, Sen Shen, Zheng Li et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Deep Learning Warm Starts for Trajectory Optimization on the International Space Station

Trajectory optimization is a cornerstone of modern robot autonomy, enabling systems to compute trajectories and controls in real-time while respecting safety and physical constraints. However, it has seen limited usage in spaceflight applications due to its heavy computational demands that exceed the capability of most...

Somrita Banerjee, Abhishek Cauligi, Marco Pavone · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

SceneBloom: Agentic Indoor Environment Generation with Realistic and Diverse Layouts for Embodied Learning

SceneBloom is introduced, an agentic framework that combines visual layout sampling with contract-guided 3D compilation that attains the highest visual quality and physical stability among the compared methods and is the only method with no detected mesh collisions and out-of-bounds objects.

Yu-Han Liu, Lian-Hui Qin, Shen-Ji Wan · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

RobustRLlib: A Unified Library and Benchmark for Robust Reinforcement Learning Algorithms

Robust reinforcement learning (RL) is critical for reliable real-world deployment, where policies may fail under diverse shifts and disruptions. Existing robust RL algorithms offer a rich set of mechanisms and principles, yet two major barriers limit their broader potential: limited algorithm reusability and an unclear...

Xi Chen, Fengqi Hu, Zeyu Shen et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

DexPort: A Hand-Held Skill Interface for Dexterous Hand Data Collection

Collecting high-quality demonstrations remains a central bottleneck for learning dexterous manipulation. Teleoperation records executable robot actions, but it requires a complete robot setup and places the burden of coordinating many finger joints on the operator. Human demonstrations are easier to collect, but their...

Amber Xie, Jiawei Fu, Xiaofeng Guo et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Semantic Representation for Agentic Self-Play in Automated Laboratories

Navigating complex, high-dimensional biological search spaces necessitates scalable physical and computational intelligence to explore beyond local optima through iterative self-play across ideation, experimentation, and automation. Translating experimental designs into reliable physical execution remains bottlenecked...

Yves Delley, John Coller, Zachary Cutts et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Adaptive World-Models for Anomaly Recognition (AWARE): A Framework for Robot Dynamics Prediction and Introspection

Unrecognized anomalies in critical infrastructure can rapidly cascade into catastrophic physical or operational failures. Current anomaly detection approaches often rely on direct access to the monitored system by utilizing onboard sensors, such as motor encoders, to detect anomalous states. However, legacy hardware of...

Luke Beddow, George Mavroghenis, Rodrigo Chacon Quesada et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Conditional Neural Processes for Self-Supervised Goal Discovery in Action Imitation

Inspired by infants' ability to learn novel tasks by imitating others, in this work we evaluate to what extent Conditional Neural Processes can autonomously learn representations of actions that are informative about their underlying goal. We show that the addition of an attention mechanism in the hidden space fosters...

Marco Gabriele Fedozzi, Yukie Nagai, Francesco Rea et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Do VLAs Know They Will Fail? Interpretable Success and Failure Patterns in Physical AI Systems

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have emerged as powerful general-purpose robot policies, but their successes and failures remain difficult to diagnose and understand. In this work, we show that sparse autoencoder (SAE) representations of OpenVLA activations contain outcome-predictive information and can be used to...

Christian A. Rogers, Qian Lin, Daniel S. Brown · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

TTT in VLA Models: Exploring Training with Human Demonstrations

Long-horizon robot tasks require retaining and using past information. We integrate Test-Time Training (TTT), which stores context in fast weights, into InternVLA-A1 and Pi0.5 to study action generation conditioned on human demonstrations through training on paired demonstrations and robot trajectories. We implement me...

Qiangong Zhou, Jiafeng Liang, Yimin Dong et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Open access Oct 2026

SEVI: Safe Evidential Real-World Reinforcement Learning

Safe Evidential Real-World Reinforcement Learning (SEVI), a framework for reliability-aware safety intervention during real-world policy learning, is proposed and an Evidential Safety Critic is introduced that estimates both future constraint-violation risk and epistemic uncertainty in a single forward pass.

S. M. Shithil, Lan-Tao Liu · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

PrefO2O: Zero-Shot Preference-Based Reinforcement Learning via Offline-to-Online Latent Preference Transfer

Preference-based reinforcement learning (PbRL) has emerged as a promising paradigm for learning robot behaviors aligned with human intent. However, its scalability is fundamentally limited by the need to collect expensive human preference labels for every new task. In this work, we present PrefO2O, an offline-to-online...

Ruiqi Wang, Dezhong Zhao, Xuesu Xiao 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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