Safe autonomous navigation of UASs requires tactical deconfliction to address conflicts that strategic coordination cannot prevent. This task is challenging under partial observability, when sensor or traffic data are missing, delayed, or degraded. Geometry-based methods can offer separation assurances but face limitat...
Christopher Conrad, Deepak Panda, Weisi Guo et al.· 0 citations
Vision-language models (VLMs) are exact on small sets and drift into estimation on larger ones, a profile reminiscent of children before they master counting. Children cross the barrier with epistemic actions: pointing at each item while reciting number words, moving counted items aside, partitioning the array. We give...
Ying-Xin Jia, Hui Geng, Wen-Xin Yang et al.· 0 citations
This work treats the warmup pool as a resampled random factor and adds token-matched irrelevant-filler controls, oracle-certified diagnostics, caution-pricing metrics, and quantified audits of the baseline ports to answer the question when does experience memory help a closed-loop LLM driving agent.
This monograph seeks to define physical AI, present its technical landscape, and examine each key technical subfield in depth, and establishes a unified framework for Physical AI: artificial systems that perceive, model, and act upon the physical world through continuous feedback under real-world constraints.
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Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models provide a natural language interface to robot control, but the mapping from language to behavior is often brittle and unintuitive: semantically similar instructions can induce drastically different behaviors, while some capabilities may not be elicitable through prompting alone. As a...
Hyun Joe Jeong, Gokul Swamy, Andrea Bajcsy· 0 citations
We present OrbiSim, a novel robotic simulation paradigm that redefines world models as a fully differentiable physics engine for embodied intelligence. Unlike prior world models that focus on unconstrained imagination in latent or visual domains, OrbiSim establishes a unified, physically-grounded pathway that bridges s...
Jiajian Li, Jingyuan Huang, Junru Gong et al.· 0 citations
Trustworthy robot behavior requires not only high levels of task success but also that the robot can reliably quantify how likely it is to succeed. To this end, we present a first-of-its-kind study of confidence calibration in vision-language-action (VLA) foundation models, which map visual observations and natural lan...
Traditional methods plan feasible paths for multiple agents in the stochastic environment. However, the methods' iterations with the changes in the environment result in computation complexities, especially for the decentralized agents without a centralized planner. Although reinforcement learning provides a plausible...
Qizhen Wu, Kexin Liu, Lei Chen et al.· 0 citations
When we say that a robot uses memory, does that memory actually play a role? Success-rate ablations alone cannot establish the use of task-relevant facts: they change information and computation together, while aggregate rates can hide offsetting gains and losses. We propose an Interventional Memory Evaluation Protocol...
Ke-Yuan Luo, Yi Xie, Wan-Yun Ling et al.· 0 citations
Vision-language-action (VLA) models can learn a wide range of robotic skills, but combining separately trained skills remains challenging. The original training data may be unavailable for joint retraining, while directly merging model weights can cause interference. We propose NestedVLA, which consolidates independent...
Vision-language-action (VLA) models and world-action models (WAMs) have emerged as promising approaches to robot learning and control. These models integrate multimodal perception and action generation, but differ in their architectures, output representations, and learning objectives. In this paper, we present a unifi...
Rigid-body motion planning is fundamental to robotic transport and manipulation, where both object position and orientation determine whether a body can move through cluttered environments. This coupling makes planning chal- lenging because translation and rotation can be constrained very differently by surrounding geo...
Yanming Zhou, Yuchen Liu, Ahmed H. Qureshi· 0 citations
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.
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.
