Recent multimodal large language models (MLLMs) and vision--language--action models have provided robots with new capabilities for long-horizon task understanding and planning. In surgical robotics, however, end-to-end prediction of low-level actions remains limited by insufficient precision, opaque decisions, and scar...
An-Gen Ye, Jun-Jie Xie, Yu-Jia Song et al.· 0 citations
Joint-embedding predictive architectures (JEPAs) learn world models directly in latent space, but unconstrained autoregressive predictors may contract the latent distribution over long rollouts. We introduce Symplectic Hamiltonian JEPA (LeHami), which replaces the standard predictor with an action-conditioned Hamiltoni...
End-to-end driving policies can achieve strong task performance while offering limited control over their driving style. Driving style describes how a vehicle accelerates, brakes, and maintains distance. Policies trained without explicit preference conditioning lack a direct mechanism for adjusting these behaviors at i...
Guan-Tian Zheng, Li-Dong Yu, Tian-Yu Gao et al.· 0 citations
Recent advances in 3D hand-object interaction (HOI) perception have opened new opportunities for learning dexterous robotic skills from human videos. However, existing dexterous imitation learning methods often rely on costly and manually teleoperated robot demonstrations, requiring substantial human effort. Therefore,...
Zihan Gao, Yuhong Zhang, Mengzhe Wang et al.· 0 citations
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Emerging strong Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have advanced navigation foundation models. However, these models still have unsatisfactory performance on goal-oriented navigation settings. In this paper, we first conduct a motivating study revealing that the key issue lies in the insufficient utilization of streaming ob...
Shaohao Zhu, Wensi Huang, Siqi Zhang et al.· 0 citations
Multi-robot systems (MRS) offer significant advantages over single-robot platforms by enabling information sharing and coordination for different tasks in complex environments. However, reliable cooperation critically depends on inferring trust over both information sources and their reported hypotheses, particularly u...
Ruiyang Wang, Hao-Lun Hsu, Haocheng Meng et al.· 0 citations
It is widely appreciated that robotic policies require long-term memory to perform complex tasks. However, directly conditioning policies on all past observations leaves policy learning susceptible to learning spurious shortcuts, and introduces large latency at policy deployment. As such, today's memory-augmented polic...
Yilin Wu, Rutav Shah, Shuaiyi Huang et al.· 0 citations
Dexterous robot hands can receive useful motion intent from teleoperation or learned policies, but successful execution also depends on contact decisions that these commands rarely specify. We introduce DexFLEX, a contact-aware foundation controller that turns upstream fingertip-motion drafts into contact-consistent jo...
Weikang Wan, Zeyu Lai, Jianyu Hou et al.· 0 citations
Diffusion models provide expressive trajectory priors for multi-robot motion planning (MRMP), but scaling them to large teams requires coordinating individual motions without expensive joint computation. We introduce Akule, a sparse interaction diffusion framework that augments a frozen single-robot prior with three le...
Manav Vora, Gokul Puthumanaillam, Aditya Penumarti et al.· 0 citations
Large language models can translate natural-language instructions into plausible manipulation plans, but robotic execution requires physically grounded decisions that respect robot embodiment, workspace geometry, reachability, collision constraints, and grasp feasibility. This paper presents a hardware-aware large lang...
Lonnie Tankersley, Noorbakhsh Amiri Golilarz, Soroush Korivand· 0 citations
Embodied Audio-Visual Navigation (AVN) requires an agent to locate sound targets by jointly leveraging visual and auditory cues. While prior work has achieved notable success with static sound sources, real-world scenarios often involve moving targets, giving rise to the more challenging problem of \textbf{Dynamic Audi...
A longstanding goal for robot reinforcement learning (RL) is that robots learn from their own physical experience, as humans and animals do. A key obstacle to learning directly from physical experience, especially outside instrumented lab environments, is that the state of the world is usually unobservable to the learn...
Ryan Gao, Ashvin Anilkumar, Nicholas Corrado et al.· 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.