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#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

ModPack: Extensible Teleoperation Interface for Bimanual Mobile Manipulation

Existing teleoperation systems are often tailored to specific robot hardware and task domains, limiting their scalability and adaptability. We present ModPack, a modular and extensible teleoperation system designed to support diverse robot embodiments and task requirements within a unified framework. At the core of Mod...

Joshua Citron, Renee Zbizika, Zeyi Liu et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

FAR: Failure-Aware Retry for Test-Time Recovery and Continual Policy Improvement

Robot policies inevitably encounter failures when deployed in real environments. Naive retries often repeat the same mistakes, while many existing recovery methods rely on human intervention. In this paper, we propose Failure-Aware Retry (FAR), a framework that enables robots to learn from previous failures at test tim...

Haoran Hao, Shahram Najam Syed, Jeffrey Ichnowski et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

ED3R: Energy-Aware Distributed Disaster Detection via Cooperative Agents in Robotic Systems

Robotics are expected to support environmental monitoring and disaster detection, where decisions must be made under uncertainty, resource limitations, and strict operational constraints. In critical missions, such as wildfires, robots must not only identify hazardous events with sufficient confidence, but also manage...

Lina Magoula, Nikolaos Koursioumpas, Nancy Alonistioti et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Targeting World Models to Compromise Robot Learning Pipelines

World models have recently seen a rapid growth in both their popularity and capability as more data efficient tools for generating robot training data or simulating real world environments, with many works proposing their integration into the robot learning pipeline. While highly practical, in this work we demonstrate...

Ethan Rathbun, Ahmed Agha, Saaduddin Mahmud et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Unifying Object-Centric World Models and Diffusion Policy: A Hierarchical Framework for Multi-Stage Robotic Tasks

Visual world models have shown great potential in learning complex system dynamics. Recent advancements leverage these models as transition functions within Model Predictive Control (MPC) frameworks to solve various control tasks. When applied to robotics, however, they are limited to single-stage tasks such as reachin...

Raktim Gautam Goswami, Prashanth Krishnamurthy, Yann LeCun et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

StressDream: Steering Video World Models for Robust Policy Evaluation and Improvement

Video world models (WMs) have shown promise for policy evaluation and improvement by imagining realistic future observations conditioned on ego-robot actions. While WMs can model distributions over futures, policy evaluation and improvement typically rely on nominal imaginations, which can miss high-impact outcomes of...

Junwon Seo, Sushant Veer, Ran Tian et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

TAVIS: A Benchmark for Egocentric Active Vision and Anticipatory Gaze in Imitation Learning

Active vision -- where a policy controls its own gaze during manipulation -- has emerged as a key capability for imitation learning, with multiple independent systems demonstrating its benefits in the past year. Yet there is no shared benchmark to compare approaches or quantify what active vision contributes, on which...

Giacomo Spigler · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Linking Behaviour and Perception to Evaluate Meaningful Human Control over Partially Automated Driving

Partial driving automation creates a tension: drivers remain legally responsible while being less active in control. Meaningful human control (MHC), a normative framework that can potentially address this tension, proposes that automated systems are designed to track relevant human reasons and that humans should at all...

Ashwin George, Lucas Elbert Suryana, Lorenzo Flipse et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

NovaPlan: Zero-Shot Long-Horizon Manipulation via Closed-Loop Video Language Planning

Solving complex long-horizon robotic tasks requires joint reasoning over abstract task structure and low-level physical interaction. While combining Vision-Language Models (VLMs) and video generation models offers a promising path for zero-shot planning, their individual tendencies to hallucinate physics or violate geo...

Jiahui Fu, Junyu Nan, Lingfeng Sun et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2025

RoboPilot: Generalizable Dynamic Robotic Manipulation with Dual-thinking Modes

RoboPilot is presented, a dual-thinking closed-loop agentic framework for robotic manipulation that supports adaptive reasoning for complex tasks in real-world dynamic environments and dynamically switches between fast and slow thinking to balance efficiency and accuracy.

Xin-Yi Liu, M. Sani, Ze-Wei Zhou et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

RoboFAC: A Comprehensive Framework for Robotic Failure Analysis and Correction

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have recently advanced robotic manipulation by translating natural-language instructions and visual observations into control actions. However, existing VLAs are primarily trained on successful expert demonstrations and lack structured supervision for failure diagnosis and recovery,...

Zewei Ye, Weifeng Lu, Minghao Ye 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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