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#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Skill-Space Shooting for Autonomous Robot Policy Improvement

This work introduces skill-space shooting, which uses foundation model guidance to explore corrections through reusable skills and turn successful trials into policy improvement, and enables scalable and generalizable policy improvement within and across tasks.

Zi-Hang Rui, Ren-Hao Wang, Hao-Xu Huang et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

doPlan: A Variable-Horizon Dataset for Multi-Stage Language-Conditioned Planning in Autonomous Driving

Autonomous vehicles interacting with passengers through natural language must reason beyond immediate commands. Passenger intent may span multiple stages of behavior, depend on future events, refer to surrounding agents or landmarks, and remain relevant as driving conditions evolve. Existing language-enabled driving da...

Parthib Roy, Yashpal Tandon, Marcus Blennemann et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

ExceptionDrive: A Planning-Oriented Counterfactual Corner-Case Benchmark for Autonomous Driving

Average performance on routine driving benchmarks does not establish planner reliability under rare, safety-critical hazards. We proposed ExceptionDrive, a counterfactual planning benchmark that uses VLM-assisted screening, localized multi-view editing, and quality auditing to insert hazards into real nuScenes scenes w...

Zi-Yin Luo, Zhe Sun, Ye-Hao Lu et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Explore, Execute, Evolve: A Skill Acquisition and Reuse Loop for Embodied Agents

This work introduces RoboSkill, a framework that connects skill acquisition and reuse through an Explore, Execute, Evolve loop, and complements vision with tactile feedback to reduce uncertainty during physical interaction and augment textual guidance with reusable code to reduce reasoning overhead during skill reuse.

Si-Cheng Xie, Yi-Tong Chen, Hai-Dong Cao et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Semantic Map Sharing and Capability-Aware Coverage Planning for AI-Native 6G Robotic Coordination

An edge-centric, semantic-aware coverage planning framework that integrates aerial terrain perception, robot-specific traversability reasoning, and payload-efficient semantic state sharing is proposed, motivated by AI-enabled goal-oriented communication envisioned for AI-native 6G networks.

Abdulqader Dhafer, Qi Wang, Z. Hao · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Credit-Guided Policy Improvement for Test-time Adaptive Vision-Language Navigation

Credit-Guided Policy Improvement (CGPI), which recovers signed, reference-relative decision credit from action-induced observation transitions without external outcome feedback from action-induced observation transitions without external outcome feedback is proposed.

Yang Li, Si-Jia Zhang, Yi-Han Li et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Risk-Aware Semantic Grounding for Trustworthy LLM-Based Robot Planning

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used as high-level planners in robot navigation, but their outputs may become unreliable when instructions are ambiguous, unsupported by the environment, or semantically inconsistent. This paper presents a Risk-Aware Semantic Grounding framework for trustworthy LLM-based ro...

Łukasz Sobczak, Nur Keleşoğlu, S. Nowak · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Video2STL: Grounding VLM-Generated Temporal Specifications for Robot Learning

Video2STL is presented, a framework that converts observation-only videos into parametric Signal Temporal Logic (STL) specifications and uses the resulting formal representation for robot learning, and supports cross-embodiment transfer from human or animal videos to robot control.

Merve Atasever, Keyan Azbijari, Cagan Bakirci et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Encore: Few-Shot Agentic Discovery of Manipulation Strategies

This work introduces ENCORE, which gives the agent a few demonstrations as evidence to read rather than as training data, and shows that on RoboDojo tasks whose instructions leave the goal unstated, no program succeeds without demonstrations.

Yi-Fan Kang, Zihan Wang, Zhi-Wen Fan et al. · 1 citation
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

EgoHumanoid-V2: Human-to-Humanoid Transfer of Coordinated Whole-Body Skills for Loco-Manipulation

EgoHumanoid-V2 is presented, the first egocentric human-to-humanoid skill transfer framework for coordinated whole-body loco-manipulation, which improves end-effector pose accuracy while preserving whole-body coordination and uses robot-arm rendering and training-time image augmentation to reduce the visual embodiment...

Jin Chen, Yi-Ming Jiang, Chong-Yang Xu 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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