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#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

PDRVLA: A Vision-Language-Action Model with Physical Dynamics Representations

PDRVLA is introduced, whose lightweight Physical Dynamics Module extracts physical tokens from vision--language features to condition action generation without online video generation, andlations show improved future prediction with world-model supervision and evaluate how subtask conditioning, future object-pose super...

Han-Qing Wang, Zhao-Tian Cai, Ruichuan An et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Nov 2026

FlowTouch: View-Invariant Visuo-Tactile Prediction

Tactile sensation is essential for contact-rich manipulation tasks. It provides direct feedback on object geometry, surface properties, and interaction forces, enhancing perception and enabling fine-grained control. An inherent limitation of tactile sensors is that readings are available only when an object is touched....

Seongjin Bien, Carlo Kneissl, Tobias J\"ulg et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Mechanistic Interpretability for End-to-End Self-Driving

Mechanistic interpretability to E2E driving is applied by training Sparse Autoencoders on the internal activations of a simple, single-camera end-to-end path planning model, revealing interpretable structure aligned with route intent, vehicle speed, and braking behavior.

Manav Gagvani, Benjamin Namikas, Sivamurugan Velmurugan et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

FOCUS: First-Order Control Using Optimal Transport Supervision for Imitation from Observations

FOCUS is introduced, which combines local optimal-transport alignment with short-horizon differentiable actor-critic learning and improves sample efficiency and training stability over adversarial imitation-from-observation methods and prior differentiable imitation baselines.

João A. Cândido Ramos, Lionel Blondé, Hugues Vinzant et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Nov 2026

Self-Building Labs

Self-driving laboratories (SDLs) accelerate scientific discovery by automating experimental execution and optimization. AI agents can increasingly propose new experiments, but existing SDLs can only run the procedures they were built for. Adapting them to a new experiment still requires extensive manual engineering, wh...

Jiaru Bai, Yuchi Zhao, Han Hao et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Nov 2026

Shared Modular Recurrence in Contextual MDPs for Universal Morphology Control

A universal controller for any robot morphology would greatly improve computational and data efficiency. Steps have been made towards such multi-robot control by utilizing contextual information about the properties of individual robots and exploiting their modular structure in the architecture of deep reinforcement le...

Laurens Engwegen, Max Weltevrede, Caroline Horsch et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Hierarchical World Models with Implicit Dynamics

This work introduces ID-WM (Implicit Dynamics World Models), a hierarchical world model that decouples state-space reachability from local control and yields a 135% performance gain over single-level world model MPC, particularly in complex, unseen configurations for long-horizon tasks.

Gao-Yue Zhou, Yvonne Wu, Zichen Jeff Cui 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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