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#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Beyond Tasks: A Vision for Reproducing an Animal-like Behavioral Substrate Using Modern Robot Learning Techniques

This work argues that their continual coordination under competing demands constitutes an important and underexplored target for modern robot learning and proposes the ethological behavioral substrate as a conceptual lens for studying this form of competence in artificial agents.

Samiyuru Menik, H. Jayalath · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

VPTwin: Real-Sim-Real Video Prediction for Robotic Manipulation Planning

VPTwin is proposed, a Real-Sim-Real video prediction framework that anchors real-world future prediction using real-synchronized simulation twins and establishes a predictive planning loop using VPTwin to visually verify VLM-proposed actions and guide reliable real-world execution.

Zheng-Hao Xiao, Min-Ting Pan, Nan-Tian He et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Open access Sep 2026

Query, Align, and Distill: Navigation-Aware Cross-Modal Interaction for Efficient Vision-and-Language Navigation

A high-performing teacher is built that makes navigation evidence selection explicit and compressible, and a compact student is trained by transferring both where to attend and what to do, then further match action distributions during fine-tuning.

Zhihao Chen, Yi-Yuan Ge, Zi-Yang Wang et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

CAPEX: Efficiently Distilling Foundation Model Behavior into Deployable Robot Policies through Experience-Adaptive Reasoning

CAPEX, an experience-conditioned demonstration collection framework that uses execution experience from previous attempts to adapt how frequently the foundation model must observe, reason, and replan, is introduced and suggests that foundation models can serve as scalable sources of reusable robot experience.

Shivam Aarya, Xi-Jia Zhang, Cheng-Yue Huang et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Vision-Language Agents for Active Perception in Optics Laboratories

It is found that, given task-specific natural-language guidance, VLMs can estimate actuator-response relationships, resolve ambiguous observations through intervention, and actively create informative visual feedback when signals are sparse, suggesting that pretrained multimodal models can serve as important decision-m...

Ryan Lopez, Sachin Vaidya, Seouing-Ho Choi et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Optimizing H-Graph Hybridization for Diffusion-Guided RRT

The results show that inference-time parameter variation is a reliable, training-free source of path diversity, and that H-Graph hybridization reliably converts this diversity into shorter, higher quality trajectories.

Omer Talmi · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

RoboFoundry: System-as-Policy Evolution for Self-Learning Embodied Agents

RoboFoundry is proposed, the first embodied agentic framework that formulates this process of system-as-policy evolution across foundation models as Self-Evolving System-as-Policy, highlighting its potential for fully autonomous embodied agents.

Jing-Song Liang, Shu-Hao Liao, Shi-Zhe Zhang et al. · 4 citations · ⚡2
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Scanning While Imagining: A Scene-Graph World Model for Robotic Ultrasound Navigation

Ultrasound (US) acquisition depends on the operator's ability to interpret anatomy and anticipate how the view will change with probe motion. Many robotic US navigation methods select actions without explicitly predicting these anatomical changes. We propose SonoGraph-WM, an action- and goal-conditioned world model for...

Xue-Song Li, Shuai Chen, Feng Li et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

DRAM: Delta-rule Recurrent Associative Memory for Robot Manipulation Policies

Robotic manipulation is inherently history-dependent, yet most pretrained robotic policies condition on only the current observation or a short temporal window. Equipping such policies with long-term memory remains challenging: existing approaches either feed the backbone multi-frame observation windows, which substant...

Xin-Yu Zhao, Yixiang Shan, Tao Yang et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

RE-0: Verified Recursive Improvement of Embodied Code-as-Policy Agents through Local On-Policy Distillation

RE-0, a recursively verified policy improvement framework, which improves both teacher-assisted execution and the standalone student, and generalizes to novel robots and scenes, and RE-OPD, which turns verified interventions into supervision for on-policy distillation.

Jia-Wei Zhang, Xiang-Rong Zhang, Rui-Ke Song et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Affordance-Conditioned Decision Making: Bridging the Semantic-Spatial Gap in Zero-Shot Cross-Floor Vision-and-Language Navigation

Vision-and-language navigation increasingly relies on general-purpose semantic planners, yet translating correct high-level intent into reliable physical execution remains difficult in spatially constrained transitions. Reaching a staircase, doorway, or narrow passage does not ensure traversal; the agent must identify...

Xue-Kang Yang, Lu-Yao Chen, Shuang Luo 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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