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#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

DS-VLA: A Dendritic-inspired Vision-Language-Action Model for Robust Action Control

DS-VLA is introduced, a dendritic-inspired action architecture that incorporates dendritic spiking dynamics into VLA control to enable modularized feature processing and temporal information integration and demonstrate that integrating brain-inspired computational mechanisms offers a promising architectural prior for r...

Yaxing Lyu, Jing-Yi Li, M. Xu et al. · 1 citation
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Depth Any Seen: Which Surfaces and How Far?

When several surfaces are visible along a ray, recovering visible 3D structure from one image requires jointly estimating their presence and metric depth. Depth Any Seen represents these surfaces as image-conditioned multi-Bernoulli depth sets, whose components each contribute one depth or remain absent. Its auxiliary-...

Xiao-Hao Xu, Xiao-Nan Huang · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

PHIRL: Aligning Learned Rewards with Task Progress for Inverse Reinforcement Learning

Progress-Heuristicized Inverse Reinforcement Learning (PHIRL), a data-efficient framework that learns robust reward functions by jointly leveraging demonstrations and feedback, uses progress, a feedback modality that describes cumulative task completion.

Hang Yu, James Staley, Cheng-Xi Tsou et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Robot Manipulation with GPT-6-Astra: Body Knowledge, Experience Reuse, Emergent Skills, and Sim2Real Transfer

A practical way to build general-purpose manipulation experiments around GPT-6-Astra is suggested: supply machine-readable body descriptions and synchronized demonstrations, and turn useful agent-generated feedback routines into reusable skills, while the agent adapts actions from current images.

Si-Da He, Ling-Xi Xie, Yun-Ning Cao et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

JRDB-AVR: An Active Visual Reasoning Benchmark for Embodied Agents in Real-World Environments

JRDB-AVR is introduced, a benchmark derived from existing real-world JRDB robotics data through a structured question-generation engine that turns this gap between answer accuracy and evidence accuracy in current baselines into an explicit evaluation.

Zhixi Cai, Fu-Cai Ke, Sukai Huang et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Sep 2026

Does Adversarial Training Improve Generalization in Multi-View VLAs? Revealing and Mitigating View Collapse

Vision-language-action (VLA) models adapt pretrained vision-language models (VLMs) for closed-loop robot control, transferring their perceptual and semantic capabilities to action prediction. Despite strong in-distribution performance, however, VLAs often degrade under deployment shifts. Adversarial training (AT) offer...

Futa Waseda, Shuhei Kurita, Isao Echizen · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Feedback Makes Perfect: A Closed-Loop Framework for NL-to-STL Translation

Signal Temporal Logic (STL) enables rigorous verification and control of cyber-physical systems, but writing correct specifications requires expertise that most requirement holders lack. Large language models can translate natural-language (NL) requirements into STL, yet stronger translators alone approach an accuracy...

Bo-Wen Ye, Xiang Yin · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

PlanGuard: A Guardrail for Multi-Step Plan Safety in Embodied Agents

This work introduces PlanGuard, the first pre-execution detector that evaluates the physical safety of a complete multi-step plan in its current environment, and proposes Strong-Teacher Adaptive Compensation for On-Policy Distillation (STAC-OPD), which provides compact models with adaptive strong-teacher supervision al...

Jun-Chi Chen, Chang-Tao Miao, Yu Xiang et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Are Vision-Language-Action Models Robust to One-Step Observation Perturbations?

This work investigates robustness to one-step perturbations applied at a single time step per episode and proposes CARE, which dynamically selects the execution length based on consistency with the previously predicted action chunk, which improves robustness with low computational overhead while preserving clean perfor...

Shojiro Yamabe, J. Sakuma · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Metro-WM: Long-Horizon Latent Planning with Realisable Sub-Goals

Metro-WM is introduced, a hierarchical framework that issues sub-goals by retrieving genuine states from prior experience rather than generating ungrounded latent vectors that achieves superior long-horizon success rates and maintains robust performance under extremely sparse dataset conditions.

Royson Lee, Fady Rezk, Titouan Parcollet 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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