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#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Gym-Anything for Robotics: Scaling physical simulations with digital agents

Gym-Anything for Robotics is introduced, a framework in which coding agents create realistic robotics simulations and introduces several new ways for frontier models to improve, including in-context learning across repeated attempts, a privileged teacher that reads the simulator state and teaches a student in context,...

Pranjal Aggarwal, S. Welleck · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

BURGER: Benchmarking and Understanding Robotic Generalization via Embodied Drawing

BURGER is introduced, a language-conditioned robotic drawing benchmark with a scalable, prompt-driven pipeline for generating continuous drawing trajectories, both in simulation and the real world, revealing distinct failure patterns across VLA models.

Xiang-Yu Xu, Bang-Shuai Peng, Zi-Yi Liu et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

The Athlete as a Scientist of One: Agentic Bayesian Experimental Design for Individualized Physiology from Consumer Wearables

Large language model (LLM) agents for personal health read wearable data and recommend, but do not learn about the individual in a way that can be audited or falsified. We present EpiCoach, an agentic system that treats one athlete, a cross-country mountain biker, as the subject of accountable N-of-1 science. Claims ab...

Behnam Moradi · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Learned Terminal Costs for Short-Horizon Model Predictive Control of Autonomous Trucks in Interactive Highway Traffic

This paper proposes a hybrid MPC and RL framework for highway driving in autonomous trucks, where a finite-horizon MPC, solved via dynamic programming, uses a pre-trained RL model for terminal cost estimation.

Hooman Hamze, Benjamin Houshmand, Deepthi Pathare et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Learning Safe Flow Matching Robot Policies from Binary Feasibility Oracles

Robot foundation models increasingly rely on flow-based action generation for general-purpose manipulation, yet the generated actions are not guaranteed to satisfy physical constraints such as joint limits and collision avoidance. This problem is especially challenging when the feasible set cannot be described analytic...

Jianming Ma, Rongjun Jin, Yizhi Chen et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

UMI-Live for In-The-Wild Bimanual Robotics Data Collection

Universal Manipulation Interface (UMI) devices allow human experts to demonstrate tasks for robot learning without teleoperating physical robots. Using these demonstrations as training data still requires a consistent hardware setup, calibration, and data processing. We present UMI-Live, a full-stack open-source bimanu...

Govind Velamoor, Adrian Lin, Sam Jung et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

WorldFlow: Joint Video and 3D Motion Prediction via Large-Scale Pretraining

Predicting future physical states stands as a central challenge in embodied intelligence. Existing video world models leave 3D dynamics implicit, action-based formulations remain tied to specific robot configurations, and 3D motion prediction models use flow-only supervision, providing a limited learning signal for phy...

Yu-Hao Lu, Jiong-Xu Chen, He-Xiang Wei et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

EmbodiExp: Compositional Experience Transfer for Embodied Agents

Experience can help embodied agents turn high-level plans into grounded actions, but transferring it across tasks remains challenging: previously effective strategies may be inapplicable to the current state or fail to produce their intended outcomes. We present EmbodiExp, a framework for constructing transferable expe...

Zhifeng Gu, Ying Chen, Rui Jiang et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Tactus: Tactile&Pose Sensing Glove for Natural Dexterity Data Collection

Tactus is presented, a textile-integrated sensing glove that co-optimizes three design pillars: a thin, conformal 3D-knit form factor, strategically placed capacitive tactile sensors at manipulation-relevant regions informed by empirical contact studies, and IMU-fused pose tracking that maintains accuracy through the h...

Li Guan, Rachael Granberry, Sahar A. Aseeri et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

AtomTree: A Hierarchical Framework for State-Aware Embodied Instruction Following with LLMs

AtomTree is presented, a hierarchical framework for state-aware task planning with LLMs that incrementally builds a tree of subgoals and actions, where the LLM decides at each step, from the current symbolic state, whether to further decompose or to output a grounded low-level action.

Hao-Tian Zhai, Tian-Ming Sha, Jun-Nan Li · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Explore Where It Matters: Targeted Exploration for Efficient Rover Adaptation

Future planetary rovers will traverse steep, deformable terrain where slip, sinkage, and terrain deformation can threaten mobility. Although simulation can capture some wheel-soil effects, unmodeled deformable-terrain phenomena create sim-to-real gaps requiring deployment-time adaptation. Yet, rover operations leave li...

Jacob Levy, Arthur Bouton, Tristan D. Hassler et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

SaiVLA-JEPA: Evaluating Future Latent Prediction in JEPA-Conditioned VLA Control

Joint-embedding predictive architectures (JEPAs) learn to predict representations rather than pixels, offering a compact way to model how visual scenes evolve. We ask whether this predictive objective improves closed-loop control when a vision-language-action (VLA) policy already uses V-JEPA features. We call our JEPA-...

Rufeng Xiao (VLA Research Team, Synthoid.ai), Ruihao Xiao (VLA Research Team 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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