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#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

VOMMI: Collecting and Leveraging Portable Demonstrations for Mobile Manipulation

Portable mobile-manipulation demonstrations can help alleviate data scarcity for embodied intelligence, but obtaining reliable, low-cost, and robot-free motion supervision from RGB observations remains challenging. Existing approaches often rely on teleoperation or specialized devices equipped with additional sensing h...

Yutian Zhang, Xingrui Xiong, Siyuan Ma et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Adapting Vision-Language-Action Models to Unknown Visual Disruptions During Execution

Visual disruptions can arise while a robot is executing a task, leaving a vision-language-action (VLA) policy to respond without knowing the disruption type or timing. We introduce Self-supervised Adaptation from Leftover Trajectories (SALT), which uses the leftover trajectory, the unexecuted part of the previous actio...

Ahin Lee, Jinwoo Seo, Youngsoo Jang et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

EigenDEXplore: Structured Exploration for Dexterous Manipulation with Human Priors

Dexterous manipulation poses a challenging high-dimensional optimization problem, as useful behaviors require coordinated motion across many hand joints. In reinforcement learning (RL) and sampling-based trajectory optimization, exploration commonly relies on independent robot joint perturbations, making coordinated be...

Harsh Gupta, Tyler Ga Wei Lum, Changhao Wang et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

SMART: Zero-Shot Sim-to-Real Articulated Object Manipulation via Large-Scale Synthetic Pretraining

The ability to interact with articulated objects is essential for embodied intelligent systems, but collecting large-scale real-world demonstrations for these interactions remains challenging due to the precise contact and constraint-following motions involved. Although simulation provides a promising alternative, exis...

Jicong Ao, Shuhan Jiang, Yuling Zhong et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

OpenSplatGraph: From Dense Semantic Maps to Structured Scene Graphs for Open-Vocabulary Robot Perception

Dense 3D mapping with semantic understanding is essential for robotic perception in complex environments. Recent 3D Gaussian Splatting-based mapping approaches enable high-fidelity geometry and efficient open-vocabulary perception, but typically represent semantics as unstructured feature fields that limit object-centr...

Binh Long Nguyen, Kien Nguyen, Clinton Fookes et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Demo: Vision-Language Model-Guided Online Calibration of an Electromagnetic Digital Twin

An electromagnetic (EM) digital twin gives mobile robots wireless situational awareness but depends on material conductivities that change with the environment. Online calibration faces initialization sensitivity and measurement travel costs. We demonstrate a vision-language model (VLM)-guided framework using a Unitree...

Zerui Kang, Yishen Lim, Zhouyou Gu et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

VeriFine: Scaling Verification for Self-Improvement in Embodied Reasoning

Self-improving policies continually expose new failure patterns, changing what their judges must be able to verify. However, current fixed judges constrain both optimization feedback and the discovery of useful training examples, limiting further self-improvement. This challenge is even more acute in embodied reasoning...

Zewei Zhou, Rachel Luo, Yulong Cao et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Sim-to-Real Transfer of Vision-Language Navigation in Continuous Environments Using an Ackermann-Steered Mobile Robot

Vision-Language Navigation (VLN) enables robots to navigate through environments using natural language instructions, making human-robot interaction intuitive. Traditional VLN models often rely on navigation graphs, 360-degree views, and perfect localization which pose significant challenges when adapting these models...

Chalindu Abeywansa, Sahan Gunasekara, Devindi De Silva et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

RoboCap: A New Platform for Egocentric Robot Learning

Despite its promise for scaling robot learning, egocentric manipulation data is still scarce today. Collection at scale requires vertically integrating ergonomic hardware with centimeter-precise 3D algorithms, at a precision that has not been publicly demonstrated. To address this gap, we introduce RoboCap, a 250\,g si...

Grounded Superintelligence, BitRobot · 0 citations
#robotics Preprint Open access Oct 2026

MRPilot: Supervising and Intervening LLM-Based Multi-Robot Teams through Mixed Reality

Large language models (LLMs) let users direct heterogeneous multi-robot systems (MRS) through natural language, but make task interpretation, robot assignment, and coordination difficult to inspect and change. Based on a formative study with 12 non-expert users, we developed MRPilot, a mixed reality system organized ar...

Xiaoran Yang, Xun Qian, Yang Zhan et al. · 0 citations
#robotics Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Educating future engineers about LLMs: A scalable workshop

As large language models (LLMs) are increasingly integrated into engineering workflows, students require hands-on experience to learn how to collaborate with them critically. This paper presents a scalable gamified workshop designed for engineering Master's students to practice human-AI collaboration in navigation plan...

R. Zhang, J. C. F. de Winter, T. Dicke et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

SharedKV-BT: Node-Local Typed Decisions for Behavior-Tree Agents

Agent tasks require sequences of interdependent decisions. Autoregressive models support more flexible decision interfaces than conventional classifiers but incur the latency of token-by-token generation. Recent shared-prefix methods reduce this cost by reusing encoded context and scoring multiple decisions in parallel...

Naoki Wake, Justin Wagle · 0 citations

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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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