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#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Toward Evidence-Driven Human-Agent-Robot Teaming for Earth-Independent Anomaly Triage

Deep-space crews cannot rely on real-time ground support for urgent off-nominal events. Initial alerts may underdetermine cause, while discriminating evidence may reside in crew observations or at locations that are unsafe, costly, or unavailable for crew inspection. We present an evidence-driven architecture for human...

Ignacio G Lopez-Francos, Alexis Gallagher, Samira Shalal · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Taming an End-to-End Autonomous Driving Policy for Urban Navigation of Quadruped Robots

We present Go2-DrivoR, a goal-conditioned adaptation of the end-to-end autonomous driving trajectory planning framework DrivoR for urban navigation with quadrupedal robots. By conditioning trajectory generation on a local-frame subgoal through a goal token and adapting the vehicle-centric scoring formulation, the metho...

Joochan Kim, Chanuk Yang, Tackgeun You et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

RoboJEPA: Scaling Robotic Latent World Models

Latent world models have shown a remarkable ability to predict future states and to plan in the real world. In practice, however, we lack a principled way to estimate how their capabilities scale with model size, data, and compute, an open problem that slows progress in the field. In this work we present RoboJEPA, a wo...

Artem Zholus, Nicolas Beltran-Velez, Jianhao Yuan et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

MeshSIPP: Efficient Lattice Planning in Dynamic Environment

Autonomous navigation in dynamic environments requires computing spatiotemporal trajectories that satisfy non-holonomic motion constraints. When the trajectories of the moving obstacles are predictable or known, a promising approach is to rely on the combination of state lattices constructed from precomputed feasible m...

Marat Agranovskiy, Konstantin Yakovlev · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Learning Situation-Conditioned Thinking Policies for Long-Term LLM Agents

Long-running autonomous agents must reuse accumulated reasoning experience without allowing explicit historical memory and LLM context to grow indefinitely. However, existing memory mechanisms mainly retrieve, summarize, or compress past content and do not directly learn when particular kinds of thinking should be acti...

Hong Su · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Shared-Roadmap Generation and Evaluator for Multi-Agent Path Planning Using Heterogeneous Graph Neural Network

Multi-agent path planning (MAPP) in continuous environments often relies on roadmaps to balance safety and search efficiency. However, traditional roadmap generation methods, such as lattice grids or standard sampling-based approaches, frequently face a trade-off between graph density and the likelihood of finding feas...

Brandon Ho, Nikola Rogers, Seung-Kyum Choi · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Guided Action Flow: Value-Guided Sampling for Frozen Vision-Language-Action Policies

Reinforcement learning can improve vision-language-action (VLA) policies beyond supervised fine-tuning, although this typically involves further updates to the policy parameters. For flow-matching policies, iterative action generation provides an additional opportunity to incorporate task information during inference....

Liuhaichen Yang, Zhuang Jiang, Chenchao Sheng et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Sensitivity Shaping for Latent Modeling

Generative dynamics models enable planning in challenging systems, but safe deployment requires detecting policy-induced out-of-distribution (OOD) transitions. Existing methods typically treat learned dynamics as fixed and rely on post hoc support surrogates for OOD detection. This overlooks a critical failure mode: le...

Hongzhan Yu, Chenghao Li, Ruipeng Zhang et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

PC-Diffuser: Path-Consistent Capsule CBF Safety Filtering for Diffusion-Based Trajectory Planner

Autonomous driving in complex traffic requires planners that generalize beyond hand-crafted rules, motivating data-driven approaches that learn behavior from expert demonstrations. Diffusion-based trajectory planners have recently shown strong closed-loop performance by iteratively denoising a full-horizon plan, but th...

Eugene Ku, Yiwei Lyu · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

SimToolReal: An Object-Centric Policy for Zero-Shot Dexterous Tool Manipulation

The ability to manipulate tools significantly expands the set of tasks a robot can perform. Yet, tool manipulation represents a challenging class of dexterity, requiring grasping thin objects, in-hand object rotations, and forceful interactions. Since collecting teleoperation data for these behaviors is challenging, si...

Kushal Kedia, Tyler Ga Wei Lum, Jeannette Bohg et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

LHM-Humanoid: Long-Horizon Human Motion Control for Continuous Object Transport in Cluttered Scenes

Physics-based human motion control can make a simulated character walk, sit, and manipulate objects with high physical realism. Almost always, though, this happens in short, isolated clips that are re-initialized between interactions. We instead aim for continuous, reset-free long-horizon motion: a physically simulated...

Haozhuo Zhang, Jingkai Sun, Michele Caprio et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

DepthWorld: 3D World Model for Robot Manipulation

World models offer a data-driven alternative to traditional simulators for robotics, with applications spanning policy evaluation, improvement, and planning. All of these uses depend on faithful 3D geometry, yet current video-based world models are trained on RGB alone and produce rollouts that look correct frame-by-fr...

Jai Bardhan, Josef Sivic, Vladimir Petrik · 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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