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#robotics Preprint Open access Sep 2026

Designing Task-Induced Arousal: A Multimodal Stress Induction Method for Interactive Experiments

HCI and HRI studies often require short, repeatable arousal manipulations that can run while participants continue interacting with a device or robot. These experiments are often challenged by the need to induce arousal in settings that still resemble real interaction. Participants must continue using a device, touchin...

Morten Roed Frederiksen · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

Beyond Reconstruction Error: Analytical and Data-Driven Action Tokenization for Autoregressive Vision-Language-Action Models

Discrete action tokenization is central to autoregressive vision-language-action (VLA) models, yet action representations are often evaluated primarily through reconstruction fidelity. We ask which representation properties actually matter for closed-loop control by comparing fixed analytical, data-driven linear, and n...

Yu-Xin Yang, Gao-Han He, Chang-Xue Guan et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

CODA: Depth-Aligned Scene Completion and Object Decomposition from a Single RGB-D Image

Robots operating safely in cluttered everyday environments often need to infer scene geometry from partial observations. Methods that detect objects in 2D and reconstruct them independently struggle in such scenes: a missed object is never reconstructed, a merged detection can fuse two objects, and separately reconstru...

Dongwon Son, Junhyek Han, Yoon-Je Cho et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

HABILIS Brain 0: Geometry-Change Supervision for Vision-Language-Action and Residual Flow Recovery

Geometry-Change VLA (GC-VLA), which learns to predict multiview future-current geometry-change tokens from current observations and applies Geometry-Conditioned Residual Flow (GCRF), using a binary intervention router and a single bounded residual velocity policy learned from closed-loop feedback.

Jinu Pahk, Jesoon Kang, T. Park et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Sep 2026

Learning from Humans for Proactive Assistance in Human-Robot Collaborative Transport

We focus on human-robot collaborative transport, a challenging task of broad relevance spanning logistics, manufacturing, and the home, in which a user and a robot work together to relocate a large or heavy object. To act as an effective partner, the robot should reduce the user's effort by contributing to efficient re...

Elvin Yang, Christoforos Mavrogiannis · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

GINIO: A Geometric SO(3)-Equivariant Interface for Neural Inertial Odometry

Neural inertial odometry increasingly uses networks as learned measurements inside filtering pipelines. Such measurements should transform consistently under arbitrary IMU mounting conventions: their mean must transform as a vector, and their covariance must transform congruently as a second-order tensor. We present GI...

Chan-Ki Kim, Ming-Han Zhu, Tzu-Yuan Lin et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Sep 2026

Minimal Recurrent Behavioral Memory for Imitation under Partial Observability

What is the least recurrent memory needed to reproduce a specified expert under partial observability? The instantaneous requirement is the conditional entropy of the expert's behavioral quotient, but recurrence must also preserve distinctions that future observations will not restore before use. We characterize this m...

Xianyao Li, Fang Xu, Rui Min et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Jun 2026

AgenticDiffusion: Multi-View Reasoning with View-Conditioned Diffusion Planning for Vision-Based UAV Navigation

AgenticDiffusion is proposed, an agentic multi-view UAV navigation framework that semantically coordinates first-person-view and top-view observations for mission-level navigation that is robust to lexical variation in target descriptions.

Faryal Batool, Muhammad Ahsan Mustafa, Fawad Mehboob et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2025

Real-time autonomous magnetic microrobot navigation across dynamic and biologically relevant environments

A closed-loop framework for autonomous magnetic microrobot navigation that separates long-range geometric planning from short-range reactive control is presented, and a modular framework for autonomous magnetic microrobot navigation in complex biological environments is established.

Yan-Da Yang, Max Sokolich, F. Kırmızıtaş et al. · 3 citations

SPINE: Bridging the Cyber-Physical Gap with Agentic AI

Results show that structured agentic debugging can address a key cyber-physical integration bottleneck in real-world robot deployment, and are shown to be more complete and efficient recovery than human operators using Claude Code.

Minkyu Ham, Dongho Kim, Chan Lee et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Sep 2026

NIMO Controller: a self-driving laboratory orchestrator based on the Model Context Protocol

Self-driving laboratories (SDLs) are attracting increasing attention as a means of accelerating scientific discovery; however, developing SDL software remains technically demanding. To improve accessibility, orchestration software frameworks have been proposed to coordinate SDL components, but many existing frameworks...

Naruki Yoshikawa, Ryo Tamura · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

MAVP: Map-Aware Visuomotor Policies for Mobile Manipulation

Successful mobile manipulation requires coordinated base and arm motion while maintaining accurate spatial positioning. However, demonstration-trained policies can struggle to realise the intended base motion reliably, leading to spatial misalignment and subsequent manipulation failures. We present MAVP (Map-Aware Visu...

Jin-He Tang, Rui Dai, Wei-Ming Zhi · 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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