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#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

TriWorldBench: A Tri-View Consistency Perspective on Embodied World Models

TRWORLDBENCH is introduced, a benchmark for evaluating embodied world models through synchronized head, left-wrist, and right-wrist videos and uses 19 metrics to assess tri-view consistency, task alignment, physical and 3D coherence, motion quality, temporal consistency, and visual quality.

Xuan-Yi Liu, Hao-Feng Wang, Rui-Qi Li et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Sep 2026

Silent Sabotage: Internal State Triggered Backdoor Attacks on LLM-Powered Robotic Systems

It is demonstrated that an attacker can embed a stealthy backdoor into an LLM-based robot controller by manipulating its instructions, triggered not by an external cue, but by a specific, rare sequence of the robot's own past actions.

Doniyorkhon Obidov, Shivayogi Akki, Cheng-Qiu Tan et al. · 2 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Sep 2026

StepTrigger: Contact-State-Triggered Backdoor Attacks on VLM-Powered Legged Robots

Large language models and vision-language models are increasingly used as high-level planners in robotic systems, using task goals and sensor summaries to select navigation or manipulation actions. This creates a new backdoor surface: a compromised planner can behave normally in most runs, yet change its target selecti...

Jiageng Zhang, Doniyorkhon Obidov, Kaichen Yang · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Skytopia: Monocular Drone Navigation with Action-Conditioned Latent World Models

Monocular drone navigation requires reaching a goal in an unseen environment from a single forward-facing camera, which offers few cues for depth and scale. World models address this by modelling how observations evolve under actions, but they are built to be executed: the prediction is produced at deployment and fed b...

Yu-Hang Zhang, Rangya Zhang, Yu-Jing Shang et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Destination Support Restoration for Finite-Set Multimodal Trajectory Prediction

DSR is introduced, a causal post-selection operator that repairs destination support without retraining the host predictor or increasing the maintained set size, and shows that finite-set support allocation is a useful prediction-side control point when a fixed hypothesis set serves as the interface to downstream syste...

Feng-Rui Liu, Jia-Jun Peng, Duo Peng et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Sep 2026

Teaching Reinforcement Learning and Humanoid Robotics to High-School Students: An Expert-Validated Curriculum Design on a Low-Cost Open Platform

Lower cost open source robots and reinforcement learning (RL) simulation tools create new opportunities for precollege students to engage with contemporary robotics. However, translating a complete research workflow, spanning mechanical assembly, electrical setup, simulation, policy learning, system identification, and...

Yuanzhe Dong, Jie Cao, Shuman Wang · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

IndustrialVLA-Bench: A Traceable Multi-Axis Evaluation of Open Robot Policy Models

IndustrialVLA-Bench is presented, an evidence-aware evaluation of six released VLA and WAM systems under a unified reporting schema that evaluates clean capability on LIBERO, non-language robustness on LIBERO-Plus, instruction sensitivity on LIBERO-Para, and observed execution cost.

Yi-Qi Wang, Zhi-Feng Rao, Jia-Qi Zhang et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Sep 2026

Toward User-Mediated Self-Repair in Ubiquitous Robots Through Goal-Oriented Agentic AI

Ubiquitous robotic systems often lack traditional visual interfaces, necessitating resilient natural language interaction for maintenance and repair tasks. This paper presents a goal oriented agentic AI architecture designed to enable non-expert users to perform technical repairs through situated dialogue. The framewor...

Morten Roed Frederiksen · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Sep 2026

TS-MAMP: A Remanufactured Agricultural Robot with Second-Life EV Components and NMS-Free On-Device Weed Detection

Agriculture 4.0 robotic systems improve field efficiency yet remain too capital-intensive for the fragmented smallholdings that dominate global agriculture. Meanwhile, a growing number of retired low-speed electric-vehicle (LSEV) powertrains retain functional electromechanical value but are destructively recycled. This...

Weijie Shi, Zicheng Xu, Zhenbang Cheng et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Sep 2026

HALO-WA: Hybrid-Attention Latent-Guided Online Reinforcement Learning for World-Action Models

World-action (WA) models can generate long-horizon action chunks for general-purpose robotic manipulation, but they remain vulnerable to calibration, perception, and contact-dynamics errors in real-world precision tasks, often failing in the final few millimeters of alignment or insertion. We propose HALO-WA, a hybrid-...

Angen Ye, Weijie Ke, Xiaofeng Wang et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Sep 2026

AdaReP:Adaptive Re-Planning under Model Mismatch for Neural World-Model Predictive Control

Neural world models coupled with model predictive control (MPC) replan at every environment step to bound accumulated prediction error, but this incurs substantial computational overhead. Reusing a cached plan reduces this overhead, yet its effectiveness depends on how prediction mismatch propagates through the local d...

Yutian Cheng, Xiaojian Ma, Xianhao Wang et al. · 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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