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#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Outcome-Conditioned End-Effector Geometry Across Vision-Language-Action Policies

Vision-language-action (VLA) policies solve the same manipulation task through different action interfaces, but task success alone does not establish whether their physical executions agree. We study cross-policy end-effector geometry in 15,000 closed-loop LIBERO rollouts from four policies. The primary clean-condition...

Xing-Yu Lin, Zhuang Li, Zhong-Run Wu et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

SynthDemo-RL: Breaking the Zero-Reward Barrier in VLA Adaptation with LLM-Guided Synthetic Demonstrations

Fine-tuning Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models commonly relies on human teleoperation demonstrations, while reinforcement learning (RL) with sparse binary rewards faces an exploration challenge when successful trajectories are rarely sampled. We propose SynthDemo-RL, a teacher-student framework in which an automated t...

Hiroaki Kingetsu, Hiroaki Kurihara, Kaoru Yokoo et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Potential-Field Action Representation for Reinforcement Learning in Contact-Rich Manipulation

PA-RL, a reinforcement-learning framework that uses artificial potential fields as the action representation, is proposed and is the only method to reach a 100% evaluation success rate within the allotted training time, while the best baseline reaches 92.6%.

Xin-Yu Liu, Gokhan Solak, Arash Ajoudani · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Sep 2026

2nd Place Solution to the HANDS 2026 Workshop Challenge-Dexterous Grasp Motion Track: Single-Shot Trajectory Warping for Grasp Motion Generation

This report describes our 2nd place solution to the HANDS 2026 workshop challenge (Dexterous Grasp Motion track) in conjunction with ECCV 2026. In this challenge, we address grasp motion generation for the 12-DoF LinkerHand O6, aiming to produce physically plausible reach-and-lift trajectories for unseen objects from r...

Muneeb A. Khan, Woojin Kim, Shinwoo Kim et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

AtomEgo: Exploring Ego-Robot Integration for Embodied Foundation Model Pretraining

AtomEgo is presented, a systematic study of ego--robot co-training supported by a curated corpus of approximately 2,659 hours and a scalable data processing pipeline that reveals a simple principle: Data Scale * Alignment Quality -->Capability Gain; egocentric data can improve generalization, but their value depends on...

Di Wu, Dong-Chen Zheng, Jun-He Sheng et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

KnowDemo: Knowledge-Guided Robot Demonstration Generation from Human Videos

A knowledge extraction and reasoning module based on a vision-language model that associates object and action descriptions with inferred task conditions, demonstration references, and permissible execution variations is developed, which translates into executable demonstrations that exhibit multimodal behavior through...

Zhi-Yuan Gao, Yan Zhan, Mohammad Khoshnazar et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

FOCAL-VLA: Subtask-Guided Geometry Distillation and Implicit World Modeling for Vision-Language-Action Models

Vision-language-action (VLA) models built on pretrained vision-language models have demonstrated strong performance across diverse robotic manipulation tasks. However, VLA models that directly map current 2D observations to actions often lack sufficient spatial and temporal understanding, limiting their performance in...

Zhi-Yuan Gao, Di Wen, Yan Zhan et al. · 1 citation
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Visual Navigation Transformer with Pose Attention

Results show that pose-stamped experience can serve directly as the environment representation for a learned planner, and that making attention depend on pose differences, rather than on temporal order, speeds up training and improves long-horizon navigation.

Bei-Ming Li, Jaime Romero, Jonathan Diller et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Sep 2026

PlantShade: Predicting Plant Shadows for Lighting-Aware Robotic Agricultural Operation

Plant growth and agricultural production form the foundation of a country's sustainable development and directly impact human livelihoods. Recent advances in frontier artificial intelligence have enabled scientific agriculture with strong potential to improve crop productivity. In this paper, we identify the importance...

Longchao Da, Xiaoou Liu, Xingjian Li et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Sep 2026

A Fully Differentiable Neuro-Soft-Symbolic Framework for Perceptual Task Planning

Perceptual planning tasks require two key capabilities: accurately perceiving uncertain scenes and planning valid action sequences following logical rules. Conventional methods convert perception into discrete symbolic facts and then plan, discarding perceptual uncertainty and severing task-level feedback to perception...

Hongyan Wei, Wael AbdAlmageed · 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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