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#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Sep 2026

MaskHarness-WAM: Instance-Grounded Harnessing for Long-Horizon Robot Manipulation

Long-horizon robot manipulation requires not only stable local visuomotor control, but also continuous target tracking and reliable task progress assessment throughout execution. This challenge becomes particularly critical when multiple objects share identical appearances and must be manipulated in a prescribed order....

Zitai Huang, Taiyi Su, Jian Zhu et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Learning and Transferring Closed-Loop Robot Software

The value of execution-improved software as a resource for acquiring new policies in this setting is demonstrated, although initial references remain better on two target tasks when averaged across runs.

So Kuroki, Yu-Jin Tang · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Improving Cross-embodiment Transfer in Latent Action Models with Action-Similarity Supervision

This work evaluates cross-embodiment transfer on RoboTwin 2.0 in a controlled setup, two bimanual robots demonstrate disjoint task sets, a policy is trained on all the demonstrations, and each robot is evaluated closed-loop on the tasks only the other demonstrated.

Maxime Alvarez, Renzo Caballero, T. Matsushima et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

TacSushi: Tactile-Grounded World-Action Modeling for Dexterous Sushi Manipulation

Comparisons support complementary benefits of feature-wise gated tactile fusion and training-only predictive supervision of TacSushi, a tactile-grounded, Cosmos3-based world-action policy that learns from recorded future consequences while acting on current observations.

Hao-Di Hu, Kaen Kogashi, T. Koike-Akino · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

AURORA: A Natural Language-Driven Agentic Framework for Understanding, Reasoning, and Orchestrating Reliable Air-Ground Co-Simulation

The results show that reliable scenario generation requires verifying realized behavior, not merely executable code, and demonstrate the value of explicit intermediate representations for verifiable and repairable language-driven co-simulation.

Keshu Wu, Hao Zhang, Rui Gan et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Sep 2026

CoreSense: Traceable Failure Recall and Conflict-Aware Belief Gating for Auditable Robot Decisions

Robots can recall prior failures without knowing whether recalled evidence remains valid, conflicts with current observations, or is sufficient to guide a decision. We present CoreSense, a robot-system integration architecture that combines traceable episodic evidence with a conflict-aware belief gate and bounded, audi...

Zoe Li · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Predict Before You Deploy: Offline Prediction of Quantization-Induced Task Degradation for World Action Models

PreDE (Predict Before You Deploy), a policy-calibrated framework for predicting quantization-induced task degradation from offline action deviations, supports policy-specific behavioral calibration for quantization configuration selection while identifying candidates that require closed-loop evaluation.

Jiu-Yi Xu, Jin-Jia Guo, Mei-Da Chen et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

From Rollout to Reset: A Graph-Based Harness for Autonomous Long-Horizon Manipulation Evaluation

HALTER, a Harness for Autonomous Long-horizon Task Evaluation and Reset, which restores the scene by planning over a library of learned atomic reset skills, so demonstration cost scales with the size of that library rather than with the number of terminal states.

Jing Jiang, Yue Yang, Xin-Kai Jiang et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Kinematics-Grounded Agentic AI for Robotic Additive Manufacturing Process Planning

This paper presents agentic robotic additive manufacturing (A-RAM), an agent-specialist-tool framework that converts user intent and a part file into traceable, execution-ready plans that is evaluated on a six-axis robotic-arm AM cell through three case studies covering expert-specified planning, goal-only planning, ob...

Jing-Zhan Ge, Rui-Min Chen, Azadeh Haghighi et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

REACT: A Fully Spiking State-Space Model for Real-Time Event-Driven Temporal Perception

REACT is proposed, a fully spiking state-space model for event-driven temporal perception that processes raw events one by one, without temporal accumulation, and shows that event-driven spiking state-space dynamics can provide low-latency, continuously updated temporal perception for reactive robotic systems.

Geoffroy Keime, N. Cuperlier, B. Cottereau · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Sep 2026

JEPA-WAM: Connecting Generated Visual Instructions to World Action Models through JEPA Latent Representations

World Action Models (WAMs) have demonstrated strong robotic manipulation capabilities by augmenting pretrained video generative models with action experts. However, current WAMs still show limited instruction-following ability when conditioned solely on text instructions. We argue that this limitation stems in part fro...

Tianbin Liu, Jian Zhu, Taiyi Su 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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