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#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Demo: Vision-Language Model-Guided Online Calibration of an Electromagnetic Digital Twin

An electromagnetic (EM) digital twin gives mobile robots wireless situational awareness but depends on material conductivities that change with the environment. Online calibration faces initialization sensitivity and measurement travel costs. We demonstrate a vision-language model (VLM)-guided framework using a Unitree...

Zerui Kang, Yishen Lim, Zhouyou Gu et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

VeriFine: Scaling Verification for Self-Improvement in Embodied Reasoning

Self-improving policies continually expose new failure patterns, changing what their judges must be able to verify. However, current fixed judges constrain both optimization feedback and the discovery of useful training examples, limiting further self-improvement. This challenge is even more acute in embodied reasoning...

Zewei Zhou, Rachel Luo, Yulong Cao et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Sim-to-Real Transfer of Vision-Language Navigation in Continuous Environments Using an Ackermann-Steered Mobile Robot

Vision-Language Navigation (VLN) enables robots to navigate through environments using natural language instructions, making human-robot interaction intuitive. Traditional VLN models often rely on navigation graphs, 360-degree views, and perfect localization which pose significant challenges when adapting these models...

Chalindu Abeywansa, Sahan Gunasekara, Devindi De Silva et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

RoboCap: A New Platform for Egocentric Robot Learning

Despite its promise for scaling robot learning, egocentric manipulation data is still scarce today. Collection at scale requires vertically integrating ergonomic hardware with centimeter-precise 3D algorithms, at a precision that has not been publicly demonstrated. To address this gap, we introduce RoboCap, a 250\,g si...

Grounded Superintelligence, BitRobot · 0 citations
#robotics Preprint Open access Oct 2026

MRPilot: Supervising and Intervening LLM-Based Multi-Robot Teams through Mixed Reality

Large language models (LLMs) let users direct heterogeneous multi-robot systems (MRS) through natural language, but make task interpretation, robot assignment, and coordination difficult to inspect and change. Based on a formative study with 12 non-expert users, we developed MRPilot, a mixed reality system organized ar...

Xiaoran Yang, Xun Qian, Yang Zhan et al. · 0 citations
#robotics Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Educating future engineers about LLMs: A scalable workshop

As large language models (LLMs) are increasingly integrated into engineering workflows, students require hands-on experience to learn how to collaborate with them critically. This paper presents a scalable gamified workshop designed for engineering Master's students to practice human-AI collaboration in navigation plan...

R. Zhang, J. C. F. de Winter, T. Dicke et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

SharedKV-BT: Node-Local Typed Decisions for Behavior-Tree Agents

Agent tasks require sequences of interdependent decisions. Autoregressive models support more flexible decision interfaces than conventional classifiers but incur the latency of token-by-token generation. Recent shared-prefix methods reduce this cost by reusing encoded context and scoring multiple decisions in parallel...

Naoki Wake, Justin Wagle · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Learning Visual Feature-Based World Models via Residual Latent Action

World models predict future transitions from observations and actions. Existing works predominantly focus on image generation only. Visual feature-based world models, on the other hand, predict future visual features instead of raw video pixels, offering a promising alternative that is more efficient and less prone to...

Xinyu Zhang, Zhengtong Xu, Yutian Tao et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Generalizable Dense Reward for Long-Horizon Robotic Tasks

Existing robotic foundation policies are trained primarily via large-scale imitation learning. While such models demonstrate strong capabilities, they often struggle with long-horizon tasks due to distribution shift and error accumulation. While reinforcement learning (RL) can finetune these models, it cannot work well...

Silong Yong, Stephen Sheng, Carl Qi et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

HARL-A: An Extensible Benchmark Framework for Heterogeneous Multi-Agent Adversarial Reinforcement Learning in IsaacLab

Progress in adversarial multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) for robotics has been hampered by a lack of shared, extensible infrastructure that supports heterogeneous agent morphologies in high-fidelity physics simulation. Existing frameworks either focus on cooperative tasks, rely on simplified physics engines, o...

Isaac Peterson, Christopher Allred, Jacob Morrey et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

QF3: Fast Flow RL with Filtered Q-Gradients

Flow policies have become a standard policy class for learning robot behaviors from demonstrations, but reinforcement learning is still critical for improving pre-trained flow policies or learning them from scratch through interaction. We introduce QF3 (Fast Flow RL with Filtered Q-Gradients), an online off-policy RL a...

Chung Min Kim, Brent Yi, David McAllister et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Compact Robot Policies Need Fine-Grained Visual Representations

Multi-task manipulation policies differ in architecture, scale, and pretrained priors all at once, so published comparisons cannot attribute performance to any single component. We argue that most of it comes from the visual representation, and that parameter scale and generative priors are largely incidental. To test...

Na Chen, Run-Qiu Yang, Jia-Wei Tang 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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