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#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Sep 2026

Diffusion-Based Generation of Gait Trajectories

Generation of musculoskeletal gait trajectories conditioned on patient-specific parameters remains a key challenge for wearable robotics and rehabilitation. Assistive systems such as lower-limb exoskeletons require reference trajectories that adapt to individual morphology and therapeutic goals while preserving biomech...

Damian Benasco, Juan Carballeira-Lopez, Jaime Ramos-Rojas et al. · 0 citations
#robotics Preprint Sep 2026

A Robot Among People:From Social Imitation to the Social Becoming of Human Groups

This work understands robots in public spaces not in terms of autonomy or intelligence, but as a relational capacity, which implies designing robots not in the authors' image or for their utility, but grounded in their needs in being and becoming together.

Victor Tuan Vu Pham, Judith Dörrenbächer, Thomas H. Weisswange et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Sep 2026

An Empirical Markov Chain Car-Following (MC-CF) Model

Car-following behavior is fundamental to traffic flow theory, yet traditional models often fail to capture the stochasticity of naturalistic driving. This paper proposes an empirical probabilistic sampling approach to car-following modeling that bypasses conventional parametric assumptions. Under this approach, we intr...

Sungyong Chung, Yanlin Zhang, Nachuan Li et al. · 0 citations

AnyView: Synthesizing Any Novel View in Dynamic Scenes

It is found that most baselines drastically degrade in performance, as they require significant overlap between viewpoints, while AnyView maintains the ability to produce realistic, plausible, and spatiotemporally consistent videos when prompted from $\textit{any}$ viewpoint.

Basile Van Hoorick, Dian Chen, Shun Iwase et al. · 12 citations · ⚡1
#machine learning Preprint Open access Sep 2026

VertexCBF: Improving Neural Control Barrier Functions via Vertex-Restricted Control Search

As the number of autonomous robots continues to grow, safety becomes increasingly important. Control barrier functions (CBFs) provide a theoretically grounded framework for ensuring safety, but existing design methods often face limitations in effectiveness, scalability, or interpretability, and may result in overly co...

Bojan Deraji\'c, Sebastian Bernhard, Wolfgang H\"onig · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

Efficient Vision-Language-Action Management and Serving for Robot Factories

Robion is designed, the first VLA serving and management system for multi-robot, multi-model requests on multi-GPU edge servers that meets SLOs and enables flexible model placements on multi-GPU servers, and integrates an intelligent traffic controller.

Dionysios Adamopoulos, Nattapol Chanpaisit, Basel Fakhri et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Sep 2026

Scenario-Independent Criticality Assessment and Prediction for Vulnerable Road Users in Autonomous Driving

Increasing safety is the primary objective of automated vehicles. Achieving this goal requires reliable safety metrics that incorporate safety-relevant factors such as object type, velocity, and criticality. A key capability of such metrics is the distinction between critical and non-critical objects, which is addresse...

J\"org Gamerdinger, Victor Schwarzenberger, Philipp Schmid et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Aug 2026

CLAP: Cross-Embodiment Video World Models are Zero-Shot Physical Simulators

State-of-the-art action-conditioned video models are typically restricted to a single robot embodiment, preventing them from leveraging the vast corpus of heterogeneous video data that contains rich signals for learning generalizable physics. To bridge this gap, we introduce CLAP, a framework for cross-embodiment actio...

Ke-Chen Liu, Olaoluwa Shorinwa · 1 citation
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Sep 2026

PhysCodeBench: Benchmarking Physics-Aware Symbolic Simulation of 3D Scenes via Self-Corrective Multi-Agent Refinement

Translating natural-language descriptions of physical phenomena into executable simulation code requires both programming expertise and physical reasoning. Current large language models (LLMs) lack this combination: they frequently produce code that runs but simulates the wrong physics. We introduce PhysCodeBench, the...

Tianyidan Xie, Peiyu Wang, Hu Jiaxin et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Sep 2026

OA-NBV: Occlusion-Aware Next-Best-View Planning for Human-Centered Active Perception on Mobile Robots

We naturally step sideways or lean to see around the obstacle when our view is blocked, and recover a more informative observation. Enabling robots to make the same kind of viewpoint choice is critical for human-centered operations, including search, triage, and disaster response, where cluttered environments and parti...

Boxun Hu, Chang Chang, Jiawei Ge et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2025

DropVLA: An Action-Level Backdoor Attack on Vision-Language-Action Models

DropVLA is presented, an action-level backdoor attack that forces a reusable action primitive to execute at attacker-chosen decision points under a realistic pipeline-black-box setting with limited data-poisoning access, using a window-consistent relabeling scheme for chunked fine-tuning.

Zong-Huan Xu, Jiayu Li, Yun-Han Zhao et al. · 5 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Sep 2026

FLOAT Drone: A Fully-actuated Coaxial Aerial Robot for Close-Proximity Operations

How to endow aerial robots with the ability to operate in close proximity remains an open problem. The core challenges lie in the propulsion system's dual-task requirement: generating manipulation forces while simultaneously counteracting gravity. These competing demands create dynamic coupling effects during physical...

Junxiao Lin, Shuhang Ji, Yuze Wu 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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