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#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

FailBench: How Reliable are VLMs at Judging Robot Task Success?

This work introduces FailBench, a benchmark for robot failure detection comprising 2,197 manipulation attempts across 14 public sources (12 real-world, 2 simulated), and shows that input-level intervention--spatially localizing and cropping outcome-relevant regions--improves the top detector by 2.4 percentage points wi...

Zaruhi Navasardyan, Tatul Danielyan, Hrant Davtyan · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Toward Physically Grounded JEPA World Models for Goal-Conditioned Robotic Planning

Action-conditioned JEPA world models enable planning toward visually specified goals without reconstructing future pixels, yet latent prediction alone does not explicitly encourage the learned representations to retain information relevant to robotic control. We introduce an end-to-end JEPA world model that augments la...

Mu-Yuan Liu, Yue-Ning Huang, Zhe Liang et al. · 3 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

BRIDGE: An Open-Source Humanoid Platform via Morphology-Control Co-Design for Physical AI

This work introduces a data-driven morphology-control co-design framework that optimizes humanoid morphology for human-like movement and demonstrates that Bridge captures human motion data with superior fidelity, exhibiting exceptional performance across foundational locomotion, robust balance, and highly dynamic maneu...

Jian-Ren Wang, Le-Tian Qian, Zi-Kai Wang et al. · 1 citation
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Air-Ground Collaborative Vision-and-Language Navigation via Shared Bird's-Eye Maps

AGC-VLN (Air-Ground Collaborative VLN), the first training-free baseline for air-ground collaborative VLN, establishes that training-free methods decompose navigation into VLM-based semantic reasoning and deterministic geometric execution, exposing a collaboration interface.

Shu-Ning Zhang, Liang Li, Yun-Heng Wang et al. · 2 citations · ⚡2
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Rethinking World Models for Safety-Critical Embodied Systems

It is argued that future world models should move beyond predicting likely futures toward identifying which futures matter, revising judgments through experience, and recognizing when to act, revise, sense, defer, or abstain.

Kai-Lang Ma, Heyang Huang, Inhi Kim et al. · 0 citations
#robotics Preprint Jul 2026

See like a Robot: Robot-Centric Pointmaps for Vision-Language-Action Models

Vision-language-action (VLA) models predict robot actions from visual observations and language instructions. These actions are defined in the robot's own 3D coordinate frame, yet most VLAs observe the scene in the camera frame, creating a frame mismatch between where the scene is observed and where actions are defined...

Byungkun Lee, Dongyoon Hwang, Dongjin Kim et al. · 1 citation
#robotics Preprint Aug 2026

Decoupling Intention from Trajectory: A Representational Deduction Framework for World Action Models

PILOT (Physical Inference for Latent Optimized Trajectories) bridges the gap between high-level physical condition evolution and low-level action trajectory generation within the Action Model, creating a structural bottleneck while weakening the predictive capability of world evolution modeling for action generation.

Xiangkai Ma, Yue Ma, Junjie Wang et al. · 0 citations
#robotics Preprint Aug 2026

Faster-WAM: Do World Action Models Need Deep Action Modules?

Faster-WAM, an instantiation of DoT for WAMs, which docks a single-layer action head onto a 30-layer video backbone, achieves competitive performance on LIBERO and RoboTwin 2.0 while demonstrating strong out-of-distribution generalization on LIBERO-Plus.

Liheng Ma, Rui Yang, Zhan-Guang Zhang et al. · 4 citations
#machine learning Preprint Aug 2026

From Digital to Physical Reservoir Computing: Co-Optimizing Soft Robotic Reservoirs via Dynamics Matching

The feasibility of dynamics-level co-optimization for the simulated soft robotic reservoirs considered here is demonstrated, with results demonstrating the feasibility of dynamics-level co-optimization for the simulated soft robotic reservoirs considered here.

Nicola Visentin, Maximilian Stölzle, Mariano Ramírez Montero et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2024

Deep Reinforcement Learning for Reach-Avoid-Stay Problems

A two-step deep reinforcement learning framework that jointly learns the maximal robust RAS set and the corresponding control policy and identifies the RAS set with high accuracy while outperforming baseline methods on RAS tasks.

Gabriel Chênevert, Jingqi Li, A. Kannan et al. · 5 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

Humanoid Safe Stop via Learned Stoppability Value

Safe-Stop is proposed, a task-agnostic framework that pairs a learned stop policy with learned stoppability estimators, and yields decisions that are robust without sacrificing reactivity.

Jun-Feng Long, Pieter Abbeel, K. Sreenath 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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