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#robotics Review Aug 2026

ConfAL-WM: Confidence-Guided Active Learning for Action-Conditioned World Models

Experiments on RoboTwin2.0 show that confidence-guided selection improves post-training efficiency, while dense frame and patch weighting further enhances prediction quality and embodied trajectory consistency compared with scalar reward, progress, and judge-based scoring baselines.

Xiang Liu, Kun Wu, Miao Liu et al. · 0 citations
#robotics Jul 2026

VIA: Visual Interface Agent for Robot Control

This work presents VIA (Visual Interface Agent for robot control), a framework that recasts robot control as an agentic task: an off-the-shelf FM-powered agent drives a manipulator through a browser-based 3D interface by taking screenshots, issuing intuitive commands, observing the outcome, and adjusting.

Hengyuan Hu, Priya Sundaresan, Jensen Gao et al. · 4 citations
#robotics Preprint Jul 2026

Jetson-PI: Towards Onboard Real-Time Robot Control via Foresight-Aligned Asynchronous Inference

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have achieved impressive performance on diverse embodied tasks. However, deploying VLA models on low-power onboard devices, such as the Jetson Orin, remains challenging due to their high computational complexity, which leads to substantial inference latency and low control frequency....

Zebin Yang, Qi Wang, Yun-He Wang et al. · 1 citation
#robotics Jul 2026

PACE: Persona Adaptation through Conversational Elicitation in Human-Robot Interaction

PACE (Persona Adaptation through Conversational Elicitation), a novel framework for the interactive generation and deployment of structured personas on the Ameca humanoid robot, introduces an Interactive Persona Elicitation Pipeline, enabling the robot to dynamically synthesize a tailored, psychologically grounded iden...

Peizhen Li, Longbing Cao, Megani Rajendran et al. · 0 citations
#robotics Preprint Aug 2026

Feelium: A Touchable Blimp Body for Aerial Telepresence

Feelium is a blimp-based telepresence platform that enables visual embodiment and touch interaction through its inflatable skin that turns the skin into a shared surface between remote and co-located partners.

George Xi Wang, Heng-Hao Li, Shan Lin et al. · 0 citations
#computer vision Jun 2026

RoboTrustBench: Benchmarking the Trustworthiness of Video World Models for Robotic Manipulation

It is found that current models often generate visually coherent videos, but struggle with constraint reasoning, counterfactual grounding, physical interaction, and unsafe-instruction suppression, and results show that visual quality and surface-level instruction following are insufficient for trustworthy robotic video...

Huiqiong Li, Jia-Yu Wang, Zhiting Mei et al. · 4 citations

IntentVLA: Short-Horizon Intent Modeling for Aliased Robot Manipulation

IntentVLA is introduced, a history-conditioned VLA framework that encodes recent visual observations into a compact short-horizon intent representation and uses it to condition chunk generation and improves rollout stability and outperforms strong VLA baselines.

Shijie Lian, Bin Yu, Xiaopeng Lin et al. · 6 citations

Runtime Safety Filtering for Learned Small UAS Separation Policies under GNSS Degradation

Experimental results show that action filtering provides negligible safety improvement, while observation filtering reduces near mid-air collisions by 90% and remains robust to the barrier function's tradeoff between separation distance and closing rate, and suggest that preserving the policy's decision authority outpe...

Alex Zongo, Peng Wei · 0 citations

Robust Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Small UAS Separation Assurance under GPS Degradation and Spoofing

This work derives a closed-form expression for this adversarial perturbation, bypassing the iterative inner optimization of adversarial training entirely and enabling linear-time evaluation in the state dimension, and shows that this expression approximates the exact minimizer of the value function over the modeled unc...

Alex Zongo, Filippos Fotiadis, U. Topcu et al. · 1 citation

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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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