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Bringing Robotics AI to Embedded Platforms: Dataset Recording, VLA Fine‑Tuning, and On‑Device Optimizations

arXiv AI
Jun 16

Embedded Arena: Iterative Optimization via Hardware Feedback

arXiv:2606. 16190v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Embedded devices from wildlife monitoring stations to clinical wearables require local AI inference due to latency, communication, or privacy constraints.

By Zhihan Zhang, Alexander Le Metzger, Jiuyang Lyu, Chun-Cheng Chang, Jiayi Shao, Yujia Liu, Emmanuel Azuh Mensah, Edward Wang, Kurtis Heimerl, Gregory D. Abowd, Shwetak Patel, Natasha Jaques, Vikram Iyer
arXiv AI
Jul 2

Creating Impactful Autonomous Driving Datasets: A Strategic Guide from Research Gap to Benchmark

arXiv:2607. 00710v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Well-designed autonomous driving datasets have fundamentally shaped research progress, yet existing literature primarily describes what datasets contain rather than how to strategically design impactful ones.

By Richard Schwarzkopf, Jonas Merkert, Frank Bieder, Annika B\"atz, Alexander Blumberg, Carlos Fernandez, Felix Hauser, Fabian Immel, Christian Kinzig, Hendrik K\"onigshof, Fabian Konstantinidis, Martin Lauer, Willi Poh, Nils Rack, Kevin R\"osch, Yinzhe Shen, Marlon Steiner, Gleb Stepanov, Dominik Strutz, \"Omer \c{S}ahin Ta\c{s}, Julian Truetsch, Kaiwen Wang, Royden Wagner, Jan-Hendrik Pauls, Christoph Stiller
arXiv AI
Jul 16

RADAR: Closed-Loop Robotic Data Generation via Semantic Planning and Autonomous Causal Environment Reset

arXiv:2603. 11811v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The acquisition of large-scale physical interaction data, a critical prerequisite for modern robot learning, is severely bottlenecked by the prohibitive cost and scalability limits of human-in-the-loop collection paradigms.

By Yongzhong Wang, Keyu Zhu, Yong Zhong, Liqiong Wang, Jinyu Yang, Feng Zheng
arXiv AI
3d ago

Algorithm-Architecture Co-Design for Efficient VLA Inference via Speculative Inference and Verification

arXiv:2608. 15636v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in the field of embodied AI, but their high computational cost and limited predicted action length hinder real-time deployment.

By Chunyu Qi, Zhuoran Song, Jian Weng, Haozhe Jiang, Xueyuan Liu, Naifeng Jing, Guanghui He, Xiaoyao Liang, Haibing Guan
arXiv AI
Jun 16

From Noise to Intent: Anchoring Generative VLA Policies with Residual Bridges

arXiv:2604. 21391v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Bridging high-level semantic understanding with low-level physical control remains a persistent challenge in embodied intelligence, stemming from the fundamental spatiotemporal scale mismatch between cognition and action.

By Yiming Zhong, Yaoyu He, Zemin Yang, Pengfei Tian, Yifan Huang, Qingqiu Huang, Xinge Zhu, Yuexin Ma
arXiv AI
Jul 7

GaP: A Graph-as-Policy Multi-Agent Self-Learning Harness For Variational Automation Tasks

arXiv:2607. 05369v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: For robots to work reliably in commercial and industrial applications, can recent advances in agentic coding systems combine interpretable robot programming with the open-world adaptability of model-free policies?

By Kaiyuan Chen, Shuangyu Xie, Letian Fu, Justin Yu, William Pacini, Sandeep Bajamahal, Hudson Kim, Jaimyn Drake, Daehwa Kim, Haoru Xue, Jonathan Francis, Christian Juette, Peter Schaldenbrand, Muhammet Yunus Seker, Ruwan Wickramarachchi, Uksang Yoo, Guanzhi Wang, Adithyavairavan Murali, Balakumar Sundaralingam, S. Shankar Sastry, Spencer Huang, Yuke Zhu, Linxi "Jim" Fan, Ken Goldberg