arXiv AI

Bidirectional Tutoring for Developmental Motor Learning in Robots: Co-Developed Interaction Dynamics Support Stable Learning

arXiv:2606. 19728v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Infants are well known to develop their motor skills through dense interaction with caregivers.

arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 17

In-Context Robot Learning with VLM Agents

arXiv:2609.19138v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Enabling robots to adapt to unfamiliar environments as readily as humans remains a moonshot goal of embodied AI. No finite collection of demonstrations...

By Dongzhou Cheng, Taoran Yi, Ye Fang, Xingwu Zhang, Fan Feng, Yixuan Li, Gengxiong Zhuang, Rongze Wang, Shuai Yang, Wei Song, Weizhi Xue, Minyan Wu, Jie Gui, Jiaqi Wang, Tong Wu
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 31

REFINE-DP: Diffusion Policy Fine-tuning for Humanoid Loco-manipulation via Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2603. 13707v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Humanoid loco-manipulation requires coordinated task-space motion planning with stable loco-manipulation command tracking under complex robot-environment dynamics and long-horizon tasks.

By Zhaoyuan Gu, Yipu Chen, Zimeng Chai, Alfred Cueva, Thong Nguyen, Yifan Wu, Huishu Xue, Minji Kim, Isaac Legene, Fukang Liu, KyoungMok Kim, Ayan Barula, Yongxin Chen, Ye Zhao
arXiv Machine Learning
4d ago

In-Context Learning for Robots: Methods and Applications

arXiv:2609.36012v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: General-purpose robots must infer what a new task requires and translate that understanding into appropriate physical action. In-context learning (IC...

By Haojian Huang, Zexi Li, Junhao Guo, Yehang Zhang, Wenxuan Peng, Bohan Zhou, Weilin Ruan, Leyi Wu, Chenxu Wang, Jianchong Su, Binghui Xie, Wosong Chen, Yingjie Xu, Tianhao Zhou, Suzeyu Chen, Pukun Zhao, Jiaqi He, Xinyi Li, Runze Li, Peiran Dong, Shaoxiang Dang, Jing Huang, Yingbing Chen, Yifan Chang, Tianyi Zhang, Shiyuan Deng, Haozhi Wang, Yangkai Wei, Wenqian Li, Han Yang, Kaiwen Zhou, Huaping Liu, James Cheng, Rui Shao, Donglin Wang, Yaochu Jin, Jianye Hao, Ying-Cong Chen, Yinchuan Li
arXiv AI
Aug 19

Teach and Grow: An Agent-Centered Architecture for General Robot Learning

Teach-and-Grow Learning (TGL) is an agent-centered architecture that transforms a few successful demonstrations into reusable Skill Blocks, enabling a robot to compose, execute, and revise behaviors in new scenes without task-specific policy retraining. The system maintains a Skill Library and structured Experience Memory to capture successes, failures, and repairs, allowing persistent reuse and agent-directed adaptation. Evaluation on the LIBERO benchmark shows state-of-the-art performance, and the authors propose a scaling-law hypothesis suggesting that accumulated reusable experience reduces future-task error and teaching demand following a power-law trend.

By Chang Nie, Zhe Liu, Hesheng Wang
arXiv AI
Jul 2

ASPIRE: Agentic /Skills Discovery for Robotics

arXiv:2607. 00272v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Traditional robot programming is challenging: it requires orchestrating multimodal perception, managing physical contact dynamics, and handling diverse configurations and execution failures.

By Runyu Lu, Yubo Wu, Ethan Kou, Letian Fu, Wenli Xiao, Ajay Mandlekar, Yinzhen Xu, Guanya Shi, Ken Goldberg, Ang Chen, Mosharaf Chowdhury, Yuke Zhu, Linxi "Jim" Fan, Guanzhi Wang
arXiv AI
Jun 17

OmniRetarget: Interaction-Preserving Data Generation for Humanoid Whole-Body Loco-Manipulation and Scene Interaction

arXiv:2509. 26633v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: A dominant paradigm for teaching humanoid robots complex skills is to retarget human motions as kinematic references to train reinforcement learning (RL) policies.

By Lujie Yang, Xiaoyu Huang, Zhen Wu, Angjoo Kanazawa, Pieter Abbeel, Carmelo Sferrazza, C. Karen Liu, Rocky Duan, Guanya Shi
arXiv AI
Aug 7

SkillMemo: Expert-guided Skill Memory Framework for Compositional Embodied Manipulation

arXiv:2608. 05970v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Embodied visuomotor models, including Diffusion Policy (DP) and Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models, have demonstrated promising performance on robotic manipulation benchmarks.

By Changyuan Wang, Chubin Zhang, Zhenyu Wu, Runhao Li, Angyuan Ma, Ke Chao, Yinan Liang, Xiuwei Xu, Ziwei Wang, Yansong Tang, Jiwen Lu