Robotics and embodied AI

Manipulation, locomotion, sim-to-real transfer and autonomous driving: learning systems that have to survive physics.

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arXiv AI
Jul 16

SPINE: Bridging the Cyber-Physical Gap with Agentic AI

arXiv:2607. 13049v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Foundation models have given robots a sophisticated brain for complex decision-making, yet deploying that intelligence into a physical platform still demands tedious, expert-driven calibration.

By Minkyu Ham, Dongho Kim, Chan Lee, Jiayi Wang, Min Jun Kim, Yixi Zhang, Guo Ye, Jihai Zhao, Soyeon Park, Han Liu
arXiv AI
Jul 16

Earthquaker-AI: A Retrieval-Augmented Generation Framework with Rubric-Based Assessment for Primary School Earthquake Education

arXiv:2607. 14046v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper presents Earthquaker-AI, a hybrid educational framework building upon a previously implemented educational robotics project by integrating a conversational AI assistant based on Retrieval-Augmented Generation.

By Xanthi Kokkinou, Chaido Mizeli, Nafsika Koulaxidou, Marina Delianidi, Konstantinos Diamantaras
arXiv AI
Jul 16

A Survey on Hypergame Theory: Modelling Misaligned Perceptions and Nested Beliefs for Multi-Agent Systems

arXiv:2507. 19593v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Classical game-theoretic models typically assume rational agents, complete information, and common knowledge of payoffs - assumptions that are often violated in real-world MAS characterized by uncertainty, misaligned perceptions, and nested beliefs.

By Vince Trencsenyi, Agnieszka Mensfelt, Kostas Stathis
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
Jul 16

Networked Intelligence: Active Shared Context Graphs for Human-AI Team Science

arXiv:2607. 13220v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Most AI-for-science systems focus on scaling a single reasoning process through better models, larger context windows, long-horizon agentic execution, or digital co-scientists working with one principal user.

By Sutanay Choudhury, Jeffrey J. Czajka, Lummy M. O. Monteiro, Erin Bredeweg, Jason McDermott, Katherine Wolf, Alex Beliaev, Josh Elmore, Paul Piehowski, Kylee Tate, Yuqian Gao, Aivett Bilbao, Kelly Stratton, Scott Baker, Jaydeep P. Bardhan, Kristin Burnum Johnson, Chris Oehmen, Robert Rallo
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 16

Where Should RL Post-Training Compute Go? Model Size, Search, Learning, and Feedback

arXiv:2607. 13389v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement Learning (RL) post-training is increasingly used to adapt foundation models for reasoning, planning, and feedback-driven robot-learning pipelines, but constrained post-training resources are often summarized by a single total FLOP budget.

By Patrick Wilhelm, Odej Kao
arXiv AI
Jul 16

UESF-Bench: Benchmarking and Probing for Unified Embodied Seeking and Following

arXiv:2607. 13621v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Language-guided human following is an important capability for embodied agents, but existing benchmarks typically assume that the target person is visible at the start of an episode.

By Kun Yu, Jianhua Yang, Yixiang Chen, Changwei Wang, Hongyuan Yu, Yan Huang, Fushuo Huo, Ya Jing, Zhumin Chen, Keji He
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 16

Value Drifts: Tracing Value Alignment During LLM Post-Training

arXiv:2510. 26707v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: As LLMs occupy an increasingly important role in society, they are more and more confronted with questions that require them not only to draw on their general knowledge but also to align with certain human value systems.

By Mehar Bhatia, Shravan Nayak, Gaurav Kamath, Marius Mosbach, Karolina Sta\'nczak, Vered Shwartz, Siva Reddy
arXiv AI
Jul 16

A Hybrid Mamba for Audio-Visual Navigation

arXiv:2607. 13110v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Since the paradigm centered on convolutional neural networks and recurrent architectures was established in 2020, the fundamental backbone networks for audio-visual navigation have undergone no essential changes for more than five years, making them inadequate to support efficient representation of dynamic multimodal sequences.

By Yi Wang, Yinfeng Yu