Manipulation, locomotion, sim-to-real transfer and autonomous driving: learning systems that have to survive physics.
The recent large video foundation model, SAM2, enables segment anything in both images and videos, serving as a powerful base model for various applications. However, many of such use cases require to operate on resource-constrained devices like mobile phones and laptops.
One year ago, the AISLE roadmap argued that autonomous laboratories operated as isolated islands and proposed a grassroots network organized around five critical dimensions. The field has since moved faster than anticipated.
“SceneSmith” system uses collaborative AI agents to create realistic 3D environments of places like kitchens, hotels, and living rooms, where robots can simulate everyday chores.
Recent work in humanoid whole-body control has found success with a simple recipe: retarget human motion to robot kinematic references, then train policies via reinforcement learning (RL) to track them. But how does this recipe transfer to dexterous manipulation?
Artificial general intelligence ultimately requires agents that can reason and act in the physical world. Action models, vision-language-action policies, and world models have advanced this goal, while World Action Models (WAMs) are particularly promising because they connect candidate interventions with predicted consequences.
Reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms classically suffer from poor sample efficiency. In robotics, a recent line of work has emerged addressing this problem by encoding physics priors in the learning process.
Google and AIM launched ATL Saathi, a Gemini-powered AI tool empowering Indian educators in robotics labs.
Long-term physical coexistence with intelligent robots requires more than capable robot policies. A persistent robotic assistant must support diverse user-facing interfaces, maintain long-horizon memory of people and preferences, coordinate across robot embodiments, and translate human intent into safe physical execution.
arXiv:2607. 09629v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reliable autonomous driving requires full-scene perception that couples foreground objects with dense semantic layout.
arXiv:2607. 09428v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large-scale autonomous-driving datasets contain vast numbers of recorded scenarios, creating a need for efficient retrieval methods that can identify situations similar to a given query.
arXiv:2607. 09330v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Embodied agent teams powered by heterogeneous large language models (LLMs) are being widely deployed in physical artificial intelligence such as smart factories, warehouses, and service robotics.
arXiv:2607. 09503v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A fundamental challenge in 3D reconstruction and robotic localization is co-visibility: determining which image pairs share overlapping visible surfaces, particularly in scenarios with minimal overlap.
arXiv:2607. 08837v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Exploration is essential to RL since a policy cannot improve by repeatedly sampling the behaviors it already prefers.
arXiv:2512. 16861v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Long-horizon manipulation has been a long-standing challenge in the robotics community.
arXiv:2602. 12873v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Generative social robots (GSRs) powered by large language models enable adaptive, conversational tutoring but also introduce risks such as misinformation, overreliance, and privacy violations.
arXiv:2607. 09191v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Generated videos provide useful visual motion priors for robot manipulation, but their visual plausibility does not imply physical executability.
arXiv:2607. 08974v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-language-action models (VLAs) inherit semantic capabilities from pretrained VLMs, yet large-scale post-training on robot data and architectural modifications can reshape the backbone so extensively that it becomes difficult to isolate what the VLM contributes to control.
arXiv:2607. 09336v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Diffusion-based trajectory planners have shown strong performance in offline reinforcement learning, but their iterative denoising process often incurs high inference cost.
arXiv:2605. 12920v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Effective collaboration between embodied agents requires more than acting in a shared environment; it demands communication grounded in each agent's evolving understanding of the world.
arXiv:2511. 20297v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large Language Model (LLM)-based agents are increasingly capable of complex, multi-step tasks such as GUI automation, tool use, and data manipulation, yet they cannot learn from experience: each new session rediscovers solutions from scratch.
