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 28

Stress-testing large language model agents in a robotic chemistry laboratory

arXiv:2607. 23045v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI is evaluated through knowledge, reasoning and plan generation, yet scientific agency requires reliable physical action and adaptation to evidence.

By Lulu Guo, Yingkai Sun, Xiaobo Li, Luyao Ge, Ziming Wang, Haitao Zheng, Jingyu Li, Huijuan Zhang, Bingxu Chen, Daobin Liu, Yuebo Liu, Jie Li, Xiaohui Li, Linjiang Chen, Yi Luo, Jun Jiang
arXiv AI
Jul 28

Self-Supervised Consistency Enhanced Disentangled Learning for Neural Decoding Generalization in Brain-Machine Interface

arXiv:2607. 24023v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Brain-Machine Interfaces (BMIs) provide a direct communication pathway between the brain and external devices, enabling humans to control assistive and robotic technologies, with potential applications in rehabilitation, human motor augmentation, and human-centered robotics.

By Jiyu Wei, Di Hong, Zhanjie Zhang, Dazhong Rong, Qinming He, Yueming Wang
arXiv AI
Jul 28

Physical AI Governance: From Theory to Practice Across Life Cycle

arXiv:2607. 22877v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: With the emergence of Physical AI, artificial intelligence is extending beyond screen-based applications to embodied systems that perceive, interact with, and act in the physical world.

By Wang Yang, Shaobo Wang, Hongxuan Liu, Xiaoran Cai, Yunyu He, Jingzong Zhou, Mengzhong Ma, Yi Yu, Rohit Sharma, Jingjing Fu, Peng Qi
arXiv AI
Jul 28

Multi-model approach for autonomous driving: A comprehensive study on traffic sign-, vehicle- and lane detection and behavioral cloning

arXiv:2603. 09255v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Deep learning and computer vision techniques have become increasingly important in the development of self-driving cars.

By Kanishkha Jaisankar, Pranav M. Pawar, Diana Susan Joseph, Raja Muthalagu, Mithun Mukherjee, Dnyaneshawar Mantri, Ramjee Prasad
arXiv AI
Jul 28

A Few Words Go a Long Way: Language Guided Robot Policy Synthesis

arXiv:2607. 23784v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While vision-language-action models have demonstrated impressive zero-shot manipulation capabilities, they remain fundamentally black box policies that are difficult to interpret, adapt, or correct when they inevitably fail.

By Daphne Chen, Archit Ritesh Jain, Eric Goossen, Emma Romig, Michael Murray, Nick Walker, Maya Cakmak
arXiv AI
Jul 28

Denial of Deadline: Network-Driven Accuracy Collapse in Distributed Inference Pipelines

arXiv:2607. 24692v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Inference systems increasingly combine a fast path that returns predictions within the application's latency deadline together with a higher-accuracy slow path that runs higher-compute methods on stronger, remote hardware, so its results can be returned on time and combined with the fast path predictions.

By Jhonatan Tavori, Gur-Eyal Sela, Ion Stoica, Gil Zussman
arXiv AI
Jul 28

Real2Sim2Real for Vision-Language-Action Manipulation: An AMD ROCm-Based Pipeline

arXiv:2607. 22997v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Physical AI -- the integration of large vision-language-action (VLA) models with embodied agents that act in the real world -- has emerged as the next major frontier for AI, echoed by industry leaders such as Jensen Huang (``the next big thing is Physical AI, AI with a body,'' GTC Paris, June 2025) and Dr.

By Qing Yang, Xun Wang, Ziguan Wang, Zhenjiang Li, Hongqiang Wang, Dongdong Weng
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 27

CameraAnything: Refilming Videos with Arbitrary Camera Control

We introduce CameraAnything, the first unified framework for camera controlled video editing that enables joint control of both intrinsic and extrinsic camera parameters. Existing approaches either rely on expensive 3D reconstruction to achieve full camera functionality or restrict editing to extrinsic parameter manipulation.

Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 27

MATS: A novel multi-modality multi-task learning framework for 3D perception in autonomous driving

Multi-modality data from different sensors provides rich complementary information for 3D perception, becoming an essential component in reliable autonomous driving systems. Current research typically designs intricate and complex fusion strategies to integrate information from multimodal data on a unified bird's-eye-view (BEV) feature map for the joint learning of multiple perception tasks.

Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 27

DeVA: Decoupled Video-Action Model with physical guidance for robot policy learning

Generalizable robot manipulation requires policies that can anticipate how visual scenes evolve while executing language instructions. While recent Vision-Language-Action models benefit from large-scale pretraining, their predominantly static pretraining objectives provide limited supervision for physical dynamics and temporal causality, leaving control-relevant knowledge to be learned from downstream robot demonstrations.

Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 27

A Motion-Aware Vector Quantization Framework with Centroid Reuse for Efficient VLA Inference

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have demonstrated strong potential for embodied AI, yet their high inference latency on GPUs limits real-time deployment. Existing accelerators, such as Dadu-Corki, improve efficiency but treat VLA models as full-precision workloads, leaving substantial redundancy in both memory and computation underexploited.