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 Machine Learning
Jun 26

Reinforcement Learning Enables Autonomous Microrobot Navigation and Intervention in Simulated Blood Capillaries

arXiv:2606. 26154v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Autonomous microrobots navigating biological vasculature could enable targeted drug delivery and thrombolysis, yet training control policies for realistic environments remains an open challenge.

By Jannik Drotleff, Samuel Tovey, Paul Hohenberger, Christoph Lohrmann, Julian Ho{\ss}bach, Konstantin Nikolaou, Christian Holm
arXiv AI
Jun 26

MIRROR: Novelty-Constrained Memory-Guided MCTS Red-Teaming for Agentic RAG

arXiv:2606. 26793v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multimodal agentic retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems expand the attack surface beyond prompt injection to include text poisoning, image injection, direct-query attacks, and orchestrator-level tool manipulation.

By Inderjeet Singh, Andr\'es Murillo, Motoyoshi Sekiya, Yuki Unno, Junichi Suga
arXiv AI
Jun 26

Unsupervised Memory-Enhanced Video Transformers: Obstacle Detection for Autonomous Agricultural Rover

arXiv:2606. 26151v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While autonomous rovers have become indispensable to precision farming, achieving consistent operational safety remains a critical challenge.

By Th\'eo Biardeau (XLIM-ASALI, UFR SFA), Anne-Sophie Capelle-Laiz\'e (UP, XLIM-ASALI, XLIM-ASALI), Salwan Alwan (UFR SFA), David Helbert (UFR SFA)
arXiv AI
Jun 26

Advancing Omnimodal Embodied Agents from Isolated Skills to Everyday Physical Autonomy

arXiv:2606. 27251v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Building persistent embodied agents in unstructured environments demands unified orchestration of heterogeneous tools spanning both cyber (APIs, IoT) and physical (manipulation, navigation) domains, coupled with autonomous recovery from physical failures that inevitably arise over extended operation.

By Junhao Shi, Zezheng Huai, Siyin Wang, Jia Chen, Yubang Wang, Zhaoye Fei, Hechang Chen, Jingjing Gong, Xipeng Qiu, Yu-Gang Jiang
arXiv AI
Jun 26

SOLAR: AI-Powered Speed-of-Light Performance Analysis

arXiv:2606. 26383v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: How fast could a deep-learning model run on target hardware, and how far is today's implementation from that limit?

By Qijing Huang, Sana Damani, Zhifan Ye, Athinagoras Skiadopoulos, Siva Kumar Sastry Hari, Jason Clemons, Sahil Modi, Jingquan Wang, Aditya Kane, Edward C Lin, Humphrey Shi, Christos Kozyrakis
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jun 25

E-TTS: A New Embodied Test-Time Scaling Framework for Robotic Manipulation

Recently, a few works have made early attempts to study test-time scaling for embodied tasks. However, two major challenges remain unsolved: (1) reasoning can effectively improve the performance of the policy, but its scaling mechanism has seldom been studied; (2) historical information is essential, as embodied tasks are inherently long-horizon and sequential, making sole reliance on current observations for action scaling inadequate due to the lack of historical context utilization.

Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jun 25

Advancing Omnimodal Embodied Agents from Isolated Skills to Everyday Physical Autonomy

Building persistent embodied agents in unstructured environments demands unified orchestration of heterogeneous tools spanning both cyber (APIs, IoT) and physical (manipulation, navigation) domains, coupled with autonomous recovery from physical failures that inevitably arise over extended operation. Existing systems treat these as separate problems: VLM-based planners lack a unified cyber-physical action space, agent frameworks accumulate unbounded context that degrades temporal coherence, and VLA policies execute open-loop without detecting their own failures.