Manipulation, locomotion, sim-to-real transfer and autonomous driving: learning systems that have to survive physics.
arXiv:2608.21755v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-horizon agents need memory that identifies relevant experience, resolves revisions, and exposes checkable provenance. We present ECHO (Embodied Co...
arXiv:2512.01946v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Robust robotic manipulation requires reliable failure detection and recovery. Although recent Vision-Language Models (VLMs) show promise in r...
arXiv:2605.31192v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Generalizable deepfake detection requires complementary forensic and semantic visual evidence. Specialist encoders capture subtle manipulation trac...
arXiv:2608.21380v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: With the increased adoption of robotic agents operating in human environments by scanning and sharing 3D representations (e.g., for fleet learning, c...
arXiv:2604.09305v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Traffic accidents are a leading cause of fatalities and injuries across the globe. Therefore, the ability to anticipate hazardous situations in adv...
arXiv:2608.22419v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Query-based Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models offer low-latency inference that is attractive for bimanual robotic manipulation, but we observe that...
The Cultural Moment Benchmark (CMB) evaluates video cultural reasoning in Southeast Asia by testing three distinct abilities: naming a cultural concept, visually recognizing it in a video, and locating its sub‑events in time. It contains 306 expert‑curated concepts from seven countries across five categories, with each concept assessed through three stages that use semantic‑similarity distractors, unlabeled video moments, and free‑form temporal localization. Experiments on six vision‑language models reveal varied failure modes, limited cascading between abilities, and differing impacts of audio and subtitles, while a human study shows even experts struggle with concepts from neighboring countries.
arXiv:2608.23290v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Accurate visual localization on robotic and wearable platforms remains challenging in dense urban environments. Existing methodologies typically rely o...
arXiv:2608.23136v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Poor illumination obscures small, low-contrast defects in UAV bridge imagery, reducing the reliability and operational flexibility of automated inspect...
The paper introduces a framework that separates physical modeling from execution in physics reasoning tasks. It uses a two‑stage post‑training approach: supervised fine‑tuning to build structured models and reinforcement learning with rubric‑based feedback to refine them. Experiments on PhysReason, PhyX, and SeePhys show that this explicit modeling improves reasoning performance by about 3% on average for small LLMs.
arXiv:2608.21928v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In embodied AI, safety risk can be latent: a benign instruction and a safe scene become hazardous only when composed. Prior work has advanced embodied...
arXiv:2608.21417v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Flexible manufacturing requires industrial robots to be reprogrammed rapidly as product variants change. This paper presents a language-model-based wor...
arXiv:2608.22723v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This workshop paper comprehensively reviews the First Challenge on Unified Removal of Raindrops and Reflections. The challenge aims to address a freque...
arXiv:2608.22637v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent vision-language models (VLMs) show strong capabilities in robotic perception and spatial reasoning, yet their ability to reason about complex me...
The paper investigates how large language model agents on the open platform Moltbook represent humans, focusing on human-directed stereotypes. Using an annotation framework with four dimensions—morality, friendliness, competence, and autonomy—and a subtype scheme for other attributions, the study finds that competence is the dominant evaluation, while many other attributions describe humans as epistemic, cultural, or embodied subjects. The authors also analyze how these representations appear in narrative contexts and platform-level circulation, noting that community feedback is better explained by exposure, author visibility, and content selection rather than stable insider–outsider dynamics.
arXiv:2606.01063v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Theory-of-Mind (ToM) reasoning enables embodied agents to understand human beliefs, goals, and intentions, but existing benchmarks mainly evaluate...
MPCFormer is a physics‑informed, data‑driven framework that explicitly models multi‑vehicle social interaction dynamics for autonomous driving. It uses a Transformer‑based encoder‑decoder to learn discrete state‑space dynamics from naturalistic data, enabling explainable, human‑like behavior planning within a Model Predictive Control (MPC) framework. In open‑loop NGSIM tests, it achieves the lowest trajectory prediction errors (ADE 0.86 m over 5 s), and in closed‑loop intense interaction scenarios it attains a 94.67 % planning success rate, 15.75 % efficiency gain, and reduces collisions from 21.25 % to 0.5 %.
arXiv:2608.21440v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-language-action (VLA) models have advanced end-to-end autonomous driving by leveraging foundation models for semantic reasoning and long-tail...
arXiv:2507.04356v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Research, innovation and practical capital investment have been increasing rapidly toward the realization of autonomous physical agents. This...
arXiv:2608.21416v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Embodied artificial intelligence (AI) must be tested in the clinical environments where it will operate, but building realistic, robot-testable setti...