AI News Archive: June 16, 2026 — Part 23
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- When Robots Sleep: Offline Skill Consolidation for Shared-Policy Robot Learning
Robots that learn over long deployments must add new skills without losing the shared policy structure that makes earlier skills reusable. We study sequential robot skill learning, where previous trajectories and task losses may be unavailable, and the deployed policy must remain a single shared con...
- Embodiment Shapes Rolling Behavior in a Multimodal Infant Model
Rolling over is one of the earliest milestones in infant motor development, reflecting the emergence of coordinated, whole-body sensorimotor control. Here, we conduct a computational study of infant rolling using MIMo, a virtual infant embodiment equipped with proprioception and vestibular sensation...
- TerraTransfer: Learning End-to-End Driving Policies Without Expert Demonstrations
End-to-end autonomous driving has achieved state-of-the-art performance on benchmarks and real-world deployments. Its standard training recipe, however, is expensive across all stages: collecting and labeling millions of driving frames is costly, and closed-loop RL on images is bottlenecked by the p...
- EgoInfinity: A Web-Scale 4D Hand-Object Interaction Data Engine for Any-View Robot Retargeting and Video-to-Action Robot Learning
Internet videos constitute the largest reservoir of embodied human manipulation knowledge, yet converting arbitrary RGB footage into actionable robot training data remains a major bottleneck. Existing lab- or factory-collected datasets are narrow in scale and diversity, limiting open-world robot lea...
- Contactless Respiratory Monitoring on Heterogeneous Mobile Robots: A Multimodal Edge-Computing Framework
Respiratory-rate (RR) monitoring is a critical component of remote triage and victim assessment in emergency response, disaster recovery, and infectious-disease scenarios, where minimizing physical contact can reduce responder risk and improve operational safety. However, field deployment of contact...
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- EBench: Elemental Diagnosis of Generalist Mobile Manipulation Policies
We present EBench, a simulation benchmark that diagnoses generalist mobile manipulation policies beyond a single success-rate scalar. EBench comprises 26 diverse and challenging manipulation tasks annotated along 5 capability dimensions and 4 generalization dimensions. We evaluate state-of-the-art g...
- Beyond Failure Recovery: An Engagement-Aware Human-in-the-loop Framework for Robotic Systems
Conventional human-in-the-loop approaches typically involve users only when a robot encounters failure or uncertainty, treating humans primarily as tools for improving robot performance. However, in many human-centered robotics settings, interaction should support engagement by keeping users involve...
- A Hybrid Optimization Framework for Grasp Synthesis under Partial Observations
We propose a hybrid grasp synthesis framework that combines a learning-based Energy-Based Model (EBM) with an analytical Iterative Closest Point (ICP) method to generate robust grasps from partially observed point clouds. The learned energy function acts as a prior within a Stein Variational Gradien...
- LAGO Policy: Latency-Aware Asynchronous Diffusion Policies with Goal-Directed Collision-Free Planning for Smooth Manipulation
Diffusion-based visuomotor policies deployed with asynchronous inference often exhibit inter-chunk discontinuities and lack explicit mechanisms for obstacle-aware execution, leading to jerky motions and collisions that hinder reliable manipulation in real-world scenes. To address these issues, we pr...
- ThinkingVLA: Interleaved Vision and Language Reasoning for Robotic Manipulation
Most Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models map observations directly to actions without explicit reasoning, limiting their capacity for reasoning-intensive long-horizon tasks. To address this, existing approaches adopt Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning to enable subgoal decomposition and spatial antici...
- SPARK: Low Latency Single-Camera 3D Pose Estimation for Autonomous Racing using Keypoints
In autonomous racing, fast detection of other participants' movements is required to plan safe, collision-free trajectories with non-cooperative opponents. LiDAR detection is inherently slower and harder to deploy on edge devices than vision methods, causing delayed detections that limit object trac...
- PearlVLA: Progressive Embodied Action-Plan Refinement in Latent Space
Current Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models face a trade-off between efficient action generation and explicit deliberation. Directly decoding actions from vision-language backbone representations enables low-latency control, whereas explicit reasoning through textual chains, pixel-level subgoals, or...
- HumanoidArena: Benchmarking Egocentric Hierarchical Whole-body Learning
Humanoid robots promise whole-body interaction in human-centered environments, but scalable policy learning remains difficult because task-level decision-making and whole-body dynamic execution are tightly coupled. A practical solution is hierarchical control, where a high-level policy predicts inte...
- FLAP: FOV-Constrained Active Perception Planning for Prior-Map-Free 3D Navigation
Safe and efficient trajectory planning in unknown, cluttered 3D environments constitutes a critical bottleneck for deploying Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in real-world applications. This challenge is further exacerbated by the limited field-of-view (FOV) and sensing range of onboard sensors. Many...
- RICH-SLAM: Radar SLAM with Incremental and Continuous Hilbert Mapping
Simultaneous localization and mapping using radar sensors has gained increasing attention due to radar's inherent robustness to adverse weather and lighting conditions. However, radar measurements are characteristically sparse and noisy compared to LiDAR and visual data, posing significant challenge...
- GeneralVLA-2: Geometry-Aware Reconstruction and Governed Memory for Robot Planning
Generalist vision-language-action systems need object-centric 3D evidence and reusable manipulation experience to plan reliable robot trajectories. GeneralVLA provides a hierarchical interface for converting language and RGB-D observations into 3D end-effector paths, but two bottlenecks remain. Firs...
- WeaveLA: Event Driven Cross-Subtask Latent Memory Weaving for Repetitive Robot Manipulation
Vision-Language-Action (VLA) policies have achieved remarkable single-step manipulation, yet they remain brittle precisely where each stage depends on what was just completed. The core issue is structural: short-window VLAs lack an explicit channel for rouxting information across sub-task boundaries...
- Continual Online Personalization of Exoskeleton Control via Manifold-Aware Experience Replay
Personalizing exoskeleton control remains a critical challenge for clinical users with gait disabilities. Online adaptation (OA) offers an effective solution by adapting in real time to subject variability, device fit, and diverse locomotor tasks. However, OA involves a continual stream of user stat...
- Credibility-Weighted Pricing of Autonomous Vehicle Liability Under Operational Design Domain Shift
Automated Driving System deployments create a foundational ratemaking challenge: sparse experience, shifting operational design domains, and non-stationary risk across software releases. We propose a hierarchical Bayesian credibility framework pooling across cities, software versions, and territorie...
- AnnotateAnything: Automatic Annotation of 3D Assets for Robot Manipulation
Simulation enables scalable robot data collection, but raw 3D assets provide only geometry, lacking the semantic, interactive, and physical knowledge needed to specify where and how robots should act. In this work, we present AnnotateAnything, a general automatic annotation framework that converts p...
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- Where Should Action Generation Begin? A Learnable Source Prior for Generative Robot Policies
Generative robot policies typically begin action generation from an observation-independent standard Gaussian distribution, leaving the choice of source distribution underexplored. This work asks a simple question: where should action generation begin? We propose LeaP, a Learnable source Prior that ...
- Agent Utilities over Generalized Voronoi Regions and their Gradients
In this paper, we generalize the concept of Voronoi regions, define agent utility as the integral of a utility density over the corresponding Voronoi region, derive gradients of the utility, and illustrate the approach in a two-team example from soccer. The generalization of Voronoi regions is in ...
- Geometrical fairness in graph neural networks
Graph-based learning methods have become increasingly prominent due to their strong performance across diverse applications. Among these, recent frameworks grounded in diffusion processes provide a unifying perspective that extends traditional graph neural network formulations while addressing limit...
- Model Validation of Agentic AI Systems: A POMDP-Based Framework for Belief-State, Forecast, and Policy Validation
Agentic artificial intelligence systems introduce a new class of model risk. Unlike traditional predictive models, autonomous agents continuously acquire information, form beliefs regarding latent states of the environment, generate forecasts, select actions, and adapt their behavior over time. Exis...
- FoundCause: Causal Discovery with Latent Confounders from Observational Data
Causal discovery from observational data remains challenging due to the need to recover directed structure and latent confounding without interventions. We propose FoundCause, an amortized causal discovery model trained entirely on synthetic data that maps datasets directly to causal graphs in a sin...
- Anytime-valid Optimal Policy Identification
We develop an anytime-valid framework for optimal policy identification from logged contextual bandit data. In many applied settings, the analyst wants to select the optimal policy from a candidate policy class $Π$, but data are generated by an externally determined logging policy that they do not c...
- A Bayesian Boolean Matrix Factorization with Application to Copy Number Analysis in Cancer
Binary data factorization is common, but real-valued methods ignore discreteness and yield hard-to-interpret factors. Boolean Matrix Factorization (BooMF) instead decomposes a binary matrix into two lower-rank binary matrices via logical AND and OR, expressing the data as a Boolean disjunction of in...
- Bounded Difference Concentration for Infinitely Exchangeable Sequences with Applications to AI Benchmark Uncertainty
We consider the concentration properties of functions of infinitely exchangeable random variables. By conditioning on the de Finetti directing measure, we show that the deviation of any function with bounded-difference constants $c_1, \dots, c_n$ decomposes into a conditional sampling fluctuation an...
- Martingale Doppelgänger-Eval: An Identification Framework for Auditing Candlestick Understanding in Vision-Language Models
We introduce Martingale Doppelgänger-Eval, a public shadow-market benchmark for auditing whether vision-language models (VLMs) use candlestick evidence rather than extrapolate past trends. The central difficulty is identification: on real market histories, chart evidence and trend are strongly coupl...
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