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In the pursuit of realizing artificial general intelligence (AGI), the importance of embodied artificial intelligence (AI) becomes increasingly apparent. Following this trend, research integrating robots with AGI has become prominent. As…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Zhe Sun , Pengfei Tian , Xiaozhu Hu , Xiaoyu Zhao , Huiying Li , Zhenliang Zhang

Physical embodiment is a required component for robots that are structurally coupled with their real-world environments. However, most socially interactive robots do not need to physically interact with their environments in order to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Eric Deng , Bilge Mutlu , Maja Mataric

Embodied intelligence systems, which enhance agent capabilities through continuous environment interactions, have garnered significant attention from both academia and industry. Vision-Language-Action models, inspired by advancements in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Haoran Li , Yuhui Chen , Wenbo Cui , Weiheng Liu , Kai Liu , Mingcai Zhou , Zhengtao Zhang , Dongbin Zhao

While the exploration for embodied AI has spanned multiple decades, it remains a persistent challenge to endow agents with human-level intelligence, including perception, learning, reasoning, decision-making, control, and generalization…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Zhiyuan Xu , Kun Wu , Junjie Wen , Jinming Li , Ning Liu , Zhengping Che , Jian Tang

The embodied intelligence bridges the physical world and information space. As its typical physical embodiment, humanoid robots have shown great promise through robot learning algorithms in recent years. In this study, a hardware platform,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Jiaxin Huang , Hanyu Liu , Yunsheng Ma , Jian Shen , Yilin Zheng , Jiayi Wen , Baishu Wan , Pan Li , Zhigong Song

The Transformer architecture has become prominent in developing large causal language models. However, mechanisms to explain its capabilities are not well understood. Focused on the training process, here we establish a meta-learning view…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Xinbo Wu , Lav R. Varshney

Transformer has achieved impressive successes for various computer vision tasks. However, most of existing studies require to pretrain the Transformer backbone on a large-scale labeled dataset (e.g., ImageNet) for achieving satisfactory…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-04 Yuexiang Li , Yawen Huang , Nanjun He , Kai Ma , Yefeng Zheng

User interface modeling is inherently multimodal, which involves several distinct types of data: images, structures and language. The tasks are also diverse, including object detection, language generation and grounding. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-13 Yang Li , Gang Li , Xin Zhou , Mostafa Dehghani , Alexey Gritsenko

This paper describes our research on AI agents embodied in visual, virtual or physical forms, enabling them to interact with both users and their environments. These agents, which include virtual avatars, wearable devices, and robots, are…

Recent years in robotics and imitation learning have shown remarkable progress in training large-scale foundation models by leveraging data across a multitude of embodiments. The success of such policies might lead us to wonder: just how…

The human brain's plasticity allows for the integration of artificial body parts into the human body. Leveraging this, embodied systems realize intuitive interactions with the environment. We introduce a novel concept: embodied swarm…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-03-04 Sosuke Ichihashi , So Kuroki , Mai Nishimura , Kazumi Kasaura , Takefumi Hiraki , Kazutoshi Tanaka , Shigeo Yoshida

Robotic systems are increasingly expected to operate in human-centered, unstructured environments where safety, adaptability, and generalization are essential. Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have been proposed as a language guided…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Haochen Su , Cristian Meo , Francesco Stella , Andrea Peirone , Kai Junge , Josie Hughes

Advances in Artificial Intelligence and robotics are currently questioning theethical framework of their applications to deal with potential drifts, as well as the way inwhich these algorithms learn because they will have a strong impact on…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-03-21 Alexandre Pitti

Transformers have demonstrated effectiveness in in-context solving data-fitting problems from various (latent) models, as reported by Garg et al. However, the absence of an inherent iterative structure in the transformer architecture…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Liu Yang , Kangwook Lee , Robert Nowak , Dimitris Papailiopoulos

How can agents learn internal models that veridically represent interactions with the real world is a largely open question. As machine learning is moving towards representations containing not just observational but also interventional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Hamza Keurti , Hsiao-Ru Pan , Michel Besserve , Benjamin F. Grewe , Bernhard Schölkopf

One of the roadblocks for training generalist robotic models today is heterogeneity. Previous robot learning methods often collect data to train with one specific embodiment for one task, which is expensive and prone to overfitting. This…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Lirui Wang , Xinlei Chen , Jialiang Zhao , Kaiming He

Robot learning is at an inflection point, driven by rapid advancements in machine learning and the growing availability of large-scale robotics data. This shift from classical, model-based methods to data-driven, learning-based paradigms is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Francesco Capuano , Caroline Pascal , Adil Zouitine , Thomas Wolf , Michel Aractingi

Language-guided robots performing home and office tasks must navigate in and interact with the world. Grounding language instructions against visual observations and actions to take in an environment is an open challenge. We present…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-05 Alessandro Suglia , Qiaozi Gao , Jesse Thomason , Govind Thattai , Gaurav Sukhatme

Humans and animals excel in combining information from multiple sensory modalities, controlling their complex bodies, adapting to growth, failures, or using tools. These capabilities are also highly desirable in robots. They are displayed…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2022-11-08 Matej Hoffmann

As robots are increasingly deployed in real-world scenarios, a key question is how to best transfer knowledge learned in one environment to another, where shifting constraints and human preferences render adaptation challenging. A central…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-05-18 Andreea Bobu , Andi Peng