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AI agents today are mostly siloed - they either retrieve and reason over vast amount of digital information and knowledge obtained online; or interact with the physical world through embodied perception, planning and action - but rarely…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Yining Hong , Rui Sun , Bingxuan Li , Xingcheng Yao , Maxine Wu , Alexander Chien , Da Yin , Ying Nian Wu , Zhecan James Wang , Kai-Wei Chang

Vision-language models (VLMs) have shown remarkable general capabilities, yet embodied agents built on them fail at complex tasks, often skipping critical steps, proposing invalid actions, and repeating mistakes. These failures arise from a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Bingqing Wei , Zhongyu Xia , Dingai Liu , Xiaoyu Zhou , Zhiwei Lin , Yongtao Wang

Large Language Models (LLMs) have emerged as integral tools for reasoning, planning, and decision-making, drawing upon their extensive world knowledge and proficiency in language-related tasks. LLMs thus hold tremendous potential for…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Xudong Guo , Kaixuan Huang , Jiale Liu , Wenhui Fan , Natalia Vélez , Qingyun Wu , Huazheng Wang , Thomas L. Griffiths , Mengdi Wang

Embodied agents, which couple intelligent decision-making with physical actuation in the real world, impose far more stringent and heterogeneous communication requirements than purely software-based agents. While 6G promises sub-millisecond…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Lipeng Dai , Luping Xiang , Kun Yang

Developing robots that can assist humans efficiently, safely, and adaptively is crucial for real-world applications such as healthcare. While previous work often assumes a centralized system for co-optimizing human-robot interactions, we…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Jason Qin , Shikun Ban , Wentao Zhu , Yizhou Wang , Dimitris Samaras

In this work, we study the problem of Embodied Referring Expression Grounding, where an agent needs to navigate in a previously unseen environment and localize a remote object described by a concise high-level natural language instruction.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-05 Mingxiao Li , Zehao Wang , Tinne Tuytelaars , Marie-Francine Moens

Our ability to build autonomous agents that leverage Generative AI continues to increase by the day. As builders and users of such agents it is unclear what parameters we need to align on before the agents start performing tasks on our…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Nitesh Goyal , Minsuk Chang , Michael Terry

This paper introduces the concept of coexistence for embodied artificial agents and argues that it is a prerequisite for long-term, in-the-wild interaction with humans. Contemporary embodied artificial agents excel in static, predefined…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Hannah Kuehn , Joseph La Delfa , Miguel Vasco , Danica Kragic , Iolanda Leite

Creating an immersive and interactive theatrical experience is a long-term goal in the field of interactive narrative. The emergence of large language models (LLMs) provides a new path to achieve this goal. However, existing drama…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Shufan Jiang , Sizhou Chen , Chios Chen , Chi Zhang , Xiao-Lei Zhang , Xuelong Li

Large language models (LLMs) possess extensive knowledge bases and strong reasoning capabilities, making them promising tools for complex, multi-agent planning in embodied environments. However, despite LLMs' advanced abilities and the…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Xinran Li , Chenjia Bai , Zijian Li , Jiakun Zheng , Ting Xiao , Jun Zhang

Accomplishing household tasks requires to plan step-by-step actions considering the consequences of previous actions. However, the state-of-the-art embodied agents often make mistakes in navigating the environment and interacting with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Byeonghwi Kim , Jinyeon Kim , Yuyeong Kim , Cheolhong Min , Jonghyun Choi

In this work, we address challenging multi-agent cooperation problems with decentralized control, raw sensory observations, costly communication, and multi-objective tasks instantiated in various embodied environments. While previous…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Hongxin Zhang , Weihua Du , Jiaming Shan , Qinhong Zhou , Yilun Du , Joshua B. Tenenbaum , Tianmin Shu , Chuang Gan

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly being adopted as the cognitive core of embodied agents. However, inherited hallucinations, which stem from failures to ground user instructions in the observed physical environment, can lead to…

The reasoning capabilities of embodied agents introduce a critical, under-explored inferential privacy challenge, where the risk of an agent generate sensitive conclusions from ambient data. This capability creates a fundamental tension…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Shuning Zhang , Hong Jia , Simin Li , Ting Dang , Yongquan `Owen' Hu , Xin Yi , Hewu Li

The rapid advancement of Large Language Models (LLMs) has marked a significant breakthrough in Artificial Intelligence (AI), ushering in a new era of Human-centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI). HAI aims to better serve human welfare and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Wenbin Ding , Jun Chen , Mingjia Chen , Fei Xie , Qi Mao , Philip Dames

Recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) have enhanced the reasoning capabilities of embodied agents, driving progress toward AGI-powered robotics. While LLMs have been applied to tasks like semantic reasoning and task…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Jia Liu , Min Chen

We introduce a novel setting, wherein an agent needs to learn a task from a demonstration of a related task with the difference between the tasks communicated in natural language. The proposed setting allows reusing demonstrations from…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-01-25 Prasoon Goyal , Raymond J. Mooney , Scott Niekum

Embodied agents operating in the physical world must make decisions that are not only effective but also safe, spatially coherent, and grounded in context. While recent advances in large multimodal models (LMMs) have shown promising…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Dinura Dissanayake , Ahmed Heakl , Omkar Thawakar , Noor Ahsan , Ritesh Thawkar , Ketan More , Jean Lahoud , Rao Anwer , Hisham Cholakkal , Ivan Laptev , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Salman Khan

To complete assignments provided by humans in natural language, robots must interpret commands, generate and answer relevant questions for scene understanding, and manipulate target objects. Real-world deployments often require multiple…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Xiaopan Zhang , Zejin Wang , Zhixu Li , Jianpeng Yao , Jiachen Li

We present an embodied robotic system with an LLM-driven agent-orchestration architecture for autonomous household object management. The system integrates memory-augmented task planning, enabling robots to execute high-level user commands…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Marc Glocker , Peter Hönig , Matthias Hirschmanner , Markus Vincze