Embodied AI 101

Shaoqing Tan

Embodied AI 101 tracks the latest research at the intersection of AI and physical intelligence.

Robotics, manipulation, world models, and the path from digital intelligence to embodied agents — each episode breaks down recent papers and advances in the field.

We examine the methodology, real-world implications, and path to deployment. Covering robot learning, perception, control, and the fundamental challenge of grounding intelligence in the physical world.

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August 31 · 33 min
Gaussians as State, Futures as Supervision: Inside GSP-3D
Introduction Learning robust visuomotor policies for bimanual manipulation remains challenging due to the stringent requirements for precise coordination between arms and the ability to generalize across diverse environmental conditions. Existing approach
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August 31 · 30 min
SIRModel and the Missing Geometry Layer in Vision–Language Manipulation
Long-horizon robotic manipulation requires a policy to bridge task-level semantic reasoning with metric three-dimensional interaction geometry. Existing vision–language–action policies usually acquire geometry implicitly from visual tokens or introduce de
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August 30 · 33 min
The Robot That Knows When to Think Twice: Inside τ0-VLA
Long-horizon robot manipulation requires a robot to both execute individual skills reliably and sequence them coherently over extended tasks. Most hierarchical vision-language-action (VLA) models make each such decision with a fixed compute budget. τ0-VLA
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August 30 · 29 min
When Should a Robot Stop Imagining? RISE and Adaptive World-Action Planning
Introduces dynamic Roll/Stop decision-making in world action models that adapts imagination based on planning benefit, risk, and compute cost for more efficient robot planning. Enables world action models to selectively engage imagination only when benefi
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August 29 · 29 min
The Crib as a Causal Laboratory: How a Playing iCub Learns "I Did That"
Learning sensorimotor contingencies—that is, the link between one's actions and their sensory effects—is fundamental to developing body knowledge, understanding causality, and developing a sense of agency. In developmental psychology, this...
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August 29 · 31 min
Feeling Around Corners: STRP Compresses Fingertip Force into Directional Touch
High-voltage grid maintenance and chemical processing demand dexterous manipulation in confined, visually occluded environments. Existing teleoperation systems present a severe cost–fidelity trade-off: industrial platforms exceed USD 60,000 yet lack spati
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August 28 · 29 min
Give the Swarm a Pheromone Compass
Search-and-rescue (SAR) operations in disaster environments require drone swarms to coordinate efficiently despite incomplete information and potential communication failures. Existing stigmergy-based approaches provide low-bandwidth coordination but rely
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August 28 · 36 min
When Every Weld Looks the Same: Language-Labeled Graphs for Industrial Localization
Abstract As industries increasingly move towards automation, the ability to visually localize objects and accurately estimate their pose, including rigid and non-rigid transformations, becomes critical. Conventional pose estimation methods are...
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August 27 · 26 min
When Robot Eyes Converge: Active Stereo for Humanoid Depth
The design of robotic binocular camera systems has been inspired by human vision, as has their use in humanoid robots. One aspect of this inspiration has yet to play a role in robotics: convergent binocular stereo, where the cameras are angled inward to o
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