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A RobotecAI preprint shows compact vision-language models running five warehouse-robot tasks on a single mini PC, with a 'Megamind' orchestrator compensating for compact-model context drift.
An arXiv preprint — an open, non-peer-reviewed repository — from IIMB Bangalore (the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore) and University of Antwerp researchers swaps fixed recharge rules for a fleet-wide learned policy that picks both where
A new arXiv preprint, PatchOptic, borrows a read/update split from functional-programming "optics" (optics: composable read/update pairs over a data structure) and turns it into a contract: what each step was shown, what it meant to change, where
Naval Group's LOTUSim combines aerial, surface, and underwater drones with a depth-aware ocean current model, though its realism has not been validated at sea.