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Making Embodied AI Reliable: A Community Agenda from Testing to Formal Verification
Jun 2, 2026Xi Zheng, Dulanga Weerakoon, Yintong Huo +8AI Agent Reliability Formal Verification
OpenEAI-Platform: An Open-source Embodied Artificial Intelligence Hardware-Software Unified Platform
Jun 2, 2026Jinyuan Zhang, Luoyi Fan, Leiyu Wang +4Robotic Control Robotics
1Shanghai Innovation Institute · 2Huazhong University of Science and Technology · 3Shanghai Jiao Tong University +1
eMEM: A Hybrid Spatio-Temporal Memory System For Embodied Agents
Jun 2, 2026A. Haroon Rasheed, Maria KabtoulLLM Agent Memory Memory Agent Benchmarks
MIND · Automatika Robotics Inria, France · CHROMA
EMBGuard: Constructing Hazard-Aware Guardrails for Safe Planning in Embodied Agents
May 29, 2026Dongwook Choi, Taeyoon Kwon, Bogyung Jeong +6LLM Guardrails AI Agent Safety
Department of Artificial Intelligence, Yonsei University · Department of Biomedical Engineering and the Department of Intelligent Precision Healthcare Convergence, Sungkyunkwan University · Independent Researcher
Completion at the Boundary (CaB): Deployable Switching with Completion-Aware Control under Limited Calibration
May 29, 2026Yusuke Sano, Takeshi ItogaVision-Language-Action Models Embodied AI
Intelligent Systems Laboratory, SECOM Co., Ltd.
Agnosiophobia in a virtual agent: behavioral and dynamical architecture in Lenia
May 29, 2026Jesse Cool, Benedikt Hartl, Michael Levin +1Cellular Automata Agent-Based Modeling
Department of Mathematics, Tufts University · Allen Discovery Center, Tufts University · Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University
PInVerify: An Offline Embodied Benchmark for Active Instance Verification
May 28, 2026Yuhang JiangNext-Best-View Planning Active Sensing
University of Trento, Italy
Physically Viable World Models: A Case for Query-Conditioned Embodied AI
May 28, 2026Adam J. Thorpe, Stepan Tretiakov, Cheng-Hsi Hsiao +6World Models for Robotics Causal World Models
The University of Texas at Austin
GEM: Generative Supervision Helps Embodied Intelligence
May 27, 2026Ruowen Zhao, Bangguo Li, Zuyan Liu +9Vision-Language-Action Models Embodied AI
Tsinghua University · Tencent Hunyuan
Enabling Extensible Embodied Capabilities with Tools
May 26, 2026Xueyang Zhou, Zijia Wang, Qianjiang Li +7Robotic Tool Use Embodied AI
1Huazhong University of Science and Technology · 2Hebei University of Technology · 3Tianjin University +2
Personalizing Embodied Multimodal Large Language Model Agents over Long-term User Interactions
May 25, 2026Jeongeun Lee, Chanyoung Park, Dongha LeeMultimodal Memory Embodied AI
Yonsei University · KAIST
RePlan-Bot: Multi-Level Replanning for Embodied Instruction Following
May 25, 2026Xicheng Gong, Guozheng Sun, Peiran Xu +1Large Language Model-Based Robot Planning Robot Task Planning
1Peking University · 2Tsinghua University
Extending Embodied Question Answering from Perception to Decision
May 25, 2026Xicheng Gong, Qiwei Li, Peiran Xu +1Embodied QA VLM Reasoning
Peking University
VEOcc: Voxel-Centric Online Semantic Occupancy Prediction For Embodied Scene Understanding
May 24, 2026Ruoyu Wang, Yong Liu, Sheng Tao +2Simultaneous Localization and Mapping Semantic Occupancy Mapping
Institute of Cyber-Systems and Control, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China.
Test-Time Deep Thinking to Explore Implicit Rules
May 24, 2026Wentong Chen, Xin Cong, Zhong Zhang +8RL for Language Model Reasoning LLM Agents
Renmin University of China Beijing, China · Department of Statistics and Data Science, Tsinghua University Beijing, China · School of Computer Science and Engineering, UESTC Chengdu, China +4
Silent Failures in Physical AI: A Literature Review of Runtime Action Authorization for Autonomous Systems
May 23, 2026Barak OrRobot Safety AI Safety Evaluation
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Toward Enactive Artificial Intelligence
May 22, 2026Banafsheh Rafiee, Richard SuttonActive Perception Embodied AI
Independent Researcher · Department of Computing Science, University of Alberta, Canada · Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (Amii)
6G Communication Networks Enabling Embodied Agents: Architecture and Prototype
May 22, 2026Lipeng Dai, Luping Xiang, Kun Yang6G Networks Robot Teleoperation
State Key Laboratory of Novel Software Technology, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210008, China · Institute of Intelligent Networks and Communications (NINE), Nanjing University (Suzhou Campus), Suzhou, 215163, China
AwareVLN: Reasoning with Self-awareness for Vision-Language Navigation
May 21, 2026Wenxuan Guo, Xiuwei Xu, Yichen Liu +7Vision-Language Navigation VLM Reasoning
Tsinghua University, China
Machine Intelligence that Understands Visual and Linguistic Information and Interacts with Humans and Environments
May 20, 2026Van Quang NguyenImage Captioning Efficient ViTs
TOHOKU UNIVERSITY · Graduate School of Information Sciences · Department of System Information Sciences
The Yes-Man Syndrome: Benchmarking Abstention in Embodied Robotic Agents
May 19, 2026Doguhan Yeke, Elif Su Temirel, Ananth Shreekumar +3VLM Robustness Large Language Model-Based Robot Planning
Purdue University · Bilkent University · Work performed while an intern at Purdue University.
Probing an Embodied LLM: When Higher Observation Fidelity Hurts Problem Solving
May 19, 2026Oussama Zenkri, Oliver BrockLarge Language Model-Based Robot Planning LLM Agent Evaluation
Robotics and Biology Laboratory, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany · Science of Intelligence, Research Cluster of Excellence, Berlin, Germany · Robotics Institute Germany (RIG)
RoboJailBench: Benchmarking Adversarial Attacks and Defenses in Embodied Robotic Agents
May 19, 2026Doguhuan Yeke, Yanming Zhou, Leo Y. Lin +3Jailbreak Attacks AI Agent Security Benchmarks
Purdue University
ContextFlow: Hierarchical Task-State Alignment for Long-Horizon Embodied Agents
May 19, 2026Shuhan Guo, Kun Zhang, Haifei Liu +4Long-Horizon Agent Tasks Embodied AI
Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University · Qiuzhen College, Tsinghua University · Institute of Microelectronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences +3
ESI-Bench: Towards Embodied Spatial Intelligence that Closes the Perception-Action Loop
May 18, 2026Yining Hong, Jiageng Liu, Han Yin +5Active Perception Spatial Reasoning Benchmarks
1Stanford University · 2UCLA · 3Northwestern University
DexHoldem: An Agentic Robotics Benchmark for Dexterous Manipulation in Texas Hold'em
May 18, 2026Feng Chen, Tianzhe Chu, Li Sun +6Dexterous Manipulation AI Agent Evaluation
Qumus: Realization of An Embodied AI Quantum Material Experimentalist
May 18, 2026Lihan Shi, Zhaoyi Joy Zheng, Xinzhe Juan +14AI Agents for Scientific Discovery Materials Science
Department of Physics, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, USA · Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, USA · Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA +5
Beyond the Cartesian Illusion: Testing Two-Stage Multi-Modal Theory of Mind under Perceptual Bottlenecks
May 18, 2026Yajing Zhou, Xiangyu KongAudio-Visual Understanding Visual Spatial Reasoning
College of Computer Science, Beijing Information Science and Technology University, No.55 Taihang Road, Changping District, Beijing, 102206, China
Embodied AI in 6G Networks: From Intelligent Connectivity to Physical Intelligence
May 17, 2026Junaid Sajid, Sheikh Salman Hassan, Wenshuai Liu +76G Networks Wireless Communications
Thomas Johann Seebeck Department of Electronics, Tallinn University of Technology (TalTech), 19086 Tallinn, Estonia · Institute for Imaging, Data and Communication (IDCoM), The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3BF, United Kingdom · School of Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, Jiangsu, 214122, China +5
Body-Grounded Perspective Formation and Conative Attunement in Artificial Agents
May 16, 2026Hongju PaeEmbodied AI Embodied Cognition
Active Inference Institute, CA, USA

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Making Embodied AI Reliable: A Community Agenda from Testing to Formal Verification

Xi Zheng, Dulanga Weerakoon, Yintong Huo, Teresa Yeo+7

AI Agent Reliability Formal Verification Runtime Assurance Embodied AI

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Embodied AI systems are increasingly deployed in open-world environments, yet ensuring their reliability remains a fundamental challenge. Drawing on discussions from the AAAI'26 Bridge Program on "Making Embodied AI Reliable with Testing and Formal Verification", this article argues that reliability in embodied AI is inherently a lifecycle assurance problem arising from uncertainty, human interaction, and emergent behaviors across tightly coupled system components. We identify three complementary directions toward reliable embodied AI: (1) trustworthy scenario-based testing supported by validated specifications and meaningful coverage metrics, (2) compositional verification enabled by structured symbolic representations of system behavior and environmental context, and (3) runtime assurance mechanisms capable of adapting to uncertainty and distribution shifts during deployment. Rather than treating these approaches independently, we advocate integrated assurance workflows that connect testing, verification, and runtime adaptation through shared neuro-symbolic representations and continuous feedback across the system lifecycle. Such integration provides a foundation for building trustworthy embodied AI systems that can operate safely and reliably in complex real-world environments.

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