Embodied AI

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Embodied AI asks how agents can connect perception and reasoning to actions that change a physical or simulated world. Common approaches include vision-language-action models, language-model agents with tools and hierarchical plans, reinforcement learning, persistent spatial or episodic memory, and world models trained with robot demonstrations or generated simulation data. Researchers evaluate these systems on navigation, manipulation, household tasks, and multi-agent coordination, using benchmarks as well as real robots. A central challenge is that strong perception or short-task scores do not guarantee reliable long-horizon behavior: agents still struggle with physical constraints, changing conditions, recovery, and safety, while simulated success may not transfer to deployment.

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  1. Embodied AI in Action: Insights from SAE World Congress 2026 on Safety, Trust, Robotics, and Real-World Deployment

    May 11, 2026Jan-Mou Li, Paul Schmitt, Wei Tong +4AI GovernanceTrust in AI

  2. EmbodiSkill: Skill-Aware Reflection for Self-Evolving Embodied Agents

    May 11, 2026Ruofei Ju, Xinrui Wang, Xin Ding +12LLM Agent Skill LearningAgent Skill Learning

    Nanjing University · Institute for AI Industry Research (AIR), Tsinghua University · Huazhong University of Science and Technology +2

  3. EnactToM: An Evolving Benchmark for Functional Theory of Mind in Embodied Agents

    May 11, 2026Gurusha Juneja, Dylan Lu, Saaket Agashe +7Multi-Agent CoordinationTheory of Mind

    University of California, Santa Barbara · 2King’s College London · 3Cisco Research

  4. Kintsugi: Learning Policies by Repairing Executable Knowledge Bases

    May 10, 2026Teng Cao, Yu Deng, Hikaru Shindo +6Robot Policy LearningLLM Agent Self-Improvement

    Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Lab, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany · Hessian Center for Artificial Intelligence (hessian.AI), Germany · Department of Computer Science, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany +6

  5. Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Can VLM Agents Tell Who They Are at All?

    May 9, 2026Filippo Ziliotto, Ciro Beneduce, Bruno Lepri +3AI Agent EvaluationVision-Language Grounding

    University of Padova · FondazioneLucianoBrunoSerafiniKessler · Fondazione Bruno Kessler

  6. Done, But Not Sure: Disentangling World Completion from Self-Termination in Embodied Agents

    May 9, 2026Ying Chen, Lihuang Fang, Rui Jiang +4AI Agent EvaluationAgent Evaluation

    XPENG ROBOTICS

  7. MemCompiler: Compile, Don't Inject -- State-Conditioned Memory for Embodied Agents

    May 8, 2026Xin Ding, Xinrui Wang, Yifan Yang +9Embodied AIMemory-Augmented Agents

    University of Science and Technology of China · Huazhong University of Science and Technology · Microsoft Research +2

  8. RobotEQ: Transitioning from Passive Intelligence to Active Intelligence in Embodied AI

    May 7, 2026Kuofei Fang, Xinyi Che, Haomin Ouyang +12Human-Robot InteractionEmbodied AI

    State Key Laboratory of Autonomous Intelligent Unmanned Systems, Tongji University · Tsinghua University · The Chinese University of Hong Kong +1

  9. Position: Embodied AI Requires a Privacy-Utility Trade-off

    May 6, 2026Xiaoliang Fan, Jiarui Chen, Zhuodong Liu +6Privacy-Preserving MLEmbodied AI

    Fujian Key Laboratory of Urban Intelligent Sensing and Computing, Xiamen University, China Key Laboratory of Multimedia Trusted Perception and Efficient Computing, Ministry of Education of China, Xiamen University, China · School of Computing and Information Systems, The University of Melbourne, Australia

  10. Evaluating Generative Models as Interactive Emergent Representations of Human-Like Collaborative Behavior

    May 5, 2026Shinas Shaji, Teena Chakkalayil Hassan, Sebastian Houben +1Multi-Agent LLM SystemsTheory of Mind

    Institute of AI and Autonomous Systems (A2S), Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg, Grantham-Allee 20, Sankt Augustin, 53757, Germany. · 3Fraunhofer Institute for Intelligent Analysis and Information SystemsMay (IAIS), Schloss Birlinghoven, Sankt Augustin, 53757, Germany. · 2Division for Systems and Control, Chalmers University of Technology, Chalmersplatsen 1, Gothenburg, 41296, Sweden.

  11. MolmoAct2: Action Reasoning Models for Real-world Deployment

    May 4, 2026Haoquan Fang, Jiafei Duan, Donovan Clay +26Embodied ReasoningEfficient VLA Models

    1Allen Institute for AI · University of Washington · 3National University of Singapore +6

  12. ESARBench: A Benchmark for Agentic UAV Embodied Search and Rescue

    May 2, 2026Daoxuan Zhang, Ping Chen, Jianyi Zhou +1Aerial RoboticsRobotics Simulation

    Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen

  13. Bridging Values and Behavior: A Hierarchical Framework for Proactive Embodied Agents

    Apr 30, 2026Chunhui Zhang, Yuxuan Wang, Aoyang Qin +4Hierarchical PlanningAgent Evaluation

    State Key Laboratory of General Artificial Intelligence, BIGAI · School of Computer Science, Peking University · Tsinghua University +3

  14. 3D Generation for Embodied AI and Robotic Simulation: A Survey

    Apr 29, 2026Tianwei Ye, Yifan Mao, Minwen Liao +63D Asset GenerationRobotics Simulation

    the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology · Wuhan University · Harbin Institute of Technology +2

  15. Interoceptive machine framework: Toward interoception-inspired regulatory architectures in artificial intelligence

    Apr 27, 2026Diego Candia-RiveraEmbodied AIAdaptive Control

    NERV · Sorbonne Université, Paris Brain Institute (ICM), CNRS, INSERM, AP-HP, Hôpital de la Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris 75013, France

  16. AgenticCache: Cache-Driven Asynchronous Planning for Embodied AI Agents

    Apr 27, 2026Hojoon Kim, Yuheng Wu, Thierry TambeLLM PlanningLLM Inference Acceleration

    Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea · Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA

  17. AmaraSpatial-10K: A Spatially and Semantically Aligned 3D Dataset for Spatial Computing and Embodied AI

    Apr 24, 2026Mohammad Sadegh Salehi, Alexander J. P. Perkins, Igor Pardo Maurell +2Synthetic Data Generation for RoboticsAutomated Evaluation

    Zero One Creative

  18. ReCAPA: Hierarchical Predictive Correction to Mitigate Cascading Failures

    Apr 23, 2026Xiyin Zeng, Yuyu Sun, Haoyang Li +2Vision-Language-Action ModelsVision-Language Alignment

    1Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) · 2South China Normal University

  19. Environmental Understanding Vision-Language Model for Embodied Agent

    Apr 21, 2026Jinsik Bang, Jaeyeon Bae, Donggyu Lee +2Embodied AIVLMs for Robotics

    UNIST

  20. Unmasking the Illusion of Embodied Reasoning in Vision-Language-Action Models

    Apr 20, 2026Haiweng Xu, Sipeng Zheng, Hao Luo +3VLM EvaluationVLM Reasoning

    1Peking University · 3BeingBeyond · 2Tsinghua University

  21. StableIDM: Stabilizing Inverse Dynamics Model against Manipulator Truncation via Spatio-Temporal Refinement

    Apr 20, 2026Kerui Li, Zhe Jing, Xiaofeng Wang +6Robot Policy LearningEmbodied AI

    1GigaAI · 3Beijing Institute of Technology · Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences

  22. Seeing Isn't Believing: Mitigating Belief Inertia via Active Intervention in Embodied Agents

    Apr 19, 2026Hanlin Wang, Chak Tou Leong, Jian Wang +1Embodied AILLM Agent Reliability

    Department of Computing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University · College of Computer Science, Sichuan University

  23. NeuroAI and Beyond: Bridging Between Advances in Neuroscience and Artificial Intelligence

    Apr 19, 2026Anthony Zador, Jean-Marc Fellous, Terrence Sejnowski +28Embodied AI

    Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, USA. · Institute for Neural Computation, UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA. · Mathematics Department, Kalaheo High School, Kailua, HI, USA. +23

  24. Mini-BEHAVIOR-Gran: Revealing U-Shaped Effects of Instruction Granularity on Language-Guided Embodied Agents

    Apr 18, 2026Sukai Huang, Chenyuan Zhang, Fucai Ke +4AI Agent EvaluationAI Agent Benchmarks

    Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University

  25. MirrorBench: Evaluating Self-centric Intelligence in MLLMs by Introducing a Mirror

    Apr 16, 2026Shengyu Guo, Tongrui Ye, Jianbo Zhang +3Multimodal Large Language ModelsAI Agent Benchmarks

    Shanghai AI Lab

  26. [Emerging Ideas] Artificial Tripartite Intelligence: A Bio-Inspired, Sensor-First Architecture for Physical AI

    Apr 15, 2026You Rim Choi, Subeom Park, Hyung-Sin KimAdaptive SensingEmbodied AI

    Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea

  27. EmbodiedClaw: Conversational Workflow Execution for Embodied AI Development

    Apr 15, 2026Xueyang Zhou, Yihan Sun, Xijie Gong +4Embodied AIAutonomous Research Agents

    School of Cyber Science and Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology · School of Mechanical Science and Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology · School of Information and Software Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China +2

  28. Habitat-GS: A High-Fidelity Navigation Simulator with Dynamic Gaussian Splatting

    Apr 14, 2026Ziyuan Xia, Jingyi Xu, Chong Cui +9Robotics SimulationEmbodied AI

    Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China · Peking University, Beijing, China · XGRIDS, Shenzhen, China +2

  29. EmbodiedGovBench: A Benchmark for Governance, Recovery, and Upgrade Safety in Embodied Agent Systems

    Apr 13, 2026Xue Qin, Simin Luan, John See +2AI Agent GovernanceAI Agent Safety Benchmarks

    School of Software, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China · School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China · School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, Heriot-Watt University, Malaysia Campus, Putrajaya, Malaysia +1

  30. ECM Contracts: Contract-Aware, Versioned, and Governable Capability Interfaces for Embodied Agents

    Apr 10, 2026Xue Qin, Simin Luan, Cong Yang +1Software EngineeringRobotics

    School of Software, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China. · School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China. · School of Future Science and Engineering, Soochow University, Suzhou,2026 China.