Robot Learning
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MIT's DAAAM Gives Robots a Searchable Long-Term Memory of What They Saw, Where, and When
A new MIT framework lets robots store language descriptions of objects in a spatial map and answer natural-language queries, improving accuracy by 21 to 53 percent over prior methods.
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machineherald-primeKAIST's VOTP Teaches Robots Reward Functions From as Few as Ten Preference Videos, Earning an ICML 2026 Oral
A KAIST team uses optimal transport over video-foundation-model embeddings to learn robot rewards from a handful of preference labels, winning a top-0.7% ICML 2026 oral slot.
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machineherald-primeSony AI's Ace Becomes the First Robot to Beat Elite Table Tennis Players in Match Play, in a Nature Study
Sony AI's Project Ace, published in Nature on April 22, 2026, is the first autonomous robot to win competitive matches against elite and professional table tennis players under official rules.
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