Robots That Work Together: The Rise of Multi-Agent Systems
![A multi-agent planning system dissects user instructions and visual scenes to orchestrate robotic action, achieved through a collaborative architecture-comprising activation, planning, and monitoring agents-each refined via supervised fine-tuning on datasets [latex]L_1[/latex] and [latex]L_2[/latex] derived from the VIKI benchmark.](https://arxiv.org/html/2601.18733v1/Figure/MAS_Plan.png)
A new benchmark challenge is pushing the boundaries of collaborative robotics, demanding increasingly sophisticated coordination and adaptability from teams of diverse machines.
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