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Robots Learn by Watching: A New Era of One-Shot Skill Acquisition

December 9, 2025 by BBG News

The system learns a quantized representation of actions from observation sequences using a latent action tokenizer, then predicts these latent actions and subsequent robot movements, thereby enabling skill acquisition from a single demonstration video by mapping observed behavior to a compact, learnable action space-effectively distilling complex manipulation skills into a readily reproducible form.

Researchers have developed a novel framework that allows robotic agents to learn complex manipulation tasks from a single video demonstration, bridging the gap between visual perception and skilled action.

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Building Models That Control: A New Era for System Identification

December 9, 2025 by BBG News

Optimization-based system identification benefits from approaches that explicitly impose control-oriented properties, enabling tailored performance and stability characteristics.

This review explores how modern system identification techniques are moving beyond pure prediction to prioritize control-relevant properties like stability and physical plausibility.

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Robot Soccer Stars: Teaching Humanoids to Kick with Precision

December 9, 2025 by BBG News

The system’s performance-measured in success rate, kick accuracy, maximum ball velocity, and energy cost-demonstrates a sensitivity to initial ball position, suggesting that even within a defined operational space, nuanced adjustments are critical for maintaining efficacy as the system ages and encounters positional variance.

Researchers have developed a new reinforcement learning system that enables humanoid robots to reliably and accurately kick a soccer ball, even with imperfect sensor data.

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Cybersecurity’s AI Evolution: From Smart Tools to Autonomous Defenders

December 9, 2025 by BBG News

A new analysis charts the rapid progression of artificial intelligence in cybersecurity, examining how systems are moving beyond simple reasoning to fully automated threat response.

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Mapping the Flow: Discovering Hidden Patterns in Movement

December 9, 2025 by BBG News

The study details observed interaction patterns and their evolution across two datasets, utilizing a symbolic legend-detailed in Table 2-to delineate specific behaviors.

New research details a data-driven approach to understanding how moving objects interact, offering insights beyond traditional simulation methods.

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Beyond Agreement: How Humans and AI Can Build Shared Understanding

December 9, 2025 by BBG News

A new approach to human-AI collaboration focuses on jointly constructing causal models of the world, rather than simply aligning behaviors.

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Navigating the Social Maze: A New Approach to Robot Movement

December 9, 2025 by BBG News

Researchers are leveraging the power of spiking neural networks and reinforcement learning to create robots that can navigate complex social environments with improved adaptability and efficiency.

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Ocean Insights: AI Takes Underwater Exploration to New Depths

December 9, 2025 by BBG News

The study leverages image data sourced from both the DeepFish and OzFish datasets to facilitate advancements in aquatic species identification and analysis.

A new autonomous system leverages artificial intelligence to automatically identify, categorize, and report on marine life and objects, promising a significant leap forward for ocean research.

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Can a Robot Be Your Friend? The Rise of Personality in AI

December 9, 2025 by BBG News

A pre-study dialogue revealed that a chatbot exhibiting uncooperative behavior - appearing disinterested and unwilling to engage - demonstrated a clear lack of alignment with collaborative task completion.

New research explores how giving robots distinct personalities, powered by large language models, impacts how humans interact with and perceive these machines.

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AI Agents Now Beat Experts at Fine-Tuning Scientific Imaging

December 9, 2025 by BBG News

The study contrasts segmentation results achieved through human-designed functions with those generated by an autonomous agent, demonstrating that while both approaches yield segmentations from a given image and prompt, the agent-generated preprocessing and postprocessing code differs significantly from expert implementations, suggesting alternative, though functionally equivalent, pathways to achieving the desired outcome.

A new study reveals that simple AI agents can reliably optimize biomedical imaging workflows, often surpassing the performance of human experts.

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