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The Living Algorithm: Building AI from Biological Principles

10.02.2026 by ebaster

A new perspective on machine intelligence proposes that emulating the core processes of life – from self-assembly to continuous adaptation – is the key to creating truly robust and scalable AI systems.

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Swarm Intelligence for Robotics: Finding the Best Path Forward

10.02.2026 by ebaster

For long-horizon planning challenges, a Cross-Boundary Optimization (CBO) approach demonstrably outperforms the established Covariance Matrix Adaptation Evolution Strategy (CMA), as implemented in equations (18) and (19), achieving significantly superior results across the evaluated population at each iteration.

A new optimization technique leverages the collective behavior of particle swarms to dramatically improve trajectory planning and achieve global optimality in robotic systems.

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Echoes of Creation: ALMA’s View of Solar System Origins

10.02.2026 by ebaster

The detection of a minute gravitational wobble induced upon the dwarf planet Orcus by its satellite Vanth-a wobble comparable in scale to the debris disk surrounding the star HD 170773-demonstrates that this primary-satellite system possesses the highest known mass ratio of any in the solar system, offering a distant analogue for the collisional dynamics shaping dust within nearby stellar debris disks.

New observations with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array are reshaping our understanding of how planets and small bodies formed from the swirling disks of gas and dust around young stars.

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Teaching Robots to Feel: A New Approach to Force-Guided Manipulation

10.02.2026 by ebaster

The system’s response to torque demands shifts dramatically with even subtle adjustments to proportional-integral-derivative (PID) gains, demonstrating that stable control isn’t a fixed parameter, but a precarious balance perpetually threatened by the inevitable drift towards instability - a prophecy etched into the very architecture of feedback loops.

Researchers have developed a novel imitation learning framework that allows robots to learn complex manipulation skills by separating trajectory planning from real-time force control.

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AI’s Blind Spot: Why Code-Generating Systems Overestimate Their Abilities

10.02.2026 by ebaster

Agentic systems-including GPT-5.2 Codex (35% accuracy), Gemini-3-Pro (22%), and Opus 4.5 (27%)-consistently overestimate their probability of success, a pattern observed across pre-execution, post-execution, and adversarial post-execution strategies.

New research reveals that artificial intelligence agents consistently demonstrate overconfidence when predicting their success at coding tasks, raising critical questions about their reliability and safe deployment.

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Robot Motion, Defined: A New Axiomatic Framework for Manipulation

10.02.2026 by ebaster

The Law of Task Achieving Body Motion formalizes successful robotic manipulation by grounding action within a defined physics model and evaluating success not as a singular outcome, but across the interwoven dimensions of semantic correctness, causal sufficiency, and embodiment feasibility-a framework acknowledging that effective action necessitates not only <i>what</i> is done, but <i>how</i> and <i>why</i> it is possible within a physical reality.

Researchers have developed a formal system for verifying the correctness of robot actions, ensuring reliable performance in complex tasks.

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Walking the Energy Line: Smarter Locomotion for Humanoid Robots

10.02.2026 by ebaster

The constrained reinforcement learning framework fosters a synergistic relationship between energy efficiency and locomotor stability in humanoid robots, achieving superior performance to both model predictive control and conventional reinforcement learning approaches-and does so without laborious parameter tuning, suggesting a path toward more robust and adaptable robotic systems.

A new reinforcement learning approach tackles the critical challenge of energy efficiency in humanoid walking, paving the way for more sustainable and practical robots.

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Navigating the Swarm: AI Learns to Predict Crowd Behavior for Smoother Robot Paths

10.02.2026 by ebaster

Trajectory planning reveals that Crowd-FM generates a more diverse set of potential paths-allowing for adaptable navigation around obstacles-while both CrowdSurfer and Crowd-FM converge on a single, optimal trajectory highlighted in red, demonstrating a shared capacity for efficient path selection despite differing exploratory strategies.

A new approach leverages generative models to predict likely human movements, allowing robots to plan efficient and natural-looking trajectories through crowded spaces.

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Verifying Expertise: A New Layer of Biosecurity

10.02.2026 by ebaster

A tiered Know Your Customer (KYC) framework bolsters research integrity by combining institutional vetting, real-time output screening via homology searches and functional annotation, and longitudinal behavioral monitoring to detect deviations from declared research purposes-each tier functioning as an independent security measure while enabling continued access for legitimate researchers.

A proposal suggests adapting financial ‘Know Your Customer’ protocols to govern access to powerful biological design tools and mitigate emerging biosecurity risks.

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When Robots See Actions That Aren’t There

09.02.2026 by ebaster

Latent-variable policies, when applied to tasks with multiple valid solutions-such as navigating around an obstacle-encounter a topological barrier where continuous latent spaces must traverse a region of invalid actions, inevitably leading to a non-zero probability of generating “hallucinated” or forbidden behaviors; this probability scales with both the number of distinct solution modes and a ratio representing the gap between smooth variations in action space, a phenomenon empirically verified through diffusion and flow matching models trained on bimodal action data and consistent with established theoretical bounds.

New research explores why foundation models for robotics sometimes generate plans based on imagined events, and how to improve their reliability.

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