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An Always-On Robot Remembered What Both Arms Did

Asynchronous perception and self-history raised a combined streaming-task score from 28% to 45%.

Published Updated Story ID: mp-2026-09-24-013
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Summary

Asynchronous perception and self-history raised a combined streaming-task score from 28% to 45%.

ARMS adds lightweight context modules to a pretrained robot policy so it can watch a continuing stream, recall past actions and coordinate two arms without stopping execution. On the authors' combined task, it reached 45% against 28% for the strongest of four baselines; ablations found that memory, embodied state and asynchronous concurrency each mattered. The result comes from a newly constructed dataset and task, not an open-ended household deployment.

Why it matters

Asynchronous perception and self-history raised a combined streaming-task score from 28% to 45%.

Limits and context

  • The result comes from a newly constructed dataset and task, not an open-ended household deployment.

Key claims

  1. Asynchronous perception and self-history raised a combined streaming-task score from 28% to 45%.

    Qualification: The result comes from a newly constructed dataset and task, not an open-ended household deployment.

    Evidence: source-2026-09-24-013

Sources

  1. arXiv preprint 2609.28429arXiv · primary research

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