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See, Plan, Rewind: Progress-Aware Vision-Language-Action Models for Robust Robotic Manipulation

arXiv:2603.09292v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Measurement of task progress through explicit, actionable milestones is critical for robust robotic manipulation. This progress awareness enables a model to ground its current task status, anticipate verifiable intermediate states, and detect and recover from failures when progress stalls. To embody this capability, we introduce \textbf{S}ee, \textbf{P}lan, \textbf{R}ewind (SPR), a progress-aware vision-language-action framework that...

Inverse Manipulation through Symbolic Planning and Residual Operator Learning

arXiv:2606.05248v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Inverting a robotic task requires more than reversing symbolic state transitions or rewinding motor trajectories. In robot manipulation tasks, symbolic inverse plans often fail to fully restore the effects of forward executions under continuous interaction dynamics.

‘He was alive – you saw it in his eyes’: inside the years that shaped Mikel Arteta

Parents are turning to VHS to help increase their kids’ patience in latest trend

The Independent's journalism is supported by our readers. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn commission. Parents are turning to VHS to help increase their kids’ patience in latest trend Most of us left VHS tapes behind in the ’90s, but some parents want them to make a comeback - Bookmark - CommentsGo to comments Before the advent of streaming and DVDs, families could watch their favorite movies at home on VHS tapes.

‘He was alive – you saw it in his eyes’: inside the years that shaped Mikel Arteta

One teen's killing has shaken a nation, fuelling demands for justice

Argentinian teen's brutal death shakes nation as thousands demand justice for women Thu 4 Jun 2026 at 3:18pm When Argentinian teenager Agostina Vega left her grandfather's empanada factory and hailed a nearby taxi, it would be the last time her family members saw her alive. This article includes graphic content that may upset some readers. The 14-year-old told the driver she wanted to go to a friend's house to collect a gift to surprise her mother.

TV tonight: a major new culture wars drama from the great Russell T Davies

Alan Cumming and David Morrissey star in the gripping Manchester-set series. Plus, a wild tale of charity shenanigans involving One Direction. Here’s what to watch this evening.9pm, Channel 4A harrowing scene on a regular residential street in Manchester ropes you into this new drama by Russell T Davies.

Crystal Nights by Greg Egan

Publication history - Interzone #215, April 2008. - Free podcast at Transmissions From Beyond. [Site no longer active] - Oceanic (collection, Orion) -

To Be Multimodal or Not to Be: Query-Adaptive Audio-Visual Person Retrieval via Active Modality Detection

arXiv:2606.05931v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: When retrieving a person from a video archive by voice and face, should the system be multimodal or not? In real-world broadcast archives, unlike curated benchmarks, a target may be heard but unseen, seen but unheard, or both. Fusing scores from an absent modality injects noise, degrading precision below the best unimodal system.

Experiment aborted too soon? How 'sidelined' Annamalai drifted away from BJP in Tamil Nadu

Annamalai Kuppusamy (K Annamalai), who not so long ago was BJP’s biggest face, and also its biggest hope in Tamil Nadu, has quit the party. The former IPS officer, who joined BJP in 2020 and made the party visible in the state like never before, is all set to form his own “regional outfit” as he feels that being part of a national party “limits his growth.” Annamalai is in Delhi and, according to reports, has thanked all his party bosses including Amit Shah while submitting his resignation,...