most citedPosition: Intelligent Science Laboratory Requires the Integration of Cognitive and Embodied AI

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32 papers

cs.AI2026

LabOPBench: A Multimodal Benchmark for Evidence-Grounded Laboratory Decision Making

Jingyuan Li, Yujie Liu, Yijie Dai +18

Laboratory experiments involve more than following predefined protocols; they require adaptive decision-making as the experimental state changes. Existing scientific benchmarks rar…

cs.AI2026

LabCompiler: A Framework for Verifiable Human-Machine Laboratory Execution from Imperfect Protocols

Jingyuan Li, Dongzhan Zhou, Minting Pan +10

Closing the loop of AI-driven science requires reliably translating natural-language protocols into executable laboratory workflows despite protocol defects and heterogeneous hardw…

cs.RO2026

Embodied Skill Bench: Benchmarking How Well Agents with Embodied Skills Perform on Physical Tasks

Zhi Han, Zihan Guo, Chenxi Zeng +6

LLM agents increasingly control robots using VLA policies, perception models, and procedural knowledge. These modules are difficult to reuse because their interfaces, embodiment as…

cs.RO2026

RoboBridge: A Self-Evolving Embodied Agent Framework for Sim-to-Real Transfer

Chenxi Li, Zhangrui Zhao, Rui Li +8

A key challenge in bringing embodied intelligence into the real world is transferring capabilities from simulation to reality and enabling agents to continually adapt after deploym…

cs.RO2026

RoboChemGym: A Protocol-Driven Generative Simulation Framework for Long-Horizon Chemical Manipulation

Chenxi Li, Haiyuan Wan, Rui Li +10

Wet-lab experimentation serves as the gold standard for hypothesis verification in scientific discovery; yet it is inherently labor-intensive, costly, and safety-critical. Embodied…

cs.RO2026

ProtoAct: Turning Wet-Lab Protocols into Embodied Robotic Actions

Zhe Liu, Jiaming Gu, Zhaohui Du +7

Biological wet-lab protocols are written for trained researchers and often leave routine operations, state-dependent conditions, and contextual parameters implicit, making them dif…

cs.RO2026

BioVLN: A Simulation Platform for Visual Language Navigation in Biomedical Laboratories

Zhe Liu, Quan Lu, Zhaohui Du +7

Biomedical laboratory robots must navigate to instruments before performing experimental procedures. Existing embodied navigation platforms are designed for household environments…

cs.RO2026

LabRobFail: A Benchmark for Robotic Failure Analysis in Chemical Self-driving Laboratory

Haobo Wang, Baoli Sun, Anqi Zou +8

The deployment of embodied agents in self-driving laboratories could accelerate scientific discovery, yet their reliability is constrained by the irreversible and safety-critical n…

cs.RO2026

Pipette: An Embodied Simulation Platform, Benchmark, and Data-Efficient Augmentation Framework for Wet-Lab Robotics

Zhe Liu, Huanbo Jin, Zhaohui Du +10

Wet-lab robots can improve the reproducibility, throughput, and safety of biomedical experiments, but scaling their learning requires customizable simulators for safe and reproduci…

cs.LG2026

ResearchClawBench: A Benchmark for End-to-End Autonomous Scientific Research

Wanghan Xu, Shuo Li, Tianlin Ye +48

AI coding agents are increasingly used for scientific work, but their end-to-end autonomous research capability remains difficult to verify. We present ResearchClawBench, a benchma…

cs.CL2026

LabVLA: Grounding Vision-Language-Action Models in Scientific Laboratories

Baochang Ren, Xinjie Liu, Xi Chen +15

Scientific laboratories increasingly rely on AI systems to reason about experiments, but the physical act of doing science remains largely outside their reach. AI can help read lit…

cs.RO2026

Trans2Occ: Voxel Occupancy Estimation and Grasp for Transparent Objects from Simulation to Reality

Yixuan Yang, Sha Zhang, Rui Li +12

Transparent objects remain challenging for robotic perception due to unreliable depth sensing caused by refraction and reflection. While prior approaches rely on multi-view reconst…

cs.CV2026

LabBuilder: Protocol-Grounded 3D Layout Generation for Interactable and Safe Laboratory

Jianbao Cao, Zhangrui Zhao, Bohan Feng +15

Automated laboratories hold the promise of accelerating scientific discovery, yet their deployment is bottlenecked by the difficulty of designing safe and executable environments.…

cs.RO2026

BioProVLA-Agent: An Affordable, Protocol-Driven, Vision-Enhanced VLA-Enabled Embodied Multi-Agent System with Closed-Loop-Capable Reasoning for Biological Laboratory Manipulation

Zhaohui Du, Zhe Wang, Dongzhan Zhou +9

Biological laboratory automation can reduce repetitive manual work and improve reproducibility, but reliable embodied execution in wet-lab environments remains challenging. Protoco…

cs.RO2026

CoEnv: Driving Embodied Multi-Agent Collaboration via Compositional Environment

Li Kang, Yutao Fan, Rui Li +11

Multi-agent embodied systems hold promise for complex collaborative manipulation, yet face critical challenges in spatial coordination, temporal reasoning, and shared workspace awa…

physics.chem-ph2026

An SO(3)-equivariant reciprocal-space neural potential for long-range interactions

Lingfeng Zhang, Taoyong Cui, Dongzhan Zhou +6

Long-range electrostatic and polarization interactions play a central role in molecular and condensed-phase systems, yet remain fundamentally incompatible with locality-based machi…

cs.RO2026

Ego to World: Collaborative Spatial Reasoning in Embodied Systems via Reinforcement Learning

Heng Zhou, Li Kang, Yiran Qin +12

Understanding the world from distributed, partial viewpoints is a fundamental challenge for embodied multi-agent systems. Each agent perceives the environment through an ego-centri…

physics.comp-ph2026

Discovery of Interpretable Physical Laws in Materials via Language-Model-Guided Symbolic Regression

Yifeng Guan, Chuyi Liu, Dongzhan Zhou +4

Discovering interpretable physical laws from high-dimensional data is a fundamental challenge in scientific research. Traditional methods, such as symbolic regression, often produc…

cs.AI2026

P1-VL: Bridging Visual Perception and Scientific Reasoning in Physics Olympiads

Yun Luo, Futing Wang, Qianjia Cheng +28

The transition from symbolic manipulation to science-grade reasoning represents a pivotal frontier for Large Language Models (LLMs), with physics serving as the critical test ancho…

cs.DB2026

SciDataCopilot: An Agentic Data Preparation Framework for AGI-driven Scientific Discovery

Jiyong Rao, Yicheng Qiu, Jiahui Zhang +29

The current landscape of AI for Science (AI4S) is predominantly anchored in large-scale textual corpora, where generative AI systems excel at hypothesis generation, literature sear…

cs.AI2026

SciEvalKit: An Open-source Evaluation Toolkit for Scientific General Intelligence

Yiheng Wang, Yixin Chen, Shuo Li +33

We introduce SciEvalKit, a unified benchmarking toolkit designed to evaluate AI models for science across a broad range of scientific disciplines and task capabilities. Unlike gene…

cs.AI2025

SCP: Accelerating Discovery with a Global Web of Autonomous Scientific Agents

Yankai Jiang, Wenjie Lou, Lilong Wang +17

We introduce SCP: the Science Context Protocol, an open-source standard designed to accelerate discovery by enabling a global network of autonomous scientific agents. SCP is built…

cs.AI2025

Single-Agent Scaling Fails Multi-Agent Intelligence: Towards Foundation Models with Native Multi-Agent Intelligence

Shuyue Hu, Haoyang Yan, Yiqun Zhang +3

Foundation models (FMs) are increasingly assuming the role of the ''brain'' of AI agents. While recent efforts have begun to equip FMs with native single-agent abilities -- such as…

cs.LG2025

P1: Mastering Physics Olympiads with Reinforcement Learning

Jiacheng Chen, Qianjia Cheng, Fangchen Yu +25

Recent progress in large language models (LLMs) has moved the frontier from puzzle-solving to science-grade reasoning-the kind needed to tackle problems whose answers must stand ag…