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Oct 10, 2026 · Artificial Intelligence

ROMA: Teaching Robots to Actively Explore and Understand Objects

Researchers from Renmin University and Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence introduce ROMA, a system that equips robots with multisensory active perception, enabling them to autonomously decide which object to interact with, how to interact, and which modalities to use, forming a reasoning-interaction-feedback loop that matches GPT-6 Astra performance on real-world tasks.