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[Submitted on 10 Feb 2026 (v1), last revised 14 Aug 2026 (this version, v2)]
Abstract:Robotic laboratories play a critical role in autonomous scientific discovery by enabling scalable, continuous experimental execution. Recent vision-language-action (VLA) models offer a promising foundation for robotic laboratories. However, scientific experiments typically involve long-horizon tasks composed of multiple atomic tasks. Existing VLA models may fail to perform composed tasks formed by reordering and composing these known atomic actions. This limitation can arise from a skill-chaining gap caused by robot-state mismatch: the terminal robot state of one skill can fall outside the valid initial-state distribution of the next. To address this challenge, we propose AtomBridge, an Agentic VLA Inference Plugin for Long-Horizon Tasks in Scientific Experiments. AtomBridge attaches at inference time to a VLA policy already fine-tuned on atomic tasks, while keeping its weights fixed. At each task boundary, it uses LLM-based transition reasoning and robotic-action code generation to insert transitional actions between consecutive tasks. This plug-and-play design mitigates the skill-chaining gap caused by robot-state mismatch without additional VLA fine-tuning or demonstrations of composed long-horizon sequences. Across scientific manipulation sequences in simulation and a real-world experimental environment, AtomBridge improves execution continuity and per-step atomic-task success. On 8-step composed tasks, AtomBridge improves full-sequence success by 10%~25%.
Submission history
From: Yiwen Pang [view email]
[v1]
Tue, 10 Feb 2026 05:50:19 UTC (11,328 KB)
[v2]
Fri, 14 Aug 2026 06:48:51 UTC (3,287 KB)
추출 본문 · 출처: arxiv.org · https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.09430