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Bryce Grant, Xijia Zhao, Peng Wang
The authors test whether replacing a robot’s internal activity with activity recorded during another task redirects its movement. They inject this signal during a different task and compare action alignment and task success. For π₀.₅, conditional action-cosine override is 99.6% across 1,968 episodes, while destination-task success is 2.6%. Physical tests show coordinate-directed behavior, but cover one task pair.
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