What happens after step one?
A research dossier on long-horizon robot tasks: multi-step execution, memory, dependencies, changing environments, replanning and physical state across time.
Maturity // UNVERIFIED
01 / The Atlas framing
Can physical AI move from isolated skills to complete outcomes?
02 / Research areas under observation
- · Multiple actions
- · Changing environments
- · Memory
- · Dependencies
- · Planning and replanning
- · Physical state
- · Failure recovery
03 / Where the question actually lives
“Pick up the cup.”
“Prepare the house for dinner.”
One skill, one attempt
Many steps, changing state, one outcome
04 / The physical scenario
- “Prepare the house for dinner.”
- “Get everything ready before I arrive.”
- “Organize this room.”
Research
Evidence // attributable claims only
This dossier is open and currently holds no research findings. Nothing is stated here as evidence until a primary source has been read and can be cited in full.
Source first. Claim second. Interpretation third.
- LEVEL 01 — Peer-reviewed research, arXiv from credible groups, university labs, conference proceedings
- LEVEL 02 — Official technical research from serious robotics / AI organisations
- LEVEL 03 — Technical interviews with researchers, engineers and founders
- LEVEL 04 — High-quality analysis from respected research institutions or investors
Required per source // source · institution · date · url · research type
Our read
Interpretation // thesis under investigation, not a finding
The real worldis a sequence,not a prompt.
05 / Related open problems
PLANNING // unsolved
How does a plan stay valid in an environment that keeps moving?
FAILURE RECOVERY // unsolved
What does a retry mean when the first attempt changed the world?
06 / Related Atlas nodes
PLANNING → WORLD UNDERSTANDING → ORCHESTRATION → PHYSICAL EXECUTION
- PLANNING — Turning a goal into an ordered sequence of physically possible steps.
- WORLD UNDERSTANDING — Holding a representation of an environment that keeps changing.
- ORCHESTRATION — Coordinating humans, providers, APIs and machines toward one outcome.
- PHYSICAL EXECUTION — The moment intelligence touches matter: motion, contact, transport.
07 / Related research
Atlas // research chain
- VERIFICATION
The dossiers are not isolated articles. Each one inherits the failure of the stage before it.
// Milan, Italy
// Real World Atlas
// Observation continues