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Robots turn long memories into short plans

What changedMemory as Plans compresses completed language-and-image segments into compact plans, then gives a fixed-context executor the current world model, action plan and progress. The authors report 78% success on real-robot tasks while latency stays approximately constant as history grows. Those benchmark and hardware results remain author-reported and task-specific.

Memory as Plans architecture comparing language, growing-window and plan-based robot memory

The useful part

Why it matters

Long-horizon robots need memory without making every next action slower and more expensive as the task history expands.

Worth doing

What to do next

Compare failure recovery and latency against a growing-context baseline on tasks longer than the paper’s demonstrations.

Keep in mind

Good to know

The state-of-the-art and success claims are author-reported and may not transfer beyond the evaluated tasks.

Evidence

Primary source

Memory as Plans authors

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