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Technical articles, paper explainers, tutorials, and demos from EXTEND Lab.

Autonomous vehicles coordinate through a four-way intersection using sparse communication links
5 September 2026

Learning Communication-Efficient Protocols in Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

How communication-efficiency metrics and efficiency-aware training help agents coordinate with fewer, more useful messages.

By Ms. Xinren Zhang · Edited by Dr. Jiadong Yu · 12 min read Read article
Robot arm connecting visual perception with a smooth action trajectory
14 August 2026

The Evolution of Vision-Language-Action Models

How data, planning, real-time control, learning, memory, and world models are moving robotics from action generation toward generalist intelligence.

Mr. Guanghui Song · Edited by Dr. Jiadong Yu · 15 min read Read article
OpenClaw interface shown on a laptop and phone
20 March 2026

OpenClaw and the Anatomy of an AI Agent

How prompts, tools, skills, subagents, memory, and context engineering turn a language model into a system that can act.

Dr. Jiadong Yu · 14 min read Read article
 
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