# LICOA robot demonstrates language-directed projection in real-world trials

_Published Thursday, October 15, 2026 at 9:32 PM EDT · Robotics, Science · Latest · Tier 2 — Notable_

Researchers report in an arXiv preprint that LICOA, a mobile robot that moves and directs projected light in response to language instructions, achieved a 57.50% success rate with its best adapted action model. The same architecture trained from scratch achieved 8.33%.

The robot combines a mobile chassis, a steerable mirror and adjustable projection scale to choose where to place images. Researchers trained models on 150 simulated tasks comprising 7,500 rendered episodes, then evaluated them in previously unseen real-world environments. Testing covered 480 complete execution trials across 12 tasks. A further 150 trials supported the need for both camera views and coordinated chassis and mirror control.

## Sources

- [arXiv Query: search_query=cat:cs.RO&id_list=&start=0&max_results=30](https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.21282v1)

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