arXiv Computer Vision

VersaCamVLA: Camera-Configurable VLA Policies for Robotic Manipulation

VersaCamVLA introduces a camera‑configurable framework that separates camera‑set representation from action learning in Vision‑Language‑Action models. It learns a unified scene‑token interface that maps any number of posed RGB views into fixed‑size latent tokens using multi‑signal target‑view prediction and Wrist‑Augmented Pose Sampling. At deployment, a lightweight spatial encoder injects these tokens into a pretrained VLA, enabling robust manipulation without explicit 3D sensing or novel‑view rendering, and consistently outperforms prior methods across varying camera counts and unseen poses.

arXiv Computer Vision
5d ago

WARP-VLA: Wrist-Camera Adaptation for View-Robust Policy Execution in Vision-Language-Action Models

WARP-VLA is a Vision‑Language‑Action model designed to be robust to variations in wrist‑camera viewpoints. It uses a Mixture‑of‑Experts architecture where each expert learns a view‑specific feature transformation, and a router selects the appropriate expert based on implicit view cues, eliminating the need for explicit camera extrinsic parameters. Experiments on the LIBERO benchmark show that WARP‑VLA doubles the success rate of pi‑0.5 from 39.2% to 78.3% under wrist‑view perturbations, and real‑robot tests confirm that the simulation‑learned adaptation transfers to diverse deployment settings.

By Junmyeong Lee, Dongmin Shin, Min-Gyu Park, Wooseok Jeon, Inho Chang, Hae-Gon Jeon
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 8

PoseVLA: Universal Pose Pretraining for Generalizable Vision-Language-Action Policies

arXiv:2602. 19710v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Existing Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models often suffer from feature collapse and low training efficiency because they entangle high-level perception with sparse, embodiment-specific action supervision.

By Haitao Lin, Hanyang Yu, Jingshun Huang, He Zhang, Yonggen Ling, Ping Tan, Xiangyang Xue, Yanwei Fu
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 17

ActiveScale: Scaling Active Perception for Robots across Model, Data, and Hardware

ActiveScale is a framework that enhances active perception for robots by integrating model, data, and hardware innovations. It augments vision‑language‑action models with historical video observations and explicit camera‑pose supervision, and introduces a scalable human‑robot mid‑training recipe using 1000 hours of egocentric and robotic data. The Active‑perception Mobile‑manipulation Platform (AMP) enables single‑operator teleoperation for scalable demonstration collection, leading to improved success rates on active‑perception tasks.

By Shuai Zhou, Kaisheng Pang, Wenxuan Song, Wenjie Zhang, Xinhu Zheng, Haoang Li
arXiv AI
Jun 2

From Human Videos to Robot Manipulation: A Survey on Scalable Vision-Language-Action Learning with Human-Centric Data

arXiv:2606. 00054v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent progress in generalizable embodied control has been driven by large-scale pretraining of Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models.

By Zhiyuan Feng, Qixiu Li, Huizhi Liang, Rushuai Yang, Yichao Shen, Zhiying Du, Zhaowei Zhang, Yu Deng, Li Zhao, Hao Zhao, Zongqing Lu, Oier Mees, Marc Pollefeys, Jiaolong Yang, Baining Guo
arXiv Computer Vision
Oct 1

BIND: Binding 3D Robot Actions to 2D Image Features

arXiv:2609.38443v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We introduce BIND, a new action representation for visuomotor robot policies that binds 3D robot actions to their corresponding 2D image features, yi...

By Cameron Smith, Arsh Tangri, Vitor Guizilini, Yue Wang, Zubair Irshad, Sergey Zakharov
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 17

Acting in Meters: Learning Metric Interactions for Precise Robotic Manipulation

The paper introduces a metric interaction framework for robotic manipulation that explicitly models object- and scene-level interactions in Cartesian space. It uses Interaction‑Centric Tokens (ICTs) to represent end‑effector trajectories relative to objects and a Metric Action Interaction Field (MAIF) to attend to scene point‑cloud features for geometry‑conditioned action corrections. Experiments show modest but consistent improvements across several benchmarks, including LIBERO, RoboTwin 2.0, and real‑world tasks.

By Lijie Wang, Zheng Lu, Yiming Wang, Heyang Yu, Kenghou Hoi, Bowen Hu, Di Cui, Tianyu Xin, Haoran Liao, Wanqi Zhong, Xingjie Fan, Yizhao Xu, Ziliang Wang, Fei Gao, Yiming Li
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 19

Pose6DAug: Physically Plausible Multi-view Object Swapping for Robot Data Augmentation

arXiv:2606. 20118v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-language-action (VLA) policies have shown strong potential for general-purpose manipulation, yet they often fail on novel, out-of-distribution objects whose appearance or geometry deviates from the training distribution.

By Jonghoon Lee, Seong Hyeon Park, Byungwoo Jeon, Minha Lee, Jinwoo Shin
arXiv AI
Sep 24

InfiNoVA: Infinite Novel View Augmentation for Viewpoint Invariant Robot Policies

InfiNoVA is a data‑augmentation framework that transforms synchronized multi‑camera demonstrations into a dense, geometrically consistent set of training views by reconstructing each manipulation trajectory as a time‑varying 3D Gaussian. The method renders novel observations from sampled camera poses while preserving the original state‑action pairs, improving frame‑level fidelity and temporal consistency compared to generative synthesis. Across four real‑world manipulation tasks, policies trained with InfiNoVA achieve 5.4× higher average success under unseen randomized viewpoints than VISTA‑based augmentation and 1.7× higher success than training on all five physical camera views.

By Sai Puneeth Reddy Gottam, Elmar Rueckert, Vedant Dave
arXiv AI
Aug 17

AdvDex: Learning Dexterous Manipulation from Human Demonstrations via Joint-Aligned Actions and Adversarial Learning

arXiv:2608. 14028v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Dexterous manipulation is a fundamental capability for embodied intelligence, but scaling it remains difficult because robot demonstrations are expensive to collect and action spaces vary across embodiments.

By Zhiyue Zhao, Jingyi Wu, Hairuo Liu, Mingyu Liu, Liyang Li, Hengdi Zhang, Tong He, Zhengxue Cheng