arXiv:2606. 12910v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: For robotics to be effectively integrated into household or industrial environments, machines must adapt to natural-language prompts in real time.
By Allison Andreyev, Landon Eum, Nestor Tiglao, Romel Gomez
arXiv:2606. 12109v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have demonstrated remarkable zero-shot generalization in robotic manipulation, yet the vast majority of pre-trained pipelines remain strictly confined to low-DoF parallel grippers.
By Chuanke Pang, Junyi Huang, Zhijun Zhao, Yaobing Wang, Kun Xu, Xilun Ding
arXiv:2606. 17054v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Humans can grasp objects effortlessly, whereas multi-fingered robots are far from this level of generality.
By Kevin Yuanbo Wu, Tianxing Zhou, Isaac Tu, Billy Yan, Irmak Guzey, David Fouhey, Dandan Shan, Lerrel Pinto
arXiv:2604. 04138v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Dexterous manipulation requires planning a grasp configuration suited to the object and task, which is then executed through coordinated multi-finger control.
By Juhan Park, Taerim Yoon, Seungmin Kim, Joong-Gil Kim, Wontae Ye, Jeongeun Park, Yoonbyung Chai, Geonwoo Cho, Geunwoo Cho, Dohyeong Kim, Kyungjae Lee, Yong-Jae Kim, Sungjoon Choi
arXiv:2606. 08530v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models achieve strong benchmark performance but still struggle in real-world deployment with unseen objects, background shifts, and different robot embodiments.
By Yuan Zhang, Shiqi Zhang, Yedong Shen, Shuai Dong, Jiajun Deng, Xin Zhang, Yuxuan Gao, Jiajia Wu, Xin Nie, Zhiyuan Cheng, Jianmin Ji, Yanyong Zhang, Xingyi Zhang, Jia Pan
arXiv:2510. 14828v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Improving the reasoning capabilities of embodied agents is crucial for robots to complete complex human instructions in long-view manipulation tasks successfully.
By Jinrui Liu, Bingyan Nie, Boyu Li, Yaran Chen, Yuze Wang, Shunsen He, Haoran Li
arXiv:2607. 15641v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Humans combine reasoning and motor control to solve complex manipulation tasks under diverse constraints.
By Anurag Maurya, Sukhvansh Jain, Prajwal Avhad, Gautham Balachandran, Ziyi Zhou, Atharva Kshirsagar, Satyam Singh, Bowen Li. Rishabh Mukund, Ritul Singh, Jatin Vira, Suvonil Chatterjee, Devesh K. Jha
arXiv:2606. 31200v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generalizable robotic grasping in cluttered environments is essential for deploying manipulators in unstructured human spaces, yet existing VLM-based methods rely on visual similarity for object matching, neglecting physical affordances such as handle graspability and material fragility, and operate open-loop without spatial reasoning or failure recovery, limiting their effectiveness when objects are densely packed or physically diverse.
By Tao Chen, Lizheng Liu, Jiaxu Wang, Ziyue Jiang, Ruiqi Tian, JiGuang Huo, Zhongxue Gan
arXiv:2606. 03385v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In robotic manipulation, the tight coupling between grasping and motion planning often obscures the true source of failure, leading to inefficient trial-and-error.
By Jiahao Xu, Peiyuan Wang, Hanzhuo Zhang, Zihao Yu, Tianyu Fu, Hao Chen, Xuanhao Xiang, Jianbo Yu, Chenchen Fu, Wanyuan Wang
arXiv:2512. 24125v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: General-purpose robotic systems operating in open-world environments must achieve both broad generalization and high-precision action execution, a combination that remains challenging for existing Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models.
By Yi Liu, Sukai Wang, Dafeng Wei, Xiaowei Cai, Linqing Zhong, Jiange Yang, Guanghui Ren, Jinyu Zhang, Maoqing Yao, Chuankang Li, Xindong He, Liliang Chen, Jianlan Luo
arXiv:2606. 10614v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Robotic foundation models pre-trained on human demonstration videos have shown promise, but a significant embodiment gap remains when the resulting policies are deployed on real robots.
By Beomjun Kim, Seong Hyeon Park, Seunghoon Sim, Seungjun Moon, Sanghyeok Lee, Jinwoo Shin
arXiv:2606. 24712v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Humans effortlessly locate and identify objects by touch alone, even without vision.
By Shivani Kamtikar, Chung Hee Kim, Camilla Tabasso, Tye Brady, Joshua Migdal, Taskin Padir