arXiv:2512. 19178v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Bridging the gap between natural language commands and autonomous execution in unstructured environments remains an open challenge for robotics.
By Jin Wang, Kim Tien Ly, Jacques Cloete, Jin Jin, Nikos Tsagarakis, Ioannis Havoutis
arXiv:2505.13180v3 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Integrating Large Language Models with symbolic planners is a promising direction for obtaining verifiable and grounded plans, with recent works ex...
By Matteo Merler, Nicola Dainese, Minttu Alakuijala, Giovanni Bonetta, Pietro Ferrazzi, Yu Tian, Bernardo Magnini, Pekka Marttinen
arXiv:2506.11261v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Vision-language-action (VLA) models have shown promising progress in robotic manipulation. However, directly mapping visual observations and...
By Shizhe Chen, Ricardo Garcia, Paul Pacaud, Cordelia Schmid
arXiv:2607. 08024v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Long-horizon robot planning requires jointly reasoning over semantic task structure and geometric feasibility.
By Emily Jin, Joy Hsu, Yiqing Xu, Weiyu Liu, Nick Haber, Jiajun Wu
arXiv:2610.14106v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Large language models can translate natural-language instructions into plausible manipulation plans, but robotic execution requires physically ground...
By Lonnie Tankersley, Noorbakhsh Amiri Golilarz, Soroush Korivand
arXiv:2606. 28385v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent advances in robot world models enable synthetic video generation for embodied prediction and planning.
By Minh-Loi Nguyen, Nghiem Tuong Diep, Hung Khang Nguyen, Minh Le, Doanh Le Thien, Hoang H. Tran, Dung D. Le, Vu N. Duong, Daniel Sonntag, An Thai Le, Duy Minh Ho Nguyen, Vien Anh Ngo, Tran Van Nhiem
arXiv:2608. 04765v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-language-action (VLA) models provide a unified paradigm for connecting visual perception, language understanding, and robotic control.
By Houze Xu, Jizhong Li, Ziyi Ye
arXiv:2512.01946v4 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Robust robotic manipulation requires reliable failure detection and recovery. Although recent Vision-Language Models (VLMs) show promise in r...
By Paul Pacaud, Ricardo Garcia, Shizhe Chen, Cordelia Schmid
arXiv:2610.33778v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated impressive performance when integrated into robot manipulation pipelines, but real-world evaluation o...
By Sagnik Anupam, Utkarsh Lal, Aneesh Edara, Botong Zhang, Yao Tang, Jiatao Gu, Dinesh Jayaraman, Osbert Bastani
The paper introduces a new paradigm called VLM-as-probabilistic-grounder, which models the uncertainty of Vision‑Language Model (VLM) predicate groundings as a probability distribution over symbolic states. This probabilistic grounding allows belief‑space planning, producing more robust plans in partially observable settings. Experiments in simulated household robot environments demonstrate that this approach improves robustness and task success compared to deterministic grounding methods.
By Guy Azran, Michael Navat, Sarah Keren
AntiGrounding is a visual action-selection framework that turns short robot trajectories into both executable motion plans and rendered prompts for vision‑language model evaluation. After filtering for feasibility, each trajectory is scored on safety, task alignment, efficiency, and physical plausibility using structured multi‑view visual question answering, and the best trajectories are refined and validated by a digital twin before real‑world execution. In eight real‑world manipulation tasks, the system achieved a 71.25% success rate with a single GPT‑6 Astra evaluator, outperforming baseline methods.
By Wenbo Li, Yiteng Chen, Wenhao Li, Qingyao Wu
arXiv:2503. 22122v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in robotic planning, particularly for long-horizon tasks that require a holistic understanding of the environment for task decomposition.
By Puzhen Yuan, Angyuan Ma, Yunchao Yao, Huaxiu Yao, Masayoshi Tomizuka, Mingyu Ding