arXiv:2606. 10918v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The recent trend in scaling models for robot learning has resulted in impressive policies that can perform various manipulation tasks and generalize to novel scenarios.
By Artur Kuramshin, \"Ozg\"ur Aslan, Cyrus Neary, Glen Berseth
arXiv:2607. 25912v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have shown strong potential for general robot manipulation, but most existing models rely on 2D visual-language backbones and lack fine-grained 3D understanding of target objects, especially under occlusion, pose variation, scale changes, and precise spatial interaction.
By Zonghe Liu (University of Hong Kong), Shanyuan Jie (Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences), Xiaoquan Sun (Huazhong University of Science and Technology), Chen Cao (University of Hong Kong), Zetian Xu (University of Hong Kong), Zongsheng Liu (Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics), Jiayu Chen (University of Hong Kong, Infiforce)
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: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:2605. 30280v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Embodied intelligence is often studied through specialized models for individual tasks such as manipulation or navigation, resulting in fragmented capabilities and limited generalization across tasks, environments, and robot embodiments.
By Qiuyue Wang, Mingsheng Li, Jian Guan, Jinhui Ye, Sicheng Xie, Yitao Liu, Junhao Chen, Zhixuan Liang, Jie Zhang, Xintong Hu, Xuhong Huang, Pei Lin, Junyang Lin, Dayiheng Liu, Shuai Bai, Jingren Zhou, Jiazhao Zhang, Haoqi Yuan, Gengze Zhou, Hang Yin, Ye Wang, Yiyang Huang, Zixing Lei, Wujian Peng, Delin Chen, Yingming Zheng, Jingyang Fan, Xianwei Zhuang, Xin Zhou, Haoyang Li, Anzhe Chen, Tong Zhang, Xuejing Liu, Yuchong Sun, Ruizhe Chen, Zhaohai Li, Chenxu L\"u, Zhibo Yang, Tao Yu, Xionghui Chen
arXiv:2606. 24472v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-language-action (VLA) models have made rapid progress in generalist robot manipulation by harnessing semantic knowledge from pretrained vision-language backbones, but their visual tokens remain grounded in 2D image coordinates rather than the calibrated geometry of the robot's cameras -- a mismatch especially pronounced in multi-camera setups, where views are coupled by known intrinsics and extrinsics yet processed as independent images.
By Yue Peng, Yongzhe Zhao, Artur Habuda, Khuyen Pham, Yanheng Zhu, Tran Nguyen Le, Fares Abu-Dakka, Li Guo
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. 12217v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: World Action Models (WAMs) offer a promising route for robot manipulation by using video generation models to model future scene evolution before producing control actions.
By Lu Qiu, Yizhuo Li, Yi Chen, Yuying Ge, Yixiao Ge, Xihui Liu
World Action Models (WAMs) offer a promising route for robot manipulation by using video generation models to model future scene evolution before producing control actions. However, our empirical observations reveal a phenomenon: generating plausible visual futures does not always guarantee the extraction of accurate actions.
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:2607. 11498v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-language-action (VLA) models predict robot actions from visual observations and language instructions.
By Byungkun Lee, Dongyoon Hwang, Dongjin Kim, Hojoon Lee, Minho Park, Jaegul Choo
arXiv:2607. 02466v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models are fundamentally bottlenecked by the scarcity of expert demonstrations -- triplets of observations, instructions, and actions that are costly to collect at scale.
By Junhao Shi, Siyin Wang, Xiaopeng Yu, Li Ji, Jingjing Gong, Xipeng Qiu