arXiv AI

World-Ego Modeling for Embodied Video Generation in Long-Horizon Navigation-Manipulation Tasks

The paper introduces the World-Ego Model (WEM), which separates an embodied video into a background‐only world component and an ego component comprising the robot and manipulated objects. By using role‑conditioned attention and asymmetric query budgets for state prediction, coupled with a semantic‑routed mixture‑of‑experts diffusion generator, WEM disentangles the generation of scene evolution and instruction following. The authors also release HTEWorld, a large dataset of 125K training clips and 300 evaluation trajectories for long‑horizon navigation‑manipulation tasks, and demonstrate that WEM outperforms prior methods on this benchmark.

arXiv AI
Jun 9

AHA-WAM:Asynchronous Horizon-Adaptive World-Action Modeling with Observation-Guided Context Routing

arXiv:2606. 09811v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: World-action models have emerged as a promising paradigm for robot manipulation, jointly modeling visual scene dynamics and actions to inject physical priors into policy learning.

By Jisong Cai, Long Ling, Shiwei Chu, Zhongshan Liu, Jiayue Kang, Zhixuan Liang, Wenjie Xu, Yinan Mao, Weinan Zhang, Xiaokang Yang, Ru Ying, Ran Zheng, Yao Mu
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 23

MachEmbodied-U0: Unified Understanding and Generation Model for Embodied Intelligence

arXiv:2609.25627v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: General-purpose robot control requires models to understand task intent, identify where to interact, capture how the scene evolves, and generate prec...

By Haoran Wen, Wenfu Wang, Kunsong Shi, Jingke Wang, Wancheng Feng, Yiren Zhang, Yueran Zhao, Xuancheng Zhang, Nanfei Ye, Xingru Chen, Zhaohong Sun, Chengmin Yang, Zikang Yu, Penghao Bi, Jia Shi, Yu Liu, Kun Zhan, Yan Xie
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 28

InternW0-$\Delta$: A World Action Model Bridging Predictive Dynamics and Actions with 20K+ Hours of Open Data

InternW0-Δ is a unified World Action Model that integrates pretrained visual dynamics, scene semantics, 4D geometry, and motion priors within a Mixture-of-Transformers framework to generate robot actions. It leverages a frozen VLM for semantic guidance, a 4D foundation model for geometric priors, and introduces Causal Imprint to learn future-relevant scene changes without future-video rollout. The model is pretrained on a newly curated 20K‑hour heterogeneous corpus of robot and human demonstrations, achieving superior performance on simulation benchmarks and real‑robot platforms.

By Xingyu Miao, Zizun Li, Baole Fang, Kaiwen Song, Tenghui Wang, Hanxue Zhang, Yating Wang, Xudong Li, Yuping He, Xueyuan Wei, Chao Gao, Xijie Yang, Yingxiang Xu, Kerui Ren, Wenqi Guo, Jianjun Zhou, Xinzhe Wang, Weiguang Zhao, Ni Yang, Zetao Cai, Yufei Xue, Hengjie Li, Zeyu He, Yuanzhen Zhou, Rong Fu, Jianyang Zhang, Siwei Cui, Fuxian Huang, Yunsong Zhou, Xing Gao, Yifei Yao, Qiaojun Yu, Kailin Li, Ming Zhou, Mu Huang, Xinyue Li, Wenze Cui, Bingqi Jiang, Xueyue Zhu, Junting Dong, Haoyu Guo, Tao Lu, Mulin Yu, Bowen Zhou, Bin Zhao, Tianfan Xue, Weinan Zhang, Chunhua Shen
arXiv AI
Jul 14

Xiaomi-Robotics-U0: Unified Embodied Synthesis with World Foundation Model

arXiv:2607. 11643v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent foundation image and video generation models offer strong generalization and controllability, but their direct application to embodied scenarios is limited by requirements for multi-view consistency, geometric coherence, and robot embodiment constraints.

By Xinghang Li, Jun Guo, Qiwei Li, Long Qian, Hang Lai, Yueze Wang, Hongyu Yan, Jiahang Cao, Xi Chen, Jingen Qu, Jiaxi Song, Nan Sun, Hanye Zhao, Futeng Liu, Wanli Peng, Heyun Wang, Yunhong Wang, Caoyu Xia, Jack Zhao, Diyun Xiang, Hangjun Ye, Heng Qu, Huaping Liu, Jason Li
arXiv AI
Aug 27

DELE-w0.5: Inferring Action from Future Latent State for Robotic Manipulation

DELE-w0.5 is a robotic manipulation framework that predicts future latent states instead of generating full video sequences, thereby inferring robot actions directly from these compact representations. By focusing on physical state changes rather than visual transitions, it reduces model complexity and inference latency. In 480 real‑robot trials across four long‑horizon tasks, DELE‑w0.5 achieved 62.5 % overall task success and 81.3 % macro ordered‑stage progress, outperforming the strongest baseline by 47.5 and 30.7 percentage points.

By Fenghao Lei, Zhixiong Huang, Long Yang, Jiabao Chen, Peilin Huang, Han Fu, Zhuo Li, Xiaoxue Ren
arXiv AI
Jun 2

Qwen-VLA: Unifying Vision-Language-Action Modeling across Tasks, Environments, and Robot Embodiments

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 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
Sep 16

Mem-World: Memory-Augmented Action-Conditioned World Models for Persistent Robot Manipulation

Mem-World introduces a memory‑augmented action‑conditioned world model for robot manipulation, featuring W‑VMem—a 4D wrist‑view‑centered surfel‑indexed memory that anchors historical observations to evolving surface elements. By explicitly modeling when and where scene elements are observed, the system retrieves geometry‑aware history frames during generation, providing informative, non‑redundant context for future action predictions. Experiments demonstrate that Mem‑World produces persistent rollouts, improves policy evaluation reliability (14.5 % higher Pearson correlation with real‑world performance), and boosts long‑horizon task success rates from 58 % to 72 % using synthetic data generation.

By Zirui Zheng, Jiaqian Yu, Xiongfeng Peng, jun shi, Mingyi Li, Chao Zhang, Weiming Li, Dong Wang, Huchuan Lu, Xu Jia
arXiv AI
Jun 30

RoboGaze: Evaluating Robot World Models via Structured Vision-Language Analysis

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 Computer Vision
Sep 2

ZimaBlue: Evolving Generalizable World Action Models through Scalable Video Pre-training

ZimaBlue is a scalable framework that learns generalizable World Action Models (WAMs) from large-scale egocentric videos. It follows a three-stage curriculum: causal video pre‑training, video‑action mid‑training with a unified action representation, and final specialization to a target robot. The system employs an asynchronous Slow‑Fast architecture to enable real‑time 30 Hz action prediction, achieving a jump in real‑robot zero‑shot success from 36.1% to 77.8% when leveraging over 120,000 hours of embodied video.

By Xionghao Wu, Yijun Yang, Shiyang Zhou, Haoze Sun, Jianhui Liu, Songsong Yu, Jiyao Zhang, Wenbo Li, Bo Wang, Guoqing Ma, Lin Song, Renjie Liao, Shenghe Zheng, Wei Tang, Xiaojuan Qi, Yanwei Li, Yuan Zhang, Zhuotao Tian, Haoyang Huang, Nan Duan
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 22

AffordanceWAM: Affordance-Aware Joint World-Action Modeling for Robot Manipulation

arXiv:2609.22332v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Generalizable robot manipulation requires predicting how a scene will evolve, identifying where interactions are feasible, and determining how to act...

By Jiadi You, Qize Yu, Yue Chen, Minghong Cai, Zhide Zhong, Yuran Wang, Bowen Ping, Jiaqi Liang, Zhenhao Shen, Haodong Yan, Yinchuan Li, Ruihai Wu, Xiaojuan Qi, Yingcong Chen