arXiv:2607. 13056v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Current vision-language-action (VLA) benchmarks primarily evaluate isolated manipulation skills while leaving human-robot interaction structure largely unmodeled.
By Chang Liu, Jiawei Zhang, Tao Zhang, Ye Wang, Hongyu Zhou, Qin Jin
arXiv:2607. 22119v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multi-stream robot manipulation policies achieve unparalleled sample efficiency and generalization by modeling actions relative to environmental reference frames.
By Jan Ole von Hartz, Abhinav Valada, Joschka Boedecker
arXiv:2606. 26443v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A robot working alongside people must reason about what they have done, in what order, and with what intent.
By Baiqi Li, Ce Zhang, Yu Fang, Yue Yang, Shangzhe Li, Mingyu Ding, Gedas Bertasius
arXiv:2609.12541v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We demonstrate that a general-purpose agent can directly drive a physical robot throughout task execution without any task-specific or environment-spec...
By Mengzhao Jia, Yang Lin, Xixin Zhang, Zhihan Zhang, Xiaobai Liu, Meng Jiang
arXiv:2606. 12352v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multi-robot collaboration allows robots to efficiently take on a wide range of tasks, from moving a couch through a doorway to assembling structures on a construction site.
By Ria Doshi, Tian Gao, Annie Chen, Chelsea Finn, Jeannette Bohg
RAPID is a system that automatically generates, verifies, and refines robot programs from a single visual human demonstration. It infers a testable task specification, action primitives, and an interactive environment, using an object-centric relational program representation to enable reuse beyond the demonstration. The approach was evaluated in simulation on eight contact-rich manipulation tasks and successfully deployed on a real Franka arm, showing strong generalization across object pose, shape, material, and environment.
By Yuyao Liu, Jiayuan Mao, David Hsu, Leslie Pack Kaelbling, Tom\'as Lozano-P\'erez
arXiv:2606. 26423v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Long-horizon, contact-rich complex manipulation tasks, such as seating a GPU into a PCIe slot, demand both millimeter high precision and out-of-the-box generalization to new tasks.
By Haonan Chen, Yuxiang Ma, Stephen Tian, Xiaoshen Han, Wenlong Huang, Feiyang Wu, Yunzhu Li, Jiajun Wu, Edward H. Adelson, Yilun Du
arXiv:2507. 18623v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The ability to adapt to physical actions and constraints in an environment is crucial for embodied agents (e.
By Xuhui Kang, Sung-Wook Lee, Haolin Liu, Yuyan Wang, Yen-Ling Kuo
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. 06218v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A policy tuned for one robot often behaves differently on another, whether due to the sim-to-real gap, unknown payloads, or the differing dynamics of two instances of the same robot.
By Dongwon Son, Florian Shkurti, Jason Lee, Naman Shah, Beomjoon Kim, Dieter Fox
arXiv:2512.00939v3 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Recent progress in contact-rich robotic manipulation has been striking, yet most deployed systems remain confined to simple, scripted routine...
By Nayesha Gandotra, Itamar Mishani, Lai Yuan, Oren Salzman, Maxim Likhachev
arXiv:2610.02161v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) and vision-language-action models (VLAs) have recently driven rapid progress in general-purpose robots, yet most progre...
By Hanchu Zhou, Dechen Gao, Hang Wang, Brendan Lynch, Boqi Zhao, Qiyao Ma, Raman Goyal, Junshan Zhang