arXiv AI
Jul 14
VIA: Visual Interface Agent for Robot Control
arXiv:2607. 11119v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Robot manipulation is a complex task that requires visual understanding, physical reasoning, planning, and closed-loop control.
ACE: Agentic Control for Embodied Manipulation via Zero-shot Workflow Reasoning
arXiv:2607. 04162v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Open-ended tabletop manipulation requires agents to not only understand natural language but also adapt to dynamic environments and execution failures.
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arXiv AI
Jul 7
Cortex: A Bidirectionally Aligned Embodied Agent Framework for Long-horizon Manipulation
arXiv:2607. 05377v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While recent Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models show promise toward generalist manipulation policies, they struggle with long-horizon tasks due to their Markovian nature-relying solely on current observations.
arXiv AI
Jul 28
Unified Embodied VLM Reasoning with Robotic Action via Autoregressive Discretized Pre-training
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.
arXiv AI
2d ago
Evolve Vision-Language-Action Model into an Agent with On-the-fly Tool-use
arXiv:2608. 14047v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This paper integrates end-to-end Visual-Language-Action (VLA) models with agentic tool-use to propose Agentic Robot with Tool-use (ART).
arXiv AI
Jul 28
A Few Words Go a Long Way: Language Guided Robot Policy Synthesis
arXiv:2607. 23784v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While vision-language-action models have demonstrated impressive zero-shot manipulation capabilities, they remain fundamentally black box policies that are difficult to interpret, adapt, or correct when they inevitably fail.
arXiv AI
Jun 30
Demonstration-Free Robotic Control via LLM Agents
arXiv:2601. 20334v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Robotic manipulation has increasingly adopted vision-language-action (VLA) models, which achieve strong performance but typically require task-specific demonstrations and fine-tuning, and often generalize poorly under domain shift.
arXiv AI
Aug 11
REMAC: Self-Reflective and Self-Evolving Multi-Agent Collaboration for Long-Horizon Robot Manipulation
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.
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.
arXiv AI
Jun 18
Guava: An Effective and Universal Harness for Embodied Manipulation
arXiv:2606. 18363v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Language models trained on large-scale vision-language data have demonstrated strong potential for embodied agents.
arXiv AI
Jun 11
Embodied-R1.5: Evolving Physical Intelligence via Embodied Foundation Models
arXiv:2606. 11324v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We introduce Embodied-R1.
arXiv AI
Jun 30
BioProVLA-Agent: An Affordable, Protocol-Driven, Vision-Enhanced VLA-Enabled Embodied Multi-Agent System with Closed-Loop-Capable Reasoning for Biological Laboratory Manipulation
arXiv:2605. 07306v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Biological laboratory automation can reduce repetitive manual work and improve reproducibility, but reliable embodied execution in wet-lab environments remains challenging.
arXiv AI
Jul 7
HiMe: Hierarchical Embodied Memory for Long-Horizon Vision-Language-Action Control
arXiv:2607. 03449v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Current Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models excel at robotic manipulation but often struggle with non-Markovian tasks requiring long-term memory and reasoning due to their reliance on immediate observations.