Establishing interpretable decision-making processes in long-horizon robotic manipulation is critical for enabling reliable human oversight and intervention. However, existing approaches to robotic manipulation largely treat skill selection as opaque mappings from observations to actions, offering limited transparency into how decisions are formed.
arXiv:2510. 14828v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Improving the reasoning capabilities of embodied agents is crucial for robots to complete complex human instructions in long-view manipulation tasks successfully.
By Jinrui Liu, Bingyan Nie, Boyu Li, Yaran Chen, Yuze Wang, Shunsen He, Haoran Li
arXiv:2608. 19613v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Latent Action Models (LAMs) have emerged as a promising paradigm for enabling robot learning to leverage large-scale unlabeled videos through latent actions that serve as compact surrogates for physical actions.
By Xizhou Bu, Qingda Hu, Lei Zhou, Lingfeng Zhang, Yingbo Tang, Zihao Liu, Xinyi Tao, Zhiqiang Ma, Qingqiu Huang, Chufeng Tang, Hongbo Wang, Jing Zhang, Jiayi Ma, Hangjun Ye, Wei Li, Xiaoshuai Hao
arXiv:2606.18363v3 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Language models trained on large-scale vision-language data have demonstrated strong potential for embodied agents. Harnessing models through...
By Haowen Liu, Xirui Li, Shaoxiong Yao, Peng Shi, Tianyi Zhou, Jia-Bin Huang, Furong Huang, Jiayuan Mao
arXiv:2606. 10025v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present GHOST, a framework for learning visuomotor manipulation policies that generalize beyond the training distribution.
By Sriram Krishna, Ben Eisner, Haotian Zhan, Ying Yuan, Haoyu Zhen, Chuang Gan, Shubham Tulsiani, David Held
SlotVLA proposes a slot-attention framework that models both objects and their relations for robotic manipulation, using a relation‑centric decoder and an LLM‑driven action translator. The authors introduce LIBERO+, a fine‑grained benchmark with object‑centric annotations, box and mask labels, and instance‑level temporal tracking to evaluate object‑relation reasoning. Experiments on LIBERO+ show that object‑centric and object‑relation slot representations reduce visual token counts while maintaining competitive generalization, offering a compact and interpretable foundation for multitask visuomotor control.
By Taisei Hanyu, Nhat Chung, Huy Le, Toan Nguyen, Yuki Ikebe, Anthony Gunderman, Duy Nguyen Ho Minh, Khoa Vo, Tung Kieu, Kashu Yamazaki, Chase Rainwater, Anh Nguyen, Ngan Le
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: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.
By Brian Y. Tsui, Alan Y. Fang, Tiffany J. Hwu
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.
By Iok Tong Lei, QianZhi Li, Ying Jie Yap, Yujie Zhang, Rui Zhong, Haichao Gui, Xiaolong Liu, Zhidong Deng
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.
By Jiaqi Peng, Xiqian Yu, Delin Feng, Yuqiang Yang, Wenzhe Cai, Jing Xiong, Ganlin Yang, Jinliang Zheng, Jiafei Cao, Xueyuan Wei, Jiangmiao Pang, Yuan Shen, Tai Wang
arXiv:2608. 10600v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Skill abstraction---the process of learning reusable and temporally extended behaviors---has emerged as a key paradigm for improving sample efficiency and generalization in robot learning.
By Jusuk Lee, Daesol Cho, Jonghun Shin, Seungyeon Yoo, Jonghae Park, Taekbeom Lee, H. Jin Kim
arXiv:2508. 08983v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Humans can learn a new manipulation task from one or two demonstrations and then perform it in a new room, with new objects, under new constraints.
By Ben Zandonati, Tom\'as Lozano-P\'erez, Leslie Pack Kaelbling