arXiv AI

Visual Task Modeling and Automated Planning for Humanoid Robots in Education of Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder

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.

By Daphne Chen, Archit Ritesh Jain, Eric Goossen, Emma Romig, Michael Murray, Nick Walker, Maya Cakmak
arXiv AI
Jul 17

RxBrain: Embodied Cognition Foundation Model with Joint Language-Visual Reasoning and Imagination

arXiv:2607. 14187v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Embodied cognition requires agents to connect high-level task reasoning with the physical states to be achieved.

By Haotian Liang, Mingkang Chen, Yufei Huang, Yuchun Guo, Xiaomeng Zhu, Xiangli Shi, Kaixuan Wang, Yunxuan Mao, Weijie Zhou, Ling Chen, Shirong Zeng, Yueyu Long, Yuchen Si, Yajuan Zhu, Xingyu Zhou, Minghui Wang, Wanjia He, Xin Yang, Lingzhu Xiang, Zhiqing Liu, Bohan Ma, Xiran Huang, Tianshuo Yang, Zhiheng Liu, Xuantang Xiong, Zisheng Lu, Ping Luo, Yao Mu, Han Hu, Zhengyou Zhang
arXiv AI
Oct 9

iAm.md: Robot Skill Self-Assessment through Agentic Introspection for Unknown Open-Vocabulary Domains

The paper introduces iAm.md, a Markdown-based framework that enables robot skill self-assessment through agentic introspection. By mapping open‑vocabulary semantic detections and object segmentations to persistent records, the system anchors autonomous behavior generation in deployment evidence, mitigating grounding failures. Experiments on a simulated TIAGo robot demonstrate that this representation supports both skill self‑assessment and executable task generalization for navigation‑and‑manipulation tasks.

By Vincenzo Guarino, Emanuele Musumeci, Vincenzo Suriani, Daniele Nardi
arXiv AI
Sep 21

KnowDemo: Knowledge-Guided Robot Demonstration Generation from Human Videos

KnowDemo is a framework that generates diverse robot demonstrations from human videos by leveraging structured manipulation knowledge. It uses a vision‑language model to extract task requirements and permissible execution variations, then resolves these against target‑scene entities to guide candidate generation and screening before motion planning. The resulting demonstrations feature multimodal behavior, alternative contact strategies, and valid subtask orders, and have been shown to improve planning success and enable sim‑to‑real policy transfer across three tasks.

By Zhiyuan Gao, Yanxiang Zhan, Mohammad Khoshnazar, Jeroen Sch\"afer, Michael Beetz
arXiv AI
Oct 1

HiWE: Hierarchical World Knowledge Model with Visual Keypoint Enhancement for Zero-Shot 3D Path Planning

HiWE is a hierarchical world knowledge model that enables zero‑shot 3D path planning by linking visual grounding with language‑based planning through a point‑based interface. It uses PointVLM to map task‑relevant objects to image coordinates, lifts these predictions into a semantic 3D representation with depth data, and then a language planner (3DLLM) generates end‑effector waypoints and gripper commands. The system is evaluated on 14 simulated manipulation tasks and four physical‑robot tasks, with ablations on visual training data, spatial inputs, and grasp selection.

By Guoqing Ma, Mingqi Yuan, Chen Gao, Jiayu Chen, Shan Yu