The paper introduces the workspace token, a lightweight latent memory representation for robotic manipulation that captures task-relevant historical information. By training with VLM queries only during training, the token can be queried efficiently at deployment, replacing full observations. Experiments in simulation and on hardware show that policies using the workspace token solve memory-intensive tasks without in‑loop VLM reasoning and even outperform heavier approaches.
arXiv:2609.07047v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Robotic manipulation often requires acting on information that is no longer visible, yet Vision-Language-Action policies are usually evaluated when t...
arXiv:2604. 18933v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Robotic manipulation tasks exhibit varying memory requirements, ranging from Markovian tasks that require no memory to non-Markovian tasks that demand in-context memorization of historical information within a single trial or in-context adaptation based on the outcomes of multiple past trials.
arXiv:2608. 03701v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: World-action modeling has emerged as a promising paradigm for robotic control, as it empowers models to go beyond reacting to observations and anticipate how a scene will evolve.
arXiv:2609.39794v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have shown strong promise for general-purpose robotic manipulation, yet adapting them to new tasks and domains rema...
arXiv:2609.34792v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Long-horizon manipulation requires robots to remember cues that are no longer in view while responding to moving objects. Yet vision-language-actio...
arXiv:2609.36595v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Visual-memory systems commonly retain or compress past observations. Robot control additionally requires interaction-derived state that no individual...
arXiv:2603. 04910v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Imitation learning from human demonstrations has achieved significant success in robotic control, yet most visuomotor policies still condition on single-step observations or short-context histories, making them struggle with non-Markovian tasks that require long-term memory.
arXiv:2609.22684v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Memory-dependent robotic manipulation often requires later actions to use information from earlier interactions. Existing vision-language-action (VLA...
arXiv:2609.32453v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Robotic manipulation is inherently history-dependent, yet most pretrained robotic policies condition on only the current observation or a sho...
The paper introduces rMuscle, a real‑time Vision‑Language‑Action inference framework that mimics human muscle memory to accelerate robotic decision making. By exploiting repeated task similarity, rMuscle uses a dual‑phase cache: a Context Cache reuses visual‑token outputs and an Action Cache reuses neuron activation patterns, reducing computation and weight accesses. Experiments on RTX 4090 and Jetson Thor show 1.29–1.42× speedups on LIBERO, RoboTwin, and physical manipulation tasks while preserving success rates on real robots.
arXiv:2606. 31167v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: VLA models have emerged as a powerful paradigm for transferring semantic knowledge from web-scale data to physical robotic control.
The paper introduces Self‑Adaptive VLA, a post‑training method that lets Vision‑Language‑Action policies self‑adapt to deployment‑time hardware shifts by using rollouts as context. It creates shift‑conditioned expert demonstrations, compresses visual, proprioceptive, and action data into a latent context token, and modulates the policy via adaptive layer normalization. Experiments on four precision‑critical manipulation tasks show the method recovers over 80 % of the base policy’s performance under actuation bias and encoder offsets, and improves robustness on new workstations.