PDRVLA is a Vision‑Language‑Action model that incorporates a lightweight Physical Dynamics Module to extract physical tokens from vision‑language features, enabling action generation without online video synthesis. The module predicts future RGB, depth, and optical‑flow features, guided by auxiliary supervision from a frozen pretrained video world model. Trained solely on publicly available data augmented with human‑to‑robot synthesis, subtask annotation, and embodied chain‑of‑thought (ECoT) annotation, PDRVLA achieves high success rates across four simulation benchmarks, with ablations demonstrating the benefits of world‑model supervision and various conditioning strategies.
By Hanqing Wang, Zhaotian Cai, Ruichuan An, Bohan Zeng, Tao Zhang, Yilin Chen, Xu Jiang, Kaiquan Chen, Chongyang Wu, Haoran Li, Fan Yang, Mingan Lin, Wentao Zhang, Zenan Zhou, Youzheng Wu
DiffWAM is a geometry‑conditioned navigation world‑action model that transforms predictive features from a frozen video foundation model into continuous camera trajectories, eliminating the need for future‑video synthesis and multi‑frame reconstruction during deployment. Its Grid‑Motion module preserves spatial‑temporal motion associations, while Latent2Pose grounds them with first‑frame geometry to recover metrically meaningful 3D motion. The system, complemented by FastDreamer for asynchronous trajectory handoff, achieves a trajectory RMSE of 0.3492 m and a 74.40 % endpoint success rate on the DiffWAM‑1000 benchmark, with real‑world tests showing complex UAV behaviors and an onboard implementation reaching 1.08 s latency on NVIDIA Jetson AGX Thor.
By Mo Zhu, Yuze Wu, Xijie Huang, Xiao Cui, Fei Gao, Xin Zhou
arXiv:2607. 20785v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Deploying navigation systems at scale requires a recipe that minimizes sensor assumptions, generalizes across robot embodiments, and trains efficiently.
By Arjun Majumdar, Avinash Sooriyarachchi, Benjamin Tibi, Chris Bamford, Elliot Chane-Sane, Guillaume Lample, Khyathi Raghavi Chandu, Ludovic Ho Fuh, Mathieu Poiree, Olivier Duchenne, Rosalie Millner, Srijan Mishra, Theo Cachet, Thomas Chabal
The paper introduces Spatially Aware World Action Model (SA‑WAM), a diffusion‑based framework that extends existing World Action Models by incorporating depth information alongside RGB to enable 3‑D‑aware action and future‑state prediction. SA‑WAM repurposes a pretrained video diffusion model, using a nonlinear encoding to map unbounded depth into the tokenizer’s bounded domain, thus preserving pretrained visual priors without 3‑D‑specific fine‑tuning. The model achieves state‑of‑the‑art performance on RoboCasa and LIBERO‑Plus benchmarks and demonstrates superior real‑world performance on a UR5 robotic arm in randomized environments, while also providing analysis linking world‑model prediction quality to rollout success.
By Javier Alejandro Lopetegui Gonzalez, Paul Pacaud, Cordelia Schmid
FutureWorlds is a framework that learns robotic world models by generating alternative future predictions and using them as learning signals. It combines candidate construction, history maintenance, and learning from relative quality through a multimodal discrete autoregressive model and diverse beam search. The MemSPO algorithm further optimizes the world model by converting video trajectory rewards into group-relative advantages, leading to significant improvements in LPIPS scores across RT-1, BridgeV2, and RoboCasa datasets.
By Hao Wu, Shengju Qian, Weiyan Wang, Fan Xu, Fan Zhang, Yuanpeng He, Qingsong Wen, Yuxuan Liang
PhysBrain 1.5 is a unified vision‑language model that learns to understand physical environments, generate actions, and predict future states by encoding language, end‑effector motion, and dense visual targets as discrete sequences and training them with autoregressive next‑token prediction. The model is pre‑trained on human interaction videos and fine‑tuned on human demonstrations, robot trajectories, and simulated experience, achieving an average score of 72.5 across 28 embodied understanding benchmarks and outperforming other open‑source models on 14 of them. It also demonstrates the ability to produce end‑effector trajectories and predict future scenes with spatially aligned RGB, depth, and robot‑mask outputs.
By DeepCybo Team, Yu Bin, Haipeng Cao, Zheng Chang, Kai Chen, Youning Chen, Kailin Deng, Yichao Du, Xiaotong Fu, Haoyang Ge, Yunlong Guo, Chenliu Hao, Jiyan He, Xuguo He, Yakun Hou, Kai Hu, Cong Huang, Tuopusen Huang, Yu Huang, Hong Li, Peize Li, Shijie Lian, Xiaopeng Lin, Yun Lin, Haibao Liu, Haochen Liu, Qiuzhi Liu, Shengcai Liu, Zhiqiang Liu, Tao Luo, Peng Ren, Shuo Ren, Chaoyi Ruan, Zhaolong Shen, Yukun Shi, Qiyuan Su, Yuxuan Tian, Yining Wang, Changti Wu, Hao Wu, Xueyin Xu, Ruoqi Yang, Zhaoyang Yang, Hang Yuan, Zhaoyang Zeng, Hanwen Zhang, Ruimeng Zhang, Yao Zhang, Yibo Zhang, Yuxiang Zhang, Zhirui Zhang, Ziyi Zhang, Zubin Zheng, Zishen Zhuang
arXiv:2608. 20114v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Mobile manipulation requires a robot to predict how locomotion and arm motion jointly alter future observations and control.
By Siyuan Ma, Boshi Zhang, Yutian Zhang, Qinglian Wu, Jiaqi Zhai, Dong Wei, Qiaojun Yu
WorldFlow is a generative world model that jointly predicts future video frames and query-based 3D trajectories using a unified Mixture-of-Transformers backbone. It represents 3D motion as continuous displacement tokens aligned with the video grid and optimizes a rectified-flow objective to couple explicit geometric dynamics with visual evolution. Trained on 1.44 million heterogeneous samples and evaluated on WorldFlowBench, it achieves the lowest average and final displacement errors among learning-based methods, notably outperforming baselines on spatial reasoning tasks.
By Yuhao Lu, Jiongxu Chen, Hexiang Wei, Jiajin Wu, Juelin Li, Mingjian Liang, Fan Yang, Zhuowei Liang, Zihao Liu, Zhennan Wang, Sheng Wang, Lin Shao
arXiv:2606.18558v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Motion forecasting is central to visual intelligence: agents must anticipate how objects will move in order to plan actions, reason about physical...
By Jianing Zhang, Chenhao Zheng, Yajun Yang, Max Argus, Rustin Soraki, Winson Han, Taira Anderson, Chun-Liang Li, Shuo Liu, Jiafei Duan, Zhongzheng Ren, Jieyu Zhang, Ranjay Krishna
Long-term autonomy in human-populated environments requires anticipating whether and how people will move at times a robot has not yet observed. Existing representations of pedestrian motion face a tr...
arXiv:2610.17526v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: World action models (WAMs) are a category of policy models that ex- plicitly predict both actions and future world states. They have been shown to ou...
By Qinxi Yu, Wenzhou Ding, Gloria X. Wang, Albert J. Zhai, Shenlong Wang
arXiv:2610.28594v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Reliable multi-view forecasting requires videos from different cameras to describe the same evolving 3D scene. To this end, we introduce Video-Point Mo...
By Byungwoo Jeon, Sunghwan Hong, Dohyeon Kim, Jonghoon Lee, Jungwoo Park, Inhee Lee, Doosan Baek, Jinil Kim, Taehyun Lim, Hanbyul Joo, Marc Pollefeys, Saining Xie, Jinwoo Shin