arXiv AI

RoboGPT-R1: Enhancing Robot Task Planning with Reinforcement Learning

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.

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.

By Yi Liu, Sukai Wang, Dafeng Wei, Xiaowei Cai, Linqing Zhong, Jiange Yang, Guanghui Ren, Jinyu Zhang, Maoqing Yao, Chuankang Li, Xindong He, Liliang Chen, Jianlan Luo
arXiv AI
2d ago

ChronoGraph: Functional 4D Scene Graphs with Vision-Language Models for Interaction Understanding and Grounded Planning

arXiv:2609.39665v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Embodied agents must determine where to act, anticipate the resulting scene changes, and interpret observed outcomes to guide subsequent actions. This...

By Chenyangguang Zhang, Malgorzata Gwiazda, Guanlong Jiao, Yuanchen Ju, Federico Tombari, Koushil Sreenath, Marc Pollefeys, Sunghwan Hong
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.

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 AI
Sep 7

RoboSPA: Can VLA Models Go Beyond Simple Scenes and Short-Horizon Tasks?

RoboSPA is a large-scale robotic manipulation dataset and benchmark designed to evaluate Vision‑Language‑Action models on fine‑grained spatial reasoning and long‑horizon procedural planning. It contains 10 task categories, 56 base tasks, and 280 variants across five difficulty levels, with 527K trajectories collected from multiple embodiments and scenes. The benchmark introduces diagnostic metrics beyond binary success, revealing that current VLA models struggle with complex spatial relations, precise execution, and memory‑intensive planning.

By Zhenxuan Fan, Bo Zhang, Yutong Lin, Yuqian Yuan, Juekai Lin, Liang Liang, Zhuoyi Huang, Wenqiao Zhang, Juncheng Li, Siliang Tang, Jun Xiao, Yueting Zhuang
arXiv AI
Jun 30

RoboGaze: Evaluating Robot World Models via Structured Vision-Language Analysis

arXiv:2606. 28385v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent advances in robot world models enable synthetic video generation for embodied prediction and planning.

By Minh-Loi Nguyen, Nghiem Tuong Diep, Hung Khang Nguyen, Minh Le, Doanh Le Thien, Hoang H. Tran, Dung D. Le, Vu N. Duong, Daniel Sonntag, An Thai Le, Duy Minh Ho Nguyen, Vien Anh Ngo, Tran Van Nhiem
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 27

$R^3$: Training Robots to Reason in Natural Language via Reinforcement Learning

The paper introduces $R^3$, a post‑training method that converts vision‑language models into robotic reasoners by first mid‑training on expert reasoning traces and then refining them with single‑step rubric‑based reinforcement learning. $R^3$ enables free‑form language reasoning to guide low‑level manipulation policies, improving exploration, generalization, and performance on long‑horizon tasks in Language Table and simulated bimanual grocery packing benchmarks. The approach outperforms instruction‑only imitation learning baselines and demonstrates that natural language reasoning can serve as a test‑time compute mechanism for steering robotic actions.

By Lehong Wu, Yuxiao Qu, Zheyuan Hu, Ivan Zhang, Limin Wei, Zackory Erickson, Aviral Kumar
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.

By Qiuyue Wang, Mingsheng Li, Jian Guan, Jinhui Ye, Sicheng Xie, Yitao Liu, Junhao Chen, Zhixuan Liang, Jie Zhang, Xintong Hu, Xuhong Huang, Pei Lin, Junyang Lin, Dayiheng Liu, Shuai Bai, Jingren Zhou, Jiazhao Zhang, Haoqi Yuan, Gengze Zhou, Hang Yin, Ye Wang, Yiyang Huang, Zixing Lei, Wujian Peng, Delin Chen, Yingming Zheng, Jingyang Fan, Xianwei Zhuang, Xin Zhou, Haoyang Li, Anzhe Chen, Tong Zhang, Xuejing Liu, Yuchong Sun, Ruizhe Chen, Zhaohai Li, Chenxu L\"u, Zhibo Yang, Tao Yu, Xionghui Chen