arXiv AI
Jun 26
WatchAct: A Benchmark for Behavior-Grounded Robot Manipulation
arXiv:2606. 26443v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A robot working alongside people must reason about what they have done, in what order, and with what intent.
HRIBench: Benchmarking Interaction-Centric Human-Robot Collaboration
arXiv:2607. 13056v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Current vision-language-action (VLA) benchmarks primarily evaluate isolated manipulation skills while leaving human-robot interaction structure largely unmodeled.
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arXiv AI
Jun 11
CHORUS: Decentralized Multi-Embodiment Collaboration with One VLA Policy
arXiv:2606. 12352v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multi-robot collaboration allows robots to efficiently take on a wide range of tasks, from moving a couch through a doorway to assembling structures on a construction site.
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 30
RoboBRIDGE: A Modular Framework for Bridging Policies to Robust Real-World Robotic Agents
Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have attracted growing interest as a scalable approach to robotic manipulation. While these models are effective action predictors, deploying them as robotic agents exposes critical gaps: no mechanism for failure recovery, inconsistent execution over long horizons, and limited robustness to shifts in observations, tasks, or embodiments.
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 4
CoWAM: Coordination Contracts for Selective Policy Intervention with WAMs
arXiv:2608. 02578v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: World Action Models (WAMs) augment robot policies with action-conditioned predicted futures, but a plausible future alone does not justify changing the action that a bimanual policy would execute.
arXiv AI
Jul 7
HALO-WA: Hybrid-Attention Latent-Guided Online Reinforcement Learning for World-Action Models
arXiv:2607. 04265v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: World-action (WA) models can generate long-horizon action chunks for general-purpose robotic manipulation, but they remain vulnerable to calibration, perception, and contact-dynamics errors in real-world precision tasks, often failing in the final few millimeters of alignment or insertion.
arXiv AI
Jun 30
Demonstration-Free Robotic Control via LLM Agents
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.
arXiv AI
Jul 14
A Glimpse into Long-term Physical Coexistence with Intelligent Robots
arXiv:2607. 11377v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Long-term physical coexistence with intelligent robots requires more than capable robot policies.
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 13
A Glimpse into Long-term Physical Coexistence with Intelligent Robots
Long-term physical coexistence with intelligent robots requires more than capable robot policies. A persistent robotic assistant must support diverse user-facing interfaces, maintain long-horizon memory of people and preferences, coordinate across robot embodiments, and translate human intent into safe physical execution.
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.
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.
arXiv AI
Jun 10
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 7
DSWAM: A Dual-System World Action Foundation Model for Fine-Grained Robot Manipulation
arXiv:2607. 04927v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: World Action Models (WAMs) provide a promising alternative to Vision-Language-Action (VLA) policies by using video-based world modeling as dense supervision for robot action learning.