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.
By Brian Y. Tsui, Alan Y. Fang, Tiffany J. Hwu
arXiv:2510. 00182v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: While we know that large language models (LLMs) can solve some planning problems, we do not understand the extent of these capabilities for robotics.
By Jorge Mendez-Mendez
arXiv:2609.07111v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Quadruped robot locomotion policies are often trained using reinforcement learning, which in turn relies heavily on hand-crafted reward functions. De...
By Merve Atasever, Keyan Azbijari, Cagan Bakirci, Alfredo Reina Corona, Tolga Izdas, Richard Yang, Erdem Biyik, Jyotirmoy V. Deshmukh
arXiv:2603.08814v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Long-horizon task planning for heterogeneous multi-robot systems is essential for deploying collaborative teams in real-world environments; y...
By Piyush Gupta, Sangjae Bae, Jiachen Li, David Isele
Physical Agentic AI proposes an architecture that links semantic planning with physical execution for robot crews. Each robot exposes a typed skill library, while a foundation model planner decomposes tasks into phases and assigns robot‑skill pairs. A Robot Orchestrator validates and authorizes one skill at a time, ensuring actions are grounded in robot capabilities, system state, and workflow constraints before actuation.
By Xinyuan Liu, Eren Sadikoglu, Riana Chatterjee, Ransalu Senanayake
arXiv:2609.08638v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: An action chunk can span several stages of a manipulation task, yet a label for its first step describes only the current stage. We introduce Chunk-A...
By Tinghe Ding, Jiahao Li, He Wang
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:2406. 03367v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) possess extensive foundational knowledge and moderate reasoning abilities, making them suitable for general task planning in open-world scenarios.
By Xinrui Lin, Yangfan Wu, Huanyu Yang, Yu Zhang, Yanyong Zhang, Jianmin Ji
arXiv:2406. 09953v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Dual-arm robots promise greater efficiency but require planning for complex tasks with nonlinear sub-task dependencies.
By Zeyu Gao, Yao Mu, Jinye Qu, Mengkang Hu, Shijia Peng, Chengkai Hou, Lingyue Guo, Ping Luo, Shanghang Zhang, Yanfeng Lu
arXiv:2609.08602v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Embodied planning increasingly relies on vision-language models (VLMs) to translate instructions and visual observations into executable action sequenc...
By Tianyi Ma, Parisa Kordjamshidi
The paper introduces a ROS-Agent architecture that enhances task reliability and execution efficiency for open‑source LLM‑powered robotic agents. It adds a MetaTool that forces the LLM to produce a structured pseudo‑code plan before any action, storing this plan in a scratchpad to separate planning from execution. Experiments on a custom mobile robot show up to ~24% improvement in complex task completion and contextual consistency compared to the baseline.
By Kazi Abrar Mahmud, Nilotpaul Kundu Dhurubo, Tamal Kirttonia, Sabbir Hossain Ujjal, Mohammad Ariful Haque
arXiv:2511. 15669v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Does Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning genuinely improve Vision Language Action (VLA) models, or does it merely add overhead?
By Cheng Yin, Yankai Lin, Wang Xu, Sikyuen Tam, Xiangrui Zeng, Zhiyuan Liu, Zhouping Yin