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.
By Chang Liu, Jiawei Zhang, Tao Zhang, Ye Wang, Hongyu Zhou, Qin Jin
arXiv:2606. 01095v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-language-action (VLA) policies and World-Action Models (WAM) represent two increasingly important paradigms for robotic manipulation.
By Hung Mai, Bin Zhu, Tuan Do
arXiv:2606. 12372v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Human-in-the-loop reinforcement learning (HiL-RL) has emerged as an effective paradigm for real-world robotic manipulation, enabling online policy improvement with human guidance.
By Haoyuan Deng, Yitong Gao, Yudong Lin, Haichao Liu, Zhenyu Wu, Ziwei Wang
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.
By Angen Ye, Weijie Ke, Xiaofeng Wang, Xinze Chen, Chaojun Ni, Guosheng Zhao, Boyuan Wang, Zheng Zhu, Junjie Xie, Dapeng Zhang
arXiv:2606. 04970v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We envision a proactive multi-modal assistant system which gives users real-time step-by-step guidance on a procedural task, autonomously deciding \textit{when} to interrupt, and \textit{how} to coach.
By Kaustav Kundu, Ritvik Shrivastava, Maxim Arap, Nanshu Wang, Xianhui Zhu, Quintin Fettes, Gautam Tiwari, Parth Suresh, Th\'eo Moutakanni, Alejandro Castillejo Munoz, Allen Bolourchi, Pascale Fung, Pinar Donmez, Babak Damavandi, Anuj Kumar, Seungwhan Moon
arXiv:2605. 09692v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Autonomous language agents increasingly expose traces, memories, plans and constraints, but existing evaluations rarely test whether these state variables are bound to final actions.
By Xiao Jia
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:2606. 05395v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reusable robot skills are becoming the basic units through which embodied agents turn open-ended instructions into long-horizon physical behavior.
By Yunhao Yang, Neel P. Bhatt, Kevin Wang, Samuel Tetteh, Zhangyang Wang, Ufuk Topcu
We envision a proactive multi-modal assistant system which gives users real-time step-by-step guidance on a procedural task, autonomously deciding \textit{when} to interrupt, and \textit{how} to coach. However, progress is limited by the absence of large-scale, cross-domain benchmarks that reflect realistic conditions, particularly the common case in which users deviate from the expected step sequence.
Action-conditioned world models (ACWMs) promise to provide embodied AI with scalable predictive simulators for planning, policy evaluation, and data generation. Realizing this promise requires precise action-conditioned transitions rather than merely plausible outputs.
arXiv:2606. 14778v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Long-term action anticipation (LTA) aims to predict an ordered sequence of future verb-noun actions from a partially observed video.
By Rui Cao, Jiannong Cao, Bo Yuan, Zhiyuan Wen, Mingjin Zhang
arXiv:2608. 17323v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Robotic manipulation policies trained via imitation learning, such as Action Chunking with Transformers (ACT), can achieve strong performance under ideal conditions but often remain sensitive to small execution errors and distribution shifts.
By Muhammad A. Muttaqien, Tomohiro Motoda, Ryo Hanai, Yukiyasu Domae