arXiv:2607. 13451v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Simulating deformable objects is essential for a wide range of robotic manipulation applications, yet accurately predicting their dynamics remains challenging.
By Shivansh Patel, Kaifeng Zhang, Sanjay Pokkali, Svetlana Lazebnik, Yunzhu Li
arXiv:2606. 28128v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Video generation models have emerged as a promising paradigm for embodied world simulation.
By Peiwen Zhang, Yufan Deng, Shangkun Sun, Juncheng Ma, Duomin Wang, Jonas Du, Zilin Pan, Ye Huang, Hao Liang, Songyan Huang, Ruihua Zhang, Enze Xie, Ming-Yu Liu, Daquan Zhou
Recent advances in image-to-video generation have improved visual realism, making physically grounded and controllable dynamics an important step toward future world simulation. Current models often generate plausible motion, but it is not reliably governed by explicit physical causes, and instance-level constraints can leak or become entangled in multi-object interactions.
Physics engines facilitate large-scale training and evaluation for embodied intelligence, while generative video world models are emerging as implicit simulators of future states and interactions. However, existing evaluations of physical fidelity are often conducted in isolation and rely heavily on perceptual similarity or human judgments, providing limited insight into which physical principles or parameters are violated.
arXiv:2607. 01938v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Manipulating fast and dynamically moving targets in unstructured 3D environments remains challenging for embodied AI.
By Peng Yun, Shouwang Huang, Hao Li, Jinxi Li, Jianan Wang, Bo Yang
arXiv:2608. 05948v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Physics engines facilitate large-scale training and evaluation for embodied intelligence, while generative video world models are emerging as implicit simulators of future states and interactions.
By Shuai Wang, Yaxin Feng, Xuekun Jiang, Shihan Tian, Ningyu Yan, Xing Shen, Chaoyang Lyu, Hui Wang, Yunsong Zhou, Hanqing Wang, Jiangmiao Pang, Yang Xiang, Xing Gao, Chunhua Shen, Weinan Zhang
arXiv:2605. 13548v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Existing robotic foundation models, while powerful, are predicated on an implicit assumption of temporal homogeneity: treating all actions as equally informative during optimization.
By Daojie Peng, Fulong Ma, Jiahang Cao, Qiang Zhang, Xupeng Xie, Jian Guo, Ping Luo, Andrew F. Luo, Boyu Zhou, Jun Ma
Predicting object dynamics (i. e.
arXiv:2602. 06219v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: World models offer a promising avenue for more faithfully capturing complex dynamics, including contacts and non-rigidity, as well as complex sensory information, such as visual perception, in situations where standard simulators struggle.
By Joseph Amigo, Rooholla Khorrambakht, Nicolas Mansard, Ludovic Righetti
arXiv:2503. 24009v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Realistic simulation is critical for applications ranging from robotics to animation.
By Mikel Zhobro, Andreas Ren\'e Geist, Georg Martius
arXiv:2602. 02402v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Simulating deformable objects under rich interactions remains a fundamental challenge for real-to-sim robot manipulation, with dynamics jointly driven by environmental effects and robot actions.
By Mu Huang, Hui Wang, Kerui Ren, Linning Xu, Yunsong Zhou, Mulin Yu, Bo Dai, Jiangmiao Pang
arXiv:2606. 16202v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Humans naturally understand object physics through everyday interactions, but faithfully predicting complex deformable dynamics, such as elastic materials and fabrics, remains a major challenge for computer vision and robotics.
By Hyunjin Kim, Ri-Zhao Qiu, Guangqi Jiang, Xiaolong Wang