arXiv:2606. 08729v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Simulation plays a key role in automated robotics research supported by large language models (LLMs).
By Ruihua Han, Shuai Wang, Chengyang Li, Rui Gao, Xinyi Wang, Zhe Liu, Guoliang Li, Yupu Lu, Qi Hao, Jia Pan, Hengshuang Zhao
arXiv:2607. 22997v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Physical AI -- the integration of large vision-language-action (VLA) models with embodied agents that act in the real world -- has emerged as the next major frontier for AI, echoed by industry leaders such as Jensen Huang (``the next big thing is Physical AI, AI with a body,'' GTC Paris, June 2025) and Dr.
By Qing Yang, Xun Wang, Ziguan Wang, Zhenjiang Li, Hongqiang Wang, Dongdong Weng
arXiv:2607. 04434v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Generalist robot manipulation policies have advanced rapidly, yet existing benchmarks remain limited in systematically evaluating their capabilities.
By Tianxing Chen, Yue Chen, Zixuan Li, Junyuan Tang, Kailun Su, Weijie Wan, Baijun Chen, Haoran Lu, Haowen Yan, Honghao Su, Zhiyang Dou, Kaixuan Wang, Dandan Zhang, Yunze Liu, Yan Qin, Qiwei Liang, Qiwei Wu, Zijian Lin, Wenwei Lin, Yuran Wang, Minghua He, Tianshu Wu, Ruihai Wu, Jingquan Zhou, Kai-Chong Lei, Haibao Yu, Yuanfeng Ji, Weiyang Jin, Guanyu Lin, Xiaofan Li, Qi Xiong, Renjing Xu, Zhongyu Li, Wenhao Chai, Enze Xie, Ziwei Wang, Yao Mu, Hao Dong, Wojciech Matusik, Mingyu Ding, Wenbo Ding, Ping Luo, Masayoshi Tomizuka
Universal Manipulation Interface (UMI) enables scalable real-world robot data collection without hardware-specific teleoperation, yet leveraging UMI data to train large-scale Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models remains fundamentally challenging. We identify two critical mismatches: wrist-mounted fisheye views, with severe radial distortion and local gripper-centric perspectives, are out-of-distribution for pretrained VLMs; and human-collected trajectories frequently violate kinematic limits, incur collisions, or exceed controller bandwidth, teaching VLA policies physically infeasible actions.
arXiv:2507. 21638v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The development of reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms has been largely driven by ambitious challenge tasks and benchmarks.
By Leonard Hinckeldey, Elliot Fosong, Rimvydas Rubavicius, Elle Miller, Trevor McInroe, Fan Zhang, Patricia Wollstadt, Stefano V. Albrecht, Subramanian Ramamoorthy
arXiv:2606. 13886v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models excel at mapping visual inputs and natural language instructions directly to robotic control policies.
By Namai Chandra, Shriram Damodaran, Lin Wang