arXiv AI June 2, 2026 By Jiawei Zhang, Kaizhe Hu, Yingqian Huang, Yuanchen Ju, Zhengrong Xue, Huazhe Xu

AffordGen: Generating Diverse Demonstrations for Generalizable Object Manipulation with Afford Correspondence

arXiv:2604. 10579v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Despite the recent success of modern imitation learning methods in robot manipulation, their performance is often constrained by geometric variations due to limited data diversity.

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robotics

arXiv Machine Learning

Aug 12

Learning in ImaginationLand: Omnidirectional Policies through 3D Generative Models (OP-Gen)

arXiv:2509. 06191v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Recent 3D generative models, which are capable of generating full object shapes from just a few images, now open up new opportunities in robotics.

By Yifei Ren, Edward Johns

robotics

arXiv AI

Sep 25

KeyGen: Unsupervised Keypoint based Object-Centric Representations for Category-Level Policy Generalization

KeyGen is a framework that learns canonical 3D keypoints from point clouds to create structured, object‑centric representations for policy learning in robotic manipulation. By conditioning a visuomotor diffusion policy on these keypoints and object geometry, it predicts full manipulation trajectories that maintain geometric correspondence across different object instances. Experiments on a photorealistic simulation benchmark with three tasks show that KeyGen outperforms prior methods on both seen and unseen objects, scales with more demonstrations, remains robust to rescaling, and performs well in real‑world manipulation.

By Shuxin Cao, Liquan Wang, Masoud Moghani, Benjamin Joffe, Animesh Garg

diffusion robotics benchmarks

Hugging Face Trending Papers

Jun 1

RoboDream: Compositional World Models for Scalable Robot Data Synthesis

Scaling robot learning requires large-scale, diverse demonstrations, yet real-world data collection via teleoperation remains prohibitively expensive and time-consuming. While video diffusion models offer a promising avenue for data scaling, existing generative approaches are often limited to superficial visual augmentation, or suffer from embodiment hallucinations that yield physically infeasible motions.

diffusion robotics safety

arXiv Computer Vision

Sep 22

AffordanceWAM: Affordance-Aware Joint World-Action Modeling for Robot Manipulation

arXiv:2609.22332v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Generalizable robot manipulation requires predicting how a scene will evolve, identifying where interactions are feasible, and determining how to act...

By Jiadi You, Qize Yu, Yue Chen, Minghong Cai, Zhide Zhong, Yuran Wang, Bowen Ping, Jiaqi Liang, Zhenhao Shen, Haodong Yan, Yinchuan Li, Ruihai Wu, Xiaojuan Qi, Yingcong Chen

llms diffusion robotics multimodal

arXiv AI

Jul 31

From Passive Video to Editable Experience: Physically Grounded Experience Synthesis for Embodied Intelligence

arXiv:2607. 26903v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The key bottleneck in embodied AI is not model architecture but data.

By Jia Luo

diffusion robotics benchmarks

arXiv Machine Learning

Jun 10

Dexterous Point Policy: Learning Point-based Dexterous Hand Policies from Human Demonstrations

arXiv:2606. 10614v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Robotic foundation models pre-trained on human demonstration videos have shown promise, but a significant embodiment gap remains when the resulting policies are deployed on real robots.

By Beomjun Kim, Seong Hyeon Park, Seunghoon Sim, Seungjun Moon, Sanghyeok Lee, Jinwoo Shin

llms agents robotics fine-tuning benchmarks