DepthWorld: 3D World Model for Robot Manipulation
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arXiv:2610.08780v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: World models offer a data-driven alternative to traditional simulators for robotics, with applications spanning policy evaluation, improvement, and p...
arXiv:2609.19142v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: World models endow perceptual systems with the ability to predict how scenes evolve under interaction. They are most beneficial when trained on diverse...
World models endow perceptual systems with the ability to predict how scenes evolve under interaction. They are most beneficial when trained on diverse volumes of data, to instill a rich prior into do...
The paper introduces Spatially Aware World Action Model (SA‑WAM), a diffusion‑based framework that extends existing World Action Models by incorporating depth information alongside RGB to enable 3‑D‑aware action and future‑state prediction. SA‑WAM repurposes a pretrained video diffusion model, using a nonlinear encoding to map unbounded depth into the tokenizer’s bounded domain, thus preserving pretrained visual priors without 3‑D‑specific fine‑tuning. The model achieves state‑of‑the‑art performance on RoboCasa and LIBERO‑Plus benchmarks and demonstrates superior real‑world performance on a UR5 robotic arm in randomized environments, while also providing analysis linking world‑model prediction quality to rollout success.
World models enable agents to perform forward rollout and planning without real-world interaction. However, their application in open-world embodied intelligence remains limited by the high cost of action annotations and the heterogeneity of action spaces across platforms.
StereoEngine introduces two methods for generating realistic synthetic stereo data for robotic manipulation. The first method warps a monocular video into a right view using depth estimation and a video diffusion model to inpaint disoccluded regions, while the second method renders stereo pairs directly in simulation. These approaches outperform existing baselines in stereo quality and enable improved bimanual manipulation policies when used for mid‑training or task‑specific fine‑tuning.