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.
By Jiawei Zhang, Kaizhe Hu, Yingqian Huang, Yuanchen Ju, Zhengrong Xue, Huazhe Xu
arXiv:2606. 28813v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Human videos are a scalable source of supervision for robot manipulation, as they are abundant and naturally capture rich object interactions.
By Shuo Cheng, Chuye Zhang, Alfred Cueva, Caelan Garrett, Ajay Mandlekar, Danfei Xu
arXiv:2606. 08530v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models achieve strong benchmark performance but still struggle in real-world deployment with unseen objects, background shifts, and different robot embodiments.
By Yuan Zhang, Shiqi Zhang, Yedong Shen, Shuai Dong, Jiajun Deng, Xin Zhang, Yuxuan Gao, Jiajia Wu, Xin Nie, Zhiyuan Cheng, Jianmin Ji, Yanyong Zhang, Xingyi Zhang, Jia Pan
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
arXiv:2607. 26903v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The key bottleneck in embodied AI is not model architecture but data.
By Jia Luo
arXiv:2606. 20118v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-language-action (VLA) policies have shown strong potential for general-purpose manipulation, yet they often fail on novel, out-of-distribution objects whose appearance or geometry deviates from the training distribution.
By Jonghoon Lee, Seong Hyeon Park, Byungwoo Jeon, Minha Lee, Jinwoo Shin