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MetaSpace: Metamorphic Testing for Spatial Cognition in Embodied Agents

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arXiv:2608. 07533v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: An embodied agent is an intelligent entity that interacts with its environment through a physical body.

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arXiv AI
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SpatialWorld: Benchmarking Interactive Spatial Reasoning of Multimodal Agents in Real-World Tasks

arXiv:2606. 09669v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Spatial reasoning is a foundational capability for multimodal large language models (MLLMs) to perceive and operate within the physical world.

By Hongcheng Gao, Hailong Qu, Jingyi Tang, Jiahao Wang, Zihao Huang, Hengkang Qiao, Shihong Huang, Junming Yang, Yi Li, Hongyixuan Yuan, Wenjie Li, Bohan Zeng, Wenbo Li, Bo Wang, Jianhui Liu, Olive Huang, Haoyang Huang, Wentao Zhang, Guoqing Huang, Nan Duan, Yinpeng Dong
arXiv AI
Jul 17

SafeRelBench: A Spatial-Relation-Aware Benchmark for Process-Level Safety in VLM-Driven Embodied Agents

arXiv:2607. 14543v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) are increasingly used as the reasoning backbone of embodied agents, enabling robots to interpret visual scenes, follow language instructions, and plan multi-step actions.

By Huaigang Yang, Ya Li, Min Ren, Bo Dai, Zhenliang Zhang, Zhaofeng He
arXiv Computer Vision
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Guide, Think, Act: Interactive Embodied Reasoning in Vision-Language-Action Models

The paper introduces GTA‑VLA, an interactive Vision‑Language‑Action framework that lets users guide robot policies with explicit visual cues such as affordance points, boxes, and traces. Unlike traditional direct sense‑to‑act models, GTA‑VLA incorporates a spatial‑visual Chain‑of‑Thought that blends human guidance with internal task planning, and couples this reasoning module with a lightweight reactive action head for efficient execution. Experiments on the SimplerEnv WidowX benchmark show a state‑of‑the‑art 81.2 % success rate, and the framework significantly improves task success under out‑of‑domain visual shifts and spatial ambiguities, demonstrating the benefit of interactive reasoning for failure recovery in embodied control.

By Yiran Ling, Qing Lian, Jinghang Li, Qing Jiang, Tianming Zhang, Xiaoke Jiang, Chuanxiu Liu, Jie Liu, Lei Zhang
arXiv Computer Vision
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VABench: Measuring Embodied Spatial Intelligence through Visual Demonstrations, Active Perception, and Metric Control

VABench is a benchmark that tests general‑purpose multimodal large language models (MLLMs) on embodied spatial intelligence by requiring them to observe, reason, act, and revise based on visual demonstrations and active perception. The benchmark includes 14 task families, a fixed model‑agnostic controller, and evaluates models on target localization, spatial relations, and long‑horizon composition tracks without providing privileged object poses or learned action heads. Results show that while the best model achieves perfect target localization, overall task success remains modest, and active camera control and geometric transfer significantly influence performance.

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