arXiv:2607. 00272v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Traditional robot programming is challenging: it requires orchestrating multimodal perception, managing physical contact dynamics, and handling diverse configurations and execution failures.
By Runyu Lu, Yubo Wu, Ethan Kou, Letian Fu, Wenli Xiao, Ajay Mandlekar, Yinzhen Xu, Guanya Shi, Ken Goldberg, Ang Chen, Mosharaf Chowdhury, Yuke Zhu, Linxi "Jim" Fan, Guanzhi Wang
arXiv:2608. 17209v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: End-to-end vision-language-action (VLA) and world-action models offer an elegant route to general-purpose robotics, but their reliability is bounded by validated physical coverage.
By Chang Nie, Zhe Liu, Hesheng Wang
arXiv:2608. 11338v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recently, the practice of augmenting LLM agent capability with skills has gained prevalence.
By Zixi Huang, Xiheng Wang, Andrew Wang, William Jurayj, Bernal Jim\'enez Guti\'errez, Daniel Khashabi, Nicholas Andrews
arXiv:2606. 19980v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Achieving dexterous robotic manipulation in the real world heavily relies on human supervision and algorithm engineering, which becomes a central bottleneck in the pursuit of general physical intelligence.
By Wenli Xiao, Jia Xie, Tonghe Zhang, Haotian Lin, Letian "Max" Fu, Haoru Xue, Jalen Lu, Yi Yang, Cunxi Dai, Zi Wang, Jimmy Wu, Guanzhi Wang, S. Shankar Sastry, Ken Goldberg, Linxi "Jim" Fan, Yuke Zhu, Guanya Shi
arXiv:2601. 20334v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Robotic manipulation has increasingly adopted vision-language-action (VLA) models, which achieve strong performance but typically require task-specific demonstrations and fine-tuning, and often generalize poorly under domain shift.
By Brian Y. Tsui, Alan Y. Fang, Tiffany J. Hwu
arXiv:2605. 10332v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Embodied agents can benefit from skills that guide object search, action execution, and state changes across diverse environments.
By Ruofei Ju, Xinrui Wang, Xin Ding, Yifan Yang, Hao Wu, Shiqi Jiang, Qianxi Zhang, Hao Wen, Xiangyu Li, Weijun Wang, Kun Li, Yunxin Liu, Haipeng Dai, Wei Wang, Ting Cao