arXiv:2607. 06988v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Steering robot foundation models (RFMs) toward new task variants or user-preferred behaviors remains challenging, often requiring additional robot demonstrations, task-specific fine-tuning, or long-context conditioning.
By Yusen Feng, Bingchen Han, Jiangran Lyu, Kai Liu, Yixin Zheng, Yuxuan Wan, Weiheng Liu, Sun Han, Ruiqin Li, Yulong Zhang, Fangfu Liu, Xuesong Shi, Libin Liu, Yizhou Wang, Zhizheng Zhang, He Wang
arXiv:2607. 15275v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent robot foundation models operate with single-step or short-history visuomotor context.
By Yunfan Jiang, Yevgen Chebotar, Ruijie Zheng, Fengyuan Hu, Yunhao Ge, Jimmy Wu, Tianyuan Dai, Scott Reed, Li Fei-Fei, Yuke Zhu, Linxi "Jim" Fan
arXiv:2606. 02745v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-language-action models (VLAs) are promising general-purpose robot policies, but adapting them to new tasks typically requires costly task-specific teleoperation data.
By Jaehyeon Son, Junhyun Kim, Kyle Kam, Jeremiah Coholich, Seok Joon Kim, Jinhoo Kim, Chris Dongjoo Kim, Jaemin Cho, Dieter Fox, Zsolt Kira
HIL-UMI is a policy-guided Universal Manipulation Interface that enables robot‑free, human‑in‑the‑loop post‑training of vision‑language‑action models. By querying the current policy during handheld demonstrations and using an Energy Score to detect out‑of‑distribution states, it selectively collects new data and refines a progress‑based advantage estimator. The updated estimator then drives advantage‑conditioned behavioral cloning, improving performance on long‑horizon and precise manipulation tasks while reducing per‑frame collection time compared to HG‑DAgger.
By Zimu Han, Yiming Zeng, Jiyao Zhang, Zihao Zhao, Yuanfei Wang, Yixiang Jin, Shiqi Li, Shuangben Chen, Wei Huang, Ruodai Li, Hui Shen, Hao Dong
arXiv:2609.13851v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Post-training vision-language-action (VLA) models for specific robots and tasks requires in-domain demonstrations, yet collecting diverse robot data...
By Chenwei Wang, Dianye Huang, Match W. L. Ko, Chenjia Bai, Zhongliang Jiang
arXiv:2610.08220v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Portable mobile-manipulation demonstrations can help alleviate data scarcity for embodied intelligence, but obtaining reliable, low-cost, and robot-f...
By Yutian Zhang, Xingrui Xiong, Siyuan Ma, Yang Li, Jiawen Wen, Jiaqi Zhai, Liwen Yang, Ce Hao, Haozhen Chi, Yangkun Zhu, Yifan Zhu, Xiaowen Chu, Dong Wei, Qiaojun Yu, Dibo Hou