Robotics and embodied AI

Manipulation, locomotion, sim-to-real transfer and autonomous driving: learning systems that have to survive physics.

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arXiv AI
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HAF: Adapting Generalist VLAs to Humanoid Whole-Body Loco-manipulation via Hierarchical Action Flow and Spectral Latent RL

arXiv:2608. 16837v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Humanoid robots hold great promise as general-purpose agents in human-centered environments, yet generalist vision-language-action (VLA) foundation models are not readily applicable to humanoid whole-body loco-manipulation.

By Langzhe Gu, Chengkai Hou, Meng Li, Xinhua Wang, Jiaming Liu, Xinyuan Lv, Bowei Zhang, Shuanghao Bai, Guangrun Li, Jingyang He, Gaole Dai, Ziluo Ding, Zhiyuan Xu, Kuan Cheng, Jian Tang, Zhengping Che, Shanghang Zhang
arXiv AI
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Neurosymbolic Embodied Agents

arXiv:2608. 16794v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Language and vision-language models generate plausible embodied plans but do not guarantee executability, as their outputs can violate environment dynamics or act on incorrectly grounded entities.

By Mohammad Albinhassan, Yuming Feng, Alessandra Russo, Pranava Madhyastha
arXiv AI
1d ago

Robo-Dopamine 2.0: History-Conditioned and OOD-Aware Process Reward Modeling for Robotic Manipulation

arXiv:2608. 15680v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-language-action (VLA) models improve robotic manipulation but remain vulnerable to compounding errors, scene changes, and off-trajectory states.

By Yijie Xu, Haopeng Jin, Run Zhou, Shengbang Liu, Sixiang Chen, Hongyang Cheng, Sicheng Hu, Peterson Co, Jinwen Luo, Huajie Tan, Shanghang Zhang
arXiv AI
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Scaling Manual-Grounded Appliance Manipulation with Data Synthesis and Unified Planning

arXiv:2608. 15863v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Operating household appliances requires long-horizon planning that is state-dependent and robust to disturbances, yet existing large models fall short, as no sufficiently diverse, task-oriented dataset exists to support such planning.

By Yuxing Long, Lei Kang, Ziyan Yu, Yuzheng Gao, Bin Cheng, Jiyao Zhang, Xiaoqi Li, Haolin Yang, Dongjiang Li, Hui Shen, Hao Dong
arXiv AI
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PhaseLoRA: Control-Regime-Conditioned Low-Rank Adaptation for Continuous-Action Vision-Language-Action Policies

arXiv:2608. 15285v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) is a natural way to adapt pretrained vision-language-action (VLA) policies, but most adapter designs apply temporally static updates throughout a control rollout, overlooking the phase-dependent nature of continuous-action manipulation.

By Yufei Guo, Yinan Wu, Haoran Duan, Guiguang Ding, Jungong Han
arXiv AI
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OpenGPT-4o-Image: A Comprehensive Dataset for Advanced Image Generation and Editing

arXiv:2509. 24900v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The performance of unified multimodal models for image generation and editing is fundamentally constrained by the quality and comprehensiveness of their training data.

By Zhihong Chen, Xuehai Bai, Yang Shi, Chaoyou Fu, Huanyu Zhang, Haotian Wang, Xiaoyan Sun, Zhang Zhang, Liang Wang, Yuanxing Zhang, Pengfei Wan, Yi-Fan Zhang