Robotics and embodied AI

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

3,855 stories · RSS feed

arXiv Computer Vision
5d ago

BIND: Binding 3D Robot Actions to 2D Image Features

arXiv:2609.38443v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We introduce BIND, a new action representation for visuomotor robot policies that binds 3D robot actions to their corresponding 2D image features, yi...

By Cameron Smith, Arsh Tangri, Vitor Guizilini, Yue Wang, Zubair Irshad, Sergey Zakharov
arXiv Computer Vision
5d ago

What to Attend, What to Keep: Skill-Conditioned Visuotactile Representation with Progress-Guided Event Memory

arXiv:2609.38494v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Robotic manipulation integrates vision, touch, and language, whose importance shifts across stages: vision guides reaching, while touch, through its...

By Amir-Hossein Shahidzadeh, Seungjae Lee, Eadom Dessalene, Shanthosh Raaj Mohanram Mageswari, Soroush Etemad, Furong Huang, Cornelia Ferm\"uller, Yiannis Aloimonos
arXiv Computer Vision
5d ago

Correcting WHERE, Preserving HOW: Compositional Generalization for Vision-Language-Action Models via Referential Guidance

arXiv:2609.38616v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models enable flexible action generation, their generalization across diverse environmental elements, including ma...

By Yanyan Zhang, Disheng Liu, Xinpeng Li, Chaoda Song, Mohsen Hariri, Debargha Ganguly, Wang Yang, Kai Ye, Bryce Grant, Vipin Chaudhary, Yu Yin
arXiv Computer Vision
5d ago

UniWAM Technical Report: Unified Mobile Manipulation via Mixed-Stream World-Action Modeling and Manipulation Anchor Pose Supervision

arXiv:2609.39388v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Mobile manipulation requires precise navigation to a manipulation-ready pose followed by reliable object interaction. These two stages differ in acti...

By Wei Xue, Keliang Liu, Mingzhang Cui, Jinhua Xie, Jinjie Wei, Jianan Hou, Jingcheng Lu, Lintao Wang, Kaixiang Qiu, Yizhou Liu, Xinghai Ye, Jinghang Han, Mingcheng Li, Jie Gu, Shunli Wang, Lihua Zhang, Dingkang Yang
arXiv Computer Vision
5d ago

XEmbodied: A Foundation Model with Enhanced Geometric and Physical Cues for Large-Scale Embodied Environments

arXiv:2604.18484v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models drive next-generation autonomous systems, but training them requires scalable, high-quality annotations from co...

By Kangan Qian, ChuChu Xie, Yang Zhong, Jingrui Pang, Siwen Jiao, Sicong Jiang, Zilin Huang, Yunlong Wang, Kun Jiang, Mengmeng Yang, Hao Ye, Guanghao Zhang, Hangjun Ye, Guang Chen, Long Chen, Diange Yang
arXiv AI
5d ago

WARP: A Unified Benchmark for Invisible Image Watermarking -- Robustness and Protection Against Attacks

arXiv:2609.40031v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Digital image watermarking is increasingly critical in media contexts, as emerging regulations and industry practices require marking AI-generated co...

By Khaled Abud, Aleksey Yakushev, Aleksandr Akimenkov, Irina Serzhenko, Kirill Aistov, Egor Kovalev, Dmitry Obydenkov, Sergey Lavrushkin, Anastasia Antsiferova, Dmitriy Vatolin, Yury Markin, Kirill Lukianov
arXiv AI
5d ago

ChronoGraph: Functional 4D Scene Graphs with Vision-Language Models for Interaction Understanding and Grounded Planning

arXiv:2609.39665v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Embodied agents must determine where to act, anticipate the resulting scene changes, and interpret observed outcomes to guide subsequent actions. This...

By Chenyangguang Zhang, Malgorzata Gwiazda, Guanlong Jiao, Yuanchen Ju, Federico Tombari, Koushil Sreenath, Marc Pollefeys, Sunghwan Hong
arXiv Computer Vision
5d ago

TrafficSignBench: Rule-Centric Closed-Loop Evaluation of Traffic-Sign Compliance in Autonomous Driving

arXiv:2609.38463v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Autonomous driving planners are typically evaluated using aggregate metrics such as driving score, destination rate, and collision rate, which do not...

By Victoria Smirnova, Viktoriia Zinkovich, Gregorii Bukhtuev, Artem Belyaev, Andrey Kuznetsov, Denis Shepelev, Vlad Shakhuro