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
Jul 17

Instant NuRec: Feed-Forward 3D Gaussian Reconstruction for Driving Scene Simulation

arXiv:2607. 14203v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: 3D simulation platforms are critical for autonomous driving because they enable end-to-end policy evaluation, thereby reducing development costs and improving safety.

By NVIDIA, :, Jiahui Huang, Jiawei Ren, Michal Tyszkiewicz, Bjoern Haefner, Michael Shelley, Xin Kang, Seung Wook Kim, Ning Xu, Qi Wu, Janick Martinez Esturo, Shengyu Huang, Nick Schneider, Laura Leal-Taixe, Zan Gojcic, Sanja Fidler
arXiv AI
Jul 17

Never Too Late for Force: Accelerating VLA Post-Training with Reactive Force Injection

arXiv:2607. 14236v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Pretrained vision-language-action (VLA) policies provide strong language-conditioned manipulation knowledge, but they remain largely vision-driven and can struggle once manipulation enters contact states where the scene is occluded, depth is ambiguous, or small force errors push execution off the offline demonstration distribution.

By Yi Wang, Wendi Chen, Zimo Wen, Han Xue, Xueqi Li, Wenye Yu, Zhijie Chen, Hao Yang, Jun Lv, Chuan Wen, Cewu Lu
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 Machine Learning
Jul 17

DiMaS: Distribution Matching for Steering Vision-Language-Action Models

arXiv:2607. 14280v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Flow-matching-based vision-language-action (VLA) models have emerged as powerful policies for robotic manipulation, yet a critical capability remains underexplored: fine-grained behavioral control, the ability to govern how a robot performs a task by intervening on its internal representations.

By Pegah Khayatan, Sara Meziane, Jayneel Parekh, Matthieu Cord
arXiv AI
Jul 17

RxBrain: Embodied Cognition Foundation Model with Joint Language-Visual Reasoning and Imagination

arXiv:2607. 14187v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Embodied cognition requires agents to connect high-level task reasoning with the physical states to be achieved.

By Haotian Liang, Mingkang Chen, Yufei Huang, Yuchun Guo, Xiaomeng Zhu, Xiangli Shi, Kaixuan Wang, Yunxuan Mao, Weijie Zhou, Ling Chen, Shirong Zeng, Yueyu Long, Yuchen Si, Yajuan Zhu, Xingyu Zhou, Minghui Wang, Wanjia He, Xin Yang, Lingzhu Xiang, Zhiqing Liu, Bohan Ma, Xiran Huang, Tianshuo Yang, Zhiheng Liu, Xuantang Xiong, Zisheng Lu, Ping Luo, Yao Mu, Han Hu, Zhengyou Zhang