3 papers
cs.RO2026
Thor: Towards Human-Level Whole-Body Reactions for Intense Contact-Rich Environments
Gangyang Li, Qing Shi, Youhao Hu +3
Humanoids hold great potential for service, industrial, and rescue applications, in which robots must sustain whole-body stability while performing intense, contact-rich interactio…
cs.RO2026
What Matters in Building Vision-Language-Action Models for Generalist Robots
Xinghang Li, Peiyan Li, Long Qian +10
To utilize Foundation Vision Language Models (VLMs) for robotic tasks and motion planning, the community has proposed different methods for injecting action components into VLMs an…
cs.RO2026
Scaling World Model for Hierarchical Manipulation Policies
Qian Long, Yueze Wang, Jiaxi Song +13
Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models are promising for generalist robot manipulation but remain brittle in out-of-distribution (OOD) settings, especially with limited real-robot dat…