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Efficient Real-World Online Reinforcement Learning for Robot Manipulation via Centralized Training and Critic Decomposition

Changhao Li, Yifang Zhang, Heng Zhang +6

Real-world online reinforcement learning (RL) provides a promising approach for training robotic manipulation policies directly in the physical world, avoiding the sim-to-real gap…

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Robots Need More than VLA and World Models

Elis Karcini, Faisal Mehrban, Quang Nguyen +6

Generalist robot intelligence is often framed as a policy-scaling problem: collect more robot demonstrations, train larger Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models, and expect broader g…

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PLanAR: Planning-Language-Grounded Agentic Reasoning for Robot Manipulation

Pengyuan Guo, Zhonghao Mai, Zhengtong Xu +8

Recent advances in vision-language models (VLMs) have enabled increasing progress in real-world robot manipulation. However, long-horizon manipulation in unstructured environments…

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Foundation Models in Robotics: A Comprehensive Review of Methods, Models, Datasets, Challenges and Future Research Directions

Aggelos Psiris, Vasileios Argyriou, Evangelos K. Markakis +6

Over the recent years, the field of robotics has been undergoing a transformative paradigm shift from fixed, single-task, domain-specific solutions towards adaptive, multi-function…

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TacVLA: Contact-Aware Tactile Fusion for Robust Vision-Language-Action Manipulation

Kaidi Zhang, Heng Zhang, Zhengtong Xu +7

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have demonstrated significant advantages in robotic manipulation. However, their reliance on vision and language often leads to suboptimal perfo…

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CompliantVLA-adaptor: VLM-Guided Variable Impedance Action for Safe Contact-Rich Manipulation

Heng Zhang, Wei-Hsing Huang, Qiyi Tong +7

We propose a CompliantVLA-adaptor that augments the state-of-the-art Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models with vision-language model (VLM)-informed context-aware variable impedance…