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20222026
most citedCharacterising the Robustness of Reinforcement Learning for Continuous Control using Disturbance Injection

2 citations · 5 across the 9 of their papers we have counts for

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12 papers

cs.LG2026

: a Steerable Generalist Robotic Foundation Model with Emergent Capabilities

Physical Intelligence, Bo Ai, Ali Amin +85

We present a new robotic foundation model, called , that can enable strong out-of-the-box performance in a wide range of scenarios. can follow diverse language i…

cs.RO2026

AsyncVLA: An Asynchronous VLA for Fast and Robust Navigation on the Edge

Noriaki Hirose, Catherine Glossop, Dhruv Shah +1

Robotic foundation models achieve strong generalization by leveraging internet-scale vision-language representations, but their massive computational cost creates a fundamental bot…

cs.RO2026

SteerVLA: Steering Vision-Language-Action Models in Long-Tail Driving Scenarios

Tian Gao, Celine Tan, Catherine Glossop +8

A fundamental challenge in autonomous driving is the integration of high-level, semantic reasoning for long-tail events with low-level, reactive control for robust driving. While l…

cs.RO2026

Steerable Vision-Language-Action Policies for Embodied Reasoning and Hierarchical Control

William Chen, Jagdeep Singh Bhatia, Catherine Glossop +6

Pretrained vision-language models (VLMs) can make semantic and visual inferences across diverse settings, providing valuable common-sense priors for robotic control. However, effec…

cs.LG2025

: a VLA That Learns From Experience

Physical Intelligence, Ali Amin, Raichelle Aniceto +53

We study how vision-language-action (VLA) models can improve through real-world deployments via reinforcement learning (RL). We present a general-purpose method, RL with Experience…

cs.RO2025

OmniVLA: An Omni-Modal Vision-Language-Action Model for Robot Navigation

Noriaki Hirose, Catherine Glossop, Dhruv Shah +1

Humans can flexibly interpret and compose different goal specifications, such as language instructions, spatial coordinates, or visual references, when navigating to a destination.…

cs.RO2025

CAST: Counterfactual Labels Improve Instruction Following in Vision-Language-Action Models

Catherine Glossop, William Chen, Arjun Bhorkar +2

Generalist robots should be able to understand and follow user instructions. Despite providing a powerful architecture for mapping open-vocabulary language instructions to robot ac…

cs.RO2025

Learning to Drive Anywhere with Model-Based Reannotation

Noriaki Hirose, Lydia Ignatova, Kyle Stachowicz +3

Developing broadly generalizable visual navigation policies for robots is a significant challenge, primarily constrained by the availability of large-scale, diverse training data.…

cs.RO2024★ 1 cited

LeLaN: Learning A Language-Conditioned Navigation Policy from In-the-Wild Videos

Noriaki Hirose, Catherine Glossop, Ajay Sridhar +3

The world is filled with a wide variety of objects. For robots to be useful, they need the ability to find arbitrary objects described by people. In this paper, we present LeLaN(Le…

cs.RO2024

Pushing the Limits of Cross-Embodiment Learning for Manipulation and Navigation

Jonathan Yang, Catherine Glossop, Arjun Bhorkar +5

Recent years in robotics and imitation learning have shown remarkable progress in training large-scale foundation models by leveraging data across a multitude of embodiments. The s…

cs.RO2023★ 2 cited

NoMaD: Goal Masked Diffusion Policies for Navigation and Exploration

Ajay Sridhar, Dhruv Shah, Catherine Glossop +1

Robotic learning for navigation in unfamiliar environments needs to provide policies for both task-oriented navigation (i.e., reaching a goal that the robot has located), and task-…

cs.RO2022★ 2 cited

Characterising the Robustness of Reinforcement Learning for Continuous Control using Disturbance Injection

Catherine R. Glossop, Jacopo Panerati, Amrit Krishnan +2

In this study, we leverage the deliberate and systematic fault-injection capabilities of an open-source benchmark suite to perform a series of experiments on state-of-the-art deep…