activity
20242026
most citedAffordGrasp: In-Context Affordance Reasoning for Open-Vocabulary Task-Oriented Grasping in Clutter

1 citations · 3 across the 40 of their papers we have counts for

collaborators
Showing cs.ROShow all

36 papers · 1 filter

cs.RO2026

LTM: Latent Transition Based In-Context Memory for Vision-Language-Action Models

Qixin Sun, WenLong Gao, Xiansheng Chen +3

Robotic manipulation often requires remembering interactions that are no longer visible. We introduce Latent Transition Memory (LTM), which stores history as compact latent transit…

cs.RO2026

HACo: Learning Haptic Active Compliance for Force-Aware Dexterous Manipulation

Naisheng Ye, Yinzhe Zhou, Junkai Zhao +5

Contact-rich dexterous manipulation requires policies that translate physical feedback into motion commands while regulating interaction loads across evolving multi-contact interac…

cs.RO2026

DeCAL: Towards Physically-Grounded Dexterous Vision-Language-Action Models via Contact-Aware Latent Co-Imagination

Yankai Fu, Ning Chen, Junkai Zhao +5

Dexterous manipulation involves contact-rich and fine-grained interactions with the physical world, posing significant challenges for existing vision-language-action (VLA) models d…

cs.RO2026

PRM-as-a-Judge 1.5: A Toolkit for Robot Process Assessment

Yuyang Liu, Yanqing Shen, Ruike Chen +22

Fine-grained robotic evaluation matters for understanding embodied models, going beyond binary success rates and rule-based process scores. We present PRM-as-a-Judge 1.5, a toolkit…

cs.RO2026

SLIM-0.5B: Learning Action-Grounded Predictive Latents for Robot Manipulation

Jingkai Wang, Zihan Tang, Gu Zhang +7

Vision-language-action policies rely on large multimodal backbones to jointly perform perception, language conditioning, and action generation at every control step. Much of this c…

cs.RO2026

FORCE: Efficient VLA Reinforcement Fine-Tuning via Value-Calibrated Warm-up and Self-Distillation

Shuyi Zhang, Yunfan Lou, Hongyang Cheng +8

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models are often constrained by the imitation ceiling imposed by sub-optimal data. While Reinforcement Learning (RL) fine-tuning can surpass this limit…

cs.RO2026

Dexora: Open-source VLA for High-DoF Bimanual Dexterity

Zongzheng Zhang, Jingrui Pang, Zhuo Yang +22

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have recently become a central direction in embodied AI, but current systems are restricted to either dual-gripper control or single-arm dextero…

cs.RO2026

Mask World Model: Predicting What Matters for Robust Robot Policy Learning

Yunfan Lou, Xiaowei Chi, Xiaojie Zhang +9

World models derived from large-scale video generative pre-training have emerged as a promising paradigm for generalist robot policy learning. However, standard approaches often fo…

cs.RO2026

PRM-as-a-Judge: A Dense Evaluation Paradigm for Fine-Grained Robotic Auditing

Yuheng Ji, Yuyang Liu, Huajie Tan +15

Current robotic evaluation is still largely dominated by binary success rates, which collapse rich execution processes into a single outcome and obscure critical qualities such as…

cs.RO2026

SaPaVe: Towards Active Perception and Manipulation in Vision-Language-Action Models for Robotics

Mengzhen Liu, Enshen Zhou, Cheng Chi +6

Active perception and manipulation are crucial for robots to interact with complex scenes. Existing methods struggle to unify semantic-driven active perception with robust, viewpoi…

cs.RO2026

AnyTouch 2: General Optical Tactile Representation Learning For Dynamic Tactile Perception

Ruoxuan Feng, Yuxuan Zhou, Siyu Mei +6

Real-world contact-rich manipulation demands robots to perceive temporal tactile feedback, capture subtle surface deformations, and reason about object properties as well as force…

cs.RO2026

Reshaping Action Error Distributions for Reliable Vision-Language-Action Models

Shuanghao Bai, Dakai Wang, Cheng Chi +8

In robotic manipulation, vision-language-action (VLA) models have emerged as a promising paradigm for learning generalizable and scalable robot policies. Most existing VLA framewor…

cs.RO2026

Latent Reasoning VLA: Latent Thinking and Prediction for Vision-Language-Action Models

Shuanghao Bai, Jing Lyu, Wanqi Zhou +9

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models benefit from chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning, but existing approaches incur high inference overhead and rely on discrete reasoning representati…

cs.RO2026

RoboBrain 2.5: Depth in Sight, Time in Mind

Huajie Tan, Enshen Zhou, Zhiyu Li +32

We introduce RoboBrain 2.5, a next-generation embodied AI foundation model that advances general perception, spatial reasoning, and temporal modeling through extensive training on…

cs.RO2026

Action-Sketcher: From Reasoning to Action via Visual Sketches for Long-Horizon Robotic Manipulation

Huajie Tan, Peterson Co, Yijie Xu +9

Long-horizon robotic manipulation is increasingly important for real-world deployment, requiring spatial disambiguation in complex layouts and temporal resilience under dynamic int…

cs.RO2026

Do You Have Freestyle? Expressive Humanoid Locomotion via Audio Control

Zhe Li, Cheng Chi, Yangyang Wei +9

Humans intuitively move to sound, but current humanoid robots lack expressive improvisational capabilities, confined to predefined motions or sparse commands. Generating motion fro…

cs.RO2025

Robo-Dopamine: General Process Reward Modeling for High-Precision Robotic Manipulation

Huajie Tan, Sixiang Chen, Yijie Xu +12

The primary obstacle for applying reinforcement learning (RL) to real-world robotics is the design of effective reward functions. While recently learning-based Process Reward Model…

cs.RO2025

RoboMirror: Understand Before You Imitate for Video to Humanoid Locomotion

Zhe Li, Boan Zhu, Yangyang Wei +11

Humans learn locomotion through visual observation, interpreting visual content first before imitating actions. However, state-of-the-art humanoid locomotion systems rely on either…

cs.RO2025

Towards Spatial Trace with Reasoning in Vision-Language Models for Robotics

Enshen Zhou, Yibo Li, Jingkun An +12

Spatial tracing, as a fundamental embodied interaction ability for robots, is inherently challenging as it requires multi-step metric-grounded reasoning compounded with complex spa…

cs.RO2025

METIS: Multi-Source Egocentric Training for Integrated Dexterous Vision-Language-Action Model

Yankai Fu, Ning Chen, Junkai Zhao +5

Building a generalist robot that can perceive, reason, and act across diverse tasks remains an open challenge, especially for dexterous manipulation. A major bottleneck lies in the…

cs.RO2025

RoboCOIN: An Open-Sourced Bimanual Robotic Data Collection for Integrated Manipulation

Shihan Wu, Xuecheng Liu, Shaoxuan Xie +81

Despite the critical role of bimanual manipulation in endowing robots with human-like dexterity, large-scale and diverse datasets remain scarce due to the significant hardware hete…

cs.RO2025

PIGEON: VLM-Driven Object Navigation via Points of Interest Selection

Cheng Peng, Zhenzhe Zhang, Xiaobao Wei +7

Object navigation in unseen indoor environments requires agents to perform semantic search under partial observability. Vision-language models (VLMs) provide strong semantic-spatia…

cs.RO2025

RoboOS-NeXT: A Unified Memory-based Framework for Lifelong, Scalable, and Robust Multi-Robot Collaboration

Huajie Tan, Cheng Chi, Xiansheng Chen +21

The proliferation of collaborative robots across diverse tasks and embodiments presents a central challenge: achieving lifelong adaptability, scalable coordination, and robust sche…

cs.RO2025

From Language to Locomotion: Retargeting-free Humanoid Control via Motion Latent Guidance

Zhe Li, Cheng Chi, Yangyang Wei +7

Natural language offers a natural interface for humanoid robots, but existing language-guided humanoid locomotion pipelines remain cumbersome and untrustworthy. They typically deco…