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most citedManipulate-Anything: Automating Real-World Robots using Vision-Language Models

5 citations · 11 across the 11 of their papers we have counts for

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11 papers

cs.RO2026

MolmoAct2: Action Reasoning Models for Real-world Deployment

Haoquan Fang, Jiafei Duan, Donovan Clay +26

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models aim to provide a single generalist controller for robots, but today's systems fall short on the criteria that matter for real-world deployment.…

cs.AI2026

AcademiClaw: When Students Set Challenges for AI Agents

Junjie Yu, Pengrui Lu, Weiye Si +75

Benchmarks within the OpenClaw ecosystem have thus far evaluated exclusively assistant-level tasks, leaving the academic-level capabilities of OpenClaw largely unexamined. We intro…

cs.RO2026

Learning While Deploying: Fleet-Scale Reinforcement Learning for Generalist Robot Policies

Yi Wang, Xinchen Li, Pengwei Xie +13

Generalist robot policies increasingly benefit from large-scale pretraining, but offline data alone is insufficient for robust real-world deployment. Deployed robots encounter dist…

cs.RO2026

RoboPlayground: Democratizing Robotic Evaluation through Structured Physical Domains

Yi Ru Wang, Carter Ung, Evan Gubarev +3

Evaluation of robotic manipulation systems has largely relied on fixed benchmarks authored by a small number of experts, where task instances, constraints, and success criteria are…

cs.RO2025

MolmoAct: Action Reasoning Models that can Reason in Space

Jason Lee, Jiafei Duan, Haoquan Fang +16

Reasoning is central to purposeful action, yet most robotic foundation models map perception and instructions directly to control, which limits adaptability, generalization, and se…

cs.RO2025★ 1 cited

RoboEval: Where Robotic Manipulation Meets Structured and Scalable Evaluation

Yi Ru Wang, Carter Ung, Christopher Tan +11

We introduce RoboEval, a structured evaluation framework and benchmark for robotic manipulation that augments binary success with principled behavioral and outcome metrics. Existin…

cs.CV2025

PointArena: Probing Multimodal Grounding Through Language-Guided Pointing

Long Cheng, Jiafei Duan, Yi Ru Wang +12

Pointing serves as a fundamental and intuitive mechanism for grounding language within visual contexts, with applications spanning robotics, assistive technologies, and interactive…

cs.RO2025

SAM2Act: Integrating Visual Foundation Model with A Memory Architecture for Robotic Manipulation

Haoquan Fang, Markus Grotz, Wilbert Pumacay +4

Robotic manipulation systems operating in diverse, dynamic environments must exhibit three critical abilities: multitask interaction, generalization to unseen scenarios, and spatia…

cs.RO2024★ 4 cited

AHA: A Vision-Language-Model for Detecting and Reasoning Over Failures in Robotic Manipulation

Jiafei Duan, Wilbert Pumacay, Nishanth Kumar +7

Robotic manipulation in open-world settings requires not only task execution but also the ability to detect and learn from failures. While recent advances in vision-language models…

cs.RO2024★ 5 cited

Manipulate-Anything: Automating Real-World Robots using Vision-Language Models

Jiafei Duan, Wentao Yuan, Wilbert Pumacay +4

Large-scale endeavors like and widespread community efforts such as Open-X-Embodiment have contributed to growing the scale of robot demonstration data. However, there is still an…

cs.CL2023★ 1 cited

NEWTON: Are Large Language Models Capable of Physical Reasoning?

Yi Ru Wang, Jiafei Duan, Dieter Fox +1

Large Language Models (LLMs), through their contextualized representations, have been empirically proven to encapsulate syntactic, semantic, word sense, and common-sense knowledge.…