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most citedVision-Language Foundation Models as Effective Robot Imitators

19 citations · 35 across the 14 of their papers we have counts for

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16 papers

cs.RO2025★ 1 cited

GR-RL: Going Dexterous and Precise for Long-Horizon Robotic Manipulation

Yunfei Li, Xiao Ma, Jiafeng Xu +18

We present GR-RL, a robotic learning framework that turns a generalist vision-language-action (VLA) policy into a highly capable specialist for long-horizon dexterous manipulation.…

cs.RO2025

Manipulation as in Simulation: Enabling Accurate Geometry Perception in Robots

Minghuan Liu, Zhengbang Zhu, Xiaoshen Han +12

Modern robotic manipulation primarily relies on visual observations in a 2D color space for skill learning but suffers from poor generalization. In contrast, humans, living in a 3D…

cs.RO2025

GR-3 Technical Report

Chilam Cheang, Sijin Chen, Zhongren Cui +18

We report our recent progress towards building generalist robot policies, the development of GR-3. GR-3 is a large-scale vision-language-action (VLA) model. It showcases exceptiona…

cs.RO2025

BridgeVLA: Input-Output Alignment for Efficient 3D Manipulation Learning with Vision-Language Models

Peiyan Li, Yixiang Chen, Hongtao Wu +6

Recently, leveraging pre-trained vision-language models (VLMs) for building vision-language-action (VLA) models has emerged as a promising approach to effective robot manipulation…

cs.RO2025

Human-assisted Robotic Policy Refinement via Action Preference Optimization

Wenke Xia, Yichu Yang, Hongtao Wu +3

Establishing a reliable and iteratively refined robotic system is essential for deploying real-world applications. While Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models are widely recognized a…

cs.RO2024

RLDG: Robotic Generalist Policy Distillation via Reinforcement Learning

Charles Xu, Qiyang Li, Jianlan Luo +1

Recent advances in robotic foundation models have enabled the development of generalist policies that can adapt to diverse tasks. While these models show impressive flexibility, th…

cs.RO2024★ 1 cited

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.RO2024★ 7 cited

GR-2: A Generative Video-Language-Action Model with Web-Scale Knowledge for Robot Manipulation

Chi-Lam Cheang, Guangzeng Chen, Ya Jing +9

We present GR-2, a state-of-the-art generalist robot agent for versatile and generalizable robot manipulation. GR-2 is first pre-trained on a vast number of Internet videos to capt…

cs.RO2024

World Model-based Perception for Visual Legged Locomotion

Hang Lai, Jiahang Cao, Jiafeng Xu +5

Legged locomotion over various terrains is challenging and requires precise perception of the robot and its surroundings from both proprioception and vision. However, learning dire…

cs.RO2024

GR-MG: Leveraging Partially Annotated Data via Multi-Modal Goal-Conditioned Policy

Peiyan Li, Hongtao Wu, Yan Huang +3

The robotics community has consistently aimed to achieve generalizable robot manipulation with flexible natural language instructions. One primary challenge is that obtaining robot…

cs.RO2024★ 1 cited

IRASim: A Fine-Grained World Model for Robot Manipulation

Fangqi Zhu, Hongtao Wu, Song Guo +3

World models allow autonomous agents to plan and explore by predicting the visual outcomes of different actions. However, for robot manipulation, it is challenging to accurately mo…

cs.RO2024★ 1 cited

SInViG: A Self-Evolving Interactive Visual Agent for Human-Robot Interaction

Jie Xu, Hanbo Zhang, Xinghang Li +3

Linguistic ambiguity is ubiquitous in our daily lives. Previous works adopted interaction between robots and humans for language disambiguation. Nevertheless, when interactive robo…

cs.RO2024

Towards Unified Interactive Visual Grounding in The Wild

Jie Xu, Hanbo Zhang, Qingyi Si +3

Interactive visual grounding in Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) is challenging yet practical due to the inevitable ambiguity in natural languages. It requires robots to disambiguate…

cs.RO2023★ 4 cited

Unleashing Large-Scale Video Generative Pre-training for Visual Robot Manipulation

Hongtao Wu, Ya Jing, Chilam Cheang +6

Generative pre-trained models have demonstrated remarkable effectiveness in language and vision domains by learning useful representations. In this paper, we extend the scope of th…

cs.RO2023★ 19 cited

Vision-Language Foundation Models as Effective Robot Imitators

Xinghang Li, Minghuan Liu, Hanbo Zhang +9

Recent progress in vision language foundation models has shown their ability to understand multimodal data and resolve complicated vision language tasks, including robotics manipul…

cs.RO2023★ 1 cited

InViG: Benchmarking Interactive Visual Grounding with 500K Human-Robot Interactions

Hanbo Zhang, Jie Xu, Yuchen Mo +1

Ambiguity is ubiquitous in human communication. Previous approaches in Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) have often relied on predefined interaction templates, leading to reduced perfo…