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most citedOpenVLA: An Open-Source Vision-Language-Action Model

43 citations · 68 across the 15 of their papers we have counts for

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19 papers

cs.RO2026

Gripper-aware Vision Language Action Models

Hanyi Zhang, Zihong Luo, Tianyu Li +16

Vision language action models (VLAs) have advanced general purpose robotic grasping and manipulation by enabling robots to interpret visual observations and natural language instru…

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★ 1 cited

Open-H-Embodiment: A Large-Scale Dataset for Enabling Foundation Models in Medical Robotics

Open-H-Embodiment Consortium, :, Nigel Nelson +213

Autonomous medical robots hold promise to improve patient outcomes, reduce provider workload, democratize access to care, and enable superhuman precision. However, autonomous medic…

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.LG2025

Knowledge Insulating Vision-Language-Action Models: Train Fast, Run Fast, Generalize Better

Danny Driess, Jost Tobias Springenberg, Brian Ichter +8

Vision-language-action (VLA) models provide a powerful approach to training control policies for physical systems, such as robots, by combining end-to-end learning with transfer of…

cs.RO2025

Towards Embodiment Scaling Laws in Robot Locomotion

Bo Ai, Liu Dai, Nico Bohlinger +7

Cross-embodiment generalization underpins the vision of building generalist embodied agents for any robot, yet its enabling factors remain poorly understood. We investigate embodim…

cs.LG2025★ 2 cited

: a Vision-Language-Action Model with Open-World Generalization

Physical Intelligence, Kevin Black, Noah Brown +33

In order for robots to be useful, they must perform practically relevant tasks in the real world, outside of the lab. While vision-language-action (VLA) models have demonstrated im…

cs.RO2025

Hi Robot: Open-Ended Instruction Following with Hierarchical Vision-Language-Action Models

Lucy Xiaoyang Shi, Brian Ichter, Michael Equi +12

Generalist robots that can perform a range of different tasks in open-world settings must be able to not only reason about the steps needed to accomplish their goals, but also proc…

cs.RO2025

FAST: Efficient Action Tokenization for Vision-Language-Action Models

Karl Pertsch, Kyle Stachowicz, Brian Ichter +6

Autoregressive sequence models, such as Transformer-based vision-language action (VLA) policies, can be tremendously effective for capturing complex and generalizable robotic behav…

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

What's the Move? Hybrid Imitation Learning via Salient Points

Priya Sundaresan, Hengyuan Hu, Quan Vuong +2

While imitation learning (IL) offers a promising framework for teaching robots various behaviors, learning complex tasks remains challenging. Existing IL policies struggle to gener…

cs.LG2024★ 11 cited

: A Vision-Language-Action Flow Model for General Robot Control

Kevin Black, Noah Brown, Danny Driess +21

Robot learning holds tremendous promise to unlock the full potential of flexible, general, and dexterous robot systems, as well as to address some of the deepest questions in artif…

cs.RO2024★ 1 cited

RoVi-Aug: Robot and Viewpoint Augmentation for Cross-Embodiment Robot Learning

Lawrence Yunliang Chen, Chenfeng Xu, Karthik Dharmarajan +6

Scaling up robot learning requires large and diverse datasets, and how to efficiently reuse collected data and transfer policies to new embodiments remains an open question. Emergi…

cs.RO2024

Language-Driven 6-DoF Grasp Detection Using Negative Prompt Guidance

Toan Nguyen, Minh Nhat Vu, Baoru Huang +5

6-DoF grasp detection has been a fundamental and challenging problem in robotic vision. While previous works have focused on ensuring grasp stability, they often do not consider hu…

cs.RO2024★ 43 cited

OpenVLA: An Open-Source Vision-Language-Action Model

Moo Jin Kim, Karl Pertsch, Siddharth Karamcheti +15

Large policies pretrained on a combination of Internet-scale vision-language data and diverse robot demonstrations have the potential to change how we teach robots new skills: rath…

cs.RO2024★ 8 cited

Octo: An Open-Source Generalist Robot Policy

Octo Model Team, Dibya Ghosh, Homer Walke +16

Large policies pretrained on diverse robot datasets have the potential to transform robotic learning: instead of training new policies from scratch, such generalist robot policies…

cs.RO2024

Vid2Robot: End-to-end Video-conditioned Policy Learning with Cross-Attention Transformers

Vidhi Jain, Maria Attarian, Nikhil J Joshi +10

Large-scale multi-task robotic manipulation systems often rely on text to specify the task. In this work, we explore whether a robot can learn by observing humans. To do so, the ro…

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.RO2024★ 2 cited

Mirage: Cross-Embodiment Zero-Shot Policy Transfer with Cross-Painting

Lawrence Yunliang Chen, Kush Hari, Karthik Dharmarajan +3

The ability to reuse collected data and transfer trained policies between robots could alleviate the burden of additional data collection and training. While existing approaches su…