most citedA Survey on Robotics with Foundation Models: toward Embodied AI

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cs.RO2025

HumanoidExo: Scalable Whole-Body Humanoid Manipulation via Wearable Exoskeleton

Rui Zhong, Yizhe Sun, Junjie Wen +7

A significant bottleneck in humanoid policy learning is the acquisition of large-scale, diverse datasets, as collecting reliable real-world data remains both difficult and cost-pro…

cs.RO2025

ActiveUMI: Robotic Manipulation with Active Perception from Robot-Free Human Demonstrations

Qiyuan Zeng, Chengmeng Li, Jude St. John +5

We present ActiveUMI, a framework for a data collection system that transfers in-the-wild human demonstrations to robots capable of complex bimanual manipulation. ActiveUMI couples…

cs.RO2025

dVLA: Diffusion Vision-Language-Action Model with Multimodal Chain-of-Thought

Junjie Wen, Minjie Zhu, Jiaming Liu +6

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models are emerging as a next-generation paradigm for robotics. We introduce dVLA, a diffusion-based VLA that leverages a multimodal chain-of-thought t…

cs.RO2025

ChatVLA-2: Vision-Language-Action Model with Open-World Embodied Reasoning from Pretrained Knowledge

Zhongyi Zhou, Yichen Zhu, Junjie Wen +2

Vision-language-action (VLA) models have emerged as the next generation of models in robotics. However, despite leveraging powerful pre-trained Vision-Language Models (VLMs), exist…

cs.RO2025

WorldEval: World Model as Real-World Robot Policies Evaluator

Yaxuan Li, Yichen Zhu, Junjie Wen +2

The field of robotics has made significant strides toward developing generalist robot manipulation policies. However, evaluating these policies in real-world scenarios remains time…

cs.RO2025

PointVLA: Injecting the 3D World into Vision-Language-Action Models

Chengmeng Li, Junjie Wen, Yan Peng +3

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models excel at robotic tasks by leveraging large-scale 2D vision-language pretraining, but their reliance on RGB images limits spatial reasoning criti…

cs.RO2025

ObjectVLA: End-to-End Open-World Object Manipulation Without Demonstration

Minjie Zhu, Yichen Zhu, Jinming Li +6

Imitation learning has proven to be highly effective in teaching robots dexterous manipulation skills. However, it typically relies on large amounts of human demonstration data, wh…

cs.RO2025★ 2 cited

ChatVLA: Unified Multimodal Understanding and Robot Control with Vision-Language-Action Model

Zhongyi Zhou, Yichen Zhu, Minjie Zhu +8

Humans possess a unified cognitive ability to perceive, comprehend, and interact with the physical world. Why can't large language models replicate this holistic understanding? Thr…

cs.RO2025

DexVLA: Vision-Language Model with Plug-In Diffusion Expert for General Robot Control

Junjie Wen, Yichen Zhu, Jinming Li +3

Enabling robots to perform diverse tasks across varied environments is a central challenge in robot learning. While vision-language-action (VLA) models have shown promise for gener…

cs.RO2024★ 1 cited

CoA-VLA: Improving Vision-Language-Action Models via Visual-Textual Chain-of-Affordance

Jinming Li, Yichen Zhu, Zhibin Tang +8

Robot foundation models, particularly Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models, have garnered significant attention for their ability to enhance robot policy learning, greatly improving…

cs.RO2024★ 1 cited

Diffusion-VLA: Generalizable and Interpretable Robot Foundation Model via Self-Generated Reasoning

Junjie Wen, Minjie Zhu, Yichen Zhu +8

In this paper, we present DiffusionVLA, a novel framework that seamlessly combines the autoregression model with the diffusion model for learning visuomotor policy. Central to our…

cs.RO2024

Discrete Policy: Learning Disentangled Action Space for Multi-Task Robotic Manipulation

Kun Wu, Yichen Zhu, Jinming Li +4

Learning visuomotor policy for multi-task robotic manipulation has been a long-standing challenge for the robotics community. The difficulty lies in the diversity of action space:…

cs.RO2024

Scaling Diffusion Policy in Transformer to 1 Billion Parameters for Robotic Manipulation

Minjie Zhu, Yichen Zhu, Jinming Li +8

Diffusion Policy is a powerful technique tool for learning end-to-end visuomotor robot control. It is expected that Diffusion Policy possesses scalability, a key attribute for deep…

cs.RO2024★ 3 cited

TinyVLA: Towards Fast, Data-Efficient Vision-Language-Action Models for Robotic Manipulation

Junjie Wen, Yichen Zhu, Jinming Li +9

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have shown remarkable potential in visuomotor control and instruction comprehension through end-to-end learning processes. However, current VLA…

cs.RO2024★ 4 cited

A Survey on Robotics with Foundation Models: toward Embodied AI

Zhiyuan Xu, Kun Wu, Junjie Wen +4

While the exploration for embodied AI has spanned multiple decades, it remains a persistent challenge to endow agents with human-level intelligence, including perception, learning,…

cs.RO2024

Language-Conditioned Robotic Manipulation with Fast and Slow Thinking

Minjie Zhu, Yichen Zhu, Jinming Li +8

The language-conditioned robotic manipulation aims to transfer natural language instructions into executable actions, from simple pick-and-place to tasks requiring intent recogniti…

cs.RO2024

Object-Centric Instruction Augmentation for Robotic Manipulation

Junjie Wen, Yichen Zhu, Minjie Zhu +8

Humans interpret scenes by recognizing both the identities and positions of objects in their observations. For a robot to perform tasks such as \enquote{pick and place}, understand…