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cs.RO2026

RoboDreamer: Anticipatory Humanoid Locomotion with Predictive State-Space Models

Zhe Li, Yangyang Wei, Xichen Yuan +4

Humanoid locomotion requires control policies that remain stable under imperfect sensing while exploiting temporal context for consistent motion. We present RoboDreamer, a two-stag…

cs.RO2026

Do Robotic World Models Really Follow Actions? Diagnosing and Aligning Action-Conditioned Generation for Policy Learning

Sixiang Chen, Jiaming Liu, Jixian Wu +11

Action-conditioned world models increasingly serve as learned simulators for robotic policy improvement, yet their reliability rests on an unverified assumption: generated futures…

cs.RO2026

Robo-Dopamine 2.0: History-Conditioned and OOD-Aware Process Reward Modeling for Robotic Manipulation

Yijie Xu, Haopeng Jin, Run Zhou +8

Vision-language-action (VLA) models improve robotic manipulation but remain vulnerable to compounding errors, scene changes, and off-trajectory states. Reinforcement learning can r…

cs.RO2026

WorldSimProbe: Diagnosing Simulator Faithfulness in Action-Conditioned World Models for Embodied Manipulation

Peterson Co, Sicheng Hu, Chunxuan Jiao +17

Action-conditioned world models (ACWMs) promise to provide embodied AI with scalable predictive simulators for planning, policy evaluation, and data generation. Realizing this prom…

cs.RO2026

-0: A Latent Predictive World Action Model for Concurrent Humanoid Loco-Manipulation

Zhe Li, Zhenzhe Zhang, Yangyang Wei +8

Humanoid household tasks often require concurrent loco-manipulation, where the robot must move, adjust posture, maintain balance, and manipulate objects as a single coordinated beh…

cs.AI2026

TOPS: First-Principles Visual Token Pruning via Constructing Token Optimal Preservation Sets for Efficient MLLM Inference

Tinghao Wang, Yichen Guo, Rui Huang +13

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have achieved strong multimodal reasoning capabilities, but their efficiency is limited by the large number of visual tokens, which introdu…

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

LaST-HD: Learning Latent Physical Reasoning from Scalable Human Data for Robot Manipulation

Jiaming Liu, Yinxi Wang, Chenyang Gu +15

Human-hand demonstrations provide a direct and scalable source of physical interaction data for robot learning. While manual retargeting is indispensable for establishing kinematic…

cs.RO2026

IOI: Decoupling Kinematics and Physics for Interactive World Models

Chengyu Bai, Peidong Jia, Tiecheng Guo +11

Developing generalist embodied agents requires interactive environments providing visually realistic feedback and accurate action-conditioned dynamics. Interactive world models add…

cs.AI2026

ENVS: Environment-Native Verified Search for Long-Horizon GUI Agents

Yincheng Zhou, Athena Zhuoming Zhong, Shijie Zhang +3

As multimodal agents move from interface understanding to real software control, successful trajectory discovery in live desktop environments becomes a key challenge. GUI tasks req…

cs.RO2026

MV-WAM: Manifold-Aware World Action Model with Value Augmentation

Jintao Chen, Peidong Jia, Qingpo Wuwu +13

Achieving robust and generalizable manipulation across diverse environments remains a fundamental challenge in embodied robotics. Recent world action models achieve strong in-domai…

cs.RO2026

WAM-RL: World-Action Model Reinforcement Learning with Reconstruction Rewards and Online Video SFT

Zezhong Qian, Xiaowei Chi, Yu Qi +3

Recent World-Action (WA) models demonstrate strong generalization ability and data efficiency, but they typically rely on expert trajectories for training. This reliance limits the…

cs.RO2026

SafeDojo: Safe Reinforcement Learning for VLA via Interactive World Model

Kai Tang, Peidong Jia, Zhong Chu +16

Safe control is a prerequisite for real-world embodied intelligence, for which safe reinforcement learning has emerged as a promising paradigm. However, existing safe reinforcement…

cs.CV2026

LAST: Bridging Vision-Language and Action Manifolds via Gromov-Wasserstein Alignment

Huaihai Lyu, Chaofan Chen, Yuheng Ji +4

We take a Gromov-Wasserstein perspective on Vision-Language-Action (VLA) learning, where the goal is to make the relational geometry of action representations compatible with the s…

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.AI2026

LABSHIELD: A Multimodal Benchmark for Safety-Critical Reasoning and Planning in Scientific Laboratories

Qianpu Sun, Xiaowei Chi, Yuhan Rui +5

Artificial intelligence is increasingly catalyzing scientific automation, with multimodal large language model (MLLM) agents evolving from lab assistants into self-driving lab oper…

cs.CV2026

AoE: Always-on Egocentric Human Video Collection for Embodied AI

Bowen Yang, Zishuo Li, Yang Sun +15

Embodied foundation models require large-scale, high-quality real-world interaction data for pre-training and scaling. However, existing data collection methods suffer from high in…

cs.CV2026

EvoDriveVLA: Evolving Driving VLA Models via Collaborative Perception-Planning Distillation

Jiajun Cao, Xiaoan Zhang, Xiaobao Wei +10

Vision-Language-Action models have shown great promise for autonomous driving, yet they suffer from degraded perception after unfreezing the visual encoder and struggle with accumu…

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

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…