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most citedRoboMIND: Benchmark on Multi-embodiment Intelligence Normative Data for Robot Manipulation

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27 papers

cs.RO2026

Dream4ACT: A Shared Visual Action Interface for Multi-Embodiment Video-Action Modeling

Xiangyu Zhu, Jin Xu, Yue Guo +6

Video generation models (VGMs) offer strong spatiotemporal priors for embodied observation--action modeling. However, joint-space action vectors lack explicit image-space structure…

cs.RO2026

Pelican-Sim 1.0: A General World Model Simulator for Embodied Intelligence

Shilong Zou, Shilin Zhang, Yingji Zhang +8

In this technical report, we propose Pelican-Sim 1.0, a general world model simulator for embodied intelligence that predicts future observations from visual context and robot acti…

cs.AI2026

TrustRoboReward: Preference-Ordered Isotonic Score Editing for Multi-Paradigm Robot Reward Models

Yidong Wang, Yan Zhan, Ziteng Feng +16

Reward models are a bottleneck for reinforcement learning in embodied AI. Long-horizon robotic manipulation requires scalable vision feedback beyond handcrafted rewards or task-spe…

eess.IV2026

Group-of-Latents: Perceptual Video Compression at Extreme Bitrates via Masked Latent Generative Modeling

Shaokang Wang, Jinchang Xu, Peidong Jia +9

Most existing video compression algorithms follow a paradigm of transformation and quantization, optimizing the trade-off between distortion and bitrate. However, extremely low-bit…

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.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.CV2026

Current World Models Lack a Persistent State Core

Jinpeng Lu, Dexu Zhu, Haoyuan Shi +8

World models are increasingly regarded as a decisive step toward artificial general intelligence, yet modeling the physical world demands more than rendering convincing frames on d…

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.RO2026

Pelican-Unify 1.0: A Unified Embodied Intelligence Model for Understanding, Reasoning, Imagination and Action

Yi Zhang, Yinda Chen, Che Liu +26

We present Pelican-Unify 1.0, the first embodied foundation model trained according to the principle of unification. Pelican-Unify 1.0 uses a single VLM as a unified understanding…

cs.RO2026

Robo-Cortex: A Self-Evolving Embodied Agent via Dual-Grain Cognitive Memory and Autonomous Knowledge Induction

Nga Teng Chan, Yi Zhang, Yechi Liu +9

The ability to navigate and interact with complex environments is central to real-world embodied agents, yet navigation in unseen environments remains challenging due to "experient…

cs.CV2026

EPIC-Bench: A Perception-Centric Benchmark for Fine-Grained Embodied Visual Grounding in Vision-Language Models

Haozhe Shan, Xiancong Ren, Han Dong +10

While large vision-language models (VLMs) are increasingly adopted as the perceptual backbone for embodied agents, their fundamental vision-language grounding (VLG) capability in e…

cs.RO2026

VEGA: Visual Encoder Grounding Alignment for Spatially-Aware Vision-Language-Action Models

Hao Wang, Xiaobao Wei, Jingyang He +10

Precise spatial reasoning is fundamental to robotic manipulation, yet the visual backbones of current vision-language-action (VLA) models are predominantly pretrained on 2D image d…

cs.AI2026

VLA-Trace: Diagnosing Vision-Language-Action Models through Representation and Behavior Tracing

Haoyuan Shi, Xiancong Ren, Yingji Zhang +9

Understanding how Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models transform multimodal knowledge into embodied control remains an open challenge. We present VLA-Trace, a progressive diagnostic…

cs.CL2026

A2Eval: Agentic and Automated Evaluation for Embodied Brain

Shuai Zhang, Jiayu Hu, Zijie Chen +9

Current embodied VLM evaluation relies on static, expert-defined, manually annotated benchmarks that exhibit severe redundancy and coverage imbalance. This labor intensive paradigm…

cs.RO2026

TC-IDM: Grounding Video Generation for Executable Zero-shot Robot Motion

Weishi Mi, Yong Bao, Xiaowei Chi +7

The vision-language-action (VLA) paradigm has enabled powerful robotic control by leveraging vision-language models, but its reliance on large-scale, high-quality robot data limits…

cs.RO2026

Wow, wo, val! A Comprehensive Embodied World Model Evaluation Turing Test

Chun-Kai Fan, Xiaowei Chi, Xiaozhu Ju +18

As world models gain momentum in Embodied AI, an increasing number of works explore using video foundation models as predictive world models for downstream embodied tasks like 3D p…

cs.AI2025

Bridging VLMs and Embodied Intelligence with Deliberate Practice Policy Optimization

Yi Zhang, Che Liu, Xiancong Ren +17

Developing a universal and versatile embodied intelligence system presents two primary challenges: the critical embodied data bottleneck, where real-world data is scarce and expens…

cs.LG2025

Pelican-VL 1.0: A Foundation Brain Model for Embodied Intelligence

Yi Zhang, Che Liu, Xiancong Ren +20

This report presents Pelican-VL 1.0, a new family of open-source embodied brain models with parameter scales ranging from 7 billion to 72 billion. Our explicit mission is clearly s…

cs.RO2025

WoW: Towards a World omniscient World model Through Embodied Interaction

Xiaowei Chi, Peidong Jia, Chun-Kai Fan +33

Humans develop an understanding of intuitive physics through active interaction with the world. This approach is in stark contrast to current video models, such as Sora, which rely…

cs.CV2025

WristWorld: Generating Wrist-Views via 4D World Models for Robotic Manipulation

Zezhong Qian, Xiaowei Chi, Yuming Li +5

Wrist-view observations are crucial for VLA models as they capture fine-grained hand-object interactions that directly enhance manipulation performance. Yet large-scale datasets ra…

cs.RO2025

OmniD: Generalizable Robot Manipulation Policy via Image-Based BEV Representation

Jilei Mao, Jiarui Guan, Yingjuan Tang +7

The visuomotor policy can easily overfit to its training datasets, such as fixed camera positions and backgrounds. This overfitting makes the policy perform well in the in-distribu…

cs.AI2025

SEEA-R1: Tree-Structured Reinforcement Fine-Tuning for Self-Evolving Embodied Agents

Wanxin Tian, Shijie Zhang, Kevin Zhang +12

Self-evolution, the ability of agents to autonomously improve their reasoning and behavior, is essential for the embodied domain with long-horizon, real-world tasks. Despite curren…

cs.RO2025

ArtVIP: Articulated Digital Assets of Visual Realism, Modular Interaction, and Physical Fidelity for Robot Learning

Zhao Jin, Zhengping Che, Tao Li +10

Robot learning increasingly relies on simulation to advance complex ability such as dexterous manipulations and precise interactions, necessitating high-quality digital assets to b…

cs.CV2025

Occupancy World Model for Robots

Zhang Zhang, Qiang Zhang, Wei Cui +12

Understanding and forecasting the scene evolutions deeply affect the exploration and decision of embodied agents. While traditional methods simulate scene evolutions through trajec…