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cs.CV2026

EMBER-Bench: Benchmarking Cross-Event Causal Memory in Long-Horizon Embodied Tasks

Aoyang Cai, Boning Zhao, Shaoxuan Xie +5

Lifelong physical agents must reason over extended interactions where past events continue to shape the world long after they disappear from view. Beyond recalling what happened, a…

cs.RO2026

ROMA: LLM System for Real-World Object-Centric Multi-Sensory Active Perception

Ruoxuan Feng, Yutong Chen, Ruihua Song +4

Humans inherently understand the physical world through an active process. When sensory evidence is insufficient to infer physical properties, we naturally interact with the enviro…

cs.RO2026

RoboCoach: World Models as Active Coaches for Compositional Robot Skills

Jiajun Liu, Yifan Chen, Yichao Liu +7

Long-horizon robot manipulation reuses skills across many task compositions, but improving these compositions with additional end-to-end demonstrations is costly. A practical self-…

cs.RO2026

LiMA: Bridging Long-term Imagination to Real-time Dexterous Manipulation via Asynchronous Diffusion

Ning Chen, Yankai Fu, Junkai Zhao +5

Dexterous manipulation demands long-term foresight and rapid reactive control. Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models, while proficient in high-level reasoning, often lack a fine-grai…

cs.CV2026

LPA-CWM: A Learned Physical Adjudicator for Motion Reasoning with Counterfactual World Models

Kunwei Wu, Xiang Liu, Guocai Yao +5

Counterfactual world models (CWM) extract motion from pretrained video predictors by comparing factual and intervened predictions, but uniform aggregation weights responses equally…

cs.RO2026

DeCAL: Towards Physically-Grounded Dexterous Vision-Language-Action Models via Contact-Aware Latent Co-Imagination

Yankai Fu, Ning Chen, Junkai Zhao +5

Dexterous manipulation involves contact-rich and fine-grained interactions with the physical world, posing significant challenges for existing vision-language-action (VLA) models d…

cs.RO2026

HiTac-WAM: A Hierarchical Tactile World Action Model for Contact-Rich Robot Manipulation

Chao Xue, Chaofan Zhang, Wenxuan Ma +3

World action models jointly predict future visual observations and actions, whereas existing tactile-aware variants typically represent future touch as an image or latent stream wi…

cs.AI2026

VERDI:Verified Contradictions for Continual World-Model Optimization

Junyu Wu, Shiqin Nie, Youyi Kou +10

Foundation world models have made remarkable progress in planning, simulation, and embodied intelligence. However, optimizing a pretrained world model toward a user-specified objec…

cs.RO2026

FeelWorld: Visuo-Tactile World Model for Hierarchical Contact Prediction and Planning

Wenxuan Ma, Chaofan Zhang, Chao Xue +4

Humans plan physical interactions by imagining the possible outcomes of candidate actions. However, existing visual world models primarily capture appearance dynamics while overloo…

cs.RO2026

Open-AoE: An Open Egocentric Manipulation Dataset and Toolchain for Embodied Learning

Zishuo Li, Bowen Yang, Changtao Miao +29

Egocentric videos of human manipulation provide scalable supervision for embodied intelligence, yet existing resources rarely combine low-cost continuous capture, manipulation-leve…

cs.RO2026

LIBERO-Safety: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Physical and Semantic Safety in Vision-Language-Action Models

Rongxu Cui, Zongzheng Zhang, Jingrui Pang +11

Despite the impressive manipulation capabilities of Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models, their operational safety under strict constraints remains largely unverified. To address th…

cs.RO2026

ATOM-Bench: A Real-World Benchmark for Atomic Skills and Compositional Generalization in Manipulation Policies

Zenan Wu, Bingqing Wei, Lu Liu +8

Generalist manipulation policies are increasingly presented as foundation models for robotic control, but their real-world generalization remains difficult to diagnose. A policy ma…

cs.RO2026

Dexora: Open-source VLA for High-DoF Bimanual Dexterity

Zongzheng Zhang, Jingrui Pang, Zhuo Yang +22

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have recently become a central direction in embodied AI, but current systems are restricted to either dual-gripper control or single-arm dextero…

cs.CV2026

EgoIntrospect: An Egocentric Dataset and Benchmark for User-Centric Internal State Reasoning

Zeyu Wang, Chang Liu, Eduardus Tjitrahardja +22

Despite extensive efforts on egocentric video datasets and benchmarks, understanding users' internal states, which is crucial for enabling seamless AI assistant experiences, remain…

cs.RO2026

OmniUMI: Towards Physically Grounded Robot Learning via Human-Aligned Multimodal Interaction

Shaqi Luo, Yuanyuan Li, Youhao Hu +7

UMI-style interfaces enable scalable robot learning, but existing systems remain largely visuomotor, relying primarily on RGB observations and trajectory while providing only limit…

cs.RO2026

FG-CLTP: Fine-Grained Contrastive Language Tactile Pretraining for Robotic Manipulation

Wenxuan Ma, Chaofan Zhang, Yinghao Cai +3

Recent advancements in integrating tactile sensing into vision-language-action (VLA) models have demonstrated transformative potential for robotic perception. However, existing tac…

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.RO2026

Scaling World Model for Hierarchical Manipulation Policies

Qian Long, Yueze Wang, Jiaxi Song +13

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models are promising for generalist robot manipulation but remain brittle in out-of-distribution (OOD) settings, especially with limited real-robot dat…

cs.RO2026

AnyTouch 2: General Optical Tactile Representation Learning For Dynamic Tactile Perception

Ruoxuan Feng, Yuxuan Zhou, Siyu Mei +6

Real-world contact-rich manipulation demands robots to perceive temporal tactile feedback, capture subtle surface deformations, and reason about object properties as well as force…

cs.RO2026

Scene2Demo: Self-Evolving Embodied Data Generation via Object-Action Graph

Xiang Liu, Sen Cui, Guocai Yao +4

We present Scene2Demo, an automated framework for offline embodied data generation. Given a single RGB scene image and a user query, Scene2Demo constructs an interactive simulated…

cs.RO2026

DECO: Decoupled Multimodal Diffusion Transformer for Bimanual Dexterous Manipulation with a Plugin Tactile Adapter

Xukun Li, Yu Sun, Lei Zhang +10

Bimanual dexterous manipulation relies on integrating multimodal inputs to perform complex real-world tasks. To address the challenges of effectively combining these modalities, we…

cs.RO2026

RoboBrain 2.5: Depth in Sight, Time in Mind

Huajie Tan, Enshen Zhou, Zhiyu Li +32

We introduce RoboBrain 2.5, a next-generation embodied AI foundation model that advances general perception, spatial reasoning, and temporal modeling through extensive training on…

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…

cs.RO2025

MOVE: A Simple Motion-Based Data Collection Paradigm for Spatial Generalization in Robotic Manipulation

Huanqian Wang, Chi Bene Chen, Yang Yue +7

Imitation learning method has shown immense promise for robotic manipulation, yet its practical deployment is fundamentally constrained by the data scarcity. Despite prior work on…