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most citedNaVid: Video-based VLM Plans the Next Step for Vision-and-Language Navigation

2 citations · 4 across the 13 of their papers we have counts for

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16 papers

cs.RO2026

EgoJEPA: Beyond Retargeting for Dexterous Manipulation from Egocentric Videos

Meng Cao, Can Zhao, Jinjie Wei +12

Egocentric human videos offer a scalable alternative to costly robot demonstra- tions, yet transferring their manipulation priors to robot control remains chal- lenging. The common…

cs.RO2026

SurveilNav: Collaborative Object Goal Navigation with Robot and Surveillance System

Ming-Ming Yu, Qunbo Wang, Rongtao Xu +5

With the growing deployment of surveillance systems in factories, offices, and homes, integrating them with robots offers a promising direction for collaborative and efficient task…

cs.RO2026

Invertible Neural Network Adapter for One-Step Flow Matching in Robot Manipulation

Yu Zhang, Kangyi Ji, Yongxiang Zou +3

This paper presents an invertible neural network adapter for general robotic manipulation, designed to generate precise high-dimensional actions conditioned on multimodal observati…

cs.RO2026

RePO-VLA: Recovery-Driven Policy Optimization for Vision-Language-Action Models

Weijia Liufu, Xiaoyu Guo, Ruiyi Chen +16

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models remain brittle in long-horizon, contact-rich manipulation because success-only imitation provides little supervision for execution drift, while…

cs.RO2026

ManipArena: Comprehensive Real-world Evaluation of Reasoning-Oriented Generalist Robot Manipulation

Yu Sun, Meng Cao, Yang Ping +24

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models and world-action models have emerged as central paradigms for general-purpose robotic intelligence, yet their empirical progress remains constra…

cs.RO2025

GLaD: Geometric Latent Distillation for Vision-Language-Action Models

Minghao Guo, Meng Cao, Jiachen Tao +5

Most existing Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models rely primarily on RGB information, while ignoring geometric cues crucial for spatial reasoning and manipulation. In this work, we…

cs.CV2025

Seeing through Imagination: Learning Scene Geometry via Implicit Spatial World Modeling

Meng Cao, Haokun Lin, Haoyuan Li +6

Spatial reasoning, the ability to understand and interpret the 3D structure of the world, is a critical yet underdeveloped capability in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs). C…

cs.RO2025

PhyBlock: A Progressive Benchmark for Physical Understanding and Planning via 3D Block Assembly

Liang Ma, Jiajun Wen, Min Lin +12

While vision-language models (VLMs) have demonstrated promising capabilities in reasoning and planning for embodied agents, their ability to comprehend physical phenomena, particul…

cs.CV2025

EvolveNav: Empowering LLM-Based Vision-Language Navigation via Self-Improving Embodied Reasoning

Bingqian Lin, Yunshuang Nie, Khun Loun Zai +10

Recent studies have revealed the potential of training open-source Large Language Models (LLMs) to unleash LLMs' reasoning ability for enhancing vision-language navigation (VLN) pe…

cs.RO2025

RoBridge: A Hierarchical Architecture Bridging Cognition and Execution for General Robotic Manipulation

Kaidong Zhang, Rongtao Xu, Pengzhen Ren +4

Operating robots in open-ended scenarios with diverse tasks is a crucial research and application direction in robotics. While recent progress in natural language processing and la…

cs.RO2025

A0: An Affordance-Aware Hierarchical Model for General Robotic Manipulation

Rongtao Xu, Jian Zhang, Minghao Guo +11

Robotic manipulation faces critical challenges in understanding spatial affordances--the "where" and "how" of object interactions--essential for complex manipulation tasks like wip…

cs.CV2025

Structured Preference Optimization for Vision-Language Long-Horizon Task Planning

Xiwen Liang, Min Lin, Weiqi Ruan +6

Existing methods for vision-language task planning excel in short-horizon tasks but often fall short in complex, long-horizon planning within dynamic environments. These challenges…

cs.RO2024★ 1 cited

InfiniteWorld: A Unified Scalable Simulation Framework for General Visual-Language Robot Interaction

Pengzhen Ren, Min Li, Zhen Luo +15

Realizing scaling laws in embodied AI has become a focus. However, previous work has been scattered across diverse simulation platforms, with assets and models lacking unified inte…

cs.RO2024

Constraint-Aware Zero-Shot Vision-Language Navigation in Continuous Environments

Kehan Chen, Dong An, Yan Huang +5

We address the task of Vision-Language Navigation in Continuous Environments (VLN-CE) under the zero-shot setting. Zero-shot VLN-CE is particularly challenging due to the absence o…

cs.RO2024★ 1 cited

InstruGen: Automatic Instruction Generation for Vision-and-Language Navigation Via Large Multimodal Models

Yu Yan, Rongtao Xu, Jiazhao Zhang +3

Recent research on Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) indicates that agents suffer from poor generalization in unseen environments due to the lack of realistic training environme…

cs.CV2024★ 2 cited

NaVid: Video-based VLM Plans the Next Step for Vision-and-Language Navigation

Jiazhao Zhang, Kunyu Wang, Rongtao Xu +6

Vision-and-language navigation (VLN) stands as a key research problem of Embodied AI, aiming at enabling agents to navigate in unseen environments following linguistic instructions…