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Training-free Behavior Cloning
Maximilian Adang, Timothy Chen, Lars Osterberg +2
Neural behavior cloning compresses demonstrations into large models, making individual actions difficult to trace and policy updates costly. Retrieval policies retain access to dem…
InSight: Self-Guided Skill Acquisition via Steerable VLAs
Maggie Wang, Lars Osterberg, Stephen Tian +5
Vision-language-action (VLA) models excel at robot manipulation via imitation learning, but adapting them to new tasks often requires additional human demonstrations, which can be…
Transformer-Based Warm-Starting for Feasible and Optimal Terminal Approach to Tumbling Objects with Space Manipulators
Yuji Takubo, Maximilian Adang, Mac Schwager +1
Autonomous capture of a tumbling object with a space manipulator requires trajectory generation under real-time onboard constraints. However, coupled bus-arm dynamics, rotating saf…
Robots Need More than VLA and World Models
Elis Karcini, Faisal Mehrban, Quang Nguyen +6
Generalist robot intelligence is often framed as a policy-scaling problem: collect more robot demonstrations, train larger Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models, and expect broader g…
, But Make It Fly: Physics-Guided Transfer of VLA Models to Aerial Manipulation
Johnathan Tucker, Denis Liu, Aiden Swann +7
Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models such as have demonstrated remarkable generalization across diverse fixed-base manipulators. However, transferring these foundation models…
Foundational World Models Accurately Detect Bimanual Manipulator Failures
Isaac R. Ward, Michelle Ho, Houjun Liu +7
Deploying visuomotor robots at scale is challenging due to the potential for anomalous failures to degrade performance, cause damage, or endanger human life. Bimanual manipulators…
Sparse Autoencoders Reveal Interpretable and Steerable Features in VLA Models
Aiden Swann, Lachlain McGranahan, Hugo Buurmeijer +2
Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have emerged as a promising approach for general-purpose robot manipulation. However, little research has mechanistically explored when and why…