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cs.RO2026

Uni-PNP: Unified Prehensile and Non-prehensile Policy Learning for Generalizable Object Pose Reaching

Wenxuan Zhu, Yuze Wang, Jiangran Lyu +6

Object manipulation often requires combining non-prehensile actions with grasping. However, existing approaches typically develop these capabilities separately and integrate them b…

cs.RO2026

Systematically Exploring the Capabilities of GPT-6 Astra as Embodied Policies

Galbot Team, Xuchuan Chen, Xiaoqian Cheng +31

GPT-6 Astra exhibits a remarkable ability to generate numerical robot actions, extending its role beyond high-level planning. To assess Astra's capabilities as general-purpose embo…

cs.RO2026

DualWAM: Dual-System World Action Models for Asynchronous Global Planning and Local Refinement

Yixin Zheng, Jiangran Lyu, Yuntian Deng +6

World Action Models (WAMs) jointly generate robot actions and predict future world states, transferring priors from video pretraining to robot control. However, future visual predi…

cs.RO2026

GIF: Agentic Generation of Interactive and Functional Object Compositions for Robot Learning

Long Xu, Zhiqi Zhang, Mi Yan +8

Robot manipulation foundation models require scalable evaluation and data generation across diverse scenarios, with simulation providing an environment for both. Automated scene ge…

cs.RO2026

ZETA: A Controlled Study of Zero-Shot Cross-Embodiment VLA Transfer for Tabletop Manipulation

Mi Yan, Wenhao Zhang, Zhiqi Zhang +14

Zero-shot generalization to unseen embodiments is important for generalizable vision-language-action (VLA) models as robot hardware evolves and task-specific data collection remain…

cs.RO2026

WAM-TTT: Steering World-Action Models by Watching Human Play at Test Time

Yusen Feng, Bingchen Han, Jiangran Lyu +13

Steering robot foundation models (RFMs) toward new task variants or user-preferred behaviors remains challenging, often requiring additional robot demonstrations, task-specific fin…

cs.RO2026

AllDayNav: Lifelong Navigation via Real-World Reinforcement Learning

Hang Yin, Yinan Liang, Jiazhao Zhang +4

Lifelong embodied navigation in dynamic environments requires robots to form persistent scene understanding from fragmentary observations, which remains difficult for existing meth…

cs.RO2026

MobiGuide: Vocabulary-Guided Online Recovery for Mobile Manipulation

Jia Syuen Lim, Zhizhen Zhang, Peter Bohm +3

A central challenge in mobile manipulation is preserving multiple plausible action modes while remaining reactive during execution. For example, grasping a bottle in a cluttered sc…

cs.RO2026

NavGSim: High-Fidelity Gaussian Splatting Simulator for Large-Scale Navigation

Jiahang Liu, Yuanxing Duan, Jiazhao Zhang +4

Simulating realistic environments for robots is widely recognized as a critical challenge in robot learning, particularly in terms of rendering and physical simulation. This challe…

cs.RO2026

SPAN-Nav: Generalized Spatial Awareness for Versatile Embodied Navigation

Jiahang Liu, Tianyu Xu, Jiawei Chen +9

Recent embodied navigation approaches leveraging Vision-Language Models (VLMs) demonstrate strong generalization in versatile Vision-Language Navigation (VLN). However, reliable pa…

cs.RO2026

Emerging Extrinsic Dexterity in Cluttered Scenes via Dynamics-aware Policy Learning

Yixin Zheng, Jiangran Lyu, Yifan Zhang +8

Extrinsic dexterity leverages environmental contact to overcome the limitations of prehensile manipulation. However, achieving such dexterity in cluttered scenes remains challengin…

cs.RO2026

LDA-1B: Scaling Latent Dynamics Action Model via Universal Embodied Data Ingestion

Jiangran Lyu, Kai Liu, Xuheng Zhang +20

Recent robot foundation models largely rely on large-scale behavior cloning, which imitates expert actions but discards transferable dynamics knowledge embedded in heterogeneous em…

cs.RO2025

StereoVLA: Enhancing Vision-Language-Action Models with Stereo Vision

Shengliang Deng, Mi Yan, Yixin Zheng +7

While Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models excel in generalist manipulation, they often lack fine-grained spatial awareness and show limited viewpoint robustness. This limitation la…

cs.RO2025

UrbanVLA: A Vision-Language-Action Model for Urban Micromobility

Anqi Li, Zhiyong Wang, Jiazhao Zhang +5

Urban micromobility applications, such as delivery robots, demand reliable navigation across large-scale urban environments while following long-horizon route instructions. This ta…

cs.RO2025

TrackVLA++: Unleashing Reasoning and Memory Capabilities in VLA Models for Embodied Visual Tracking

Jiahang Liu, Yunpeng Qi, Jiazhao Zhang +9

Embodied Visual Tracking (EVT) is a fundamental ability that underpins practical applications, such as companion robots, guidance robots and service assistants, where continuously…

cs.RO2025

MM-Nav: Multi-View VLA Model for Robust Visual Navigation via Multi-Expert Learning

Tianyu Xu, Jiawei Chen, Jiazhao Zhang +5

Visual navigation policy is widely regarded as a promising direction, as it mimics humans by using egocentric visual observations for navigation. However, optical information of vi…

cs.RO2025

Embodied Navigation Foundation Model

Jiazhao Zhang, Anqi Li, Yunpeng Qi +14

Navigation is a fundamental capability in embodied AI, representing the intelligence required to perceive and interact within physical environments following language instructions.…

cs.RO2025

CLAR: Learning 3D Representations for Robotic Manipulation by Fusing Masked Reconstruction with Multi-Level Contrastive Alignment

Wenbo Cui, Chengyang Zhao, Yuhui Chen +4

The spatial information inherent in 3D point clouds is crucial for robotic manipulation. However, existing 3D pre-training methods face a fundamental trade-off: Masked Autoencoding…

cs.RO2025

TrackVLA: Embodied Visual Tracking in the Wild

Shaoan Wang, Jiazhao Zhang, Minghan Li +7

Embodied visual tracking is a fundamental skill in Embodied AI, enabling an agent to follow a specific target in dynamic environments using only egocentric vision. This task is inh…

cs.RO2025

GraspVLA: a Grasping Foundation Model Pre-trained on Billion-scale Synthetic Action Data

Shengliang Deng, Mi Yan, Songlin Wei +10

Embodied foundation models are gaining increasing attention for their zero-shot generalization, scalability, and adaptability to new tasks through few-shot post-training. However,…

cs.RO2025

FetchBot: Learning Generalizable Object Fetching in Cluttered Scenes via Zero-Shot Sim2Real

Weiheng Liu, Yuxuan Wan, Jilong Wang +7

Generalizable object fetching in cluttered scenes remains a fundamental and application-critical challenge in embodied AI. Closely packed objects cause inevitable occlusions, makin…

cs.RO2025

SoFar: Language-Grounded Orientation Bridges Spatial Reasoning and Object Manipulation

Zekun Qi, Wenyao Zhang, Yufei Ding +15

While spatial reasoning has made progress in object localization relationships, it often overlooks object orientation-a key factor in 6-DoF fine-grained manipulation. Traditional p…

cs.RO2024★ 2 cited

Uni-NaVid: A Video-based Vision-Language-Action Model for Unifying Embodied Navigation Tasks

Jiazhao Zhang, Kunyu Wang, Shaoan Wang +6

A practical navigation agent must be capable of handling a wide range of interaction demands, such as following instructions, searching objects, answering questions, tracking peopl…

cs.RO2024

Code-as-Monitor: Constraint-aware Visual Programming for Reactive and Proactive Robotic Failure Detection

Enshen Zhou, Qi Su, Cheng Chi +5

Automatic detection and prevention of open-set failures are crucial in closed-loop robotic systems. Recent studies often struggle to simultaneously identify unexpected failures rea…