most citedA Survey on Robotics with Foundation Models: toward Embodied AI

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cs.RO2025

ObjectVLA: End-to-End Open-World Object Manipulation Without Demonstration

Minjie Zhu, Yichen Zhu, Jinming Li +6

Imitation learning has proven to be highly effective in teaching robots dexterous manipulation skills. However, it typically relies on large amounts of human demonstration data, wh…

cs.RO2025

DexVLA: Vision-Language Model with Plug-In Diffusion Expert for General Robot Control

Junjie Wen, Yichen Zhu, Jinming Li +3

Enabling robots to perform diverse tasks across varied environments is a central challenge in robot learning. While vision-language-action (VLA) models have shown promise for gener…

cs.RO2024★ 1 cited

CoA-VLA: Improving Vision-Language-Action Models via Visual-Textual Chain-of-Affordance

Jinming Li, Yichen Zhu, Zhibin Tang +8

Robot foundation models, particularly Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models, have garnered significant attention for their ability to enhance robot policy learning, greatly improving…

cs.RO2024★ 1 cited

Diffusion-VLA: Generalizable and Interpretable Robot Foundation Model via Self-Generated Reasoning

Junjie Wen, Minjie Zhu, Yichen Zhu +8

In this paper, we present DiffusionVLA, a novel framework that seamlessly combines the autoregression model with the diffusion model for learning visuomotor policy. Central to our…

cs.RO2024

Discrete Policy: Learning Disentangled Action Space for Multi-Task Robotic Manipulation

Kun Wu, Yichen Zhu, Jinming Li +4

Learning visuomotor policy for multi-task robotic manipulation has been a long-standing challenge for the robotics community. The difficulty lies in the diversity of action space:…

cs.RO2024

Scaling Diffusion Policy in Transformer to 1 Billion Parameters for Robotic Manipulation

Minjie Zhu, Yichen Zhu, Jinming Li +8

Diffusion Policy is a powerful technique tool for learning end-to-end visuomotor robot control. It is expected that Diffusion Policy possesses scalability, a key attribute for deep…

cs.RO2024★ 3 cited

TinyVLA: Towards Fast, Data-Efficient Vision-Language-Action Models for Robotic Manipulation

Junjie Wen, Yichen Zhu, Jinming Li +9

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have shown remarkable potential in visuomotor control and instruction comprehension through end-to-end learning processes. However, current VLA…

cs.RO2024

MMRo: Are Multimodal LLMs Eligible as the Brain for In-Home Robotics?

Jinming Li, Yichen Zhu, Zhiyuan Xu +7

It is fundamentally challenging for robots to serve as useful assistants in human environments because this requires addressing a spectrum of sub-problems across robotics, includin…

cs.RO2024★ 4 cited

A Survey on Robotics with Foundation Models: toward Embodied AI

Zhiyuan Xu, Kun Wu, Junjie Wen +4

While the exploration for embodied AI has spanned multiple decades, it remains a persistent challenge to endow agents with human-level intelligence, including perception, learning,…

cs.RO2024

Language-Conditioned Robotic Manipulation with Fast and Slow Thinking

Minjie Zhu, Yichen Zhu, Jinming Li +8

The language-conditioned robotic manipulation aims to transfer natural language instructions into executable actions, from simple pick-and-place to tasks requiring intent recogniti…

cs.RO2024

Object-Centric Instruction Augmentation for Robotic Manipulation

Junjie Wen, Yichen Zhu, Minjie Zhu +8

Humans interpret scenes by recognizing both the identities and positions of objects in their observations. For a robot to perform tasks such as \enquote{pick and place}, understand…

cs.RO2024

Visual Robotic Manipulation with Depth-Aware Pretraining

Wanying Wang, Jinming Li, Yichen Zhu +7

Recent work on visual representation learning has shown to be efficient for robotic manipulation tasks. However, most existing works pretrained the visual backbone solely on 2D ima…

cs.RO2024★ 1 cited

Learning from Imperfect Demonstrations with Self-Supervision for Robotic Manipulation

Kun Wu, Ning Liu, Zhen Zhao +5

Improving data utilization, especially for imperfect data from task failures, is crucial for robotic manipulation due to the challenging, time-consuming, and expensive data collect…