2 papers
cs.CL2026
LabVLA: Grounding Vision-Language-Action Models in Scientific Laboratories
Baochang Ren, Xinjie Liu, Xi Chen +15
Scientific laboratories increasingly rely on AI systems to reason about experiments, but the physical act of doing science remains largely outside their reach. AI can help read lit…
cs.RO2026
From Passive Observer to Active Critic: Reinforcement Learning Elicits Process Reasoning for Robotic Manipulation
Yibin Liu, Yaxing Lyu, Daqi Gao +5
Accurate process supervision remains a critical challenge for long-horizon robotic manipulation. A primary bottleneck is that current video MLLMs, trained primarily under a Supervi…