3 papers
cs.CV2026
Show, Don't Tell: Detecting Novel Objects by Watching Human Videos
James Akl, Jose Nicolas Avendano Arbelaez, James Barabas +16
How can a robot quickly identify and recognize new objects shown to it during a human demonstration? Existing closed-set object detectors frequently fail at this because the object…
cs.RO2026
NovaPlan: Zero-Shot Long-Horizon Manipulation via Closed-Loop Video Language Planning
Jiahui Fu, Junyu Nan, Lingfeng Sun +5
Solving long-horizon tasks requires robots to integrate high-level semantic reasoning with low-level physical interaction. While vision-language models (VLMs) and video generation…
cs.RO2025
NovaFlow: Zero-Shot Manipulation via Actionable Flow from Generated Videos
Hongyu Li, Lingfeng Sun, Yafei Hu +4
Enabling robots to execute novel manipulation tasks zero-shot is a central goal in robotics. Most existing methods assume in-distribution tasks or rely on fine-tuning with embodime…