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20242026
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9 papers

cs.RO2026

Data Pyramid for Embodied Manipulation: A Survey

Yifan Ye, Yankai Fu, Yaoxu Lv +26

Multimodal foundation models learned to see and to speak by consuming the whole internet. Embodied agents admit no such shortcut, since they require data that couple observations w…

cs.AI2026

LABSHIELD: A Multimodal Benchmark for Safety-Critical Reasoning and Planning in Scientific Laboratories

Qianpu Sun, Xiaowei Chi, Yuhan Rui +5

Artificial intelligence is increasingly catalyzing scientific automation, with multimodal large language model (MLLM) agents evolving from lab assistants into self-driving lab oper…

cs.RO2026

TC-IDM: Grounding Video Generation for Executable Zero-shot Robot Motion

Weishi Mi, Yong Bao, Xiaowei Chi +7

The vision-language-action (VLA) paradigm has enabled powerful robotic control by leveraging vision-language models, but its reliance on large-scale, high-quality robot data limits…

cs.CV2026

PhysicsMind: Sim and Real Mechanics Benchmarking for Physical Reasoning and Prediction in Foundational VLMs and World Models

Chak-Wing Mak, Guanyu Zhu, Boyi Zhang +16

Modern foundational Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) and video world models have advanced significantly in mathematical, common-sense, and visual reasoning, but their grasp…

cs.RO2026

Wow, wo, val! A Comprehensive Embodied World Model Evaluation Turing Test

Chun-Kai Fan, Xiaowei Chi, Xiaozhu Ju +18

As world models gain momentum in Embodied AI, an increasing number of works explore using video foundation models as predictive world models for downstream embodied tasks like 3D p…

cs.RO2025

WoW: Towards a World omniscient World model Through Embodied Interaction

Xiaowei Chi, Peidong Jia, Chun-Kai Fan +33

Humans develop an understanding of intuitive physics through active interaction with the world. This approach is in stark contrast to current video models, such as Sora, which rely…