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Language provides a way to break down complex concepts into digestible pieces. Recent works in robot imitation learning use language-conditioned policies that predict actions given visual observations and the high-level task specified in…

Recent works have shown that Large Language Models (LLMs) can be applied to ground natural language to a wide variety of robot skills. However, in practice, learning multi-task, language-conditioned robotic skills typically requires…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-09 Oier Mees , Jessica Borja-Diaz , Wolfram Burgard

Planning over unstructured terrain presents a significant challenge in the field of legged robotics. Although recent works in reinforcement learning have yielded various locomotion strategies, planning over multiple experts remains a…

Large Language Models (LLMs) present a promising frontier in robotic task planning by leveraging extensive human knowledge. Nevertheless, the current literature often overlooks the critical aspects of robots' adaptability and error…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Sthithpragya Gupta , Kunpeng Yao , Loïc Niederhauser , Aude Billard

Large Language Models (LLMs) have gained popularity in task planning for long-horizon manipulation tasks. To enhance the validity of LLM-generated plans, visual demonstrations and online videos have been widely employed to guide the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Kejia Chen , Zheng Shen , Yue Zhang , Lingyun Chen , Fan Wu , Zhenshan Bing , Sami Haddadin , Alois Knoll

Enabling machines to respond appropriately to natural language commands could greatly expand the number of people to whom they could be of service. Recently, advances in neural network-trained word embeddings have empowered non-embodied…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-02 David Matthews , Sam Kriegman , Collin Cappelle , Josh Bongard

This paper investigates robot manipulation based on human instruction with ambiguous requests. The intent is to compensate for imperfect natural language via visual observations. Early symbolic methods, based on manually defined symbols,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Ruinian Xu , Hongyi Chen , Yunzhi Lin , Patricio A. Vela

Behavioral skills or policies for autonomous agents are conventionally learned from reward functions, via reinforcement learning, or from demonstrations, via imitation learning. However, both modes of task specification have their…

Long-horizon robotic manipulation requires plans that are both logically coherent and geometrically grounded. Existing Vision-Language-Action policies usually hide planning in latent states or expose only one modality: text-only…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Jinkun Liu , Haohan Chi , Lingfeng Zhang , Yifan Xie , YuAn Wang , Long Chen , Hangjun Ye , Xiaoshuai Hao , Wenbo Ding

High-level human instructions often correspond to behaviors with multiple implicit steps. In order for robots to be useful in the real world, they must be able to to reason over both motions and intermediate goals implied by human…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-03-21 Chris Paxton , Yonatan Bisk , Jesse Thomason , Arunkumar Byravan , Dieter Fox

Recent vision-language-action (VLA) systems have demonstrated strong capabilities in embodied manipulation. However, most existing VLA policies rely on limited observation windows and end-to-end action prediction, which makes them brittle…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Zhen Liu , Xinyu Ning , Zhe Hu , Xinxin Xie , Weize Li , Zhipeng Tang , Chongyu Wang , Zejun Yang , Hanlin Wang , Yitong Liu , Zhongzhu Pu

Language-guided long-horizon mobile manipulation has long been a grand challenge in embodied semantic reasoning, generalizable manipulation, and adaptive locomotion. Three fundamental limitations hinder progress: First, although large…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Kaijun Wang , Liqin Lu , Mingyu Liu , Jianuo Jiang , Zeju Li , Bolin Zhang , Wancai Zheng , Xinyi Yu , Hao Chen , Chunhua Shen

Recent advances in legged locomotion learning are still dominated by the utilization of geometric representations of the environment, limiting the robot's capability to respond to higher-level semantics such as human instructions. To…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-12 I Made Aswin Nahrendra , Seunghyun Lee , Dongkyu Lee , Hyun Myung

Adjusting robot behavior to human preferences can require intensive human feedback, preventing quick adaptation to new users and changing circumstances. Moreover, current approaches typically treat user preferences as a reward, which…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Jakob Thumm , Christopher Agia , Marco Pavone , Matthias Althoff

Cognitive planning is the structural decomposition of complex tasks into a sequence of future behaviors. In the computational setting, performing cognitive planning entails grounding plans and concepts in one or more modalities in order to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Maria Attarian , Advaya Gupta , Ziyi Zhou , Wei Yu , Igor Gilitschenski , Animesh Garg

In order to solve complex, long-horizon tasks, intelligent robots need to carry out high-level, abstract planning and reasoning in conjunction with motion planning. However, abstract models are typically lossy and plans or policies computed…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-05-27 Naman Shah , Siddharth Srivastava

World models are becoming central to robotic planning and control as they enable prediction of future state transitions. Existing approaches often emphasize video generation or natural-language prediction, which are difficult to ground in…

While Large Language Models (LLM) enable non-experts to specify open-world multi-robot tasks, the generated plans often lack kinematic feasibility and are not efficient, especially in long-horizon scenarios. Formal methods like Linear…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Shuyuan Hu , Tao Lin , Kai Ye , Yang Yang , Tianwei Zhang

We present a framework for building interactive, real-time, natural language-instructable robots in the real world, and we open source related assets (dataset, environment, benchmark, and policies). Trained with behavioral cloning on a…

Bimanual robotic manipulation provides significant versatility, but also presents an inherent challenge due to the complexity involved in the spatial and temporal coordination between two hands. Existing works predominantly focus on…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Kun Chu , Xufeng Zhao , Cornelius Weber , Stefan Wermter