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Object manipulation for rearrangement into a specific goal state is a significant task for collaborative robots. Accurately determining object placement is a key challenge, as misalignment can increase task complexity and the risk of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Guanqun Cao , Ryan Mckenna , Erich Graf , John Oyekan

Adapting robot trajectories based on human instructions as per new situations is essential for achieving more intuitive and scalable human-robot interactions. This work proposes a flexible language-based framework to adapt generic robotic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Anurag Maurya , Tashmoy Ghosh , Ravi Prakash

Current reinforcement learning algorithms struggle in sparse and complex environments, most notably in long-horizon manipulation tasks entailing a plethora of different sequences. In this work, we propose the Intrinsically Guided…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Eleftherios Triantafyllidis , Filippos Christianos , Zhibin Li

Leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs) to write policy code for controlling robots has gained significant attention. However, in long-horizon implicative tasks, this approach often results in API parameter, comments and sequencing errors,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Zixi Jia , Hongbin Gao , Fashe Li , Jiqiang Liu , Hexiao Li , Qinghua Liu

A robot in a human-centric environment needs to account for the human's intent and future motion in its task and motion planning to ensure safe and effective operation. This requires symbolic reasoning about probable future actions and the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Moritz A. Graule , Volkan Isler

Vision Language Models (VLMs) play a crucial role in robotic manipulation by enabling robots to understand and interpret the visual properties of objects and their surroundings, allowing them to perform manipulation based on this multimodal…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Nurhan Bulus Guran , Hanchi Ren , Jingjing Deng , Xianghua Xie

The rapid advancement of Large Language Models (LLMs) has opened new possibilities in Multi-Robot Systems (MRS), enabling enhanced communication, task allocation and planning, and human-robot interaction. Unlike traditional single-robot and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Peihan Li , Zijian An , Shams Abrar , Lifeng Zhou

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

The convergence of embodied agents and large language models (LLMs) has brought significant advancements to embodied instruction following. Particularly, the strong reasoning capabilities of LLMs make it possible for robots to perform…

Foundation models like Vision-Language Models (VLMs) excel at common sense vision and language tasks such as visual question answering. However, they cannot yet directly solve complex, long-horizon robot manipulation problems requiring…

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

The use of Large Language Models (LLMs) for generating Behavior Trees (BTs) has recently gained attention in the robotics community, yet remains in its early stages of development. In this paper, we propose a novel framework that leverages…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-13 Naoki Wake , Atsushi Kanehira , Jun Takamatsu , Kazuhiro Sasabuchi , Katsushi Ikeuchi

We present a framework for solving long-horizon planning problems involving manipulation of rigid objects that operates directly from a point-cloud observation, i.e. without prior object models. Our method plans in the space of object…

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

Large Language Models (LLMs) and Vision Language Models (VLMs) have become popular tools for embodied high-level planning. However, their deployment in black-box settings often leads to unpredictable or costly errors. To harness their…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Hao Wang , Sathwik Karnik , Bea Lim , Somil Bansal

Large Language Models (LLMs) and strong vision models have enabled rapid research and development in the field of Vision-Language-Action models that enable robotic control. The main objective of these methods is to develop a generalist…

This paper presents an innovative large language model (LLM)-based robotic system for enhancing multi-modal human-robot interaction (HRI). Traditional HRI systems relied on complex designs for intent estimation, reasoning, and behavior…

The ability to wield tools was once considered exclusive to human intelligence, but it's now known that many other animals, like crows, possess this capability. Yet, robotic systems still fall short of matching biological dexterity. In this…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Hoi-Yin Lee , Peng Zhou , Anqing Duan , Wanyu Ma , Chenguang Yang , David Navarro-Alarcon

With the rapid advancement of artificial intelligence, there is an increasing demand for intelligent robots capable of assisting humans in daily tasks and performing complex operations. Such robots not only require task planning…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Huihui Guo , Huilong Pi , Yunchuan Qin , Zhuo Tang , Kenli Li

The control of robots for manipulation tasks generally relies on visual input. Recent advances in vision-language models (VLMs) enable the use of natural language instructions to condition visual input and control robots in a wider range of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Chenglin Cui , Chaoran Zhu , Changjae Oh , Andrea Cavallaro