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Open-world object manipulation remains a fundamental challenge in robotics. While Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have demonstrated promising results, they rely heavily on large-scale robot action demonstrations, which are costly to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Xiaotong Li , Gang Chen , Javier Alonso-Mora

Humans and animals can learn new skills after practicing for a few hours, while current reinforcement learning algorithms require a large amount of data to achieve good performances. Recent model-based approaches show promising results by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Cristiano Capone , Pier Stanislao Paolucci

Recent advancements in foundational models, such as large language models and world models, have greatly enhanced the capabilities of robotics, enabling robots to autonomously perform complex tasks. However, acquiring large-scale,…

Robot learning approaches such as behavior cloning and reinforcement learning have shown great promise in synthesizing robot skills from human demonstrations in specific environments. However, these approaches often require task-specific…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Arthur Bucker , Pablo Ortega-Kral , Jonathan Francis , Jean Oh

The evolution and growing automation of collaborative robots introduce more complexity and unpredictability to systems, highlighting the crucial need for robot's adaptability and flexibility to address the increasing complexities of their…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Yuzhu Sun , Mien Van , Stephen McIlvanna , Nguyen Minh Nhat , Kabirat Olayemi , Jack Close , Seán McLoone

Imitation can allow us to quickly gain an understanding of a new task. Through a demonstration, we can gain direct knowledge about which actions need to be performed and which goals they have. In this paper, we introduce a new approach to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Josua Spisak , Matthias Kerzel , Stefan Wermter

Humans leverage rich internal models of the world to reason about the future, imagine counterfactuals, and adapt flexibly to new situations. In Reinforcement Learning (RL), world models aim to capture how the environment evolves in response…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Léopold Maytié , Roland Bertin Johannet , Rufin VanRullen

World models learn the consequences of actions in vision-based interactive systems. However, in practical scenarios such as autonomous driving, there commonly exists noncontrollable dynamics independent of the action signals, making it…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Minting Pan , Xiangming Zhu , Yunbo Wang , Xiaokang Yang

World models learn general knowledge from videos and simulate experience for training behaviors in imagination, offering a path towards intelligent agents. However, previous world models have been unable to accurately predict object…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Danijar Hafner , Wilson Yan , Timothy Lillicrap

World models power some of the most efficient reinforcement learning algorithms. In this work, we showcase that they can be harnessed for continual learning - a situation when the agent faces changing environments. World models typically…

Painting is an artistic process of rendering visual content that achieves the high-level communication goals of an artist that may change dynamically throughout the creative process. In this paper, we present a Framework and Robotics…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Peter Schaldenbrand , James McCann , Jean Oh

A seamless integration of robots into human environments requires robots to learn how to use existing human tools. Current approaches for learning tool manipulation skills mostly rely on expert demonstrations provided in the target robot…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-11-08 Kateryna Zorina , Justin Carpentier , Josef Sivic , Vladimír Petrík

World models have demonstrated impressive performance on robotic learning tasks. Many such tasks inherently demand multimodal reasoning; for example, filling a bottle with water will lead to visual information alone being ambiguous or…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Fan Zhang , Michael Gienger

Robots are required to autonomously respond to changing situations. Imitation learning is a promising candidate for achieving generalization performance, and extensive results have been demonstrated in object manipulation. However,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-01-21 Ayumu Sasagawa , Kazuki Fujimoto , Sho Sakaino , Toshiaki Tsuji

Text-to-video models have demonstrated substantial potential in robotic decision-making, enabling the imagination of realistic plans of future actions as well as accurate environment simulation. However, one major issue in such models is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Siyuan Zhou , Yilun Du , Jiaben Chen , Yandong Li , Dit-Yan Yeung , Chuang Gan

A key challenge in intelligent robotics is creating robots that are capable of directly interacting with the world around them to achieve their goals. The last decade has seen substantial growth in research on the problem of robot…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Oliver Kroemer , Scott Niekum , George Konidaris

Recent advances in vision-language-action (VLA) models have shown promise in integrating image generation with action prediction to improve generalization and reasoning in robot manipulation. However, existing methods are limited to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Wenyao Zhang , Hongsi Liu , Zekun Qi , Yunnan Wang , Xinqiang Yu , Jiazhao Zhang , Runpei Dong , Jiawei He , Fan Lu , He Wang , Zhizheng Zhang , Li Yi , Wenjun Zeng , Xin Jin

Training agents to act in embodied environments typically requires vast training data or access to accurate simulation, neither of which exists for many cases in the real world. Instead, world models are emerging as an alternative…

Large language models (LLMs) have emerged as the dominant paradigm for robotic task planning using natural language instructions. However, trained on general internet data, LLMs are not inherently aligned with the embodiment, skill sets,…

A key challenge in manipulation is learning a policy that can robustly generalize to diverse visual environments. A promising mechanism for learning robust policies is to leverage video generative models, which are pretrained on large-scale…