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Robots assisting us in environments such as factories or homes must learn to make use of objects as tools to perform tasks, for instance using a tray to carry objects. We consider the problem of learning commonsense knowledge of when a tool…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Shreshth Tuli , Rajas Bansal , Rohan Paul , Mausam

To reduce issues like hallucinations and lack of control in Large Language Models (LLMs), a common method is to generate responses by grounding on external contexts given as input, known as knowledge-augmented models. However, previous…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Hyunji Lee , Sejune Joo , Chaeeun Kim , Joel Jang , Doyoung Kim , Kyoung-Woon On , Minjoon Seo

Language models (LMs) have demonstrated their capability in possessing commonsense knowledge of the physical world, a crucial aspect of performing tasks in everyday life. However, it remains unclear **whether LMs have the capacity to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Bill Yuchen Lin , Chengsong Huang , Qian Liu , Wenda Gu , Sam Sommerer , Xiang Ren

Spatial reasoning from monocular images is essential for autonomous driving, yet current Vision-Language Models (VLMs) still struggle with fine-grained geometric perception, particularly under large scale variation and ambiguous object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Yanchun Cheng , Rundong Wang , Xulei Yang , Alok Prakash , Daniela Rus , Marcelo H Ang , ShiJie Li

Recent approaches to zero-shot commonsense reasoning have enabled Pre-trained Language Models (PLMs) to learn a broad range of commonsense knowledge without being tailored to specific situations. However, they often suffer from human…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Hyuntae Park , Yeachan Kim , Jun-Hyung Park , SangKeun Lee

Humans understand the world through the integration of multiple sensory modalities, enabling them to perceive, reason about, and imagine dynamic physical processes. Inspired by this capability, multimodal foundation models (MFMs) have…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Xuehai He

Despite significant progress in multimodal language models (LMs), it remains unclear whether visual grounding enhances their understanding of embodied knowledge compared to text-only models. To address this question, we propose a novel…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Zhihui Yang , Yupei Wang , Kaijie Mo , Zhe Zhao , Renfen Hu

Grounding object affordance is fundamental to robotic manipulation as it establishes the critical link between perception and action among interacting objects. However, prior works predominantly focus on predicting single-object affordance,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Tongxuan Tian , Xuhui Kang , Yen-Ling Kuo

Intelligent agents must autonomously interact with the environments to perform daily tasks based on human-level instructions. They need a foundational understanding of the world to accurately interpret these instructions, along with precise…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Zhen Wu , Jiaman Li , Pei Xu , C. Karen Liu

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have shown impressive reasoning abilities and general intelligence in various domains. It inspires researchers to train end-to-end MLLMs or utilize large models to generate policies with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Qi Lv , Hao Li , Xiang Deng , Rui Shao , Michael Yu Wang , Liqiang Nie

Object manipulation is a basic element in everyday human lives. Robotic manipulation has progressed from maneuvering single-rigid-body objects with firm grasping to maneuvering soft objects and handling contact-rich actions. Meanwhile,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-08-18 Leidi Zhao , Raheem Lawhorn , Siddharth Patil , Steve Susanibar , Lu Lu , Cong Wang , Bo Ouyang

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) exhibit strong visual-language reasoning, yet cannot process structured, non-visual data such as human skeletons. Existing methods either compress skeleton dynamics into lossy feature vectors for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Ziyi Wang , Peiming Li , Xinshun Wang , Yang Tang , Kai-Kuang Ma , Mengyuan Liu

Humans have the remarkable ability to use held objects as tools to interact with their environment. For this to occur, humans internally estimate how hand movements affect the object's movement. We wish to endow robots with this capability.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Weiming Zhi , Haozhan Tang , Tianyi Zhang , Matthew Johnson-Roberson

Learning to infer labels in an open world, i.e., in an environment where the target "labels" are unknown, is an important characteristic for achieving autonomy. Foundation models pre-trained on enormous amounts of data have shown remarkable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Sanjoy Kundu , Shubham Trehan , Sathyanarayanan N. Aakur

The proliferation of Large Language Models (LLMs) has s fueled a shift in robot learning from automation towards general embodied Artificial Intelligence (AI). Adopting foundation models together with traditional learning methods to robot…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Xuan Xiao , Jiahang Liu , Zhipeng Wang , Yanmin Zhou , Yong Qi , Qian Cheng , Bin He , Shuo Jiang

Humans possess spatial reasoning abilities that enable them to understand spaces through multimodal observations, such as vision and sound. Large multimodal reasoning models extend these abilities by learning to perceive and reason, showing…

This paper presents a system called Robo-CSK-Organizer that infuses commonsense knowledge from a classical knowledge based to enhance the context recognition capabilities of robots so as to facilitate the organization of detected objects by…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Rafael Hidalgo , Jesse Parron , Aparna S. Varde , Weitian Wang

Robots should exist anywhere humans do: indoors, outdoors, and even unmapped environments. In contrast, the focus of recent advancements in Object Goal Navigation(OGN) has targeted navigating in indoor environments by leveraging spatial and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-03 Quanting Xie , Tianyi Zhang , Kedi Xu , Matthew Johnson-Roberson , Yonatan Bisk

Language is a ubiquitous tool that is foundational to reasoning and collaboration, ranging from everyday interactions to sophisticated problem-solving tasks. The establishment of a common language can serve as a powerful asset in ensuring…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Dom Huh , Prasant Mohapatra

Automating activities through robots in unstructured environments, such as construction sites, has been a long-standing desire. However, the high degree of unpredictable events in these settings has resulted in far less adoption compared to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Hossein Naderi , Alireza Shojaei , Lifu Huang