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In this paper we present a neurosymbolic architecture for coupling language-guided visual reasoning with robot manipulation. A non-expert human user can prompt the robot using unconstrained natural language, providing a referring expression…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Georgios Tziafas , Hamidreza Kasaei

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models leverage pretrained vision-language models (VLMs) to couple perception with robotic control, offering a promising path toward general-purpose embodied intelligence. However, current SOTA VLAs are…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Yandu Chen , Kefan Gu , Yuqing Wen , Yucheng Zhao , Tiancai Wang , Liqiang Nie

Training end-to-end policies from image data to directly predict navigation actions for robotic systems has proven inherently difficult. Existing approaches often suffer from either the sim-to-real gap during policy transfer or a limited…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Lazar Milikic , Manthan Patel , Jonas Frey

Traditional control and planning for robotic manipulation heavily rely on precise physical models and predefined action sequences. While effective in structured environments, such approaches often fail in real-world scenarios due to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Jin Wang , Weijie Wang , Boyuan Deng , Heng Zhang , Rui Dai , Nikos Tsagarakis

We present ROVI, a high-quality synthetic dataset for instance-grounded text-to-image generation, created by labeling 1M curated web images. Our key innovation is a strategy called re-captioning, focusing on the pre-detection stage, where a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Cihang Peng , Qiming Hou , Zhong Ren , Kun Zhou

Efficient and privacy-preserving multimodal interaction is essential as AR, VR, and modern smartphones with powerful cameras become primary interfaces for human-computer communication. Existing powerful large vision-language models (VLMs)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Abhijit Mishra , Mingda Li , Hsiang Fu , Richard Noh , Minji Kim

Visual imitation learning provides efficient and intuitive solutions for robotic systems to acquire novel manipulation skills. However, simultaneously learning geometric task constraints and control policies from visual inputs alone remains…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-26 Jianfeng Gao , Zhi Tao , Noémie Jaquier , Tamim Asfour

We present a conceptual framework for training Vision-Language Models (VLMs) to perform Visual Perspective Taking (VPT), a core capability for embodied cognition essential for Human-Robot Interaction (HRI). As a first step toward this goal,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Joel Currie , Gioele Migno , Enrico Piacenti , Maria Elena Giannaccini , Patric Bach , Davide De Tommaso , Agnieszka Wykowska

We present Vision in Action (ViA), an active perception system for bimanual robot manipulation. ViA learns task-relevant active perceptual strategies (e.g., searching, tracking, and focusing) directly from human demonstrations. On the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Haoyu Xiong , Xiaomeng Xu , Jimmy Wu , Yifan Hou , Jeannette Bohg , Shuran Song

One of the central challenges preventing robots from acquiring complex manipulation skills is the prohibitive cost of collecting large-scale robot demonstrations. In contrast, humans are able to learn efficiently by watching others interact…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Changhe Chen , Quantao Yang , Xiaohao Xu , Nima Fazeli , Olov Andersson

Today's robots attempt to learn new tasks by imitating human examples. These robots watch the human complete the task, and then try to match the actions taken by the human expert. However, this standard approach to visual imitation learning…

Prompt-based learning has emerged as a successful paradigm in natural language processing, where a single general-purpose language model can be instructed to perform any task specified by input prompts. Yet task specification in robotics…

Visual imitation learning (VIL) provides an efficient and intuitive strategy for robotic systems to acquire novel skills. Recent advancements in Vision Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated remarkable performance in vision and language…

Enabling robots to learn long-horizon manipulation tasks from a handful of demonstrations remains a central challenge in robotics. Existing neuro-symbolic approaches often rely on hand-crafted symbolic abstractions, semantically labeled…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Pierrick Lorang , Johannes Huemer , Timothy Duggan , Kai Goebel , Patrik Zips , Matthias Scheutz

Robot-assisted surgery has become progressively more and more popular due to its clinical advantages. In the meanwhile, the artificial intelligence and augmented reality in robotic surgery are developing rapidly and receive lots of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-04 Yonghao Long , Jianfeng Cao , Anton Deguet , Russell H. Taylor , Qi Dou

Language-based object detection (LOD) aims to align visual objects with language expressions. A large amount of paired data is utilized to improve LOD model generalizations. During the training process, recent studies leverage…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Yuming Chen , Jiangyan Feng , Haodong Zhang , Lijun Gong , Feng Zhu , Rui Zhao , Qibin Hou , Ming-Ming Cheng , Yibing Song

Natural language is an effective tool for communication, as information can be expressed in different ways and at different levels of complexity. Verbal commands, utilized for instructing robot tasks, can therefor replace traditional robot…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-01 P. Telkes , A. Angleraud , R. Pieters

The advancement of embodied intelligence is accelerating the integration of robots into daily life as human assistants. This evolution requires robots to not only interpret high-level instructions and plan tasks but also perceive and adapt…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Zhichen Lou , Kechun Xu , Zhongxiang Zhou , Rong Xiong

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models built upon Chain-of-Thought (CoT) have achieved remarkable success in advancing general-purpose robotic agents, owing to its significant perceptual comprehension. Recently, since text-only CoT struggles…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Xiangkai Ma , Lekai Xing , Han Zhang , Wenzhong Li , Sanglu Lu

While language-guided image manipulation has made remarkable progress, the challenge of how to instruct the manipulation process faithfully reflecting human intentions persists. An accurate and comprehensive description of a manipulation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-03 Yasheng Sun , Yifan Yang , Houwen Peng , Yifei Shen , Yuqing Yang , Han Hu , Lili Qiu , Hideki Koike