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Developing control policies in simulation is often more practical and safer than directly running experiments in the real world. This applies to policies obtained from planning and optimization, and even more so to policies obtained from…

This paper presents the World-Action Model (WAM), an action-regularized world model that jointly reasons over future visual observations and the actions that drive state transitions. Unlike conventional world models trained solely via image…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Yuci Han , Alper Yilmaz

Unthinking execution of human instructions in robotic manipulation can lead to severe safety risks, such as poisonings, fires, and even explosions. In this paper, we present responsible robotic manipulation, which requires robots to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Minheng Ni , Lei Zhang , Zihan Chen , Kaixin Bai , Zhaopeng Chen , Jianwei Zhang , Lei Zhang , Wangmeng Zuo

Recently, video-based world models that learn to simulate the dynamics have gained increasing attention in robot learning. However, current approaches primarily emphasize visual generative quality while overlooking physical fidelity,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Baorui Peng , Wenyao Zhang , Liang Xu , Zekun Qi , Jiazhao Zhang , Hongsi Liu , Wenjun Zeng , Xin Jin

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have shown strong promise for general-purpose robotic manipulation, but their real-world evaluation remains limited by a lack of accessible, reproducible, and consistent benchmarks. Simulation benchmarks…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Alex S. Huang , Jiahui Zhang , Shiqing Tang , Yu Xiang

Learned world models hold significant potential for robotic manipulation, as they can serve as simulator for real-world interactions. While extensive progress has been made in 2D video-based world models, these approaches often lack…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Chuanrui Zhang , Zhengxian Wu , Guanxing Lu , Yansong Tang , Ziwei Wang

World Action Models (WAMs) have emerged as a promising paradigm for robot control by modeling physical dynamics. Current WAMs generally follow two paradigms: the "Imagine-then-Execute" approach, which uses video prediction to infer actions…

Effective robotic manipulation requires policies that can anticipate physical outcomes and adapt to real-world environments. Effective robotic manipulation requires policies that can anticipate physical outcomes and adapt to real-world…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Ge Yuan , Qiyuan Qiao , Jing Zhang , Dong Xu

We present a new reproducible benchmark for evaluating robot manipulation in the real world, specifically focusing on pick-and-place. Our benchmark uses the YCB objects, a commonly used dataset in the robotics community, to ensure that our…

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have shown strong potential for general-purpose robotic manipulation, but their reliance on expert demonstrations limits their ability to learn from failures and perform self-corrections. Reinforcement…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Fangqi Zhu , Zhengyang Yan , Zicong Hong , Quanxin Shou , Xiao Ma , Song Guo

Video generation models have significantly advanced embodied intelligence, unlocking new possibilities for generating diverse robot data that capture perception, reasoning, and action in the physical world. However, synthesizing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Yufan Deng , Zilin Pan , Hongyu Zhang , Xiaojie Li , Ruoqing Hu , Yufei Ding , Yiming Zou , Yan Zeng , Daquan Zhou

World models empower model-based agents to interactively explore, reason, and plan within imagined environments for real-world decision-making. However, the high demand for interactivity poses challenges in harnessing recent advancements in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Jialong Wu , Shaofeng Yin , Ningya Feng , Xu He , Dong Li , Jianye Hao , Mingsheng Long

Achieving generalizable embodied policies remains a key challenge. Traditional policy learning paradigms, including both Imitation Learning (IL) and Reinforcement Learning (RL), struggle to cultivate generalizability across diverse…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Yinzhou Tang , Yu Shang , Yinuo Chen , Bingwen Wei , Xin Zhang , Shu'ang Yu , Liangzhi Shi , Chao Yu , Chen Gao , Wei Wu , Yong Li

Robots operating in complex and uncertain environments face considerable challenges. Advanced robotic systems often rely on extensive datasets to learn manipulation tasks. In contrast, when humans are faced with unfamiliar tasks, such as…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Yichen Zhu , Feifei Feng

We introduce PhysWorld, a framework that enables robot learning from video generation through physical world modeling. Recent video generation models can synthesize photorealistic visual demonstrations from language commands and images,…

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…

Conventional visuomotor imitation learning usually predicts future robot actions directly in the time domain. Such formulations often have limited physical scene awareness and weak long-horizon memory. In contrast, world-model-based…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Changchuan Yang , Yuhang Dong , Guanzhong Tian , Haizhou Ge , Hongrui Zhu

World model-based policy evaluation is a practical proxy for testing real-world robot control by rolling out candidate actions in action-conditioned video diffusion models. As these models increasingly adopt latent diffusion modeling (LDM),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Nilaksh , Saurav Jha , Artem Zholus , Sarath Chandar

Recent progress in robot learning has been driven by large-scale datasets and powerful visuomotor policy architectures, yet policy robustness remains limited by the substantial cost of collecting diverse demonstrations, particularly for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Yujie Zhao , Hongwei Fan , Di Chen , Shengcong Chen , Liliang Chen , Xiaoqi Li , Guanghui Ren , Hao Dong

Recent video generation models demonstrate remarkable ability to capture complex physical interactions and scene evolution over time. To leverage their spatiotemporal priors, robotics works have adapted video models for policy learning but…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Moo Jin Kim , Yihuai Gao , Tsung-Yi Lin , Yen-Chen Lin , Yunhao Ge , Grace Lam , Percy Liang , Shuran Song , Ming-Yu Liu , Chelsea Finn , Jinwei Gu