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Unlike quasi-static robotic manipulation tasks like pick-and-place, dynamic tasks such as non-prehensile manipulation pose greater challenges, especially for vision-based control. Successful control requires the extraction of features…

Grasping is a complex process involving knowledge of the object, the surroundings, and of oneself. While humans are able to integrate and process all of the sensory information required for performing this task, equipping machines with this…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-01-12 Matthew Veres , Medhat Moussa , Graham W. Taylor

Recent progress in video generation has led to substantial improvements in visual fidelity, yet ensuring physically consistent motion remains a fundamental challenge. Intuitively, this limitation can be attributed to the fact that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Cong Wang , Hanxin Zhu , Xiao Tang , Jiayi Luo , Xin Jin , Long Chen , Zhibo Chen

AI video generation is undergoing a revolution, with quality and realism advancing rapidly. These advances have led to a passionate scientific debate: Do video models learn "world models" that discover laws of physics -- or, alternatively,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Saman Motamed , Laura Culp , Kevin Swersky , Priyank Jaini , Robert Geirhos

Recent advances in video generation have shown remarkable potential for constructing world simulators. However, current models still struggle to produce physically consistent results, particularly when handling large-scale or complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Zijun Wang , Panwen Hu , Jing Wang , Terry Jingchen Zhang , Yuhao Cheng , Long Chen , Yiqiang Yan , Zutao Jiang , Hanhui Li , Xiaodan Liang

Physics-based simulation of mesh based domains remains a challenging task. State-of-the-art techniques can produce realistic results but require expert knowledge. A major bottleneck in many approaches is the step of integrating a potential…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Oshri Halimi , Egor Larionov , Zohar Barzelay , Philipp Herholz , Tuur Stuyck

Data-driven approaches have become a dominant paradigm for robotic grasp planning. However, the performance of these approaches is enormously influenced by the quality of the available training data. In this paper, we propose a framework to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Junnan Jiang , Yuyang Tu , Xiaohui Xiao , Zhongtao Fu , Jianwei Zhang , Fei Chen , Miao Li

Recent advancements in world models have revolutionized dynamic environment simulation, allowing systems to foresee future states and assess potential actions. In autonomous driving, these capabilities help vehicles anticipate the behavior…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Anthony Chen , Wenzhao Zheng , Yida Wang , Xueyang Zhang , Kun Zhan , Peng Jia , Kurt Keutzer , Shanghang Zhang

We propose a novel cognitively-inspired method to improve and interpret physical simulation in vision-language models. Our ``Chain of Time" method involves generating a series of intermediate images during a simulation, and it is motivated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 YingQiao Wang , Eric Bigelow , Boyi Li , Tomer Ullman

Large Vision Models trained on internet-scale data have demonstrated strong capabilities in segmenting and semantically understanding object parts, even in cluttered, crowded scenes. However, while these models can direct a robot toward the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Ray Muxin Liu , Mingxuan Li , Kenneth Shaw , Deepak Pathak

Continuum robots possess high flexibility and redundancy, making them well suited for safe interaction in complex environments, yet their continuous deformation and nonlinear dynamics pose fundamental challenges to perception, modeling, and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Peng Yu , Xin Wang , Ning Tan

Recent advances in generative foundational models, often termed "world models," have propelled interest in applying them to critical tasks like robotic planning and autonomous system training. For reliable deployment, these models must…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Rishi Upadhyay , Howard Zhang , Jim Solomon , Ayush Agrawal , Pranay Boreddy , Shruti Satya Narayana , Yunhao Ba , Alex Wong , Celso M de Melo , Achuta Kadambi

Realistic simulation is critical for applications ranging from robotics to animation. Traditional analytic simulators sometimes struggle to capture sufficiently realistic simulation which can lead to problems including the well known…

Visual imitation learning enables robotic agents to acquire skills by observing expert demonstration videos. In the one-shot setting, the agent generates a policy after observing a single expert demonstration without additional fine-tuning.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Raktim Gautam Goswami , Prashanth Krishnamurthy , Yann LeCun , Farshad Khorrami

Recent advances in creative AI have enabled the synthesis of high-fidelity images and videos conditioned on language instructions. Building on these developments, text-to-video diffusion models have evolved into embodied world models (EWMs)…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Hu Yue , Siyuan Huang , Yue Liao , Shengcong Chen , Pengfei Zhou , Liliang Chen , Maoqing Yao , Guanghui Ren

We introduce [Cosmos-Predict2.5], the latest generation of the Cosmos World Foundation Models for Physical AI. Built on a flow-based architecture, [Cosmos-Predict2.5] unifies Text2World, Image2World, and Video2World generation in a single…

World models have emerged as a powerful paradigm for building interactive simulation environments, with recent video-based approaches demonstrating impressive progress in generating visually plausible dynamics. However, because these models…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Hongyu Wang , Jingquan Wang , Bocheng Zou , Radu Serban , Dan Negrut

Recent video diffusion models have achieved impressive capabilities as large-scale generative world models. However, these models often struggle with fine-grained physical consistency, exhibiting physically implausible dynamics over time.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Haoran Lu , Shang Wu , Jianshu Zhang , Maojiang Su , Guo Ye , Chenwei Xu , Lie Lu , Pranav Maneriker , Fan Du , Manling Li , Zhaoran Wang , Han Liu

Spatial reasoning in partially observable environments has often been approached through passive predictive models, yet theories of embodied cognition suggest that genuinely useful representations arise only when perception is tightly…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Li Jin , Liu Jia

We introduce RoboBrain 2.0, our latest generation of embodied vision-language foundation models, designed to unify perception, reasoning, and planning for complex embodied tasks in physical environments. It comes in two variants: a…