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We present a scalable framework for cross-embodiment humanoid robot control by learning a shared latent representation that unifies motion across humans and diverse humanoid platforms, including single-arm, dual-arm, and legged humanoid…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Yashuai Yan , Dongheui Lee

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have shown remarkable generalization by mapping web-scale knowledge to robotic control, yet they remain blind to physical contact. Consequently, they struggle with contact-rich manipulation tasks that…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Guo Ye , Zexi Zhang , Xu Zhao , Shang Wu , Haoran Lu , Shihan Lu , Han Liu

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have shown remarkable progress in embodied tasks recently, but most methods process visual observations independently at each timestep. This history-agnostic design treats robot manipulation as a Markov…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Lei Xiao , Jifeng Li , Juntao Gao , Feiyang Ye , Yan Jin , Jingjing Qian , Jing Zhang , Yong Wu , Xiaoyuan Yu

The capability to transfer mastered skills to accomplish a range of similar yet novel tasks is crucial for intelligent robots. In this work, we introduce $\textit{Diff-Transfer}$, a novel framework leveraging differentiable physics…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Yuqi Xiang , Feitong Chen , Qinsi Wang , Yang Gang , Xiang Zhang , Xinghao Zhu , Xingyu Liu , Lin Shao

Object rearrangement, a fundamental challenge in robotics, demands versatile strategies to handle diverse objects, configurations, and functional needs. To achieve this, the AI robot needs to learn functional rearrangement priors in order…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-11 Yiming Zeng , Mingdong Wu , Long Yang , Jiyao Zhang , Hao Ding , Hui Cheng , Hao Dong

Recent vision-language-action (VLA) models built upon pretrained vision-language models (VLMs) have achieved significant improvements in robotic manipulation. However, current VLAs still suffer from low sample efficiency and limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Shangchen Miao , Ningya Feng , Jialong Wu , Ye Lin , Xu He , Dong Li , Mingsheng Long

While the shortage of explicit action data limits Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models, human action videos offer a scalable yet unlabeled data source. A critical challenge in utilizing large-scale human video datasets lies in transforming…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Dujun Nie , Fengjiao Chen , Qi Lv , Jun Kuang , Xiaoyu Li , Xuezhi Cao , Xunliang Cai

Predicting future motion trajectories is a critical capability across domains such as robotics, autonomous systems, and human activity forecasting, enabling safer and more intelligent decision-making. This paper proposes a novel, efficient,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Zesen Zhong , Duomin Zhang , Yijia Li

While model-based deep reinforcement learning (RL) holds great promise for sample efficiency and generalization, learning an accurate dynamics model is often challenging and requires substantial interaction with the environment. A wide…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-12 Yilun Du , Karthik Narasimhan

Vision-Language Action (VLAs) models promise to extend the remarkable success of vision-language models (VLMs) to robotics. Yet, unlike VLMs in the vision-language domain, VLAs for robotics require finetuning to contend with varying…

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have emerged as a generalist robotic agent. However, existing VLAs are hindered by excessive parameter scales, prohibitive pre-training requirements, and limited applicability to diverse embodiments. To…

Pose-driven full-body avatars built on neural rendering produce high-quality novel views of a captured subject. Yet loose clothing and other dynamic elements deform in ways pose alone cannot explain: the same pose can correspond to many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Shichong Peng , Chengxiang Yin , Fei Jiang , Zhongshi Jiang , Lingchen Yang , Qingyang Tan , Amin Jourabloo , Jason Saragih , Ke Li , Christian Häne

Fine-tuning vision-language models (VLMs) on robot teleoperation data to create vision-language-action (VLA) models is a promising paradigm for training generalist policies, but it suffers from a fundamental tradeoff: learning to produce…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Asher J. Hancock , Xindi Wu , Lihan Zha , Olga Russakovsky , Anirudha Majumdar

While a general embodied agent must function as a unified system, current methods are built on isolated models for understanding, world modeling, and control. This fragmentation prevents unifying multimodal generative capabilities and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Hongzhe Bi , Hengkai Tan , Shenghao Xie , Zeyuan Wang , Shuhe Huang , Haitian Liu , Ruowen Zhao , Yao Feng , Chendong Xiang , Yinze Rong , Hongyan Zhao , Hanyu Liu , Zhizhong Su , Lei Ma , Hang Su , Jun Zhu

Robots in uncertain real-world environments must perform both goal-directed and exploratory actions. However, most deep learning-based control methods neglect exploration and struggle under uncertainty. To address this, we adopt deep active…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Kentaro Fujii , Shingo Murata

The rise of foundation models paves the way for generalist robot policies in the physical world. Existing methods relying on text-only instructions often struggle to generalize to unseen scenarios. We argue that interleaved image-text…

Robotic manipulation tasks often rely on static cameras for perception, which can limit flexibility, particularly in scenarios like robotic surgery and cluttered environments where mounting static cameras is impractical. Ideally, robots…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Xiatao Sun , Francis Fan , Yinxing Chen , Daniel Rakita

Vision Language Models (VLMs) have recently been leveraged to generate robotic actions, forming Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models. However, directly adapting a pretrained VLM for robotic control remains challenging, particularly when…

Mobile manipulation is the fundamental challenge for robotics to assist humans with diverse tasks and environments in everyday life. However, conventional mobile manipulation approaches often struggle to generalize across different tasks…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Zhenyu Wu , Yuheng Zhou , Xiuwei Xu , Ziwei Wang , Haibin Yan

Robots must adapt to diverse human instructions and operate safely in unstructured, open-world environments. Recent Vision-Language models (VLMs) offer strong priors for grounding language and perception, but remain difficult to steer for…