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While Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have achieved remarkable success in ground-based embodied intelligence, their application to Aerial Manipulation Systems (AMS) remains a largely unexplored frontier. The inherent characteristics of…

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We introduce InternVLA-M1, a unified framework for spatial grounding and robot control that advances instruction-following robots toward scalable, general-purpose intelligence. Its core idea is spatially guided vision-language-action…

Acquiring dexterous robotic skills from human video demonstrations remains a significant challenge, largely due to conventional reliance on low-level trajectory replication, which often fails to generalize across varying objects, spatial…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Shunlei Li , Longsen Gao , Jiuwen Cao , Yingbai Hu

Many Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models flatten image patches into a 1D token sequence, weakening the 2D spatial cues needed for precise manipulation. We introduce IVRA, a lightweight, training-free method that improves spatial…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Jongwoo Park , Kanchana Ranasinghe , Jinhyeok Jang , Cristina Mata , Yoo Sung Jang , Michael S Ryoo

Vision-Language Action (VLA) models significantly advance robotic manipulation by leveraging the strong perception capabilities of pretrained vision-language models (VLMs). By integrating action modules into these pretrained models, VLA…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Shaoqi Dong , Chaoyou Fu , Haihan Gao , Yi-Fan Zhang , Chi Yan , Chu Wu , Xiaoyu Liu , Yunhang Shen , Jing Huo , Deqiang Jiang , Haoyu Cao , Yang Gao , Xing Sun , Ran He , Caifeng Shan

Visual language models (VLMs) rapidly progressed with the recent success of large language models. There have been growing efforts on visual instruction tuning to extend the LLM with visual inputs, but lacks an in-depth study of the visual…

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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

Recently, Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have demonstrated strong performance on a range of robotic tasks. These models rely on multimodal inputs, with language instructions playing a crucial role -- not only in predicting actions, but…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Wen-Han Hsieh , Elvis Hsieh , Dantong Niu , Trevor Darrell , Roei Herzig , David M. Chan

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models rely on current observations, including images, language instructions, and robot states, to predict actions and complete tasks. While accurate visual perception is crucial for precise action prediction…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Cheng Yang , Jianhao Jiao , Lingyi Huang , Jinqi Xiao , Zhexiang Tang , Yu Gong , Yibiao Ying , Yang Sui , Jintian Lin , Wen Huang , Bo Yuan

Despite advances in Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models, robotic manipulation struggles with fine-grained tasks because current models lack mechanisms for active visual attention allocation. Human gaze naturally encodes intent, planning,…

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The emergence of Vision Language Action (VLA) models marks a paradigm shift from traditional policy-based control to generalized robotics, reframing Vision Language Models (VLMs) from passive sequence generators into active agents for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Dapeng Zhang , Jing Sun , Chenghui Hu , Xiaoyan Wu , Zhenlong Yuan , Rui Zhou , Fei Shen , Qingguo Zhou

A generalist robot should perform effectively across various environments. However, most existing approaches heavily rely on scaling action-annotated data to enhance their capabilities. Consequently, they are often limited to single…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Qingwen Bu , Yanting Yang , Jisong Cai , Shenyuan Gao , Guanghui Ren , Maoqing Yao , Ping Luo , Hongyang Li

Achieving generalizable manipulation in unconstrained environments requires the robot to proactively resolve information uncertainty, i.e., the capability of active perception. However, existing methods are often confined in limited types…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Jialiang Li , Yi Qiao , Yunhan Guo , Changwen Chen , Wenzhao Lian

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models aim to predict robotic actions based on visual observations and language instructions. Existing approaches require fine-tuning pre-trained visionlanguage models (VLMs) as visual and language features are…

Learning to ground natural language queries to target objects or regions in 3D point clouds is quite essential for 3D scene understanding. Nevertheless, existing 3D visual grounding approaches require a substantial number of bounding box…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Xiaoxu Xu , Yitian Yuan , Qiudan Zhang , Wenhui Wu , Zequn Jie , Lin Ma , Xu Wang

Humans learn not only how their bodies move, but also how the surrounding world responds to their actions. In contrast, while recent Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models exhibit impressive semantic understanding, they often fail to capture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Jisoo Kim , Jungbin Cho , Sanghyeok Chu , Ananya Bal , Jinhyung Kim , Gunhee Lee , Sihaeng Lee , Seung Hwan Kim , Bohyung Han , Hyunmin Lee , Laszlo A. Jeni , Seungryong Kim

Robotic manipulation is a fundamental component of automation. However, traditional perception-planning pipelines often fall short in open-ended tasks due to limited flexibility, while the architecture of a single end-to-end…

Integrating visual-language instructions into visuomotor policies is gaining momentum in robot learning for enhancing open-world generalization. Despite promising advances, existing approaches face two challenges: limited language…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Wenhui Huang , Changhe Chen , Han Qi , Chen Lv , Yilun Du , Heng Yang

Vision-language-action (VLA) models have achieved great success on general robotic tasks, but still face challenges in fine-grained spatiotemporal manipulation. Typically, existing methods mainly embed spatiotemporal knowledge into visual…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Chuanhao Ma , Hanyu Zhou , Shihan Peng , Yan Li , Tao Gu , Luxin Yan