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World models have emerged as a pivotal component in robot manipulation planning, enabling agents to predict future environmental states and reason about the consequences of actions before execution. While video-generation models are…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Wenjiang Xu , Cindy Wang , Rui Fang , Mingkang Zhang , Lusong Li , Jing Xu , Jiayuan Gu , Zecui Zeng , Rui Chen

Imitation learning has emerged as a promising approach towards building generalist robots. However, scaling imitation learning for large robot foundation models remains challenging due to its reliance on high-quality expert demonstrations.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Chuning Zhu , Raymond Yu , Siyuan Feng , Benjamin Burchfiel , Paarth Shah , Abhishek Gupta

The enhancement of generalization in robots by large vision-language models (LVLMs) is increasingly evident. Therefore, the embodied cognitive abilities of LVLMs based on egocentric videos are of great interest. However, current datasets…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Ronghao Dang , Yuqian Yuan , Wenqi Zhang , Yifei Xin , Boqiang Zhang , Long Li , Liuyi Wang , Qinyang Zeng , Xin Li , Lidong Bing

Embodied intelligence is often studied through specialized models for individual tasks such as manipulation or navigation, resulting in fragmented capabilities and limited generalization across tasks, environments, and robot embodiments. In…

Generative world models are reshaping embodied AI, enabling agents to synthesize realistic 4D driving environments that look convincing but often fail physically or behaviorally. Despite rapid progress, the field still lacks a unified way…

Pretrained video diffusion models provide powerful spatiotemporal generative priors, making them a natural foundation for robotic world models. While recent world-action models jointly optimize future videos and actions, they predominantly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Zhaoyang Yang , Yurun Jin , Lizhe Qi , Cong Huang , Kai Chen

World models enable agents to predict future dynamics conditioned on actions, making the choice of latent representation central to planning and control. Such representations are often either learned directly from pixels with limited…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Minghao Fu , Fan Feng , Nicklas Hansen , Biwei Huang

Recent progress in embodied AI has produced a growing ecosystem of robot policies, foundation models, and modular runtimes. However, current evaluation remains dominated by task success metrics such as completion rate or manipulation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Xue Qin , Simin Luan , John See , Cong Yang , Zhijun Li

The construction of World Models capable of learning, simulating, and reasoning about objective physical laws constitutes a foundational challenge in the pursuit of Artificial General Intelligence. Recent advancements represented by video…

While large language models (LMs) have shown remarkable capabilities across numerous tasks, they often struggle with simple reasoning and planning in physical environments, such as understanding object permanence or planning household…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Jiannan Xiang , Tianhua Tao , Yi Gu , Tianmin Shu , Zirui Wang , Zichao Yang , Zhiting Hu

Leading approaches in machine vision employ different architectures for different tasks, trained on costly task-specific labeled datasets. This complexity has held back progress in areas, such as robotics, where robust task-general…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Daniel M. Bear , Kevin Feigelis , Honglin Chen , Wanhee Lee , Rahul Venkatesh , Klemen Kotar , Alex Durango , Daniel L. K. Yamins

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have shown significant advancements, providing a promising future for embodied agents. Existing benchmarks for evaluating MLLMs primarily utilize static images or videos, limiting assessments to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Zhili Cheng , Yuge Tu , Ran Li , Shiqi Dai , Jinyi Hu , Shengding Hu , Jiahao Li , Yang Shi , Tianyu Yu , Weize Chen , Lei Shi , Maosong Sun

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

World Generation Models are emerging as a cornerstone of next-generation multimodal intelligence systems. Unlike traditional 2D visual generation, World Models aim to construct realistic, dynamic, and physically consistent 3D/4D worlds from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Yiting Lu , Wei Luo , Peiyan Tu , Haoran Li , Hanxin Zhu , Zihao Yu , Xingrui Wang , Xinyi Chen , Xinge Peng , Xin Li , Zhibo Chen

Embodied artificial intelligence emphasizes the role of an agent's body in generating human-like behaviors. The recent efforts on EmbodiedAI pay a lot of attention to building up machine learning models to possess perceiving, planning, and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Chen Gao , Baining Zhao , Weichen Zhang , Jinzhu Mao , Jun Zhang , Zhiheng Zheng , Fanhang Man , Jianjie Fang , Zile Zhou , Jinqiang Cui , Xinlei Chen , Yong Li

The field of robotics has made significant strides toward developing generalist robot manipulation policies. However, evaluating these policies in real-world scenarios remains time-consuming and challenging, particularly as the number of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Yaxuan Li , Yichen Zhu , Junjie Wen , Chaomin Shen , Yi Xu

Action-conditioned world models (ACWMs) have shown strong promise for video prediction and decision-making. However, existing benchmarks are largely restricted to egocentric navigation or narrow, task-specific robotics datasets, offering…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Haotian Xue , Yipu Chen , Liqian Ma , Zelin Zhao , Lama Moukheiber , Yuchen Zhu , Yongxin Chen

Embodied Artificial Intelligence (Embodied AI) is crucial for achieving Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) and serves as a foundation for various applications (e.g., intelligent mechatronics systems, smart manufacturing) that bridge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Yang Liu , Weixing Chen , Yongjie Bai , Xiaodan Liang , Guanbin Li , Wen Gao , Liang Lin

Navigation is a fundamental capability in embodied AI, representing the intelligence required to perceive and interact within physical environments following language instructions. Despite significant progress in large Vision-Language…

Leveraging Multi-modal Large Language Models (MLLMs) to create embodied agents offers a promising avenue for tackling real-world tasks. While language-centric embodied agents have garnered substantial attention, MLLM-based embodied agents…