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Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable planning abilities across various domains, including robotics manipulation and navigation. While recent efforts in robotics have leveraged LLMs both for high-level and low-level…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Harsh Singh , Rocktim Jyoti Das , Mingfei Han , Preslav Nakov , Ivan Laptev

Crop monitoring is essential for precision agriculture, but current systems lack high-level reasoning. We introduce a novel, modular framework that uses a Visual Language Model (VLM) to guide robotic task planning, interleaving input…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Jose Cuaran , Kendall Koe , Aditya Potnis , Naveen Kumar Uppalapati , Girish Chowdhary

General-purpose robots require decision-making models that generalize across diverse tasks and environments. Recent works build robot foundation models by extending multimodal large language models (MLLMs) with action outputs, creating…

Enabling humanoid robots to reliably execute complex multi-step manipulation tasks is crucial for their effective deployment in industrial and household environments. This paper presents a hierarchical planning and control framework…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-11 André Schakkal , Ben Zandonati , Zhutian Yang , Navid Azizan

Video generative models (VGMs) pretrained on large-scale internet data can produce temporally coherent rollout videos that capture rich object dynamics, offering a compelling foundation for zero-shot robotic manipulation. However, VGMs…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Gehao Zhang , Zhenyang Ni , Payal Mohapatra , Han Liu , Ruohan Zhang , Qi Zhu

Recent advances in vision-language models (VLMs) have enabled instruction-conditioned robotic systems with improved generalization. However, most existing work focuses on reactive System 1 policies, underutilizing VLMs' strengths in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Songhao Han , Boxiang Qiu , Yue Liao , Siyuan Huang , Chen Gao , Shuicheng Yan , Si Liu

Large Language Models (LLMs) have been shown to be capable of performing high-level planning for long-horizon robotics tasks, yet existing methods require access to a pre-defined skill library (e.g. picking, placing, pulling, pushing,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Murtaza Dalal , Tarun Chiruvolu , Devendra Chaplot , Ruslan Salakhutdinov

Robots are increasingly expected to execute open ended natural language requests in human environments, which demands reliable long horizon execution under partial observability. This is especially challenging for humanoids because…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Peng Ren , Haoyang Ge , Chuan Qi , Cong Huang , Hong Li , Jiang Zhao , Pei Chi , Kai Chen

Human-Robot Collaboration (HRC) plays an important role in assembly tasks by enabling robots to plan and adjust their motions based on interactive, real-time human instructions. However, such instructions are often linguistically ambiguous…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Taichi Kato , Takuya Kiyokawa , Namiko Saito , Kensuke Harada

Enabling humanoid robots to perform long-horizon mobile manipulation planning in real-world environments based on embodied perception and comprehension abilities has been a longstanding challenge. With the recent rise of large language…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Fangyuan Wang , Shipeng Lyu , Peng Zhou , Anqing Duan , Guodong Guo , David Navarro-Alarcon

In this study, we are interested in imbuing robots with the capability of physically-grounded task planning. Recent advancements have shown that large language models (LLMs) possess extensive knowledge useful in robotic tasks, especially in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Yingdong Hu , Fanqi Lin , Tong Zhang , Li Yi , Yang Gao

Heterogeneous multirobot systems show great potential in complex tasks requiring coordinated hybrid cooperation. However, existing methods that rely on static or task-specific models often lack generalizability across diverse tasks and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Haokun Liu , Zhaoqi Ma , Yunong Li , Junichiro Sugihara , Yicheng Chen , Jinjie Li , Moju Zhao

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have become a cornerstone in robotic policy learning, leveraging large-scale multimodal data for robust and scalable control. However, existing VLA frameworks primarily address short-horizon tasks, and…

Large Language Models (LLMs) have gained popularity in task planning for long-horizon manipulation tasks. To enhance the validity of LLM-generated plans, visual demonstrations and online videos have been widely employed to guide the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Kejia Chen , Zheng Shen , Yue Zhang , Lingyun Chen , Fan Wu , Zhenshan Bing , Sami Haddadin , Alois Knoll

Enabling robots to execute novel manipulation tasks zero-shot is a central goal in robotics. Most existing methods assume in-distribution tasks or rely on fine-tuning with embodiment-matched data, limiting transfer across platforms. We…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Hongyu Li , Lingfeng Sun , Yafei Hu , Duy Ta , Jennifer Barry , George Konidaris , Jiahui Fu

Enabling home-assistant robots to perceive and manipulate a diverse range of 3D objects based on human language instructions is a pivotal challenge. Prior research has predominantly focused on simplistic and task-oriented instructions,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Ran Xu , Yan Shen , Xiaoqi Li , Ruihai Wu , Hao Dong

In the realm of data-driven AI technology, the application of open-source large language models (LLMs) in robotic task planning represents a significant milestone. Recent robotic task planning methods based on open-source LLMs typically…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Yike Wu , Jiatao Zhang , Nan Hu , LanLing Tang , Guilin Qi , Jun Shao , Jie Ren , Wei Song

With their prominent scene understanding and reasoning capabilities, pre-trained visual-language models (VLMs) such as GPT-4V have attracted increasing attention in robotic task planning. Compared with traditional task planning strategies,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Aoran Mei , Jianhua Wang , Guo-Niu Zhu , Zhongxue Gan

Long-horizon manipulation remains challenging for vision-language-action (VLA) policies: real tasks are multi-step, progress-dependent, and brittle to compounding execution errors. We present LoHo-Manip, a modular framework that scales…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Isabella Liu , An-Chieh Cheng , Rui Yan , Geng Chen , Ri-Zhao Qiu , Xueyan Zou , Sha Yi , Hongxu Yin , Xiaolong Wang , Sifei Liu

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models promise generalist robot manipulation, but are typically trained and deployed as short-horizon policies that assume the latest observation is sufficient for action reasoning. This assumption breaks in…