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Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models fail systematically on long-horizon manipulation tasks despite strong short-horizon performance. We show that this failure is not resolved by extending context length alone in the current reactive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Zijian Zeng , Fei Ding , Huiming Yang , Xianwei Li

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 are effective robot action executors, but they remain limited on long-horizon tasks due to the dual burden of extended closed-loop planning and diverse physical operations. We therefore propose…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Zixing Lei , Changxing Liu , Yichen Xiong , Minhao Xiong , Yuanzhuo Ding , Zhipeng Zhang , Weixin Li , Siheng Chen

Bridging the gap between natural language commands and autonomous execution in unstructured environments remains an open challenge for robotics. This requires robots to perceive and reason over the current task scene through multiple…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Jin Wang , Kim Tien Ly , Jacques Cloete , Nikos Tsagarakis , Ioannis Havoutis

The safe deployment of autonomous driving (AD) systems is fundamentally hindered by the long-tail problem, where rare yet critical driving scenarios are severely underrepresented in real-world data. Existing solutions including…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Qimao Chen , Fang Li , Shaoqing Xu , Zhiyi Lai , Zixun Xie , Yuechen Luo , Shengyin Jiang , Hanbing Li , Long Chen , Bing Wang , Yi Zhang , Zhi-Xin Yang

Robotic manipulation in open-world environments requires reasoning across semantics, geometry, and long-horizon action dynamics. Existing hierarchical Vision-Language-Action (VLA) frameworks typically use 2D representations to connect…

The deployment of artificial intelligence models at the edge is increasingly critical for autonomous robots operating in GPS-denied environments where local, resource-efficient reasoning is essential. This work demonstrates the feasibility…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Justin Williams , Kishor Datta Gupta , Roy George , Mrinmoy Sarkar

Manipulating dynamic objects remains an open challenge for Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models, which, despite strong generalization in static manipulation, struggle in dynamic scenarios requiring rapid perception, temporal anticipation,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Haozhe Xie , Beichen Wen , Jiarui Zheng , Zhaoxi Chen , Fangzhou Hong , Haiwen Diao , Ziwei Liu

Vision-Language-Action Models (VLAs) have shown remarkable progress towards embodied intelligence. While their architecture partially resembles that of Large Language Models (LLMs), VLAs exhibit higher complexity due to their multi-modal…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Hugo Buurmeijer , Carmen Amo Alonso , Aiden Swann , Marco Pavone

Large language models (LLMs)-based code generation for robotic manipulation has recently shown promise by directly translating human instructions into executable code, but existing methods remain noisy, constrained by fixed primitives and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Yuan Meng , Zhenguo Sun , Max Fest , Xukun Li , Zhenshan Bing , Alois Knoll

The development of general robotic systems capable of manipulating in unstructured environments is a significant challenge. While Vision-Language Models(VLM) excel in high-level commonsense reasoning, they lack the fine-grained 3D spatial…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-08 Mingjie Pan , Jiyao Zhang , Tianshu Wu , Yinghao Zhao , Wenlong Gao , Hao Dong

Vision-language models (VLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in robotic planning, particularly for long-horizon tasks that require a holistic understanding of the environment for task decomposition. Existing methods typically…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Puzhen Yuan , Angyuan Ma , Yunchao Yao , Huaxiu Yao , Masayoshi Tomizuka , Mingyu Ding

While Large Language Models (LLMs) excel at algorithmic code generation, they struggle with front-end development, where correctness is judged on rendered pixels and interaction. We present ReLook, an agentic, vision-grounded reinforcement…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Yuhang Li , Chenchen Zhang , Ruilin Lv , Ao Liu , Ken Deng , Yuanxing Zhang , Jiaheng Liu , Wiggin Zhou , Bo Zhou

Solving long-horizon tasks requires robots to integrate high-level semantic reasoning with low-level physical interaction. While vision-language models (VLMs) and video generation models can decompose tasks and imagine outcomes, they often…

In robotics, Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models that integrate diverse multimodal signals from multi-view inputs have emerged as an effective approach. However, most prior work adopts static fusion that processes all visual inputs…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Young-Chae Son , Jung-Woo Lee , Yoon-Ji Choi , Dae-Kwan Ko , Soo-Chul Lim

While recent Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have begun to incorporate audio, they typically treat sound as static pre-execution prompts or focus exclusively on human speech. This leaves a significant gap in real-time, sound-centric…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Chang Nie , Tianchen Deng , Guangming Wang , Zhe Liu , Hesheng Wang

Vision-language-action models must enable agents to execute long-horizon tasks under partial observability. However, most existing approaches remain observation-driven, relying on short context windows or repeated queries to vision-language…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Vaidehi Bagaria , Bijo Sebastian , Nirav Kumar Patel

Autonomous driving requires generating safe and reliable trajectories from complex multimodal inputs. Traditional modular pipelines separate perception, prediction, and planning, while recent end-to-end (E2E) systems learn them jointly.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Qihang Peng , Xuesong Chen , Chenye Yang , Shaoshuai Shi , Hongsheng Li

Real-time multi-robot coordination in hazardous and adversarial environments requires fast, reliable adaptation to dynamic threats. While Large Language Models (LLMs) offer strong high-level reasoning capabilities, the lack of safety…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Yuwei Wu , Yuezhan Tao , Peihan Li , Guangyao Shi , Gaurav S. Sukhatme , Vijay Kumar , Lifeng Zhou

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