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Generative world models are increasingly used for video generation, where learned simulators are expected to capture the physical rules that govern real-world dynamics. However, evaluating whether generated videos actually follow these…

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Video diffusion models provide powerful real-world simulators for embodied AI but remain limited in controllability for robotic manipulation. Recent works on trajectory-conditioned video generation address this gap but often rely on 2D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Yang Bai , Liudi Yang , George Eskandar , Fengyi Shen , Mohammad Altillawi , Ziyuan Liu , Gitta Kutyniok

In the rapidly advancing field of robotics, dual-arm coordination and complex object manipulation are essential capabilities for developing advanced autonomous systems. However, the scarcity of diverse, high-quality demonstration data and…

Text-to-video generative models have made significant strides in recent years, producing high-quality videos that excel in both aesthetic appeal and accurate instruction following, and have become central to digital art creation and user…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-02 Xuyang Guo , Jiayan Huo , Zhenmei Shi , Zhao Song , Jiahao Zhang , Jiale Zhao

The generalization of vision-language-action (VLA) models heavily relies on diverse training data. However, acquiring large-scale data for robot manipulation across varied object appearances is costly and labor-intensive. To address this…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Zhehao Dong , Xiaofeng Wang , Zheng Zhu , Yirui Wang , Yang Wang , Yukun Zhou , Boyuan Wang , Chaojun Ni , Runqi Ouyang , Wenkang Qin , Xinze Chen , Yun Ye , Guan Huang , Zhen Lu , Yue Yang

Being able to simulate the outcomes of actions in varied environments will revolutionize the development of generalist agents at scale. However, modeling these world dynamics, especially for dexterous robotics tasks, poses significant…

The human-like form of humanoid robots positions them uniquely to achieve the agility and versatility in motor skills that humans possess. Learning from human demonstrations offers a scalable approach to acquiring these capabilities.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Qiayuan Liao , Takara E. Truong , Xiaoyu Huang , Yuman Gao , Guy Tevet , Koushil Sreenath , C. Karen Liu

The embodied intelligence bridges the physical world and information space. As its typical physical embodiment, humanoid robots have shown great promise through robot learning algorithms in recent years. In this study, a hardware platform,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Jiaxin Huang , Hanyu Liu , Yunsheng Ma , Jian Shen , Yilin Zheng , Jiayi Wen , Baishu Wan , Pan Li , Zhigong Song

Robots are traditionally bounded by a fixed embodiment during their operational lifetime, which limits their ability to adapt to their surroundings. Co-optimizing control and morphology of a robot, however, is often inefficient due to the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Chen Yu , Weinan Zhang , Hang Lai , Zheng Tian , Laurent Kneip , Jun Wang

In this work, we rethink the approach to video super-resolution by introducing a method based on the Diffusion Posterior Sampling framework, combined with an unconditional video diffusion transformer operating in latent space. The video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Zhihao Zhan , Wang Pang , Xiang Zhu , Yechao Bai

We present PhysGen, a novel image-to-video generation method that converts a single image and an input condition (e.g., force and torque applied to an object in the image) to produce a realistic, physically plausible, and temporally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-30 Shaowei Liu , Zhongzheng Ren , Saurabh Gupta , Shenlong Wang

Recent robot foundation models largely rely on large-scale behavior cloning, which imitates expert actions but discards transferable dynamics knowledge embedded in heterogeneous embodied data. While the Unified World Model (UWM) formulation…

Validating Augmented Reality (AR) tracking and interaction models requires precise, repeatable ground-truth motion. However, human users cannot reliably perform consistent motion due to biomechanical variability. Robotic manipulators are…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Harsh Chhajed , Tian Guo

Joint audio-video generation models are rapidly approaching professional production quality, raising a central question: do they understand audio-visual physics, or merely generate plausible sounds and frames that violate real-world…

World models have emerged as promising neural simulators for autonomous driving, with the potential to supplement scarce real-world data and enable closed-loop evaluations. However, current research primarily evaluates these models based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Hidehisa Arai , Keishi Ishihara , Tsubasa Takahashi , Yu Yamaguchi

In the rapidly advancing field of robotics, dual-arm coordination and complex object manipulation are essential capabilities for developing advanced autonomous systems. However, the scarcity of diverse, high-quality demonstration data and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Yao Mu , Tianxing Chen , Shijia Peng , Zanxin Chen , Zeyu Gao , Yude Zou , Lunkai Lin , Zhiqiang Xie , Ping Luo

Robot manipulation in the real world is fundamentally constrained by the visual sim2real gap, where depth observations collected in simulation fail to reflect the complex noise patterns inherent to real sensors. In this work, inspired by…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Xiujian Liang , Jiacheng Liu , Mingyang Sun , Qichen He , Cewu Lu , Jianhua Sun

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

Building general-purpose embodied agents across diverse hardware remains a central challenge in robotics, often framed as the ''one-brain, many-forms'' paradigm. Progress is hindered by fragmented data, inconsistent representations, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Yandan Yang , Shuang Zeng , Tong Lin , Xinyuan Chang , Dekang Qi , Junjin Xiao , Haoyun Liu , Ronghan Chen , Yuzhi Chen , Dongjie Huo , Feng Xiong , Xing Wei , Zhiheng Ma , Mu Xu

Diffusion models have significantly improved the performance of image editing. Existing methods realize various approaches to achieve high-quality image editing, including but not limited to text control, dragging operation, and…

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