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How can robot manipulation policies generalize to novel tasks involving unseen object types and new motions? In this paper, we provide a solution in terms of predicting motion information from web data through human video generation and…

Robot learning holds tremendous promise to unlock the full potential of flexible, general, and dexterous robot systems, as well as to address some of the deepest questions in artificial intelligence. However, bringing robot learning to the…

Recently, end-to-end robotic manipulation models have gained significant attention for their generalizability and scalability. However, they often suffer from limited robustness to camera viewpoint changes when training with a fixed camera.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Songen Gu , Yuhang Zheng , Weize Li , Yupeng Zheng , Yating Feng , Xiang Li , Yilun Chen , Pengfei Li , Wenchao Ding

We explore the potential of large-scale generative video models for autonomous driving, introducing an open-source auto-regressive video model (VaViM) and its companion video-action model (VaVAM) to investigate how video pre-training…

Scaling general-purpose manipulation to new robot embodiments remains challenging: each platform typically needs large, homogeneous demonstrations, and end-to-end pixel-to-action pipelines may degenerate under background and viewpoint…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Yao Feng , Hengkai Tan , Xinyi Mao , Chendong Xiang , Guodong Liu , Shuhe Huang , Hang Su , Jun Zhu

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have emerged as a promising paradigm for robot learning, but their representations are still largely inherited from static image-text pretraining, leaving physical dynamics to be learned from…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Teli Ma , Jia Zheng , Zifan Wang , Chunli Jiang , Andy Cui , Junwei Liang , Shuo Yang

The ability to specify robot commands by a non-expert user is critical for building generalist agents capable of solving a large variety of tasks. One convenient way to specify the intended robot goal is by a video of a person demonstrating…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-05-11 Elliot Chane-Sane , Cordelia Schmid , Ivan Laptev

Current efforts to learn scalable policies in robotic manipulation primarily fall into two categories: one focuses on "action," which involves behavior cloning from extensive collections of robotic data, while the other emphasizes "vision,"…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Yang Tian , Sizhe Yang , Jia Zeng , Ping Wang , Dahua Lin , Hao Dong , Jiangmiao Pang

Humanoid control systems have made significant progress in recent years, yet modeling fluent interaction-rich behavior between a robot, its surrounding environment, and task-relevant objects remains a fundamental challenge. This difficulty…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Yanghao Zhou , Jingyu Ma , Yibo Peng , Zhenguo Sun , Yu Bai , Börje F. Karlsson

We present I2V3D, a novel framework for animating static images into dynamic videos with precise 3D control, leveraging the strengths of both 3D geometry guidance and advanced generative models. Our approach combines the precision of a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Zhiyuan Zhang , Dongdong Chen , Jing Liao

Training vision-based manipulation policies that are robust across diverse visual environments remains an important and unresolved challenge in robot learning. Current approaches often sidestep the problem by relying on invariant…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Sumeet Batra , Gaurav Sukhatme

Generalization in robot manipulation is essential for deploying robots in open-world environments and advancing toward artificial general intelligence. While recent Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models leverage large pre-trained…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Yichao Shen , Fangyun Wei , Zhiying Du , Yaobo Liang , Yan Lu , Jiaolong Yang , Nanning Zheng , Baining Guo

We seek to learn a generalizable goal-conditioned policy that enables zero-shot robot manipulation: interacting with unseen objects in novel scenes without test-time adaptation. While typical approaches rely on a large amount of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-12 Homanga Bharadhwaj , Roozbeh Mottaghi , Abhinav Gupta , Shubham Tulsiani

Large foundation models have shown strong open-world generalization to complex problems in vision and language, but similar levels of generalization have yet to be achieved in robotics. One fundamental challenge is that the models exhibit…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Guoqing Ma , Siheng Wang , Zeyu Zhang , Shan Yu , Hao Tang

Robotic manipulation policies often fail to generalize because they must simultaneously learn where to attend, what actions to take, and how to execute them. We argue that high-level reasoning about where and what can be offloaded to…

Efficiently leveraging simulation to acquire advanced manipulation skills is both challenging and highly significant. We introduce \textit{ForeRobo}, a generative robotic agent that utilizes generative simulations to autonomously acquire…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Dexin wang , Faliang Chang , Chunsheng Liu

Recent video generation models have achieved remarkable progress and are now deployed in film, social media production, and advertising. Beyond their creative potential, such models also hold promise as world simulators for robotics and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 David Romero , Ariana Bermudez , Viacheslav Iablochnikov , Hao Li , Fabio Pizzati , Ivan Laptev

Inter-robot transfer of training data is a little explored topic in learning- and vision-based robot control. Here we propose a transfer method from a robot with a lower Degree-of-Freedom (DoF) to one with a higher DoF utilizing the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Kosuke Tahara , Noriaki Hirose

Can we learn robot manipulation for everyday tasks, only by watching videos of humans doing arbitrary tasks in different unstructured settings? Unlike widely adopted strategies of learning task-specific behaviors or direct imitation of a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Homanga Bharadhwaj , Abhinav Gupta , Shubham Tulsiani , Vikash Kumar