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Spatial understanding is a crucial capability that enables robots to perceive their surroundings, reason about their environment, and interact with it meaningfully. In modern robotics, these capabilities are increasingly provided by…

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In action recognition, although the combination of spatio-temporal videos and skeleton features can improve the recognition performance, a separate model and balancing feature representation for cross-modal data are required. To solve these…

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Building world models with spatial consistency and real-time interactivity remains a fundamental challenge in computer vision. Current video generation paradigms often struggle with a lack of spatial persistence and insufficient visual…

Recent advances in robot imitation learning have yielded powerful visuomotor policies capable of manipulating a wide variety of objects directly from monocular visual inputs. However, monocular observations inherently lack reliable depth…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Evans Han , Yunfan Jiang , Yingke Wang , Haoyue Xiao , Huang Huang , Jianwen Xie , Jiajun Wu , Li Fei-Fei , Ruohan Zhang

We present GATSBI, a generative model that can transform a sequence of raw observations into a structured latent representation that fully captures the spatio-temporal context of the agent's actions. In vision-based decision-making…

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Existing end-to-end approaches of robotic manipulation often lack generalization to unseen objects or tasks due to limited data and poor interpretability. While recent Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) demonstrate strong commonsense…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Zilong Xie , Jingyu Gong , Xin Tan , Zhizhong Zhang , Yuan Xie

Robust imitation learning for robot manipulation requires comprehensive 3D perception, yet many existing methods struggle in cluttered environments. Fixed camera view approaches are vulnerable to perspective changes, and 3D point cloud…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Daqi Huang , Zhehao Cai , Yuzhi Hao , Zechen Li , Chee-Meng Chew

Hierarchical coarse-to-fine policy, where a coarse branch predicts a region of interest to guide a fine-grained action predictor, has demonstrated significant potential in robotic 3D manipulation tasks by especially enhancing sample…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Jianshu Hu , Lidi Wang , Shujia Li , Yunpeng Jiang , Xiao Li , Paul Weng , Yutong Ban

Learning a latent dynamics model provides a task-agnostic representation of an agent's understanding of its environment. Leveraging this knowledge for model-based reinforcement learning (RL) holds the potential to improve sample efficiency…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Malte Mosbach , Jan Niklas Ewertz , Angel Villar-Corrales , Sven Behnke

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have gained popularity for learning robotic manipulation tasks that follow language instructions. State-of-the-art VLAs, such as OpenVLA and $\pi_{0}$, were trained on large-scale, manually labeled action…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Bahey Tharwat , Yara Nasser , Ali Abouzeid , Ian Reid

Bimanual manipulation is a fundamental robotic skill that requires continuous and precise coordination between two arms. While imitation learning (IL) is the dominant paradigm for acquiring this capability, existing approaches, whether…

Memory is critical for long-horizon and history-dependent robotic manipulation. Such tasks often involve counting repeated actions or manipulating objects that become temporarily occluded. Recent vision-language-action (VLA) models have…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Yinpei Dai , Hongze Fu , Jayjun Lee , Yuejiang Liu , Haoran Zhang , Jianing Yang , Chelsea Finn , Nima Fazeli , Joyce Chai

Multi-task imitation learning (MTIL) has shown significant potential in robotic manipulation by enabling agents to perform various tasks using a single policy. This simplifies the policy deployment and enhances the agent's adaptability…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Litao Liu , Wentao Wang , Yifan Han , Zhuoli Xie , Pengfei Yi , Junyan Li , Yi Qin , Wenzhao Lian

Most robot manipulation focuses on changing the kinematic state of objects: picking, placing, opening, or rotating them. However, a wide range of real-world manipulation tasks involve a different class of object state change--such as…

We propose a spatial-constraint approach for modeling spatial-based interactions and enabling interactive visualizations, which involves the manipulation of visualizations through selection, filtering, navigation, arrangement, and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Can Liu , Yu Zhang , Cong Wu , Chen Li , Xiaoru Yuan

Dexterous manipulation requires precise geometric reasoning, yet existing visuo-tactile learning methods struggle with sub-millimeter precision tasks that are routine for traditional model-based approaches. We identify a key limitation:…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Jialei Huang , Yang Ye , Yuanqing Gong , Xuezhou Zhu , Yang Gao , Kaifeng Zhang

Behavior cloning methods for robot learning suffer from poor generalization due to limited data support beyond expert demonstrations. Recent approaches leveraging video prediction models have shown promising results by learning rich…

The incorporation of world modeling into manipulation policy learning has pushed the boundary of manipulation performance. However, existing efforts simply model the 2D visual dynamics, which is insufficient for robust manipulation when…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Yuxin He , Ruihao Zhang , Xianzu Wu , Zhiyuan Zhang , Cheng Ding , Qiang Nie

Recent vision-language-action (VLA) models and world action models (WAMs) advance robotic manipulation by enriching intermediate representations with auxiliary spatial features or future visual-state prediction. However, these…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Xinzhe Chen , Sihua Ren , Liqi Huang , Haowen Sun , Mingyang Li , Xingyu Chen , Zeyang Liu , Xuguang Lan