robotic-manipulation

TurboVLA introduces a new Vision-Language-Action paradigm that directly maps vision and language to action, achieving 97.7% success on LIBERO with only 0.2B parameters and real-time inference at 32 Hz on consumer GPUs, significantly reducing computational cost.

TableVerse introduces a fully automated Real2Sim pipeline that converts unstructured, in-the-wild images into high-fidelity, simulation-ready tabletop environments with accurate metrics and physical stability, along with a large-scale dataset (TableVerse-100K) for generalizable robotic manipulation.

LaMem-VLA proposes a latent-memory-native framework that integrates short-term and long-term historical experience directly into Vision-Language-Action reasoning, enabling better performance on long-horizon robotic manipulation tasks.

RynnWorld-4D is a generative world model that co-produces future RGB, depth, and optical flow from a single RGB-D image and language instruction using a unified diffusion process, enabling efficient robotic manipulation through inverse dynamics policy learning. It achieves state-of-the-art on real-world bimanual manipulation tasks.

PhysisForcing is a training framework that enhances embodied video generation for robotic manipulation by enforcing physical consistency through pixel-level trajectory alignment and semantic-level relational alignment losses in a DiT-based architecture, achieving notable improvements on benchmarks.

Foresight is a failure detection framework for long-horizon robotic manipulation that uses action-conditioned world model latents and functional conformal prediction to monitor trajectories, trained only with final task labels. It demonstrates state-of-the-art performance across simulation and real robot tasks.

EventVLA introduces a sparse visual evidence memory framework for long-horizon robotic manipulation, achieving an average success rate improvement of +40% over state-of-the-art memory-augmented VLAs.

Presents Qwen-RobotManip, a Vision-Language-Action foundation model for robotic manipulation that achieves generalization through unified alignment across representation, motion, and behavior dimensions, enabling large-scale training on diverse data sources. It outperforms prior state-of-the-art models across multiple out-of-distribution benchmarks and demonstrates emergent capabilities like zero-shot instruction following and cross-embodiment transfer.

PAIWorld enhances diffusion-transformer world models with geometric awareness and cross-view attention to improve multi-view 3D consistency for robotic manipulation tasks, achieving state-of-the-art results on benchmarks.

WEAVER is a multi-view world model for robotic manipulation that achieves high fidelity, consistency, and efficiency using flow-matching loss, demonstrating superior performance in policy evaluation, improvement, and test-time planning with significant real-world improvements.

AffordanceVLA introduces a unified framework using structured affordance forecasting as an intermediate representation to improve perception-action mapping in robotic manipulation, leveraging vision-language models and a Mixture-of-Transformer architecture.

Introduces StereoPolicy, a framework that leverages synchronized stereo image pairs to improve geometric reasoning for robot manipulation policies, avoiding the fragility of RGB-D and point clouds. It integrates with diffusion-based and vision-language-action policies, showing consistent improvements in simulation and real-world tasks.

τ_0-WM is a unified video-action world model for robotic manipulation that integrates policy learning, video prediction, and action evaluation using a shared video diffusion backbone. It shows superior performance on challenging long-horizon and fine-grained tasks.

Qwen-VLA is a unified vision-language-action model for embodied decision-making, integrating manipulation, navigation, and trajectory prediction across different robot platforms. It uses a DiT-based action decoder and embodiment-aware prompt conditioning, achieving strong performance and out-of-distribution generalization.

This paper introduces the Frequency Guidance Operator (FGO), a method for diffusion policies that smooths action generation by steering noisy samples through intermediate sub-frequency manifolds, improving performance on robotic manipulation tasks.

AtlasVA is a teacher-free visual skill memory framework for vision-language model agents that uses spatial heatmaps, visual exemplars, and symbolic text skills to improve spatial decision-making in long-horizon tasks, outperforming baselines on several benchmarks.

This paper introduces FFDC, a lightweight verifier for World Action Models that enables adaptive action chunk sizes by checking consistency between predicted and actual observations, improving efficiency and robustness in robotic manipulation.

HiVLA introduces a hierarchical vision-language-action framework that decouples semantic planning from motor control using a diffusion transformer action expert for improved robotic manipulation. The system combines a VLM planner for task decomposition and visual grounding with a specialized DiT action expert using cascaded cross-attention, outperforming end-to-end baselines particularly in long-horizon tasks and fine-grained manipulation.