PROBE: Manipulation-Grounded Visual Question Answering with VLM Agents
A robotics research paper on PROBE: Manipulation-Grounded Visual Question Answering with VLM Agents.
Engineering 5.0 · Research 7.0 · Business 4.0
Robot Foundation Models Papers, Code and Reading Roadmap
Robot foundation models attempt to generalize across tasks, embodiments, datasets and instructions.
Technical roadmap
Compare data scale, embodiment coverage, action representation and real robot success rates.
MatchingPolicy: Correspondence-Aware Policy Enables Cross-Object In-Context Learning
A robotics research paper on MatchingPolicy: Correspondence-Aware Policy Enables Cross-Object In-Context Learning.
Engineering 5.0 · Research 7.0 · Business 4.0
HAF: Adapting Generalist VLAs to Humanoid Whole-Body Loco-manipulation via Hierarchical Action Flow and Spectral Latent RL
A robotics research paper on HAF: Adapting Generalist VLAs to Humanoid Whole-Body Loco-manipulation via Hierarchical Action Flow and Spectral Latent RL.
Engineering 5.0 · Research 7.0 · Business 4.0
$τ_0$-VLA: a Hierarchical Robot Foundation Model with World-Model-Guided Test-Time Computation
A robotics research paper on $τ_0$-VLA: a Hierarchical Robot Foundation Model with World-Model-Guided Test-Time Computation.
Engineering 5.0 · Research 7.0 · Business 4.0
Vision-Based Tactile Intelligence for Robotics: Sensing, Learning, and Embodied Manipulation
A robotics research paper on Vision-Based Tactile Intelligence for Robotics: Sensing, Learning, and Embodied Manipulation.
Engineering 5.0 · Research 7.0 · Business 4.0
Self-Evolving Embodied Agents via Skill-Harness Evolution
A robotics research paper on Self-Evolving Embodied Agents via Skill-Harness Evolution.
Engineering 5.0 · Research 7.0 · Business 4.0
RynnValue: Scaling Robotic Value Foundation Models with Temporal Distance
A robotics research paper on RynnValue: Scaling Robotic Value Foundation Models with Temporal Distance.
Engineering 5.0 · Research 7.0 · Business 4.0
Representation Handoffs for OpenArm-Based Laboratory Mobile Manipulation
A robotics research paper on Representation Handoffs for OpenArm-Based Laboratory Mobile Manipulation.
Engineering 5.0 · Research 7.0 · Business 4.0
VLAff: Vision-Language-Affordance Model for Unified Actionable Affordances
A robotics research paper on VLAff: Vision-Language-Affordance Model for Unified Actionable Affordances.
Engineering 5.0 · Research 7.0 · Business 4.0
Kitchen Robotic Manipulation utilizing Foundation Models
A robotics research paper on Kitchen Robotic Manipulation utilizing Foundation Models.
Engineering 5.0 · Research 7.0 · Business 4.0
Assistant Placement Aria: A Benchmark for Egocentric Placement Assistance
A robotics research paper on Assistant Placement Aria: A Benchmark for Egocentric Placement Assistance.
Engineering 5.0 · Research 7.0 · Business 4.0
CLIFT: Turning Gemini Robotics On-Device into Humanoid Specialists via Non-Invasive Closed-Loop Iterative Fine-Tuning
A robotics research paper on CLIFT: Turning Gemini Robotics On-Device into Humanoid Specialists via Non-Invasive Closed-Loop Iterative Fine-Tuning.
Engineering 5.0 · Research 7.0 · Business 4.0
Explicit Kinematic Guidance from Analytic Concepts for Vision-Language-Action Models
A robotics research paper on Explicit Kinematic Guidance from Analytic Concepts for Vision-Language-Action Models.
Engineering 5.0 · Research 7.0 · Business 4.0
Data Pyramid for Embodied Manipulation
A robotics research paper on Data Pyramid for Embodied Manipulation.
Engineering 5.0 · Research 7.0 · Business 4.0
$N_0$-VTLA: Scaling Vision-Tactile-Language-Action Model with Latent Tactile Tokens
A robotics research paper on $N_0$-VTLA: Scaling Vision-Tactile-Language-Action Model with Latent Tactile Tokens.
Engineering 5.0 · Research 7.0 · Business 4.0
TransBiolab: A Real-World Multi-View Dataset of Cluttered Transparent Biomedical Objects
A robotics research paper on TransBiolab: A Real-World Multi-View Dataset of Cluttered Transparent Biomedical Objects.
Engineering 5.0 · Research 7.0 · Business 4.0
GS-Agent: Creating 4D Physical Worlds With Generative Simulation
A robotics research paper on GS-Agent: Creating 4D Physical Worlds With Generative Simulation.
Engineering 5.0 · Research 7.0 · Business 4.0
Closing the Lab-to-Store Gap: A Data-Efficient Post-Training and Experience-Driven Learning VLA Framework for Retail Humanoids
A robotics research paper on Closing the Lab-to-Store Gap: A Data-Efficient Post-Training and Experience-Driven Learning VLA Framework for Retail Humanoids.
Engineering 5.0 · Research 7.0 · Business 4.0
KineBench: Benchmarking Embodied World Models via IDM-Free Kinematic Grounding
A robotics research paper on KineBench: Benchmarking Embodied World Models via IDM-Free Kinematic Grounding.
Engineering 5.0 · Research 7.0 · Business 4.0
Agentic Real2Sim: Physics-based World Modeling with Vision-Language Agents
A robotics research paper on Agentic Real2Sim: Physics-based World Modeling with Vision-Language Agents.
Engineering 5.0 · Research 7.0 · Business 4.0