Papers6

#robotic manipulation

Utonia: Toward One Encoder for All Point Clouds

Yujia Zhang, Xiaoyang Wu et al.Mar 3arXiv

Utonia is a single brain (encoder) that learns from many kinds of 3D point clouds, like indoor rooms, outdoor streets, tiny toys, and even city maps.

#Utonia#point cloud#self-supervised learning

RoboVIP: Multi-View Video Generation with Visual Identity Prompting Augments Robot Manipulation

Intermediate

Boyang Wang, Haoran Zhang et al.Jan 8arXiv

RoboVIP is a plug-and-play tool that turns ordinary robot videos into many new, realistic, multi-view training videos without changing the original robot actions.

#robotic manipulation#video diffusion#multi-view generation

Dream-VL & Dream-VLA: Open Vision-Language and Vision-Language-Action Models with Diffusion Language Model Backbone

Intermediate

Jiacheng Ye, Shansan Gong et al.Dec 27arXiv

Dream-VL and Dream-VLA use a diffusion language model backbone to understand images, talk about them, and plan actions better than many regular (autoregressive) models.

#diffusion language model#vision-language model#vision-language-action

EVOLVE-VLA: Test-Time Training from Environment Feedback for Vision-Language-Action Models

Intermediate

Zechen Bai, Chen Gao et al.Dec 16arXiv

Robots usually learn by copying many demonstrations, which is expensive and makes them brittle when things change.

#EVOLVE-VLA#test-time training#vision-language-action

A4-Agent: An Agentic Framework for Zero-Shot Affordance Reasoning

Intermediate

Zixin Zhang, Kanghao Chen et al.Dec 16arXiv

This paper builds A4-Agent, a smart three-part helper that figures out where to touch or use an object just from a picture and a written instruction, without any extra training.

#affordance prediction#zero-shot learning#vision-language models

MIND-V: Hierarchical Video Generation for Long-Horizon Robotic Manipulation with RL-based Physical Alignment

Intermediate

Ruicheng Zhang, Mingyang Zhang et al.Dec 7arXiv

Robots need lots of realistic, long videos to learn, but collecting them is slow and expensive.

#hierarchical video generation#robotic manipulation#long-horizon planning