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  1. A Conversational Framework for Human-Robot Collaborative Manipulation with Distributed Generative AI models

    Jun 4, 2026Arash Ghasemzadeh Kakroudi, Roel PietersLanguage-Conditioned Robot ManipulationLarge Language Model-Based Robot Planning

    Automation Technology and Mechanical Engineering, Tampere University, 33720, Tampere, Finland

  2. Affordance2Action: Task-Conditioned Scene-level Affordance Grounding for Real-Time Manipulation

    Jun 2, 2026Litao Liu, Yifan Han, Pengfei Yi +9Language-Conditioned Robot ManipulationRobotic Manipulation

    Department of Computer Science, Rutgers University-New Brunswick · The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (GZ) · Shanghai AI Laboratory

  3. AFUN: Towards an Affordance Foundation Model for Functionality Understanding

    Jun 1, 2026Zhaoning Wang, Yi Zhong, Jiawei Fu +2Language-Conditioned Robot ManipulationRobot Foundation Models

    University of Michigan · University of California, San Diego · NVIDIA

  4. RoboSemanticBench: Diagnosing Semantic Grounding in Action Prediction for VLA Models

    Jun 1, 2026Bin Yu, Yao Zhang, Haishan Liu +9Language-Conditioned Robot ManipulationVision-Language Grounding

    1HIT · 2ZGCA · 3ZGCI +6

  5. DeMaVLA: A Vision-Language-Action Foundation Model for Generalizable Deformable Manipulation

    May 29, 2026Taiyi Su, Jian Zhu, Tianjian Wang +9Language-Conditioned Robot ManipulationDeformable Object Manipulation

    1AIRC, Midea Group · 2Tongji University

  6. ELAN4D: Embodiment-Centric 4D Supervision for Vision-Language-Action Models via Plug-and-Play Adaptation

    May 28, 2026Zeyuan He, Bowen Yang, Zhirui Fang +9Language-Conditioned Robot ManipulationVisuomotor Policy Learning

    Torr Vision Group, University of Oxford · The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen · Shanghai Jiao Tong University +3

  7. Gaze2Act: Gaze-Conditioned Vision-Language-Action Policies for Interactive Robot Manipulation

    May 28, 2026Kuangji Zuo, Gen Li, Bofan Lyu +9Language-Conditioned Robot ManipulationRobotic Manipulation

    1MARS Lab, Nanyang Technological University

  8. Qwen-VLA: Unifying Vision-Language-Action Modeling across Tasks, Environments, and Robot Embodiments

    May 28, 2026Qiuyue Wang, Mingsheng Li, Jian Guan +37Language-Conditioned Robot ManipulationRobot Foundation Models

    Qwen Team

  9. Mag-VLA: Vision-Language-Action Model for Bimanual Magnetically Actuated Microrobot Manipulation

    May 27, 2026Yongchen Wang, Kangyi Lu, Lan Wei +1Language-Conditioned Robot ManipulationBimanual Robotic Manipulation

    Department of Bioengineering, Imperial-X, Imperial College London

  10. Tabero: Learning Gentle Manipulation with Closed-Loop Force Feedback from Vision, Touch, and Language

    May 27, 2026Qiwei Wu, Rui Zhang, Xin Xiang +4Language-Conditioned Robot ManipulationRobotic Manipulation

    Nvidia, Beijing, China · Hong Kong University of Sci

  11. Agentic Language-to-Objective Synthesis for Optofluidic Assembly

    May 26, 2026Ivan Saraev, Elena Erben, Weida Liao +4Language-Conditioned Robot ManipulationAgentic Workflows

    1) Institute of Biological and Chemical Systems, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany · 2) Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge, UK · 3) Department of Mathematics, Imperial College London, UK +1

  12. FineVLA: Fine-Grained Instruction Alignment for Steerable Vision-Language-Action Policies

    May 26, 2026Xintong Hu, Xuhong Huang, Jinyu Zhang +11Language-Conditioned Robot ManipulationVision-Language-Action Models

    XLANG Lab, The University of Hong Kong · Qwen Team, Alibaba Inc.

  13. Spatial Memory for Out-of-Vision Manipulation in Vision-Language-Action

    May 21, 2026Pengteng Li, Weiyu Guo, He Zhang +4Language-Conditioned Robot ManipulationRobotics

    Thrust of Artificial Intelligence, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), China · AI2Robotics · Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Hong Kong SAR, China.

  14. PointACT: Vision-Language-Action Models with Multi-Scale Point-Action Interaction

    May 20, 2026Shizhe Chen, Paul Pacaud, Cordelia SchmidLanguage-Conditioned Robot ManipulationPoint Cloud Learning

    Inria, ´Ecole normale sup´erieure, CNRS, PSL Research University

  15. DISC: Decoupling Instruction from State-Conditioned Control via Policy Generation

    May 20, 2026Hanxiang Ren, Pei Zhou, Xunzhe Zhou +1Language-Conditioned Robot ManipulationVisuomotor Policy Learning

    ‡Zhejiang University §The University of Hong Kong ¶TranscEngram

  16. RoVLA: Multi-Consistency Constraints for Robust Vision-Language-Action Models

    May 19, 2026Jingzhou Luo, Yifan Wen, Yongjie Bai +3VLM RobustnessLanguage-Conditioned Robot Manipulation

    Sun Yat-sen University, China · Peng Cheng Laboratory · Guangdong Key Laboratory of Big Data Analysis and Processing +1

  17. ManiSoft: Towards Vision-Language Manipulation for Soft Continuum Robotics

    May 18, 2026Ziyu Wei, Luting Wang, Chen Gao +2Language-Conditioned Robot ManipulationRobotic RL

    Beihang University · Hangzhou Innovation Institute, Beihang University · National University of Singapore

  18. Key-Gram: Extensible World Knowledge for Embodied Manipulation

    May 18, 2026Jingjing Fan, Siyuan Li, Botao Ren +1Memory-Augmented VLMsLanguage-Conditioned Robot Manipulation

    Department of Computer Science and Technology Tsinghua University · Department of Automation Tsinghua University

  19. From Human Videos to Robot Manipulation: A Survey on Scalable Vision-Language-Action Learning with Human-Centric Data

    May 18, 2026Zhiyuan Feng, Qixiu Li, Huizhi Liang +12Language-Conditioned Robot ManipulationCross-Embodiment Robot Learning

    1Tsinghua University · 5Microsoft Research Asia · 2HKUST +4

  20. RoboFlow4D: A Lightweight Flow World Model Toward Real-Time Flow-Guided Robotic Manipulation

    May 17, 2026Sixu Lin, Junliang Chen, Huaiyuan Xu +8World Models for RoboticsLanguage-Conditioned Robot Manipulation

    School of Data Science, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen) · The Hong Kong Polytechnic University · Shenzhen Loop Area Institute +1

  21. AffordVLA: Injecting Affordance Representations into Vision-Language-Action Models via Implicit Feature Alignment

    May 17, 2026Weijie Kong, Zhian Su, Wei Yu +1Language-Conditioned Robot ManipulationVision-Language-Action Models

    Grasp Lab, School of Mechanical Engineering of Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China · Torch Kernel Co., Ltd., Hangzhou, 310000, P. R. China

  22. How to Instruct Your Robot: Dense Language Annotations Power Robot Policy Learning

    May 16, 2026Bosung Kim, Ruiyi Wang, David Acuna +5Robot Policy LearningRobot Skill Learning

    University of California, San Diego · 2NVIDIA

  23. Health-Conditioned Vision-Language-Action Models for Malfunction-Aware Robot Control

    May 15, 2026Hüseyin Arslan, Özgür ErkentRobotic ControlLanguage-Conditioned Robot Manipulation

    *Computer Engineering, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey

  24. Evo-Depth: A Lightweight Depth-Enhanced Vision-Language-Action Model

    May 14, 2026Tao Lin, Yuxin Du, Jiting Liu +14Language-Conditioned Robot ManipulationEfficient VLA Models

    School of AI, Shanghai Jiao Tong University · King Abdullah University of Science and Technology · SJTU-Quic Robot Joint Lab +1

  25. IntentVLA: Short-Horizon Intent Modeling for Aliased Robot Manipulation

    May 14, 2026Shijie Lian, Bin Yu, Xiaopeng Lin +8Robot Policy LearningLanguage-Conditioned Robot Manipulation

    1HUST · 2ZGCA · 4HIT +7

  26. SECOND-Grasp: Semantic Contact-guided Dexterous Grasping

    May 13, 2026Han Yi Shin, Heeju Ko, Jaewon Mun +6Robotic GraspingLanguage-Conditioned Robot Manipulation

    1Korea University · University of Texas at Austin · University of Michigan +1

  27. Beyond World-Frame Action Heads: Motion-Centric Action Frames for Vision-Language-Action Models

    May 12, 2026Huoren Yang, Jianchao Zhao, Hu Yusong +7Language-Conditioned Robot ManipulationVisuomotor Policy Learning

    Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, CN · One Robotics, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China · Shenzhen University of Advanced Technology, Shenzhen, Guangdong, CN

  28. Forecast-aware Gaussian Splatting for Predictive 3D Representation in Language-Guided Pick-and-Place Manipulation

    May 11, 2026Kaixin Jia, Jiacheng Xu3D Gaussian SplattingLanguage-Conditioned Robot Manipulation

    KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden.

  29. ElasticFlow: One-Step Physics-Consistent Policy with Elastic Time Horizons for Language-Guided Manipulation

    May 9, 2026Kewei Chen, Yayu Long, Shuai Li +1Flow MatchingLong-Horizon Robotic Manipulation

    Chongqing Institute of Green and Intelligent Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences · Chongqing School, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · Faculty of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, University of Oulu, Finland

  30. TriRelVLA: Triadic Relational Structure for Generalizable Embodied Manipulation

    May 7, 2026Hanyu Zhou, Chuanhao Ma, Gim Hee LeeLanguage-Conditioned Robot ManipulationRobotic Manipulation

    School of Computing, National University of Singapore · School of Artificial Intelligence and Automation, Huazhong University of Science and Technology

  31. Ablation Study of Multimodal Perception, Language Grounding, and Control for Human-Robot Interaction in an Object Detection and Grasping Task

    May 1, 2026Zi Tian, Guanting ShenMultimodal GroundingRobotic Grasping

    Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China

  32. Thinking in Text and Images: Interleaved Vision--Language Reasoning Traces for Long-Horizon Robot Manipulation

    May 1, 2026Jinkun Liu, Haohan Chi, Lingfeng Zhang +6Long-Horizon Robotic ManipulationLanguage-Conditioned Robot Manipulation

    Tsinghua University · Beijing Institute of Technology · Xiaomi Group

  33. PRTS: A Primitive Reasoning and Tasking System via Contrastive Representations

    Apr 30, 2026Yang Zhang, Jiangyuan Zhao, Chenyou Fan +11Reinforcement LearningLong-Horizon Robotic Manipulation

    Institute of Artificial Intelligence (TeleAI), China Telecom · Tsinghua University · Shanghai Jiao Tong University +1

  34. Libra-VLA: Achieving Learning Equilibrium via Asynchronous Coarse-to-Fine Dual-System

    Apr 27, 2026Yifei Wei, Linqing Zhong, Yi Liu +4Robotic ControlLanguage-Conditioned Robot Manipulation

    1Beihang University · 2AgiBot

  35. M2M^2-VLA: Boosting Vision-Language Models for Generalizable Manipulation via Layer Mixture and Meta-Skills

    Apr 27, 2026Siyao Xiao, Yuhong Zhang, Zhifang Liu +9Language-Conditioned Robot ManipulationVLM Adaptation

    Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School, Tsinghua University, Shenzhen, China. · PengCheng Laboratory, Shenzhen, China. · College of Intelligent Robotics and Advanced Manufacturing, Fudan University, Shanghai, China. +1

  36. Long-Horizon Manipulation via Trace-Conditioned VLA Planning

    Apr 23, 2026Isabella Liu, An-Chieh Cheng, Rui Yan +7Long-Horizon Robotic ManipulationLanguage-Conditioned Robot Manipulation

    University of California, San Diego · NVIDIA

  37. ST-ππ: Structured SpatioTemporal VLA for Robotic Manipulation

    Apr 20, 2026Chuanhao Ma, Hanyu Zhou, Shihan Peng +3Language-Conditioned Robot ManipulationRobotics

    School of Artificial Intelligence and Automation, Huazhong University of Science and Technology · School of Computing, National University of Singapore · School of Computing, Macquarie University

  38. AnchorRefine: Synergy-Manipulation Based on Trajectory Anchor and Residual Refinement for Vision-Language-Action Models

    Apr 20, 2026Tingzheng Jia, Kan Guo, Lanping Qian +6Robot Policy LearningLanguage-Conditioned Robot Manipulation

    Beijing University of Technology Beijing, China · Beihang University Beijing, China · Nanjing University of Science and Technology Nanjing, China

  39. π0.7π_{0.7}: a Steerable Generalist Robotic Foundation Model with Emergent Capabilities

    Apr 16, 2026Physical Intelligence, Bo Ai, Ali Amin +85Robot Policy LearningRobot Skill Learning

  40. Text-Guided 6D Object Pose Rearrangement via Closed-Loop VLM Agents

    Apr 10, 2026Sangwon Baik, Gunhee Kim, Mingi Choi +1Language-Conditioned Robot ManipulationObject Pose Estimation

    Seoul National University · RLWRLD

  41. E-VLA: Event-Augmented Vision-Language-Action Model for Dark and Blurred Scenes

    Apr 6, 2026Jiajun Zhai, Hao Shi, Shangwei Guo +2Event-Based VisionVLM Robustness

    Zhejiang University · Ant Group · Hunan University

  42. Veo-Act: Enhancing VLA Policies with Frontier Video Models

    Apr 6, 2026Zhongru Zhang, Chenghan Yang, Qingzhou Lu +4Robotic ControlLanguage-Conditioned Robot Manipulation

    Tsinghua University

  43. LaMP: Learning Vision-Language-Action Policy with 3D Scene Flow as Latent Motion Prior

    Mar 26, 2026Xinkai Wang, Chenyi Wang, Yifu Xu +7Language-Conditioned Robot ManipulationVision-Language-Action Models

    Southeast University, China · Shanghai Innovation Institute, China · Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China +1

  44. Altered Thoughts, Altered Actions: Reasoning Chain as Control Surface for a Vision-Language-Action Policy

    Mar 13, 2026Tuan Duong Trinh, Basim Azam, Mohammed Ishaq Ansari +2Language-Conditioned Robot ManipulationVision-Language-Action Models

    University of Melbourne Parkville, VIC, Australia

  45. Language-Guided Grasping under Partial Observation for Mobile Manipulation in Field Inspection and Maintenance

    Mar 9, 2026Dilermando Almeida, Juliano Negri, Guilherme Lazzarini +5Robotic GraspingLanguage-Conditioned Robot Manipulation

    Department of Mechanical Engineering, Federal University of Uberlândia, Uberlândia, Brazil · Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of São Paulo, São Carlos, Brazil · Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan +1

  46. AeroPlace-Flow: Language-Grounded Object Placement for Aerial Manipulators via Visual Foresight and Object Flow

    Mar 8, 2026Sarthak Mishra, Rishabh Dev Yadav, Naveen Nair +2Aerial RoboticsLanguage-Conditioned Robot Manipulation

    Robotics Research Center, IIIT Hyderabad, India. · Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester, UK. · Newcastle University, UK

  47. From Local Corrections to Generalized Skills: Improving Neuro-Symbolic Policies with MEMO

    Mar 4, 2026Benjamin A. Christie, Yinlong Dai, Mohammad Bararjanianbahnamiri +2Robot Skill LearningLanguage-Conditioned Robot Manipulation

    Collab, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, USA. · TEA Lab, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, USA.

  48. Replanning Human-Robot Collaborative Tasks with Vision-Language Models via Semantic and Physical Dual-Correction

    Feb 16, 2026Taichi Kato, Takuya Kiyokawa, Namiko Saito +1Language-Conditioned Robot ManipulationLarge Language Model-Based Robot Planning

    aDepartment of Systems Science, School of Engineering Science, The University of Osaka, 1-3 Machikaneyama, Toyonaka, Osaka, Japan · bDepartment of Systems Innovation, Graduate School of Engineering Science, The University of Osaka, 1-3 Machikaneyama, Toyonaka, Osaka, Japan · cMicrosoft Research Asia, Shinagawa, Tokyo, Japan +1

  49. AERMANI-VLM: Structured Prompting and Reasoning for Aerial Manipulation with Vision Language Models

    Nov 3, 2025Sarthak Mishra, Rishabh Dev Yadav, Avirup Das +3Aerial RoboticsStructured Prompting

    Robotics Research Center, IIIT Hyderabad, India · Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester, UK · Newcastle University, UK

  50. Imagine2Act: Leveraging Object-Action Motion Consistency from Imagined Goals for Robotic Manipulation

    Sep 21, 2025Liang Heng, Jiadong Xu, Yiwen Wang +6Robot Skill LearningLanguage-Conditioned Robot Manipulation

    CFCS, School of Computer Science, Peking University · PrimeBot · AGIBOT

  51. Ask-to-Clarify: Resolving Instruction Ambiguity through Multi-turn Dialogue

    Sep 18, 2025Xingyao Lin, Xinghao Zhu, Tianyi Lu +6Language-Conditioned Robot ManipulationVision-Language-Action Models

    College of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, Fudan University, Shanghai, China. · Shanghai Innovation Institute, Shanghai, China. · Mechanical Systems Control Lab, UC Berkeley, California, USA.

  52. AntiGrounding: Executable Robot Trajectories as Visual Prompts for VLM-Guided Manipulation

    Jun 14, 2025Wenbo Li, Yiteng Chen, Wenhao Li +1Trajectory GenerationLanguage-Conditioned Robot Manipulation

    School of Software Engineering, South China University of Technology

  53. Bridging Language and Action: A Survey of Language-Conditioned Robot Manipulation

    Dec 17, 2023Xiangtong Yao, Hongkuan Zhou, Oier Mees +12Language-Conditioned Robot ManipulationVLMs for Robotics

    Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany · Corporate Research, Robert Bosch GmbH, Renningen, Germany · Institute for Artificial Intelligence, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany +10