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  1. Scale Up Strategically: Learning Compositional Generalization via Bias-Aware Evaluation and Data Collection for Robotic Manipulation

    Jul 23, 2026Yu Qi, Zhang Ye, Xinyi Xu +6Robot Skill LearningLanguage-Conditioned Robot Manipulation

    Northeastern University · NVIDIA

  2. SeededGrasp: Language-Guided Grasping in Complex Scenes with Multiple Embodiments

    Jul 22, 2026Yang Xu, Gurpreet Singh Mukker, Raymond Wang +3Robotic GraspingLanguage-Conditioned Robot Manipulation

    University of Toronto · Vector Institute · University of British Columbia +1

  3. WorldScape Policy 2.0: Empowering Steerable World Action Modeling with Reasoning-Augmented Memory and In-Context Learning

    Jul 21, 2026Haisheng Su, Zongdai Liu, Xin Jin +13ICL for RoboticsWorld Model Learning

    Manifold AI · Tsinghua University · Shanghai Jiao Tong University

  4. FM-VLA: Force-based Memory for Vision-Language-Action Models in Contact-Rich Manipulation

    Jul 20, 2026Ruicheng Li, Qixiu Li, Ruichun Ma +8Memory-Augmented VLMsLanguage-Conditioned Robot Manipulation

    Tsinghua University · Microsoft Research · Fudan University +1

  5. From Perception to Assistance: Open-Vocabulary Shared Autonomy for Robotic Manipulation

    Jul 19, 2026Murilo Vinicius da Silva, Ricardo V. Godoy, Juliano Negri +3Language-Conditioned Robot ManipulationRobot Teleoperation

    Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of São Paulo, São Carlos, Brazil · Instituto Israelita de Ensino e Pesquisa Albert Einstein, Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, São Paulo, Brazil · Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan.

  6. DiMaS: Distribution Matching for Steering Vision-Language-Action Models

    Jul 15, 2026Pegah Khayatan, Sara Meziane, Jayneel Parekh +1Language-Conditioned Robot ManipulationDistribution Matching

    ISIR, Sorbonne Universit´e, Paris, France · Valeo.ai, Paris, France

  7. Never Too Late for Force: Accelerating VLA Post-Training with Reactive Force Injection

    Jul 15, 2026Yi Wang, Wendi Chen, Zimo Wen +8Robotic ControlLanguage-Conditioned Robot Manipulation

    Shanghai Jiao Tong University · Shanghai Innovation Institute · Southern University of Science and Technology +1

  8. VistaVLA: Geometry- and Semantic-Aware 3D Gaussian-Grounded VLA for Robotic Manipulation

    Jul 14, 2026Mohan Liu, Zhihao Gu, Xuanyu Chen +5Language-Conditioned Robot Manipulation3D Spatial Reasoning

    EmPACT Lab, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore · Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), A*STAR, Singapore

  9. Affordance-Based Manipulation Planning with Text Goals and Sim-to-Real Generalisation via Real-to-Sim Image Conversion

    Jul 13, 2026Solvi Arnold, Rin Karashima, Tadashi Adachi +2World Models for RoboticsLanguage-Conditioned Robot Manipulation

    SA is at NICT, Japan. Work performed while at Shinshu University, Japan. · Work performed while at Shinshu University, Japan. · RK, TA, TM are at EPSON Avasys, Japan. +1

  10. SUREFlow: State-space Uncertainty-aware REsidual Flow Matching for Robust Robot Manipulation

    Jul 11, 2026Md Tanvir Islam, Sai Navaneet Peddapalli, Sangmoon Lee +1Flow MatchingUncertainty Estimation for VLA Models

    School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Kyungpook National University, Daegu 41566, Republic of Korea

  11. Native Video-Action Pretraining for Generalizable Robot Control

    Jul 9, 2026Qihang Zhang, Lin Li, Luyao Zhang +26Robotic ControlLanguage-Conditioned Robot Manipulation

  12. Harness VLA: Steering Frozen VLAs into Reliable Manipulation Primitives via Memory-Guided Agents

    Jul 9, 2026Yixian Zhang, Huanming Zhang, Feng Gao +14Long-Horizon Robotic ManipulationLanguage-Conditioned Robot Manipulation

    Tsinghua University · Striding AI · Purdue University +4

  13. RynnWorld-4D: 4D Embodied World Models for Robotic Manipulation

    Jul 7, 2026Haoyu Zhao, Xingyue Zhao, Siteng Huang +3Language-Conditioned Robot ManipulationBimanual Robotic Manipulation

    DAMO Academy, Alibaba Group · Hong Kong Embodied AI Lab · CUHK +1

  14. From Fixed to Free Cameras: Calibration-Free View-Robust Vision-Language-Action Model

    Jul 6, 2026Wenhao Li, Xueying Jiang, Quanhao Qian +4Language-Conditioned Robot ManipulationHand-Eye Calibration

    1Nanyang Technological University · 2DAMO Academy, Alibaba Group · 3HuPan Lab +1

  15. Cortex: A Bidirectionally Aligned Embodied Agent Framework for Long-horizon Manipulation

    Jul 6, 2026Jiaqi Peng, Xiqian Yu, Delin Feng +10Long-Horizon Robotic ManipulationLanguage-Conditioned Robot Manipulation

    Tsinghua University · Shanghai AI Laboratory · Peking University +1

  16. DSWAM: A Dual-System World Action Foundation Model for Fine-Grained Robot Manipulation

    Jul 6, 2026Jian Zhu, Jianjun Zhang, Taiyi Su +10Language-Conditioned Robot ManipulationRobot Foundation Models

    1AIRC, Midea Group · 2Tongji University

  17. CAC-VLA: Context-Gated Action Conditioning for Vision-Language-Action Models

    Jul 6, 2026Yifu Xiong, Wenhao Yu, Jiaxuan Lin +5Latent Action LearningLanguage-Conditioned Robot Manipulation

    University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) · Institute of Artificial Intelligence, Hefei Comprehensive National Science Center

  18. VLA Grounder: Language-Conditioning Space Optimization for Black-Box VLA Models

    Jul 5, 2026Damir Shodiev, Aleksei Staroverov, Nikita Kachaev +2Language-Conditioned Robot ManipulationVision-Language-Action Models

    2MIRAI · 1AXXX · 3MISIS

  19. RoboDojo: A Unified Sim-and-Real Benchmark for Comprehensive Evaluation of Generalist Robot Manipulation Policies

    Jul 5, 2026Tianxing Chen, Yue Chen, Zixuan Li +41Long-Horizon Robotic ManipulationLanguage-Conditioned Robot Manipulation

  20. XS-VLA: Teaching Tiny Vision-Language-Action Models with Spatial Supervision and Demonstration Conditioning

    Jul 5, 2026Iok Tong Lei, Ying Jie Yap, Wei Huang +5Robot Policy LearningLanguage-Conditioned Robot Manipulation

    Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. · National College for Excellent Engineers, Beihang University, Beijing, China. · Independent Researcher +1

  21. ACE: Agentic Control for Embodied Manipulation via Zero-shot Workflow Reasoning

    Jul 5, 2026Iok Tong Lei, QianZhi Li, Ying Jie Yap +5Zero-Shot Robotic ManipulationLanguage-Conditioned Robot Manipulation

    Department of Computer Science, Tsinghua University, China · National College for Excellent Engineers, Beihang University, China · Independent Researcher +1

  22. CoRE-VLA: Towards Scalable and Robust Vision-Language-Action Modeling via Conditional Routing of Experts

    Jul 4, 2026Haozhe Zhang, Sixian Li, Yifei Zhang +5Multimodal RobustnessLanguage-Conditioned Robot Manipulation

    Zhejiang University · Shanghai Innovation Institute · Fudan University +2

  23. Bridge-WA: Learning Action-Relevant World Dynamics for Robotic Manipulation

    Jul 2, 2026Yongjie Bai, Mingtong Dai, Zhouxia Wang +5World Models for RoboticsLanguage-Conditioned Robot Manipulation

    Sun Yat-sen University · Pengcheng Laboratory · Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences +1

  24. Sequential Planning via Anchored Robotic Keypoints

    Jun 29, 2026Bryce Grant, Aryeh Rothenberg, Logan Senning +3Language-Conditioned Robot ManipulationGeneralization in Robotic Manipulation

    Department of Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering Case Western Reserve University, United States · Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Case Western Reserve University, United States

  25. OpenSPM: An Environment-Transferable Robotic Key Spatial Pose Memory and Closed-Loop High-Frequency Flow-Matching Action Generation Model

    Jun 29, 2026Iok Tong Lei, Qingchen Xie, Yifan Wang +2Language-Conditioned Robot ManipulationGeneralization in Robotic Manipulation

    Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China · Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China

  26. Hierarchical Policy Learning via Spectral Decomposition

    Jun 28, 2026Shuxin Cao, Liquan Wang, Walker Byrnes +3Robot Policy LearningRobot Skill Learning

    Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA · Georgia Tech Research Institute, Atlanta, Georgia, USA · Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

  27. Event-VLA: Action-Conditioned Event Fusion for Robust Vision-Language-Action Model

    Jun 28, 2026Jiaxin Liu, Xun Xu, Zhenhao Zhang +5Language-Conditioned Robot ManipulationVision-Language-Action Models

    ShanghaiTech · HKUST(GZ) · UMich +1

  28. PAMAE: Phase-Aware-MoE Action Experts Towards Reliable Flow-Matching Vision-Language-Action Policies

    Jun 25, 2026Jiayu Yang, Tao Yang, Xiang Chang +3Flow MatchingLanguage-Conditioned Robot Manipulation

    Department of Artificial Intelligence, School of Informatics, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China · Department of Computer Science, Aberystwyth University, Aberystwyth, U.K.

  29. RelAfford6D: Relational 6D Affordance Graphs for Constraint-Driven Robotic Manipulation

    Jun 25, 2026Guodong Zhang, Qichen He, Wenyuan Xie +6Constrained Motion PlanningZero-Shot Robotic Manipulation

    School of Computer Science, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, P. R. China

  30. SSI-Policy: Learning Structured Scene Interfaces for Vision-Language Robotic Manipulation

    Jun 25, 2026Kaijun Wang, Zikai Ouyang, Xuping Wu +6Robot Skill LearningLanguage-Conditioned Robot Manipulation

    Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen 518055, China · Peng Cheng Laboratory, Shenzhen 518000, China · The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China +1

  31. WatchAct: A Benchmark for Behavior-Grounded Robot Manipulation

    Jun 24, 2026Baiqi Li, Ce Zhang, Yu Fang +4Long-Horizon Robotic ManipulationLanguage-Conditioned Robot Manipulation

    University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

  32. Action ControlNet: A Lightweight Delay-Aware Adapter for Smooth Asynchronous Control in Vision-Language-Action Models

    Jun 24, 2026Tiecheng Guo, Meng GuoRobotic ControlLanguage-Conditioned Robot Manipulation

    The authors are with the School of Advanced Manufacturing and Robotics, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China.

  33. RMTL: Reinforced Micro-task Learning for Long-Horizon Manipulation with VLM Rewards

    Jun 24, 2026Anıl Can Ateş, Orhan Kahraman, Cihan TopalRL for RoboticsLong-Horizon Robotic Manipulation

    Istanbul Technical University

  34. Decoupling Semantics and Geometric Grounding: Spatial Visual Prompts for Language-Conditioned Imitation Learning

    Jun 24, 2026Yanzhe Tang, Xinyu Shao, Yuxuan Hu +6Language-Conditioned Robot ManipulationVision-Language Grounding

    1Tsinghua University, Shenzhen, China. · 2Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Shenzhen, China. · 3National University of Singapore, Singapore.

  35. Bridging Semantics and Kinematics: A Modular Framework for Zero-Shot Robotic Manipulation

    Jun 22, 2026Ali Alabbas, Dipshikha Das, Camillo Murgia +3Zero-Shot Robotic ManipulationLanguage-Conditioned Robot Manipulation

    Department of Electronic, Software and Advanced Manufacturing Engineering, Atlantic Technological University, Galway, Ireland · Atlantic Technological University, Galway, Ireland

  36. Assistron: Bayesian Shared Autonomy with Off-the-shelf Vision-Language-Action Models

    Jun 22, 2026Pinhao Song, Ze Fu, Yutong Hu +1Language-Conditioned Robot ManipulationContact-Rich Robotic Manipulation

    KU Leuven, Dept. Mechanical Engineering, Research unit Robotics, Automation and Mechatronics · KU Leuven, Dept. Electrical Engineering, Research unit Processing Speech and Images

  37. Cloak: Zero-Shot Cross-Embodiment Manipulation by Masking the End-Effector from the VLA

    Jun 22, 2026Michael Piseno, Guy Tevet, C. Karen LiuZero-Shot Robotic ManipulationLanguage-Conditioned Robot Manipulation

    Stanford University

  38. Scalable Multi-Task Data Generation via Reinforcement Learning for Language-Conditioned Bimanual Dexterous Manipulation

    Jun 21, 2026Zechu Li, Yufeng Jin, Puze Liu +2RL for RoboticsDexterous Manipulation

    Department of Computer Science, TU Darmstadt, Germany. · Honda Research Institute Europe GmbH, Offenbach, Germany. · DFKI, Research Department SAIROL, Darmstadt, Germany. +2

  39. VQActFlow: Vector-Quantized Action Mode Steering for Multi-Task Robot Manipulation

    Jun 19, 2026Zhigen Zhao, Mark Leggiero, Yipu Chen +5Latent Action LearningLanguage-Conditioned Robot Manipulation

    Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines (IRIM), Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332

  40. SignVLA: Real-Time Sign Language-Guided Robotic Manipulation via Attention LSTM and Vision-Language-Action Models

    Jun 18, 2026Ningwei Bai, Xinyu Tan, Harry Gardner +6Sign Language TranslationLanguage-Conditioned Robot Manipulation

    Department of Computer Science, University College London.

  41. One-to-Two Acting: A Novel Framework for Single-arm Agent Action Expansion to Dual Arms

    Jun 18, 2026Youbin Yao, Nieqin Cao, Mingyan Li +3Language-Conditioned Robot ManipulationBimanual Robotic Manipulation

    1Chongqing University, Chongqing, China · 2Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Suzhou, China · 3Lumos Roboticss

  42. ZeroDex: Zero-Shot Long-Horizon Dexterous Manipulation via Multi-View 3D-Grounded VLM Reasoning

    Jun 17, 2026Jisoo Kim, Sangwon Baik, Taeksoo Kim +4Dexterous ManipulationZero-Shot Robotic Manipulation

    Seoul National University · RLWRLD

  43. ThinkingVLA: Interleaved Vision and Language Reasoning for Robotic Manipulation

    Jun 16, 2026Tianyi Lu, Hui Zhang, Zijie Diao +8Long-Horizon Robotic ManipulationLanguage-Conditioned Robot Manipulation

    Fudan University · Shanghai Innovation Institue · China Unicom +1

  44. MuseVLA: An Adaptive Multimodal Sensing Vision-Language-Action Model for Robotic Manipulation

    Jun 16, 2026Xingyuming Liu, Ruichun Ma, Heyu Guo +7Language-Conditioned Robot ManipulationRobotic Manipulation

    School of Computer Science, Peking University · 2Microsoft Research Asia · *Work done during internship at Microsoft Research Asia. +2

  45. Geometric Action Model for Robot Policy Learning

    Jun 15, 2026Jisang Han, Seonghu Jeon, Jaewoo Jung +7World Models for RoboticsLanguage-Conditioned Robot Manipulation

    KAIST AI · ETH Zurich · ETH AI Center

  46. ATOM-Bench: A Real-World Benchmark for Atomic Skills and Compositional Generalization in Manipulation Policies

    Jun 15, 2026Zenan Wu, Bingqing Wei, Lu Liu +8Robot Skill LearningLanguage-Conditioned Robot Manipulation

    1Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence · 2Peking University

  47. TacStyle: Personalizing Tactile Robot Policies using Structured Behavior Representations

    Jun 12, 2026Kevin Robledo, Matías I. Torres Galaz, Kumar Dixhant Rai +3Robot Policy LearningRobot Policy Adaptation

    Department of Computer Science California State University, Northridge · Department of Mechanical Engineering California State University, Northridge

  48. AERMANI-PLACE: Language Guided Object Placement with Aerial Manipulators

    Jun 12, 2026Sarthak Mishra, Ritama Sanyal, Rishabh Dev Yadav +2Language-Conditioned Robot ManipulationVision-Language Grounding

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

  49. ReactVLA: Fast and Lightweight Reactive Robot Manipulation via Improved Mean Flow Action Generation

    Jun 12, 2026Yanzhao Guo, Wenkai Chen, Jianwei ZhangLanguage-Conditioned Robot ManipulationEfficient VLM Inference

    Shanghai Jiao Tong University · Technical Aspects of Multimodal Systems (TAMS), Department of Informatics, Universität Hamburg

  50. RepWAM: World Action Modeling with Representation Visual-Action Tokenizers

    Jun 11, 2026Junke Wang, Qihang Zhang, Shuai Yang +5Latent Action LearningWorld Models for Robotics

    Institute of Trustworthy Embodied AI, Fudan University · 2Robbyant, Ant Group · 3Hongkong University of Science and Technology

  51. MaskWAM: Unifying Mask Prompting and Prediction for World-Action Models

    Jun 11, 2026Hanyang Yu, Haitao Lin, Jingbo Zhang +4World Model LearningLanguage-Conditioned Robot Manipulation

    1The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology · ‡Work done during an internship at Tencent Robotics X · 2Tencent Robotics X +1

  52. GIVE: Grounding Human Gestures in Vision-Language-Action Models

    Jun 11, 2026Pengfei Liu, Gen Li, Junqiao Fan +4Language-Conditioned Robot ManipulationVision-Language Grounding

    1MARS Lab, Nanyang Technological University

  53. Trajectory-Level Redirection Attacks on Vision-Language-Action Models

    Jun 11, 2026Gokul Puthumanaillam, Vardhan Dongre, Pranay Thangeda +3Language-Conditioned Robot ManipulationAdversarial Attacks on VLA Models

    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign · Amazon

  54. Bounding Boxes as Goals: Language-Conditioned Grasping via Neuro-Symbolic Planning

    Jun 11, 2026Allison Andreyev, Landon Eum, Nestor Tiglao +1Robotic GraspingZero-Shot Robotic Manipulation

    University of Maryland, Cyber-Physical Systems Engineering

  55. World Pilot: Steering Vision-Language-Action Models with World-Action Priors

    Jun 10, 2026Zefu Lin, Rongxu Cui, Junjia Xu +4Zero-Shot Robotic ManipulationWorld Models for Robotics

    Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CASIA) · Nanjing University · Beihang University

  56. VICX: Generalizable Robot Manipulation via Video Generation and In-Context Operator Network

    Jun 10, 2026Song Chen, Linyan Xiang, Ying Zhou +1ICL for RoboticsLanguage-Conditioned Robot Manipulation

    National University of Singapore

  57. Task Robustness via Re-Labelling Vision-Action Robot Data

    Jun 9, 2026Artur Kuramshin, Özgür Aslan, Cyrus Neary +1Language-Conditioned Robot ManipulationSynthetic Data Generation for Robotics

    1Mila — Quebec AI Institute · 2Université de Montréal · 3The University of British Columbia

  58. CLASP: Language-Driven Robot Skill Selection and Composition using Task-Parameterized Learning

    Jun 6, 2026Markus Knauer, Valentin Gieraths, Tai Mai +4Robot Skill LearningLanguage-Conditioned Robot Manipulation

    German Aerospace Center (DLR), Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics (RMC), Münchener Str. 20, 82234 Weßling, Germany. · School of Computation, Information and Technology (CIT), Technical University of Munich (TUM), Arcisstr. 21, 80333 Munich, Germany.

  59. Robotic Policy Adaptation via Weight-Space Meta-Learning

    Jun 5, 2026Christian Bianchi, Siamak Yousefi, Alessio Sampieri +4Robot Policy AdaptationRobot Skill Learning

    ItalAI · ItalAI and Sapeinza University of Rome

  60. AffordanceVLA: A Vision-Language-Action Model Empowering Action Generation through Affordance-Aware Understanding

    Jun 4, 2026Qize Yu, Jiadi You, Yuran Wang +10Language-Conditioned Robot ManipulationRobotic Manipulation

    Peking University · Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) · The Chinese University of Hong Kong +1