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  1. Execution-Aligned Progressive Noise for Consistent Asynchronous Replanning in Generative Robot Policies

    Oct 5, 2026Di Wu, Ping Liu, Xuhua Chen +3Iterative Re-PlanningRobot Policies

    Magiclab Robotics Technology Co., Ltd., China · Southeast University, Nanjing, China

  2. PROMO: Preference-conditioned Multi-Objective Reinforcement Learning for Quadrupedal Robots

    Oct 1, 2026Amr Mousa, Rifny Rachman, Neil Karavis +2Multi-Objective Reinforcement LearningAgile Locomotion

    The University of Manchester, United Kingdom · BAE Systems, United Kingdom · University of Warwick, United Kingdom

  3. TOAST: Stochastic Robot Action Tokenization for Autoregressive Vision-Language-Action Models

    Oct 1, 2026Keisuke Shirai, Tomohiro Motoda, Hanbit Oh +5Discrete Action TokenizersRobot Policies

    AIST

  4. Does Continual Imitation Learning Remain Grounded? A Language-Perturbed Benchmark for Robotic Task Retention

    Sep 30, 2026Siddeshwar Raghavan, Ziqin Yuan, Fengqing Zhu +1Robot PoliciesRetention

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA. · Department of Computer and Information Technology,Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA. · Computer Science and Intelligent Systems Engineering, Indiana University Bloomington, IN, USA.

  5. DynaHarness: A Dynamic Physical Harness for Self-Evolving Robot Agents

    Sep 30, 2026Haoyuan Deng, Jiebin Liu, Tengxiao Zhang +3Robot PoliciesAgent Harness

    Nanyang Technological University · Nanjing University

  6. PrefPI: Preference-Guided Steering into Out-of-Distribution Behaviors

    Sep 30, 2026Seungeun Rho, Wontaek Kim, Danfei Xu +1Robot PoliciesSteering

    School of Interactive Computing Georgia Institute of Technology

  7. ChunkTrust: Adapting Execution Horizons for Robot Policies with Action-Expert Evidence

    Sep 30, 2026Fanding Huang, Jingyan Jiang, Shifeng Bao +13Robot PoliciesAction Chunks

    Tsinghua University · Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence (BAAI) · Shenzhen Technology University +5

  8. Scale and Selection: What Makes Automatic Harness Evolution Work for Visual-Interface Robot Agents

    Sep 30, 2026Zhijie Wei, Ferris Tan, Jinghui WangAgentic OptimizationRobot Policies

    Novaxbot

  9. Looking Back to Move Forward: Temporal Verification for Generative Robot Policies

    Sep 30, 2026Haoxuan Wang, Wayne Wu, Yan Yan +1Robot PoliciesImitation Learning

    University of Illinois Chicago · University of California, Los Angeles

  10. BlenDAgger: Blended Shared Control for Interactive Imitation Learning

    Sep 29, 2026Cailyn Smith, Geoffrey Sun, Henny Admoni +1Robotic Manipulation PoliciesRobot Policies

    The Robotics Institute, School of Computer Science Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, USA · School of Computer Science Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, USA

  11. Wrench-ACT: Enhancing Robot Policies for Contact Rich Behavior Using Direct Wrench Control

    Sep 29, 2026Johannes Hechtl, Yannik Blei, Simon Ball +5Robotic Manipulation PoliciesContact Wrench Estimation

    Siemens Research and Predevelopment · Department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, University of Technology Nuremberg, Germany

  12. PreferenceFlow: Test-Time Guidance of Flow-Matching Robot Policies from Human Interventions

    Sep 29, 2026Yiqi Tang, Diyuan Shi, Runze Li +1Flow PoliciesRobot Policies

    Westlake University

  13. Simple Agentic Memory for Generalist Robot Policies

    Sep 29, 2026Yuyou Zhang, Yunbei Zhang, Miao Li +4Agentic MemoryRobot Policies

    Carnegie Mellon University · Tulane University · New York University +2

  14. Reactive Real-Time Flow Policies via Asynchronous Distribution Alignment

    Sep 29, 2026Moritz Zoellner, Reece O'Mahoney, Ioannis Havoutis +1Asynchronous ExecutionRobot Policies

    Department of Computer Science, Purdue University · Oxford Robotics Institute, University of Oxford

  15. LIBERO-MAX: Do Robot Policies Adapt When the World Changes?

    Sep 29, 2026Yunbei Zhang, Zijian Jin, Yuanzhe Liu +14Robot PoliciesLibero Manipulation Benchmark

    Tulane University · New York University · UIUC +6

  16. Scouting the Dynamics Gap: Test-Time Policy Adaptation via Action-Outcome Feedback

    Sep 28, 2026Yishu Li, Liyuan Geng, Xinyi Mao +2Robot PoliciesMeta-Learning

    Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University · Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University

  17. Spatial Grafting: Grounding 3D Features for Flow-Matching Robot Policies

    Sep 28, 2026Dingsheng Liu, Yangzheng Wu, Mahboubeh Asadi +5Robotic Manipulation PoliciesRobot Policies

    University of Toronto · Huawei Noah’s Ark Lab · Department of Foundation Model, 2012 Labs

  18. Zero-Shot Reactive Obstacle Avoidance for Generative Robot Policies

    Sep 28, 2026Weihang Guo, Lydia E. KavrakiObstacle AvoidanceRobot Policies

    Department of Computer Science, Rice University, Houston, TX, USA · Ken Kennedy Institute at Rice University

  19. Don't Throw Away the Tail: Action Upcycling for Policy Acceleration

    Sep 28, 2026Taesung Kwon, Jangho Park, Sunwoo Park +5Robot PoliciesDiffusion-Based Vision-Language-Actions

    KAIST · Sungkyunkwan University

  20. Principal Steering Subspaces for Online Adaptation of Frozen Generative Robot Policies

    Sep 27, 2026Jialeng Ni, Nathan Zhao, Kunpeng SongRobot PoliciesLatent Action Models

    University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA. · XPENG Robotics, Santa Clara, CA, USA.

  21. Demonstration-Free Success-Probability Reward Learning for Generalist Robot Policies

    Sep 27, 2026Duo Wu, Haifeng Wang, Rongwei Lu +6Robot PoliciesRobot Systems

    Tsinghua University · Yuanxing Robotics · Pengcheng Laboratory

  22. DRAM: Delta-rule Recurrent Associative Memory for Robot Manipulation Policies

    Sep 26, 2026Xinyu Zhao, Yixiang Shan, Tao Yang +5Robot PoliciesRobotic Manipulation Policies

    Simplexity Robotics

  23. Residual Denoising Enables Sample-Efficient Multi-Agent Coordination on Demand

    Sep 26, 2026Dayi Dong, Maulik Bhatt, Aayushi Shrivastava +2Multi-Agent CoordinationRobot Policies

    Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94709, USA

  24. RACaP: Agentic Reasoning, Acting, and Coding as Policies for Evolvable Robot Learning

    Sep 24, 2026Zexi Li, Yehang Zhang, Haojian Huang +10Robot PoliciesScalable Robot Learning

    The Chinese University of Hong Kong · Knowin AI · The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)

  25. RoboRecover: Benchmarking Robot Policy Recovery under Execution Deviations

    Sep 24, 2026Yang Li, Chen Zhao, Zhuoran Wang +5Robot PoliciesRobot Systems

    School of Information, Renmin University of China, Beijing, China · Key Laboratory of Data Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, Beijing, China · University of Science and Technology of China +1

  26. Turning Safety into Competence: Minimally Exploitable Robot Policies via Safety-Filtered Reinforcement Learning

    Sep 23, 2026Ruihan Wu, Rui Yang, Donggeon David Oh +2Safety FiltersRobot Policies

    Department of Computer Science, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA · Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA

  27. MotionForge: A Data Generation Pipeline and Large-Scale Benchmark for Long-Horizon Manipulation of Dynamic Objects with Domain Shifts

    Sep 22, 2026Mohan Liu, Dengchen Mei, Haotian Xian +7Robotic Manipulation PoliciesLong-Horizon Manipulation

    Embodied Perception and Interaction Lab (EmPACT Lab), School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore · School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, and the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore · Beijing Normal-Hong Kong Baptist University (BNBU), Zhuhai, Guangdong, China

  28. IndustrialVLA-Bench: A Traceable Multi-Axis Evaluation of Open Robot Policy Models

    Sep 22, 2026Yiqi Wang, Zhifeng Rao, Jiaqi Zhang +7Robot PoliciesRobot Systems

    Griffith University, Queensland, Australia · Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China · Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang, China +4

  29. Norm2Tex: Augmenting Visuo-Tactile Simulations with Texture

    Sep 21, 2026Seongjin Bien, Débora Oliveira Makowski, Roberto Calandra +2TactileContact-Rich Dexterous Manipulation

    University of Technology Nuremberg, Germany. · Technical University of Dresden, Germany. · Deggendorf Institute of Technology, Germany.

  30. An Unexpected Robot Policy: Early Evaluations of GPT-6 Astra on RoboDojo and Beyond

    Sep 21, 2026Wenbo Zhang, Kaixuan Wang, Yutao Ouyang +9Robot PoliciesEmbodied Artificial Intelligence

    RoboProbe · RoboDojo · The University of Hong Kong +5

  31. Dexterous Robot Manipulation from Human Demonstrations via Contact-Anchored Retargeting and Residual Policy Learning

    Sep 21, 2026Zihao Yang, Chengyuan Liu, Yu Zhou +6Cross-Embodiment RetargetingBimanual Manipulation

    DexGEM Lab · Shanghai Jiao Tong University · Tongji University +1

  32. HEARTH: An Object-Centric RGB-Thermal-3D Dataset for Temperature-Aware Robot Manipulation

    Sep 20, 2026Yuning Su, Borui Li, Yonghao Shi +2Large-Scale Robot Demonstration DatasetsRobotic Manipulation

    Simon Fraser University

  33. SeeQ: Training Generalist Value Functions for Long-Horizon Robotic Manipulation

    Sep 18, 2026Saksham Singh, Zheyuan Hu, Max Sobol Mark +3Robot PoliciesRobotic Manipulation

    Carnegie Mellon University

  34. StageGuard: Learning Stage Transitions for Long-Horizon Robot Tasks via Agentic Distillation

    Sep 17, 2026Jinbang Huang, Yuanzhao Hu, Zhiyuan Li +6Robot StateRobot Policies

    Huawei Noah’s Ark Lab · University of British Columbia · University of Toronto +1

  35. MoWAM: Explicit Future Motion Prediction for Efficient World Action Models

    Sep 17, 2026Jiayu Wang, Bin Zhu, Yue Yu +1Efficient World-Action ModelWorld Models

    College of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, Fudan University, Shanghai, China · Singapore Management University, Singapore · Institute of Trustworthy Embodied AI, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

  36. SkipVLA: Skipping VLA Steps with Classical Planning for Fast Robot Manipulation

    Sep 17, 2026Kaivalya Agrawal, Md Ashiqur Rahman, Raymond A. Yeh +1Robot PoliciesClassical Planning

    Department of Computer Science, Purdue University

  37. TraceFlow: Guiding Frozen Flow-Matching Robot Policies with Success and Failure Traces

    Sep 17, 2026Jiaxuan Zhang, Ruizhe Liu, Yu Zhang +1Flow-Matching Vision-Language-ActionFlow Policies

    The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China. · Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China. · HKU InfoBodied AI Lab

  38. AnyviewMeter: Adapting Robotic Reward Models with Camera Geometry and Multi-View Attention

    Sep 17, 2026Yuang Tu, Runjia Tan, Yujie Yan +2Robotic PerceptionRobot Policies

    Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

  39. Learning and Transferring Closed-Loop Robot Software

    Sep 17, 2026So Kuroki, Yujin TangRobot PoliciesRobocasa

    Sakana AI

  40. GR2PO: Group Relative Return Policy Optimization for Continuous Robot Control

    Sep 17, 2026Pengqin Wang, Qiming Zhang, Shaojie Shen +1Robot PoliciesSoft Actor-Critic

    Robotics and Autonomous Systems Thrust, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), Guangzhou, China · Division of Emerging Interdisciplinary Areas, the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong SAR, China · Intelligent Transportation Thrust, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), Guangzhou, China +1

  41. Improving Cross-embodiment Transfer in Latent Action Models with Action-Similarity Supervision

    Sep 17, 2026Maxime Alvarez, Renzo Caballero, Tatsuya Matsushima +2Latent ActionsLatent Action Models

    Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo

  42. WorldContact: A Contact-Centric World Model for Scalable Robot Learning

    Sep 17, 2026Caoliwen Wang, Mengdi Wang, Heng Zhang +7Tactile World ModelScalable Robot Learning

    University of British Columbia · Westlake University · Style3D Research

  43. FIERCE: From Generalist Robot Policies to Fast Specialists via Progress-Failure Feedback

    Sep 16, 2026Runjia Tan, Yuang Tu, Yujie Yan +3Robot Policies

    Nanyang Technological University. · Guangzhou Cloudbutterfly Technology Co., Ltd.

  44. Steering Generative Robot Policies with Lexicographic Preferences

    Sep 14, 2026Yixuan Jia, Jonathan P. HowRobot PoliciesRobot Systems

    Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02319 USA

  45. Agent as Policy for Robotic Manipulation

    Sep 11, 2026Mengzhao Jia, Yang Lin, Xixin Zhang +3Robotic ManipulationRobot Policies

    University of Notre Dame · University of California San Diego · San Diego State University

  46. Beyond Noise Steering: Dual-Latent Space Reinforcement Learning for Generative Robot Policy

    Sep 11, 2026Pengfei Zhang, Teng Sun, Xianchao XiuRobot PoliciesLatent Action Models

    School of Mechatronic Engineering and Automation, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China

  47. Memory as Plans: World-Action Modeling with Memory-Grounded Planning

    Sep 11, 2026Sizhe Zhao, Haozhe Xie, Weiyu Zhao +5Efficient World-Action ModelRobot Policies

    Harbin Institute of Technology, China · Nanyang Technological University, Singapore · Shandong University, China +1

  48. DIA: Denoising Intermediate Advantage for Diffusion Policy Optimization

    Sep 10, 2026Arjun Sohal, Yuchi Zhao, Miroslav Bogdanovic +1Diffusion PoliciesRobot Policies

    University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada · Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Toronto, ON, Canada · Acceleration Consortium, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada +2

  49. No Free Checker: A Survey of Verifiers for Robot Policies

    Sep 10, 2026Yang Wan, Xihang Yue, Zhirui Liu +7Verification FrameworkPolicy Evaluation

    Zhejiang University · City University of Hong Kong

  50. HaWMPO: Hallucination-Aware World Model-based Policy Optimization for Generalist Robot Policy

    Sep 9, 2026Zengjue Chen, Peidong Liu, Jiawei Li +1Efficient World-Action ModelRobot Policies

    Joy Future Academy, JD · School of Artificial Intelligence, Jilin University

  51. Proxy Policy Steering

    Sep 8, 2026Chuanruo Ning, Tianrui Wang, Wei-Chiu Ma +1Robot PoliciesRobot Systems

    Cornell University

  52. Measuring Language Transfer in Robot Policies: Adding Greek to a Cosmos3 Vision-Language-Action Policy

    Sep 7, 2026Ayoub Kirouane, Georgios Giaples, Christos PetrocheilosRobot PoliciesCross-Lingual Transfer

    Sophea AI, KIEFER SA, Athens, Greece

  53. PAVE: Predictive Alignment and Value-Guided Evolution for World-Action Policies

    Aug 31, 2026Botong Zhao, Fang Yu, Tim Yu +3Generalizable Vision-Language-Action PoliciesAction Prediction

    Multi-Dimensional Information Processing Laboratory, East China Normal University · EBKernel · Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory

  54. AcrossWAM1.0:A Modular Latent World-Action Stack for Compact Robot Policies

    Aug 30, 2026Yafei Zhang, Nan WuLatent World ModelsRobot Policies

    Across Physical AI, Beijing, China

  55. EMERGE-Policy: A Robot Mind Emerges Beyond a Single Policy

    Aug 30, 2026Zhirui Fang, Qingchi Yu, Ziyang Chen +18Robot PoliciesEmbodied Agents

    Tsinghua University · Nanjing University of Science and Technology · Xi’an Jiaotong University +3

  56. WorldToken: Time-First Sequence Modeling for Robotic Imitation Learning

    Aug 23, 2026Chunkai Yang, Andong Yang, Di Huang +2Discrete Action TokenizersEfficient World-Action Model

    School of Remote Sensing and Information Engineering, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China. · Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. · Institute for AI Industry Research, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.

  57. Adaptation of Generalist Robot Policies with Minimal Data

    Aug 11, 2026Shreyas Kowshik, Sreyas Venkataraman, Leo Wang +3Robot PoliciesRobot Systems

    Carnegie Mellon University

  58. XPolicyLab: A Unified Standard and Open Ecosystem for Robot Policy Evaluation and Deployment

    Aug 10, 2026XPolicyLab Community, Tianxing Chen, Yue Chen +65Robot PoliciesRobot Systems

  59. JEPA-WAM: Learning Vision-Language-Action Policies with Joint-Embedding World Modeling

    Aug 10, 2026Yihan Lin, Jiawei He, Shifeng Bao +6Efficient World-Action ModelRobot Policies

    School of Information, Renmin University of China, Beijing, China · XYZ Embodied AI, Beijing, China · Key Laboratory of Data Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, Beijing, China +3

  60. OnEvoMemory: Evolving Memory through Online Robot Rollouts for Pretrained Robot Policies

    Aug 9, 2026Zhongxi Chen, Shenqi ZongRobot PoliciesLong-Horizon Manipulation

    Shanghai Jiao Tong University · Tsinghua University