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  1. SpatialHarness: Test-Time Spatial Scaffolding for Fine Robotic Manipulation

    Oct 8, 2026Jiayu Wang, Yue Yu, Bin Zhu +2Robotic ManipulationVLMs for Robotics

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

  2. Recompose and Refine Latent Reasoning Flows for Vision-Language-Action Models

    Oct 8, 2026Hongyu Shi, Sen Zhao, Zuyu Zhang +5Vision-Language-Action ModelsVLMs for Robotics

    School of Computer Science and Technology, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Chongqing, China · Academy of Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Chongqing, China · School of Artificial Intelligence, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Chongqing, China +2

  3. Learning Language-Conditioned Traversability Representations for Adaptive Visual Navigation

    Oct 8, 2026Senda Chen, Changxu Cheng, Fangdi Li +2Robot NavigationVision-Language Navigation

    Uni-Ubi

  4. Rewiring Semantics, Dynamics, and Control: A Simple yet Effective Action-Centric Tri-Stream Transformer

    Oct 8, 2026Shuang Luo, Yilun Kong, Yunpeng Qing +5Vision-Language-Action ModelsLanguage-Conditioned Robot Manipulation

    Nanyang Technological University · ACE Robotics

  5. Rendering-Free Lookahead for Question-Guided Active Vision

    Oct 8, 2026Koya Sakamoto, Daichi Azuma, Shuhei Kurita +4Vision-Based Robot ControlVLMs for Robotics

    The University of Tokyo, Japan · National Institute of Informatics, Japan · Institute of Science Tokyo, Japan +2

  6. OpenViTac: Learning and Benchmarking Visuo-Tactile Policies in a Unified Sim-and-Real Framework

    Oct 7, 2026Yifan Wu, Qin Li, Nan Min +14Robot Manipulation BenchmarksTactile Sensing for Robotic Manipulation

    Fudan University · Shanghai Key Laboratory of Multimodal Embodied AI · Hefei University of Technology +3

  7. YUBI-STAG: Contact and Semantic-Rich Alignment for VLAs via Automated Video-Language Grounding

    Oct 7, 2026Masatoshi Tateno, Takehiko Ohkawa, Yueh-Hua Wu +4Vision-Language GroundingVLMs for Robotics

    AI Robot Association (AIRoA) · The University of Tokyo · Institute of Science Tokyo

  8. VOMMI: Collecting and Leveraging Portable Demonstrations for Mobile Manipulation

    Oct 6, 2026Yutian Zhang, Xingrui Xiong, Siyuan Ma +12Mobile ManipulationRobotic Data Collection

    ZJU · Yale · THU +5

  9. VLA-ACL: Action-Consistent Visual Token Pruning for Efficient Vision-Language-Action Models

    Oct 6, 2026Owen Du, Yang Yue, Jie Zhang +3Efficient VLA ModelsVLMs for Robotics

    ETH Zurich · Tsinghua University

  10. StairVLA: Stage-Aware Hierarchical Action Generation for Vision-Language-Action Models

    Oct 6, 2026Shangyuan Yuan, Xinda Qi, Yujiang Pu +2Efficient VLA Model InferenceVision-Language-Action Models

    Michigan State University · Ant Technology U.S., Inc.

  11. TacZero: Training-Free Peg Insertion Using a General-Purpose Vision-Language Model with Tactile Feedback

    Oct 6, 2026Kazutoshi TanakaZero-Shot Robotic ManipulationContact-Rich Robotic Manipulation

    OMRON SINIC X Corporation, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan

  12. Seeing the Invisible: Physics-Guided Visual Prompting for Temperature- and Radiation-Aware VLA Navigation

    Oct 6, 2026Hojoon Son, Fan ZhangSafe Robot NavigationVision-Language Navigation

    George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332-0405 USA

  13. VLA-ZO: Fast Zeroth-Order Adaptation for Vision-Language-Action Models

    Oct 5, 2026Jaemin Kim, Jiahn Kim, Taesik GongZeroth-Order OptimizationEfficient VLA Model Inference

    UNIST

  14. When Does Retrieval Help? A Study of In-Context Adaptation in Vision-Language-Action Models

    Oct 4, 2026Zixuan Liu, Joris Köster, Zizhan Zheng +1Vision-Language-Action ModelsRetrieval-Augmented ICL

    Department of Computer Science, Tulane University · Department of Computer Science, Aalto University · Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, Aalto University

  15. Beyond LLM Serving: Characterizing Vision-Language-Action Workloads for Embodied AI System Design

    Oct 4, 2026Seonghun Jung, Sieun Moon, Jiyoung Jeong +2Efficient VLA Model InferenceVision-Language-Action Models

    KAIST Daejeon, Republic of Korea

  16. GeoBridge-VLA: Geometry-Aware Residual Adaptation for Vision-Language-Action Models

    Oct 4, 2026Hyun Song, Kangmin Kim, Loren Jinsoo Um +4Robotic ManipulationVision-Language-Action Models

    School of Computing, iRASC Lab., Gachon University

  17. Triggering Generalist Reasoning via Predictive Uncertainty for Dual-System VLA

    Oct 4, 2026Hyemin Yang, Wooseong Jeong, Giwon Lee +1Uncertainty Estimation for VLA ModelsEfficient VLA Model Inference

    KAIST

  18. Imagine the Future, Internalize the Gist: Efficient VLA Reasoning via Internalized Spatiotemporal Imagination

    Oct 2, 2026Shenglan Li, Zhendong Mi, Hengyi Zhu +6VLMs for RoboticsReasoning for VLA Models

    Stevens Institute of Technology · Northeastern University · Arizona State University +1

  19. DuoMind: Enabling Distributed Multi-Robot Coordination with Semantic Communication

    Oct 1, 2026Hanchu Zhou, Dechen Gao, Hang Wang +5Semantic CommunicationMulti-Robot Coordination

    University of California, Davis · Microsoft Research · Analog Devices

  20. ATI-VLA: Action-Centric Predictive Vision-Language-Action Models via Actionable Alignment Then Adaptive Injection

    Oct 1, 2026Yijie Zhu, Rui Shao, Jie He +8Robotic ManipulationVision-Language-Action Models

    Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen · Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Great Bay University · Shenzhen Loop Area Institute +3

  21. UniTrackPLA: Unified Panorama-Language-Action Model for Instruction-Guided Navigation and Dynamic Person Tracking

    Oct 1, 2026Pengfei Qi, Haoran Lin, Sizhuang Chen +7Visual Object TrackingRobot Navigation

    College of Integrated Circuits, Hunan University, Changsha, China · School of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics and the National Engineering Research Center of Robot Visual Perception and Control Technology, Hunan University, Changsha, China · School of Advanced Technology, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Suzhou, China +1

  22. Are Frontier VLM Agents Ready to Be Robot Generalists? An Empirical Study with the Embodied Agent Arena

    Oct 1, 2026Haojian Huang, Pukun Zhao, Zexi Li +7VLM EvaluationVisual Reasoning

    HKUST (Guangzhou) · Knowin AI · The Chinese University of Hong Kong

  23. When Reasoning Helps Action: Monitoring and Steering Chain-of-Thought in Vision-Language-Action Policies

    Sep 30, 2026Sathwik Karnik, Joseph JR. Lee, Aryaman Gupta +1VLMs for Autonomous DrivingVision-Language-Action Models

    Safe and Intelligent Autonomy Lab, Stanford University

  24. Token-World: World Modeling in Vision-Language Model Token Space for Robot Manipulation

    Sep 30, 2026Chuyao Fu, Xiaowei Chi, Yuhan Rui +14World ModelsAction-Conditioned World Models

    Southern University of Science and Technology · MUKA Robotics · Hong Kong University of Science and Technology +3

  25. Same Scene, Different Task: Skill Alignment for Compositional Generalization in VLAs

    Sep 30, 2026Taegeun Yang, Youngju Na, Yoonki Cho +1Vision-Language-Action ModelsCounterfactual Data Augmentation

    Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)

  26. Towards a General Humanoid Loco-Manipulation Model via Egocentric Whole-Body Human Data Pretraining

    Sep 30, 2026Chongyang Xu, Zhao Wu, Jin Chen +9Humanoid Loco-ManipulationCross-Embodiment Robot Learning

    Alibaba Group · Sichuan University · Shanghai Innovation Institute +2

  27. PhasePlan: Ordered Future-Phase Planning for Robot Brain Models

    Sep 30, 2026Xiaoyu Yang, Yafei Zhang, Wensheng Li +2Robot Motion GenerationRobot Task Planning

  28. ChronoGraph: Functional 4D Scene Graphs with Vision-Language Models for Interaction Understanding and Grounded Planning

    Sep 30, 2026Chenyangguang Zhang, Malgorzata Gwiazda, Guanlong Jiao +5Graph-Based Planning4D Scene Understanding

    ETH Zurich · Technical University of Munich · University of British Columbia +3

  29. GroundingPI: A Grounding Foundation Model towards Physical Intelligence with Visual Primitives

    Sep 30, 2026Qize Yu, Lianrui Fan, Boyu Chen +23Vision-Language GroundingVLMs for Robotics

    XPeng Inc. · Peking University · The University of Hong Kong +4

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

    Sep 30, 2026Haoxuan Wang, Wayne Wu, Yan Yan +1Robot Policy LearningRobotic Policy Evaluation

    University of Illinois Chicago · University of California, Los Angeles