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  1. SPAN-Nav: Generalized Spatial Awareness for Versatile Embodied Navigation

    Mar 10, 2026Jiahang Liu, Tianyu Xu, Jiawei Chen +9Embodied NavigationVision-Language Navigation

    Peking University · Galbot · BAAI

  2. APPLV: Adaptive Planner Parameter Learning from Vision-Language-Action Model

    Mar 9, 2026Yuanjie Lu, Beichen Wang, Zhengqi Wu +4Robot NavigationRobot Policy Generalization

    Department of Computer Science, George Mason University, Virginia, USA · Department of Engineering Science, University of South Florida, Florida, USA · Department of Computer Science, Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA

  3. Seed2Scale: A Self-Evolving Data Engine with Parallel Worlds Expansion for Scalable Robot Learning

    Mar 9, 2026Cong Tai, Zhaoyu Zheng, Haixu Long +12Synthetic Data Generation for RoboticsData-Efficient Robot Learning

    ZTE Corporation, China

  4. Multimodal Behavior Tree Generation: A Small Vision-Language Model for Robot Task Planning

    Mar 6, 2026Riccardo Andrea Izzo, Cristiano Battistini, Gianluca Bardaro +1Large Language Model-Based Robot PlanningSynthetic Data Generation for Robotics

    Department of Electronics, Information, and Bioengineering, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy

  5. Observing and Controlling Features in Vision-Language-Action Models

    Mar 5, 2026Hugo Buurmeijer, Carmen Amo Alonso, Aiden Swann +1VLM InterpretabilityVision-Language-Action Models

    Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Stanford University · Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University · NVIDIA Research

  6. OpenFrontier: General Navigation with Visual-Language Grounded Frontiers

    Mar 5, 2026Esteban Padilla-Cerdio, Boyang Sun, Marc Pollefeys +1Robot NavigationVision-Language Navigation

    1ETH Zurich · 2Microsoft Spatial AI Lab · University of Bonn

  7. I-Perceive: A Foundation Model for Vision-Language Active Perception

    Feb 28, 2026Yongxi Huang, Zhuohang Wang, Wenjing Tang +3Active PerceptionRobot Foundation Models

    Shanghai Jiao Tong University · Shanghai Innovation Institute · Beihang University

  8. NovaPlan: Zero-Shot Long-Horizon Manipulation via Closed-Loop Video Language Planning

    Feb 23, 2026Jiahui Fu, Junyu Nan, Lingfeng Sun +7Long-Horizon Robotic ManipulationZero-Shot Robotic Manipulation

    Robotics and AI Institute · Carnegie Mellon University · Brown University +1

  9. VLANeXt: Recipes for Building Strong VLA Models

    Feb 20, 2026Xiao-Ming Wu, Bin Fan, Kang Liao +6Robotic ManipulationVision-Language-Action Models

    1S-Lab, Nanyang Technological University · 2ACE Robotics · 3Sun Yat-sen University +2

  10. 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

  11. Think Proprioceptively: State-Grounded Visual Token Selection for VLA Policies

    Feb 6, 2026Fangyuan Wang, Peng Zhou, Jiaming Qi +4Efficient VLM InferenceVisuomotor Policy Learning

    The Hong Kong Polytechnic University · Great Bay University · Northeast Forestry University +2

  12. TIDAL: Temporally Interleaved Diffusion and Action Loop for High-Frequency VLA Control

    Jan 21, 2026Yuteng Sun, Haoran Wang, Ruofei Bai +4Robotic ControlDiffusion Policy

    Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), A*STAR, Singapore · 2Tsinghua University, Beijing, China · 3Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

  13. Visual-Language-Guided Task Planning for Horticultural Robots

    Jan 17, 2026Jose Cuaran, Kendall Koe, Aditya Potnis +2Large Language Model-Based Robot PlanningVision-Language Grounding

    The Siebel School of Computing and Data Science, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign · National Center for Supercomputing Applications at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign · The Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

  14. Learning to Feel the Future: DreamTacVLA for Contact-Rich Manipulation

    Dec 29, 2025Guo Ye, Zexi Zhang, Xu Zhao +4Contact-Rich Robotic ManipulationWorld Models

    Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA

  15. StereoVLA: Enhancing Vision-Language-Action Models with Stereo Vision

    Dec 26, 2025Shengliang Deng, Mi Yan, Yixin Zheng +7Visual Spatial ReasoningRobotic Manipulation

    Galbot · The University of Hong Kong · CFCS, School of CS, Peking University +3

  16. Towards Spatial Trace with Reasoning in Vision-Language Models for Robotics

    Dec 15, 2025Enshen Zhou, Yibo Li, Jingkun An +123D Spatial ReasoningVLMs for Robotics

    School of Software, Beihang University · Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence · State Key Laboratory of Multimedia Information Processing, School of Computer Science, Peking University +2

  17. IndustryNav: Exploring Spatial Reasoning of Embodied Agents in Dynamic Industrial Navigation

    Nov 21, 2025Yifan Li, Lichi Li, Anh Dao +15Visual Spatial ReasoningEmbodied Navigation

    Michigan State University · Independent Researcher · University of California, Irvine +7

  18. SlotVLA: Towards Modeling of Object-Relation Representations in Robotic Manipulation

    Nov 10, 2025Taisei Hanyu, Nhat Chung, Huy Le +10Representation LearningObject-Centric Representation Learning

    University of Arkansas, USA · FPT Software AI Center, Vietnam · University of Stuttgart, Germany +5

  19. 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

  20. UrbanVLA: A Vision-Language-Action Model for Urban Micromobility

    Oct 27, 2025Anqi Li, Zhiyong Wang, Jiazhao Zhang +5Robot NavigationSafe Robot Navigation

    Peking University · Galbot · USTC +1

  21. VisCoP: Visual Probing for Video Domain Adaptation of Vision Language Models

    Oct 15, 2025Dominick Reilly, Manish Kumar Govind, Le Xue +1Domain AdaptationVLM Adaptation

    University of North Carolina at Charlotte · Elorian AI

  22. Verifier-free Test-Time Sampling for Vision-Language-Action Models

    Oct 7, 2025Suhyeok Jang, Dongyoung Kim, Changyeon Kim +2Test-Time ScalingVision-Language-Action Models

    1KAIST · 3RLWRLD · 2Seoul National University

  23. ZeST: an VLM-based Zero-Shot Traversability Navigation for Unknown Environments

    Aug 26, 2025Shreya Gummadi, Mateus V. Gasparino, Gianluca Capezzuto +2Robot NavigationSafe Robot Navigation

    Field Robotics Engineering and Science Hub (FRESH), Illinois Autonomous Farm, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), IL · Mobile Robotics Group, S˜ao Carlos School of Engineering, University of S˜ao Paulo (EESC-USP), S˜ao Carlos, SP, Brazil

  24. VOTE: Vision-Language-Action Optimization with Trajectory Ensemble Voting

    Jul 7, 2025Juyi Lin, Amir Taherin, Arash Akbari +11Robotic ControlEfficient VLA Model Inference

    Northeastern University, Boston, USA · EmbodyX,San Mateo,USA

  25. 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

  26. Gondola: Grounded Vision Language Planning for Robotic Manipulation

    Jun 12, 2025Shizhe Chen, Ricardo Garcia, Paul Pacaud +1Long-Horizon Robotic ManipulationRobot Task Planning

    Inria, École normale supérieure, CNRS, PSL Research University

  27. Image-based Geo-localization for Robotics: Are Black-box Vision-Language Models there yet?

    Jan 28, 2025Sania Waheed, Bruno Ferrarini, Michael Milford +2VLM RobustnessCross-View Geo-Localization

    School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ · MyWay srl, Via Osti, 6 - 29010 Vernasca (PC) · School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD 4000, Australia +1

  28. Open-Vocabulary Object-Goal Navigation by Generalizing Semantic Mapping with Dense CLIP

    Jul 12, 2024Meng Wei, Chenyang Wan, Tai Wang +6Embodied NavigationVision-Language Navigation

    Shanghai AI Lab · Zhejiang University · The University of Hong Kong

  29. 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

  30. Modular Sensory Stream for Integrating Physical Feedback in Vision-Language-Action Models

    Date pendingJimin Lee, Huiwon Jang, Myungkyu Koo +2Vision-Language-Action ModelsVLMs for Robotics

    KAIST · RLWRLD