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  1. EMPIRIC: Experiment-Driven Learning of Residual World Models for Robot Planning

    Sep 28, 2026Yichao Liang, Amber Li, Dat Nguyen +13World Models for RoboticsResidual Dynamics Learning

    Basis Research Institute · University of Cambridge · Carnegie Mellon University +6

  2. ECHO: Event-Augmented Context with Hindsight and Outlook for Wrist-Only Manipulation

    Sep 28, 2026Xinyue Wang, Yicheng Jiang, Zesen Gan +8Event-Based VisionWorld Models for Robotics

    The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology · The University of British Columbia · MMLab, The Chinese University of Hong Kong +2

  3. LRC-JEPA: Disentangling Dynamics and Residual Context for Efficient World Models

    Sep 28, 2026Luzhe Huang, Lei Chu, Jingyi Liang +1Disentangled Representation LearningWorld Models for Robotics

    Independent researcher

  4. FutureDuet: Decoupling Observation Access from Future Supervision in World Action Models

    Sep 28, 2026Jie Wu, Yuzhi Huang, Junqi Liu +5World Models for RoboticsWorld Action Models

    Tsinghua University · TeleAI, China Telecom · Shenzhen Technology University

  5. When World Models Lie: Adaptive Safety Analysis Under Wrong Imaginations

    Sep 28, 2026John Cao, Somil BansalReachability AnalysisWorld Models for Robotics

    Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Stanford University

  6. Achieve What You Imagined: Learning to Align Actions with Visual Plans

    Sep 27, 2026Yuheng Qiao, Ziran Wei, Xiaohan Wang +5World Models for RoboticsWorld Model-Based Planning

    KTH · Beihang University · The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) +2

  7. ForeFly: A Dual-Horizon World Action Model for Aerial Vision-Language Navigation

    Sep 27, 2026Kunhui Wang, Xintong Zhang, Junyu Gao +1World Models for RoboticsUAV Navigation

    State Key Laboratory of Multimodal Artificial Intelligence Systems, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China · School of Advanced Interdisciplinary Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China · Division of Natural and Applied Sciences, Duke Kunshan University, Suzhou, China +1

  8. VIDEAS: Distilling Explicit Action Semantics from Demonstration Videos for World Models via Prior-Guided Simulation

    Sep 27, 2026Jianan Wang, Haoquan Zhai, Siyang Zhang +7World Model LearningWorld Models for Robotics

    College of Computer Science and Technology, National University of Defense Technology · School of Electronic, Electrical and Communication Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · Intelligent Game and Decision Lab (IGDL) +1

  9. AD-WM: Action-Discriminative World Models for Counterfactual Model Predictive Control

    Sep 24, 2026Jiabin Qiu, Zixuan Chen, Hongye Cao +3World Models for RoboticsWorld Model-Based Planning

    Nanjing University

  10. Rolling-WAM: World Action Models with Rolling Imagination

    Sep 24, 2026Yinghua Zhou, Junjie Ye, Yiqi Zhao +8Efficient InferenceWorld Models for Robotics

    University of Southern California · Brown University · Fudan University +1

  11. Underwater C3-JEPA: An Object-Centric Cross-View World Model for ROV Salvage

    Sep 24, 2026Yuncong Yang, Jinlong Li, Yulong Xue +4World Models for RoboticsJoint-Embedding Predictive Architecture

    Underwater Engineering Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China

  12. Aim Short to Reach Far: Your Frozen World Model Can Plan Better Than You Think

    Sep 24, 2026Xvyuan Liu, Jianjie Fang, Wei Wu +2World Models for RoboticsWorld Model-Based Planning

    Tsinghua University

  13. Representation World Model: Learning States, Transition and Executable Plans in Representation

    Sep 24, 2026Yijun Yuan, Weicheng Zheng, Weibang Wang +7World Models for RoboticsWorld Model-Based Planning

    IIIS, Tsinghua University

  14. DAWN: Noise-Robust Quadruped Parkour via Depth-Denoising World Models

    Sep 24, 2026Yohan Choi, Min-Jun Kim, Jin-Sung Kim +2World Models for RoboticsQuadruped Locomotion

    Convergence Engineering, Korea University of Technology and Education, Cheonan 31253, South Korea · School of Electrical, Electronics and Communication Engineering, Korea University of Technology and Education, Cheonan, 31253, South Korea

  15. Streaming-WAM: Action-Conditioned World-Action Model for Asynchronous Robot Manipulation

    Sep 24, 2026Xuyao Huang, Yixuan Wang, Zengyao Ye +4Robotic ControlWorld Models for Robotics

    SJTU · SDU · ECUST +1

  16. Generalizable Robotic Insertion with World Models

    Sep 23, 2026Nicklas Hansen, Iretiayo Akinola, Yijie Guo +7Zero-Shot Robotic ManipulationWorld Models for Robotics

    NVIDIA · University of California San Diego · Work completed during an internship at NVIDIA +1

  17. An Action Is Worth One Patch: Unified World-Action Modeling with PatchWAM

    Sep 22, 2026Tianheng Wang, Zhou Xie, Heng Jia +3World Models for RoboticsVisuomotor Policy Learning

    Westlake University · Lanzhou University · Zhejiang University +2

  18. MachEmbodied-U0: Unified Understanding and Generation Model for Embodied Intelligence

    Sep 22, 2026Haoran Wen, Wenfu Wang, Kunsong Shi +15World Models for RoboticsRobot Foundation Models

    Foundation Model, Li Auto Inc.

  19. DexTacWAM: A Visuo-Tactile World-Action Model for Dexterous Manipulation

    Sep 21, 2026Haoran Yuan, Zekai Wang, Boning Shao +4World Models for RoboticsContact-Rich Robotic Manipulation

    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign · University of California, Berkeley · Northwestern University

  20. DualWAM: Dual-System World Action Models for Asynchronous Global Planning and Local Refinement

    Sep 21, 2026Yixin Zheng, Jiangran Lyu, Yuntian Deng +6Long-Horizon Robotic ManipulationWorld Models for Robotics

    Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences · Galbot · Peking University +2

  21. LIBERO-VPro: Benchmarking Closed-Loop Visual Robustness of Robotic Foundation Models

    Sep 21, 2026Huiqiong Li, Zhiting Mei, Anirudha Majumdar +3World Models for RoboticsRobot Foundation Models

    Singapore Management University · Princeton University · Fudan University

  22. HapticWAM: Distilling Imagined Touch into a World-Action Model without Inference-Time Tactile Sensing

    Sep 20, 2026Mikhail Sannikov, Ilya Mikhalchuk, Konstantin Gubernatorov +3World Models for RoboticsContact-Rich Robotic Manipulation

    Intelligent Space Robotics Laboratory, Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Moscow, Russia

  23. ME-Dex 1.0: Bringing Heterogeneous Tactile Sensing into World Action Modeling

    Sep 18, 2026Xuancheng Zhang, Xuetao Liu, Qianying Tang +8World Models for RoboticsVisuo-Tactile Representation Learning

    Foundation Model, Li Auto Inc.

  24. Agile-WAM: An Agile Tactile World Action Model for Contact-Rich Robot Control

    Sep 17, 2026Hanchu Zhou, Brendan Lynch, Raman Goyal +4Robotic ControlWorld Models for Robotics

    University of California, Davis, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA, USA · Analog Devices · Analog Devices, San Jose, CA, USA

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

    Sep 17, 2026Jiayu Wang, Bin Zhu, Yue Yu +1World Models for RoboticsWorld Model-Based Planning

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

  26. DexTouch-WM: Learning Action-Conditioned Tactile World Models from Human Touch for Dexterous Robot Manipulation

    Sep 17, 2026Yan Qin, Yue Chen, Wenwei Lin +8World Models for RoboticsTactile Sensing

    HKUST (GZ) · Xspark AI · PKU +2

  27. TacSushi: Tactile-Grounded World-Action Modeling for Dexterous Sushi Manipulation

    Sep 17, 2026Haodi Hu, Kaen Kogashi, Toshiaki Koike-AkinoWorld Models for RoboticsContact-Rich Robotic Manipulation

    University of Southern California, USA · Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL), USA · Mitsubishi Electric, Japan

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

    Sep 17, 2026Caoliwen Wang, Mengdi Wang, Heng Zhang +7Robot Policy AdaptationWorld Models for Robotics

    University of British Columbia · Westlake University · Style3D Research

  29. AffordanceWAM: Affordance-Aware Joint World-Action Modeling for Robot Manipulation

    Sep 16, 2026Jiadi You, Qize Yu, Yue Chen +11World Models for RoboticsCross-Embodiment Robot Learning

    The University of Hong Kong · The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) · Peking University +3

  30. CSWAM: Better Causal Semantic Representations for Out-of-Distribution Generalization in World Action Models

    Sep 16, 2026Tianbin Liu, Jian Zhu, Taiyi Su +5Causal Representation LearningWorld Models for Robotics

    AIRC, Midea Group · Tongji University