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  1. WAVE-Go: World-Model Navigation with Adaptive Execution for Wheel-Legged Robots

    Sep 16, 2026Mingyi Li, Ji Li, Zhihao Ouyang +2Visual NavigationWorld Models for Robotics

    Beijing Institute of Technology · The University of Hong Kong · GAC R&D Center +2

  2. Causal-History Test-Time Scaling for Failure Recovery in Autoregressive World-Action Models

    Sep 16, 2026Lin Li, Long Chen, Kwunhang +10World Models for RoboticsWorld Models

    Edwin · The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), ACCESS – AI Chip Center for Emerging Smart Systems, and Zhejiang University. · Zhejiang University. +1

  3. WholeBodyWAM: Generalizing Pre-trained World-Action Priors to Humanoid Loco-Manipulation via WBC-Grounded Coordination

    Sep 15, 2026Zhuo Li, Yiming Yao, Jim Tan +3Humanoid Loco-ManipulationWorld Models for Robotics

    1The Chinese University of Hong Kong · 4Φ-Institute · 2The University of Hong Kong +1

  4. WLA3^3: World Latent Action Modeling for Semantics, Dynamics, and Kinematics

    Sep 14, 2026Peidong Liu, Zhiyuan Xiang, Mingyang Li +4Latent Action LearningWorld Models for Robotics

    Joy Future Academy, JD Group

  5. DIDO: Distilling Interaction-Centric Dynamics into One-Step Denoising for World Action Models

    Sep 14, 2026Jing Lyu, Shuanghao Bai, Runze Xiao +11World Models for RoboticsDiffusion Model Distillation

    Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences · School of Artificial Intelligence, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · 3Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence (BAAI) +3

  6. From Prediction to Decision: World-Model-Guided Action Selection for Continuous Pile Excavation

    Sep 14, 2026Ailing Zhang, Fan Gao, Song Zhang +3World Models for RoboticsAction-Conditioned World Models

    1Tsing-AI (Shanghai) Technology Co., Ltd. · 2Shanghai Jiao Tong University. · 3Shanghai Ocean University.

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

    Sep 11, 2026Sizhe Zhao, Haozhe Xie, Weiyu Zhao +5Long-Horizon Robotic ManipulationWorld Models for Robotics

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

  8. RodForesight: A World Model Enhanced Diffusion Policy for Slender Rod Insertion

    Sep 10, 2026Chuanbo Yu, Mingyu Yue, Yan Lyu +2World Models for RoboticsContact-Rich Robotic Manipulation

    SWJTU-Leeds Joint School, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, China · School of Mechanical Engineering, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, United Kingdom · Southeast University, Nanjing, China +2

  9. DUET-DINO: Simultaneous Cross-View World Modeling for Latent Planning in Robot Manipulation

    Sep 9, 2026Nisarga Nilavadi, Ralf Römer, Moritz Reuss +5World Models for RoboticsWorld Models

    Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Lab, University of Technology Nuremberg (UTN), Germany. · Learning Systems and Robotics Lab, Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany. · Intuitive Robots Lab, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany. +2

  10. Semigroup-JEPA: Latent Dynamics Consistency for Zero-Shot Physics Generalization

    Sep 9, 2026Andy Zeyi Liu, Haoran Sun, Lucas Baker +2World Models for RoboticsLatent Dynamics Modeling

    Yale University · Jump Trading · Brown University

  11. SyncWorld: Visual Calibration Enables World Models as Zero-Shot Simulators

    Sep 8, 2026Yuncong Yang, Zhengtao Han, Furkan Ozyurt +6World Model LearningWorld Models for Robotics

    UMass Amherst · UC Berkeley · NYU +1

  12. OpenWAM: An Open, Modular Exploration Towards Systematic World-Action Model Pretraining

    Sep 7, 2026Yuran Wang, Siqiao Huang, Mingleyang Li +21World Model LearningWorld Models for Robotics

    National University of Singapore · Tsinghua University · Peking University +4

  13. Beyond Task Success: Stage-Wise Reliability of World Model Planning under Sensing Degradation

    Sep 7, 2026Geonmyeong Lee, Byoung-Tak ZhangWorld Models for RoboticsWorld Model-Based Planning

    Seoul National University

  14. GIFT: Guided Intermediate Feature Training via Action-Oriented Structural Supervision for Robotic Manipulation

    Sep 3, 2026Yupeng Zheng, Xiang Li, Songen Gu +11Visual Representation LearningWorld Models for Robotics

    Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences · Tsinghua University · Fudan University +2

  15. Toward Unified Robot Learning: Bridging Representation, Vision-Language-Action, and World Models

    Sep 3, 2026Shaunak A. Mehta, Ananya Hazarika, Haochen Zhang +5World Models for RoboticsVLMs for Robotics

    Fujitsu Research of America · Carnegie Mellon University · Fujitsu Limited[cs.RO]

  16. WISE: World-model-guided Imagination Scheduling for Efficient Post-training of Vision-Language-Action Models

    Sep 3, 2026Chenhao Zhang, Hanyu Zhao, Hang Cheng +2Robot Skill LearningWorld Models for Robotics

    1Tsinghua University · 2Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence (BAAI)

  17. Toward Physically Grounded JEPA World Models for Goal-Conditioned Robotic Planning

    Sep 3, 2026Muyuan Liu, Yue Huang, Zheng Liang +1World Models for RoboticsWorld Model-Based Planning

    GENISOM AI, Beijing, China

  18. Modeling What Changes: Sparse, Residual World Models for Object-Centric Manipulation

    Sep 2, 2026Param Thakkar, Parsika Paresh Shah, Manisha Sushant GoteWorld Model LearningWorld Models for Robotics

    Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute · Arizona State University · ZuiGO Private Limited

  19. ZimaBlue: Evolving Generalizable World Action Models through Scalable Video Pre-training

    Aug 31, 2026Xionghao Wu, Yijun Yang, Shiyang Zhou +17World Models for RoboticsGeneralization in Robotic Manipulation

    Joy Future Academy

  20. Does Latent Planning Survive Point Clouds? Action-Conditioned JEPA World Models for Geometric Observations and Goals

    Aug 29, 2026Fabio F. Oberweger, Michael Schwingshackl, Markus MurschitzWorld Models for RoboticsWorld Model-Based Planning

    AIT Austrian Institute of Technology Assistive & Autonomous Systems

  21. AnyWorld: Factorized Egocentric World Models for Cross-Embodiment Generalization

    Aug 29, 2026Cheng Chen, Jerry Bai, Jiacheng Wei +11Robot Skill LearningWorld Models for Robotics

    Nanyang Technological University · XPENG Robotics · Zhejiang University +2

  22. Hydra: A Navigation World Action Model with Discrete Latent Planning and Continuous Flow-Matching Execution

    Aug 29, 2026Mohammad Nazeri, Alexandyr Card, Samira Huber +6Kinodynamic Motion PlanningWorld Models for Robotics

    George Mason University · Kiel University · Ludwig Maximilian University Munich +1

  23. Latent Action as Intention Enables Efficient Future Imagination for World Action Models

    Aug 25, 2026Xiang Li, Yupeng Zheng, Songen Gu +11Latent Action LearningWorld Models for Robotics

    1CollegeAI, THU · 2AIR, THU · 4TARS Robotics +6

  24. DELE-w0.5: Inferring Action from Future Latent State for Robotic Manipulation

    Aug 22, 2026Fenghao Lei, Zhixiong Huang, Long Yang +5Long-Horizon Robotic ManipulationWorld Models for Robotics

    DeepLeap Research, Shenzhen, China

  25. Reperesentation Geometry Matters for Planning with JEPA World Models

    Aug 17, 2026Jiaming Hu, Yan Zheng, Shi Bo +9Representation LearningNeural Representation Geometry

    Boston University · Unity Technologies

  26. S2-HWM: Sparse Event-Structured Hierarchical World Model for Long-Horizon Surgical Robot Manipulation

    Aug 13, 2026Shuzhe Zhang, Xin Zhu, Yinling Qian +1Long-Horizon Robotic ManipulationWorld Models for Robotics

    Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences

  27. H2R-Bench: Benchmarking Human-to-Robot Manipulation Video Generation in World Models

    Aug 13, 2026Dingyi Rong, Yue Shi, Chaofan Ma +6World Models for RoboticsCross-Embodiment Robot Learning

    1Shanghai Jiao Tong University · 2Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory

  28. Foresight Without Seeing: Latent Futures for World Action Models

    Aug 12, 2026Jiakai Huang, Zhongbo Wu, Siyu Xu +5World Models for RoboticsVisuomotor Policy Learning

    Shanghai Jiao Tong University · ACE Robotics · Nanyang Technological University

  29. Surgical WAM: A World-Action Model for Data-Efficient Surgical Robot Learning

    Aug 11, 2026Wenrui Bao, Tianyun Jiang, Zhiben Chen +3World Models for RoboticsBimanual Robotic Manipulation

    University of Central Florida · AdventHealth

  30. JEPA-WAM: Stage-Level Joint-Embedding Prediction for World-Action Models in Robot Manipulation

    Aug 11, 2026Xiao Liu, Yuguang Yang, Xi Wang +6World Models for RoboticsJoint-Embedding Predictive Architecture

    Institute for AI Industry Research (AIR), Tsinghua University · School of Electronic Information Engineering, Beihang University · AIR Wuxi Innovation Center, Tsinghua University +3