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  1. Action from Adjacent Set in Physical Space Outperforms the Best Prediction in World Models

    Jul 26, 2026Liangyu Li, Qingwen Liu, Mingqing Liu +1World Models for RoboticsWorld Model-Based Planning

    Tongji University

  2. ViTacWorld: Scaling Visuo-Tactile World Models for Contact-Rich Robot Manipulation

    Jul 24, 2026Yunao Huang, Shiyu Sang, Suting Ni +6World Models for RoboticsContact-Rich Robotic Manipulation

    ShanghaiTech University · InstAdapt

  3. PhysCoRe: Physics-Corrected Residual World Models for Material-Aware Deformable Dynamics

    Jul 22, 2026Haocheng Yin, Shuohan Tao, Yongsheng Chen +1World Models for RoboticsDeformable Object Manipulation

    Georgia Institute of Technology

  4. Agentic Real2Sim: Physics-based World Modeling with Vision-Language Agents

    Jul 21, 2026Guanxiong Chen, Qianjun Xia, Jiawei Peng +24World Models for RoboticsRobotics Simulation

    University of British Columbia · National University of Singapore · Johns Hopkins University +4

  5. WorldScape Policy 2.0: Empowering Steerable World Action Modeling with Reasoning-Augmented Memory and In-Context Learning

    Jul 21, 2026Haisheng Su, Zongdai Liu, Xin Jin +13ICL for RoboticsWorld Model Learning

    Manifold AI · Tsinghua University · Shanghai Jiao Tong University

  6. Test-Time Scaling for World Action Models via Zero-Shot Geometric Evaluation

    Jul 20, 2026Zesen Zhao, Minkyoung Cho, Hui shen +4World Models for RoboticsWorld Model-Based Planning

    University of Michigan · 2NVIDIA

  7. BadWAM: When World-Action Models Dream Right but Act Wrong

    Jul 16, 2026Qi Li, Xingyi Yang, Xinchao WangWorld Models for RoboticsAdversarial Attacks

    National University of Singapore · The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

  8. DriftWorld: Fast World Modeling through Drifting

    Jul 16, 2026Susie Lu, Haonan Chen, Weirui Ye +1World Models for RoboticsWorld Model-Based Planning

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology · Harvard University

  9. Steering Robustness into World Action Models via Mechanistic Interpretability and Optimal Control

    Jul 16, 2026Jihoon Hong, Julian Skifstad, Qiyue Dai +2World Models for RoboticsAction-Conditioned World Models

    Georgia Institute of Technology

  10. GigaWorld-Policy-0.5: A Faster and Stronger WAM Empowered by AutoResearch

    Jul 15, 2026GigaWorld Team, Angen Ye, Angyuan Ma +26Robot Policy LearningWorld Model Learning

    GigaAI Tsinghua University

  11. From World Action Models to Embodied Brains: A Roadmap for Open-World Physical Intelligence

    Jul 13, 2026Yuanzhi Liang, Xufeng Zhan, Haibin Huang +2World Models for RoboticsVision-Language-Action Models

  12. Affordance-Based Manipulation Planning with Text Goals and Sim-to-Real Generalisation via Real-to-Sim Image Conversion

    Jul 13, 2026Solvi Arnold, Rin Karashima, Tadashi Adachi +2World Models for RoboticsLanguage-Conditioned Robot Manipulation

    SA is at NICT, Japan. Work performed while at Shinshu University, Japan. · Work performed while at Shinshu University, Japan. · RK, TA, TM are at EPSON Avasys, Japan. +1

  13. EgoWAM: World Action Models Beyond Pixels with In-the-Wild Egocentric Human Data

    Jul 8, 2026Baoyu Li, Xinchen Yin, Mengying Lin +2World Models for RoboticsBimanual Robotic Manipulation

    Georgia Institute of Technology

  14. WAM-TTT: Steering World-Action Models by Watching Human Play at Test Time

    Jul 8, 2026Yusen Feng, Bingchen Han, Jiangran Lyu +13Test-Time AdaptationWorld Models for Robotics

    Peking University · Galbot · CASIA +1

  15. RynnWorld-Teleop: An Action-Conditioned World Model for Digital Teleoperation

    Jul 7, 2026Haoyu Zhao, Xingyue Zhao, Hangyu Li +6Action-Conditioned Video GenerationWorld Models for Robotics

    DAMO Academy, Alibaba Group · Hong Kong Embodied AI Lab · CUHK +3

  16. Hypothesis-driven Model Expansion under Uncertainty for Open-World Robot Planning

    Jul 7, 2026Anxing Xiao, Hanbo Zhang, Tianrun Hu +1World Models for RoboticsRobot Task Planning

    School of Computing, National University of Singapore · Smart Systems Institute, National University of Singapore

  17. From Foundation to Application: Improving VLA Models in Practice

    Jul 7, 2026Wei Wu, Fangjing Wang, Fan Lu +21Long-Horizon Robotic ManipulationWorld Models for Robotics

  18. RoboTALES: Learning Reasoning-Guided Robot Policies via Task-Aligned Simulated Futures

    Jul 7, 2026Hanan Gani, Tejal Kulkarni, Madhoolika Chodavarapu +2Robot Policy LearningRobot Skill Learning

    University of California, San Diego, CA 92093, USA

  19. Learning 4D Geometric Priors for Inference-Efficient World Action Models

    Jul 6, 2026Jianjun Zhang, Jian Zhu, Taiyi Su +4World Models for RoboticsAction-Conditioned World Models

    Tongji University · AIRC, Midea Group

  20. Mask2Real-WM: Controllable Dexterous World Models via Segmentation Masks as a Sim-to-Real Bridge

    Jul 5, 2026Riccardo O. Feingold, Davide Liconti, Chenyu Yang +1World Models for RoboticsSim-to-Real Transfer

    Soft Robotic Lab, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering ETH Zurich, Switzerland

  21. Worldscape-MoE: A Unified Mixture-of-Experts World Model for Scalable Heterogeneous Action Control

    Jul 4, 2026Jianjie Fang, Yongyan Xu, Ziyou Wang +13World Model LearningWorld Models for Robotics

    Tsinghua University · Manifold AI

  22. WSA1_1: a 3D-Centric World-Spatial-Action Model for Generalizable Robot Control

    Jul 4, 2026Jiahao Jiang, Jianing Zhang, Zhenhan Yin +8World Models for RoboticsRobot Foundation Models

    Tongji University; Shanghai Innovation Institution; Shanghai Magic; Koala Uran

  23. WorldBagel: Uncovering the Power of Unified Multimodal Models for Vision-Language-Action-World Modeling

    Jul 3, 2026Zelin Zhao, Min Shi, Bo Yuan +5World Models for RoboticsUnified Multimodal Models

    Georgia Institute of Technology

  24. TACO: TActile World Model as a Self-COrrector for Scalable Robot Policy Post-Training

    Jul 3, 2026Shengbang Liu, Yueru Jia, Yuyang Yan +7Robot Skill LearningWorld Models for Robotics

    State Key Laboratory of Multimedia Information Processing, School of Computer Science, Peking University · Sun Yat-sen University · AI2 Robotics +1

  25. WorldSample: Closed-loop Real-robot RL with World Modelling

    Jul 2, 2026Yuquan Xue, Le Xu, Zeyi Liu +5Robot Skill LearningWorld Models for Robotics

    1PINE Lab, School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore · Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China · School of Automation, Central South University, Changsha, China +1

  26. ACID: Action Consistency via Inverse Dynamics for Planning with World Models

    Jul 2, 2026Gawon Seo, Dongwon Kim, Suha KwakWorld Models for RoboticsWorld Model-Based Planning

    POSTECH · KAIST

  27. Bridge-WA: Learning Action-Relevant World Dynamics for Robotic Manipulation

    Jul 2, 2026Yongjie Bai, Mingtong Dai, Zhouxia Wang +5World Models for RoboticsLanguage-Conditioned Robot Manipulation

    Sun Yat-sen University · Pengcheng Laboratory · Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences +1

  28. PhysMani: Physics-principled 3D World Model for Dynamic Object Manipulation

    Jul 2, 2026Peng Yun, Shouwang Huang, Hao Li +3World Models for RoboticsWorld Models

    vLAR Group, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong SAR, China · Astribot, China

  29. Structured 4D Latent Predictive Model for Robot Planning

    Jul 1, 2026Zhiyi Li, Peilin Wu, Xiaoshen Han +2Long-Horizon Robotic ManipulationWorld Models for Robotics

    1MIT · 2Harvard University

  30. DynaWM: A Base-VLA-Guided World Foundation Model for Moving-Object Manipulation

    Jul 1, 2026Chongkei Chang, Zhidong DengWorld Models for RoboticsVision-Language-Action Models

    Department of Computer Science and Technology, THUAI, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China