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PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AISEP 18, 2026
RobotMover: Learning to Move Large Objects From Human Demonstrations
TIAN-YU LI, XAVI PUIG, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
02
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AISEP 17, 2026
Workspace Models: Lightweight Robotic Memory via Saliency-Driven Supervision
NITISH DASHORA, MAX SIMCHOWITZ, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
03
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AISEP 14, 2026
Evidence-Gated Task and Motion Planning with Vision-Language Models
TSUNEHIKO TANAKA, EDGAR SIMO-SERRA, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
04
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AISEP 13, 2026
Teach and Grow: An Agent-Centered Architecture for General Robot Learning
CHANG NIE, ZHE LIU, HESHENG WANG
05
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AISEP 9, 2026
ViBe: Visual Behavior Adaptation for Perceptive Humanoid Whole-Body Control
LOKESH KRISHNA, QUAN NGUYEN, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
06
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AISEP 8, 2026
Towards Human-like Physical Intelligence: Lifelong Vision-Language-Action Learning for Robotic Manipulation
YAO HE, YANG CONG, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
07
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AISEP 7, 2026
ICI-VLA: In-Context Imitation with Spatiotemporally Aligned Demonstrations for Vision-Language-Action Models
SONGHUA YANG, MIAO LI, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
08
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AISEP 7, 2026
Learning to infer and manipulate through distributed whole-arm interaction in a soft robot
CHUHAN ZHANG, COSIMO DELLA SANTINA, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
09
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AISEP 3, 2026
Scaling Bimanual Household Manipulation from 1,500 hours of Demonstrations to On-Policy Corrections
JIAFENG XU, HAO DONG, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
10
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AISEP 3, 2026
WISE: World-model-guided Imagination Scheduling for Efficient Post-training of Vision-Language-Action Models
CHENHAO ZHANG, LONG ZENG, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
11
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIAUG 27, 2026
CLAP: Cross-Embodiment Video World Models are Zero-Shot Physical Simulators
KECHEN LIU, OLA SHORINWA
12
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIAUG 27, 2026
GRAFT: Grounded and Efficient Online Reinforcement Adaptation for Fine-Grained Robot Manipulation
YIBO QIU, MINGZHAI SUN, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
13
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIAUG 27, 2026
Riemann-1.0: An Embodied World Action Model for Physical AI
HAOFENG SUN, YANGGUANG LI, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
14
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIAUG 27, 2026
TemporalFlow-VLA: Learning Physically Grounded Execution History for Long-Horizon Robot Manipulation
JIARUI YANG, ENYU LI, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
15
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIAUG 26, 2026
One Policy, Many Embodiments: Unified Camera-Centric Action Geometry Pre-training for Heterogeneous Embodied Manipulation
XIAOMI EMBODIED INTELLIGENCE TEAM, ZHI-XIN YANG, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
16
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIAUG 25, 2026
TrAct: Bridging Robot Control and Visual Prediction with Visual Tracks
ZHI CAO, HUANG HUANG, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
17
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIAUG 21, 2026
Beyond Imitation: Self-Improving Robot Policies via Off-Policy Q-Planning
VARUN GIRIDHAR, ANIMESH GARG, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
18
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIAUG 20, 2026
DECOWAM: Decoupled Whole-Body World-Action Model for Legged Mobile Manipulation
SIYUAN MA, QIAOJUN YU, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
19
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIAUG 20, 2026
EXIMO: VLM Guided Exploration of VLA Policies
BHAVYA SUKHIJA, MARTIN RIEDMILLER, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
20
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIAUG 20, 2026
Video2DoorTraversal: Push Door Traversal via Simulated Door Twins
XINCHENG TANG, RUIGANG YANG, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
21
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIAUG 19, 2026
ADEPT: Accelerating Dexterity via Pre-Training and Post-Training using Reinforcement Learning
JAYJUN LEE, ANKUR HANDA, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
22
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIAUG 18, 2026
PRISM: Precision and contact-rich Real-world Industrial Skill dataset with Multimodal sensing
TENGBO YU, HANGXIN LIU, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
23
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIAUG 17, 2026
StellaVLA: In-Context Structured Demonstration for Generalizable Vision-Language-Action Models
SIYU XU, CHANG XU, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
24
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIAUG 16, 2026
Revisiting Open-Loop Execution in Robotics: Toward Reactive, Higher-Performing Policies
MICHAEL ZENG, RUSS TEDRAKE, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
25
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIAUG 14, 2026
Reflex: Enabling Fast and Predictive Vision-Language-Action Models for Reaction-Critical Manipulation
YUXUAN CHEN, WANRUO ZHANG, XIAO LI
26
PODLIGHTCONEAUG 13, 2026
Chelsea Finn: This is the State of the Art in Robotics
CHELSEA FINN
27
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIAUG 13, 2026
Temporal GRPO: Beyond Trajectory-Level Credit in Vision-Language-Action Reinforcement Learning
YAO ZHOU, WENWEN QIANG, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
28
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIAUG 12, 2026
SeededGrasp: Language-Guided Grasping in Complex Scenes with Multiple Embodiments
YANG XU, IGOR GILITSCHENSKI, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
29
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIAUG 11, 2026
Adaptation of Generalist Robot Policies with Minimal Data
SHREYAS KOWSHIK, AVIRAL KUMAR, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
30
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIAUG 11, 2026
XCoT-VLA: Executable Chain-of-Thought for Vision-Language-Action Driving
FOUNDATION MODEL TEAM, XPENG INC
31
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIAUG 6, 2026
ARGUS: Aligning Robot Scene Geometry Under Shifting Views with Large 3D Vision Models
RISHIK SATHUA, HAONAN CHEN, KATHERINE DRIGGS-CAMPBELL
32
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIAUG 6, 2026
ω-0: A Latent Predictive World Action Model for Concurrent Humanoid Loco-Manipulation
ZHE LI, SHANGHANG ZHANG, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
33
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIAUG 4, 2026
GORDON: Graph-based Object-centric Rewards for Decomposition of Long-Horizon Manipulation
ANDREA PROTOPAPA, GIUSEPPE AVERTA, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
34
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIAUG 4, 2026
RoboReact: Agentic Skill Distillation from Generated Egocentric Videos for Generalizable Whole-Body Manipulation
SHULIANG HE, GUILIANG LIU, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
35
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIAUG 4, 2026
SiMDex: Mining Similar Egocentric Videos for Cross-Embodiment Dexterous Manipulation
NIE LIN, YOICHI SATO, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
36
POD20VCAUG 1, 2026
20VC: The Best AI Companies Have Unique Data Acquisition Strategies | Will Simile Kill Kalshi, Polymarkets and NASDAQ | How to Sign Fortune 500 Companies As Customers in Weeks with Joon Sung Park, Simile
HARRY STEBBINGS, JUN SUNG PARK
37
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIJUL 30, 2026
ACE-Data-0: Human-Centric Ambient Capture as Embodied Data Engine
YUKANG CAO, ZIWEI LIU, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
38
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIJUL 28, 2026
Reeling It In: Flexible Needle Pick Up via Thread Manipulation for Autonomous Suturing
EMMA HUANG, MICHAEL C. YIP, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
39
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIJUL 27, 2026
WOLF-VLA: Whole-Body Humanoid Optimal Locomotion Framework for Vision-Language-Action Learning
MELYA BOUKHEDDIMI, FRANK KIRCHNER, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
40
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIJUL 26, 2026
DeMaVLA: A Vision-Language-Action Foundation Model for Generalizable Deformable Manipulation
TAIYI SU, YI XU, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
41
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIJUL 26, 2026
N0-TWAM: Scaling Tactile-Native World-Action Model for Contact-Rich Manipulation
NEOTEAI TEAM, FUDAN TEAI TEAM
42
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIJUL 23, 2026
AXIS: A Growable Community-Driven Data Engine for Scalable Robot Manipulation
MENGFEI ZHAO, JIACHEN LI, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
43
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIJUL 23, 2026
Xiaomi-Robotics-1: Scaling Vision-Language-Action Models with over 100K Hours of Real-World Trajectories
XIAOMI ROBOTICS TEAM JUN GUO, QUANYUN ZHOU, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
44
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIJUL 22, 2026
Closing the Lab-to-Store Gap: A Data-Efficient Post-Training and Experience-Driven Learning VLA Framework for Retail Humanoids
ROGER SALA SISÓ, TRAN NGUYEN LE, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
45
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIJUL 22, 2026
Exp2VLA: Enabling Vision-Language-Action for Drone Navigation from Expert Demonstrations
V. DANG, ERDAL KAYACAN, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
46
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIJUL 22, 2026
FELT: Generating Tactile Signals from Vision for Visuo-Tactile Manipulation
ZINAN LI, DANIEL SEITA, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
47
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIJUL 21, 2026
Masked Visual Actions for Unified World Modeling
HADI ALZAYER, JIA-BIN HUANG, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
48
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIJUL 16, 2026
RoboTTT: Context Scaling for Robot Policies
YUNFAN JIANG, LINXI "JIM" FAN, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
49
POD张小珺JÙN|商业访谈录JUL 16, 2026
146. 对Physical Intelligence柯丽一鸣4小时访谈:Pi的开源模型研究,机器人的江湖、族谱与主角
ZHANG XIAOJUN, 张小珺
50
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIJUL 13, 2026
VIA: Visual Interface Agent for Robot Control
HENGYUAN HU, DORSA SADIGH, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
51
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIJUL 12, 2026
VLAFlow: A Unified Training Framework for Vision-Language-Action Models via Co-training and Future Latent Alignment
GUOYANG XIA, YAN XIE, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
52
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIJUL 10, 2026
B-spline Policy: Accelerating Manipulation Policies via B-spline Action Representations
XIAOSHEN HAN, YILUN DU, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
53
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIJUL 10, 2026
DemoBridge: A Simulation-in-the-Loop Toolkit for Single-View Human Demonstration Retargeting
ZEHAO WANG, RAHAF ALJUNDI, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
54
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIJUL 9, 2026
AnyDexRT: Calibration-Free Dexterous Hand Retargeting with Few-Shot Human Guidance
CHENXI WANG, CEWU LU, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
55
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIJUL 9, 2026
ContactMimic: Humanoid Object Interaction via Contact Control
XINYAO LI, SAURABH GUPTA, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
56
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIJUL 9, 2026
Native Video-Action Pretraining for Generalizable Robot Control
QIHANG ZHANG, YINGHAO XU, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
57
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIJUL 8, 2026
Qwen-RobotManip Technical Report: Alignment Unlocks Scale for Robotic Manipulation Foundation Models
HAOQI YUAN, XIONG-HUI CHEN, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
58
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIJUL 7, 2026
LAMP: Latent Motion Prior-Guided Real-World Learning for Dexterous Hand Manipulation
XINYE YANG, CHAO YU, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
59
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIJUL 7, 2026
RynnWorld-Teleop: An Action-Conditioned World Model for Digital Teleoperation
HAOYU ZHAO, ZHONGYU LI, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
60
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIJUL 6, 2026
SILO: Simulation-in-the-Loop Sim-to-Real Transfer for Multi-Stage Cable Routing
STONE TAO, IRETIAYO AKINOLA, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
61
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIJUL 5, 2026
In-Context World Modeling for Robotic Control
SIYIN WANG, XIPENG QIU, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
62
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIJUL 4, 2026
Decoupling the Declarative from the Procedural in Vision-Language-Action Models
NIKOLAOS TSAGKAS, ALEXANDROS KOURIS, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
63
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIJUL 3, 2026
Z-1: Efficient Reinforcement Learning for Vision-Language-Action Models
LANG CAO, YITONG LI, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
64
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIJUN 30, 2026
Adapting Generalist Robot Policies with Semantic Reinforcement Learning
JAGDEEP SINGH BHATIA, SERGEY LEVINE, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
65
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIJUN 30, 2026
Human-as-Humanoid: Enabling Zero-Shot Humanoid Learning from Ego-Exo Human Videos with Human-Aligned Embodiments
XIAOPENG LIN, KAI CHEN, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
66
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIJUN 30, 2026
TactX: Learning Shared Tactile Representations Across Diverse Sensors
JUNSUNG PARK, XIAOLONG WANG, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
67
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIJUN 25, 2026
Humanoid-DART: Humanoid Loco-Manipulation using Diffusion-guided Augmentation through Relabeling and Tracking
PRANAV DEBBAD, MAJID KHADIV, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
68
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIJUN 25, 2026
Scalable Behavior Cloning with Open Data, Training, and Evaluation
ARTHUR ALLSHIRE, ANGJOO KANAZAWA, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
69
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIJUN 24, 2026
ForceBand: Learning Forceful Manipulation with sEMG
BOTAO HE, YIANNIS ALOIMONOS, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
70
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIJUN 23, 2026
InSight: Self-Guided Skill Acquisition via Steerable VLAs
MAGGIE WANG, MAC SCHWAGER, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
71
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIJUN 22, 2026
Learning What to Say to Your VLA: Mostly Harmless Vision Language Action Model Steering
HYUNDOO JEONG, GOKUL SWAMY, ANDREA V. BAJCSY
72
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIJUN 22, 2026
PanoVine: Whole-Body Visuomotor Control for Soft Growing Vine Robot
YIMENG QIN, ALLISON OKAMURA, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
73
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIJUN 20, 2026
HITTER: A HumanoId Table TEnnis Robot via Hierarchical Planning and Learning
ZHI SU, S. SASTRY, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
74
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIJUN 20, 2026
OpenHLM: An Empirical Recipe for Whole-Body Humanoid Loco-Manipulation
YINGDONG HU, YANG GAO, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
75
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIJUN 18, 2026
Co-VLA: Coordination-Aware Structured Action Modeling for Dual-Arm Vision-Language-Action Systems
YANDONG WANG, CHAO ZHANG, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
76
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIJUN 18, 2026
Generating Robot Hands from Human Demonstrations
SHA YI, XIAOLONG WANG, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
77
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIJUN 18, 2026
Pose6DAug: Physically Plausible Multi-view Object Swapping for Robot Data Augmentation
JONGHOON LEE, JINWOO SHIN, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
78
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIJUN 17, 2026
Do as I Do: Dexterous Manipulation Data from Everyday Human Videos
BHAWNA PALIWAL, JITENDRA MALIK, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
79
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIJUN 11, 2026
Improving Robotic Generalist Policies via Flow Reversal Steering
ANDY TANG, SERGEY LEVINE, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
80
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIJUN 11, 2026
Mana: Dexterous Manipulation of Articulated Tools
ZHAO-HENG YIN, C. KAREN LIU, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
81
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIJUN 11, 2026
WT-UMI: Tactile-based Whole-Body Manipulation via Force-Supervised Contact-Aware Planning
JAEHWI JANG, YE ZHAO, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
82
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIJUN 10, 2026
CHORUS: Decentralized Multi-Embodiment Collaboration with One VLA Policy
RIA DOSHI, JEANNETTE BOHG, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
83
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIJUN 5, 2026
LARA: Latent Action Representation Alignment for Vision-Language-Action Models
MENGYA LIU, SIYUAN HUANG, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
84
PODTHE MIKE VESTIL SHOWJUN 4, 2026
Raj Patel — Inside Human Archive (humanarchive.ai)
RAJ PATEL (HUMAN ARCHIVE FOUNDER), MIKE VESTIL
85
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIJUN 4, 2026
OneVLA: A Unified Framework for Embodied Tasks
LINGFENG ZHANG, WENBO DING, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
86
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIJUN 3, 2026
FlowPRO: Reward-Free Reinforced Fine-Tuning of Flow-Matching VLAs via Proximalized Preference Optimization
YIHAO WU, ZHENGYOU ZHANG, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
87
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIJUN 3, 2026
GRAIL: Generating Humanoid Loco-Manipulation from 3D Assets and Video Priors
TIANYI XIE, YE YUAN, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
88
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIJUN 2, 2026
ElegantVLA: Learning When to Think for Efficient Vision-Language-Action Models
YE LI, ZHI WANG, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
89
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIJUN 2, 2026
RDGen: Demonstration Generation for High-Quality Robot Learning via Reinforcement Learning
ZIJIA ZHU, XINHAI SUN, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
90
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIMAY 29, 2026
How to Instruct Your Robot: Dense Language Annotations Power Robot Policy Learning
BOSUNG KIM, PRITHVIRAJ AMMANABROLU, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
91
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIMAY 28, 2026
EXPO-FT: Sample-Efficient Reinforcement Learning Finetuning for Vision-Language-Action Models
PERRY DONG, CHELSEA FINN, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
92
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIMAY 28, 2026
FineVLA: Fine-Grained Instruction Alignment for Steerable Vision-Language-Action Policies
XINTONG HU, TAO YU, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
93
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIMAY 27, 2026
Humanoid Everyday: A Comprehensive Robotic Dataset for Open-World Humanoid Manipulation
ZHENYU ZHAO, YUE WANG, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
94
PAPRUNIVERSITY OF TOKYO, NABLAS RESEARCHMAY 26, 2026
When Absolute State Fails: Evaluating Proprioceptive Encodings for Robust Manipulation
MAXIME ALVAREZ, GENKI SANO, ET AL. (UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO, NABLAS)
95
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIMAY 26, 2026
RIO: Flexible Real-Time Robot I/O for Cross-Embodiment Robot Learning
PABLO ORTEGA-KRAL, JEAN OH, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
96
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIMAY 22, 2026
GuidedVLA: Specifying Task-Relevant Factors via Plug-and-Play Action Attention Specialization
XIAOSONG JIA, YU-GANG JIANG, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
97
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIMAY 21, 2026
Imagine2Real: Towards Zero-shot Humanoid-Object Interaction via Video Generative Priors
JIAHE CHEN, JINGBO WANG, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
98
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIMAY 21, 2026
Judge, Then Drive: A Critic-Centric Vision Language Action Framework for Autonomous Driving
LIJIN YANG, HAO YANG, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
99
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIMAY 20, 2026
PointACT: Vision-Language-Action Models with Multi-Scale Point-Action Interaction
SHIZHE CHEN, PAUL PACAUD, CORDELIA SCHMID
100
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIMAY 18, 2026
MolmoAct2: Action Reasoning Models for Real-world Deployment
HAOQUAN FANG, RANJAY KRISHNA, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
101
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIMAY 17, 2026
VLA-ATTC: Adaptive Test-Time Compute for VLA Models with Relative Action Critic Model
WENHAO LI, CHANG XU, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
102
PODDWARKESHMAY 15, 2026
Eric Jang – Building AlphaGo from scratch
DWARKESH PATEL, ERIC JANG
103
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIMAY 15, 2026
Offline Semantic Guidance for Efficient Vision-Language-Action Policy Distillation
JIN SHI, BRADY ZHANG, YISHUN LU
104
PODOVER THE HORIZONMAY 14, 2026
Brett Adcock (Figure) on the First 8-Hour Autonomous Shift
BRETT ADCOCK (FIGURE FOUNDER/CEO), OVER THE HORIZON HOST
105
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIMAY 14, 2026
CoCo-InEKF: State Estimation with Learned Contact Covariances in Dynamic, Contact-Rich Scenarios
MICHAEL BAUMGARTNER, MORITZ BÄCHER, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
106
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIMAY 13, 2026
What to Ignore, What to React: Visually Robust RL Fine-Tuning of VLA Models
YUANFANG PENG, RUI WANG, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
107
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIMAY 4, 2026
$\Delta$VLA: Prior-Guided Vision-Language-Action Models via World Knowledge Variation
YIJIE ZHU, ZITONG YU, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
108
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIMAY 1, 2026
Learning while Deploying: Fleet-Scale Reinforcement Learning for Generalist Robot Policies
YI WANG, JIANLAN LUO, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
109
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIAPR 30, 2026
LaST-R1: Reinforcing Action via Adaptive Physical Latent Reasoning for VLA Models
HAO CHEN, PHENG-ANN HENG, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
110
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIAPR 21, 2026
UniT: Toward a Unified Physical Language for Human-to-Humanoid Policy Learning and World Modeling
BOYU CHEN, YIXIAO GE, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
111
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIAPR 17, 2026
VP-VLA: Visual Prompting as an Interface for Vision-Language-Action Models
ZIXUAN WANG, JIAYA JIA, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
112
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIAPR 16, 2026
R3D: Revisiting 3D Policy Learning
ZHENGDONG HONG, JIAYUAN GU, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
113
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIAPR 16, 2026
Switch: Learning Agile Skills Switching for Humanoid Robots
YUEN-FUI LAU, PING TAN, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
114
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIAPR 15, 2026
A Mechanistic Analysis of Sim-and-Real Co-Training in Generative Robot Policies
YU LEI, YUKE ZHU, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
115
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIAPR 14, 2026
Learning Versatile Humanoid Manipulation with Touch Dreaming
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