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PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIJUN 18, 2026
Generating Robot Hands from Human Demonstrations
SHA YI, XIAOLONG WANG, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
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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)
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PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIJUN 11, 2026
Improving Robotic Generalist Policies via Flow Reversal Steering
ANDY TANG, SERGEY LEVINE, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
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PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIJUN 11, 2026
Mana: Dexterous Manipulation of Articulated Tools
ZHAO-HENG YIN, C. KAREN LIU, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
05
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)
06
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIJUN 10, 2026
CHORUS: Decentralized Multi-Embodiment Collaboration with One VLA Policy
RIA DOSHI, JEANNETTE BOHG, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
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PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIJUN 5, 2026
LARA: Latent Action Representation Alignment for Vision-Language-Action Models
MENGYA LIU, SIYUAN HUANG, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
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PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIJUN 4, 2026
OneVLA: A Unified Framework for Embodied Tasks
LINGFENG ZHANG, WENBO DING, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIMAY 20, 2026
PointACT: Vision-Language-Action Models with Multi-Scale Point-Action Interaction
SHIZHE CHEN, PAUL PACAUD, CORDELIA SCHMID
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PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIMAY 18, 2026
MolmoAct2: Action Reasoning Models for Real-world Deployment
HAOQUAN FANG, RANJAY KRISHNA, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
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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)
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PODDWARKESHMAY 15, 2026
Eric Jang – Building AlphaGo from scratch
DWARKESH PATEL, ERIC JANG
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PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIMAY 15, 2026
Offline Semantic Guidance for Efficient Vision-Language-Action Policy Distillation
JIN SHI, BRADY ZHANG, YISHUN LU
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIAPR 16, 2026
R3D: Revisiting 3D Policy Learning
ZHENGDONG HONG, JIAYUAN GU, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
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PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIAPR 16, 2026
Switch: Learning Agile Skills Switching for Humanoid Robots
YUEN-FUI LAU, PING TAN, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
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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)
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PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIAPR 14, 2026
Learning Versatile Humanoid Manipulation with Touch Dreaming
YARU NIU, DING ZHAO, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
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PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIAPR 9, 2026
HEX: Humanoid-Aligned Experts for Cross-Embodiment Whole-Body Manipulation
SHUANGHAO BAI, BADONG CHEN, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
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PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIAPR 7, 2026
Action Images: End-to-End Policy Learning via Multiview Video Generation
HAOYU ZHEN, CHUANG GAN, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
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PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIAPR 6, 2026
Large Reward Models: Generalizable Online Robot Reward Generation with Vision-Language Models
YANRU WU, YUE WANG, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
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PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIAPR 5, 2026
Not All Features Are Created Equal: A Mechanistic Study of Vision-Language-Action Models
BRYCE GRANT, XIJIA ZHAO, PENG WANG
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PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIAPR 1, 2026
Functional Force-Aware Retargeting from Virtual Human Demos to Soft Robot Policies
UKSANG YOO, HARSHA PRAHLAD, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
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PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIAPR 1, 2026
Learning Humanoid Navigation from Human Data
WEIZHUO WANG, MONROE KENNEDY, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
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PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIAPR 1, 2026
SMASH: Mastering Scalable Whole-Body Skills for Humanoid Ping-Pong with Egocentric Vision
JUNLI REN, PING LUO, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
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PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIMAR 31, 2026
Coordinated Humanoid Manipulation with Choice Policies
HAOZHI QI, JITENDRA MALIK, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
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PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIMAR 30, 2026
OmniGuide: Universal Guidance Fields for Enhancing Generalist Robot Policies
YUNZHOU SONG, KOSTAS DANIILIDIS, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
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PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIMAR 29, 2026
Rethinking Visual-Language-Action Model Scaling: Alignment, Mixture, and Regularization
YE WANG, QIN JIN, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
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PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIMAR 29, 2026
ST4VLA: Spatially Guided Training for Vision-Language-Action Models
JI-LU YE, JIANGMIAO PANG, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
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PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIMAR 27, 2026
Disentangled Robot Learning via Separate Forward and Inverse Dynamics Pretraining
WENYAO ZHANG, LI ZHANG, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
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PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIMAR 26, 2026
SoftMimicGen: A Data Generation System for Scalable Robot Learning in Deformable Object Manipulation
MASOUD MOGHANI, AJAY MANDLEKAR, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
51
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIMAR 25, 2026
Steerable Vision-Language-Action Policies for Embodied Reasoning and Hierarchical Control
WILLIAM CHEN, SERGEY LEVINE, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
52
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIMAR 23, 2026
DualCoT-VLA: Visual-Linguistic Chain of Thought via Parallel Reasoning for Vision-Language-Action Models
ZHIDE ZHONG, HAOANG LI, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
53
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIMAR 23, 2026
UniDex: A Robot Foundation Suite for Universal Dexterous Hand Control from Egocentric Human Videos
GU ZHANG, HUAZHE XU, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
54
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIMAR 23, 2026
WholeBodyVLA: Towards Unified Latent VLA for Whole-Body Loco-Manipulation Control
HAORAN JIANG, HONGYANG LI, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
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PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIMAR 22, 2026
DreamDojo: A Generalist Robot World Model from Large-Scale Human Videos
SHENYUAN GAO, LINXIJIMFAN, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
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PAPRMIT RESEARCHMAR 19, 2026
Scaling Sim-to-Real Reinforcement Learning for Robot VLAs with Generative 3D Worlds
ANDREW CHOI, WEI XU, ET AL. (MIT)
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PAPRMIT RESEARCHMAR 19, 2026
Sparse Autoencoders Reveal Interpretable and Steerable Features in VLA Models
AIDEN SWANN, MAC SCHWAGER, ET AL. (MIT)
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PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIMAR 19, 2026
OmniVTA: Visuo-Tactile World Modeling for Contact-Rich Robotic Manipulation
YUHANG ZHENG, WENCHAO DING, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
59
PODTRAINING DATANOV 18, 2025
How End-to-End Learning Created Autonomous Driving 2.0: Wayve CEO Alex Kendall
PAT GRADY, SONYA HUANG, ALEX KENDALL
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PODONE-OFF EPISODESOCT 21, 2025
#38 Karol Hausman & Kevin Black: Building A Brain For Any Robot | AI Eating The Physical World
UNKNOWN HOST, KEVIN BLACK, CARL HAUSMAN
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PODONE-OFF EPISODESJUN 7, 2025
【BAAI2025】 Building Physical Intelligence | Karol Hausman
KAROL HAUSMAN
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