Foundation models hold significant potential for enabling robots to perform long-horizon general manipulation tasks. However, the simplicity of tasks and the uniformity of environments in existing benchmarks restrict their effective deployment in complex scenarios. To address this limitation, this paper introduces the \textit{RoboCAS} benchmark, the first benchmark specifically designed for complex object arrangement scenarios in robotic manipulation. This benchmark employs flexible and concise scripted policies to efficiently collect a diverse array of demonstrations, showcasing scattered, orderly, and stacked object arrangements within a highly realistic physical simulation environment. It includes complex processes such as target retrieval, obstacle clearance, and robot manipulation, testing agents' abilities to perform long-horizon planning for spatial reasoning and predicting chain reactions under ambiguous instructions. Extensive experiments on multiple baseline models reveal their limitations in managing complex object arrangement scenarios, underscoring the urgent need for intelligent agents capable of performing long-horizon operations in practical deployments and providing valuable insights for future research directions. Project website: \url{https://github.com/notFoundThisPerson/RoboCAS-v0}.
AffordanceWAM: Affordance-Aware Joint World-Action Modeling for Robot Manipulation
The University of Hong Kong(香港大学);The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)(香港科技大学(广州));Peking University(北京大学);The Chinese University of Hong Kong(香港中文大学);National University of Singapore(新加坡国立大学);Knowin AI(考拉悠然科技)
Cracking Mobile Manipulation: From Failure Diagnosis to Agentic Robot System
School of Intelligence Science and Technology, Peking University(北京大学智能科学与技术学院);State Key Laboratory of General Artificial Intelligence, Peking University(北京大学通用人工智能国家重点实验室);Alibaba DAMO Academy, Alibaba Group(阿里巴巴集团达摩院);Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences(中国科学院自动化研究所);Tsinghua University(清华大学);University of Technology Sydney(悉尼科技大学);University of Liverpool(利物浦大学)
AXIS: A Growable Community-Driven Data Engine for Scalable Robot Manipulation
Axis Robotics(轴机器人公司);University of California, Berkeley(加州大学伯克利分校);Georgia Institute of Technology(佐治亚理工学院);Texas A&M University(德州农工大学);Johns Hopkins University(约翰·霍普金斯大学);University of Pennsylvania(宾夕法尼亚大学);University of Michigan(密歇根大学);National University of Singapore(新加坡国立大学);Nanyang Technological University(南洋理工大学)
Robot-DIFT: Correspondence-Sensitive Diffusion Features for Contact-Rich Robot Manipulation
TU Darmstadt(图宾根大学);KIT(卡尔斯鲁厄理工学院);FZI(弗劳恩霍夫研究所);Hessian.AI(黑森人工智能公司);Robotics Institute Germany(德国机器人研究所);Honda Research Institute Europe GmbH(本田欧洲研究院)
GaussianDream: A Feed-Forward 3D Gaussian World Model for Robotic Manipulation
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences(中国科学院大学);Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences(中国科学院自动化研究所);Tsinghua University(清华大学);Zhejiang University(浙江大学);Beihang University(北京航空航天大学);Carnegie Mellon University(卡内基梅隆大学);The University of Hong Kong(香港大学)
Factored World Models for Zero-Shot Generalization in Robotic Manipulation
Khoury College of Computer Sciences, Northeastern University(东北大学库里计算机科学学院);Informatics Institute, University of Amsterdam(阿姆斯特丹大学信息学研究所);Google Research, Brain Team(谷歌研究院大脑团队)
GIFT: Guided Intermediate Feature Training via Action-Oriented Structural Supervision for Robotic Manipulation
Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences(中国科学院自动化研究所);University of Chinese Academy of Sciences(中国科学院大学);National University of Singapore(新加坡国立大学);Tsinghua University(清华大学);Fudan University(复旦大学)
该研究提出 GIFT 框架,通过几何对齐、可供性预测和目标区域重建约束中间特征,在 LIBERO-Plus 和 RoboCasa 数据集上,其多个变体在机器人操作任务中显著优于基准模型,性能提升明显。
Improving Generalization of Language-Conditioned Robot Manipulation
Centre for Intelligent Sensing, Queen Mary University of London(智能传感中心,伦敦女王玛丽大学);Idiap Research Institute and École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne(Idiap研究机构和日内瓦联邦理工学院)
SpatialVAM:Spatial-Aware Multi-View Video Diffusion as a Data-Efficient Robot Policy
New Laboratory of Pattern Recognition (NLPR), Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences(中国科学院自动化研究所模式识别国家重点实验室);School of Artificial Intelligence, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences(中国科学院大学人工智能学院);FiveAges(五时代);Tsinghua University(清华大学);Xi’an Jiaotong University(西安交通大学);Wuhan University(武汉大学);Nanjing University(南京大学)
Maglev-Pentabot: Magnetic Levitation System for Non-Contact Manipulation using Deep Reinforcement Learning
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison(电气与计算机工程系,威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校);Flexcompute;Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University(电气工程系,斯坦福大学)
Competitive Task Allocation with Temporal Proposal Windows and Improved Artificial Potential Fields for Dual-Arm Industrial Manipulation
School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, IIT Mandi(印度理工大学曼迪分校机械与材料工程学院);R&D, Addverb Technologies Limited(Addverb科技有限公司研发部);Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, IIT Mandi(印度理工大学曼迪分校人工智能与机器人中心);R&D 4IR, Dubai Electricity & Water Authority(迪拜水电局第四次工业革命研发部)
ObjDream: Guiding Vision-Language-Action Models with Object-Level Understanding and Future State Prediction
Southeast University(东南大学);Shanghai Innovation Institute(上海创新研究院);Shanghai Jiao Tong University(上海交通大学);Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences(中国科学院自动化研究所)