VLA^2: Empowering Vision-Language-Action Models with an Agentic Framework for Unseen Concept Manipulation
Zhejiang University(浙江大学);MiLAB, Westlake University(西湖大学 MiLAB);Southern University of Science and Technology(南方科技大学);Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)(香港科技大学(广州))
Han Zhao, Jiaxuan Zhang, Wenxuan Song, Pengxiang Ding, Donglin Wang
Current vision-language-action (VLA) models, pre-trained on large-scale robotic data, exhibit strong multi-task capabilities and generalize well to variations in visual and language instructions for manipulation. However, their success rate drops significantly when faced with object concepts outside the training data, such as unseen object descriptions and textures in the dataset. To address this, we propose a novel agentic framework, VLA^2, which leverages OpenVLA as the execution backbone and effectively leverages external modules such as web retrieval and object detection to provide visual and textual knowledge about target objects to the VLA. This approach mitigates generalization failure when handling out-of-distribution objects. Based on the LIBERO simulation environment, we introduced novel objects and object descriptions to construct a new evaluation benchmark with three difficulty levels to test the effectiveness of our method. Our framework successfully outperformed the current state-of-the-art models on our designed hard-level generalization benchmark. Compared to the standalone OpenVLA baseline, VLA^2 achieves a 44.2% improvement in the success rate in the hard-level benchmark and an average improvement of 20.2% in all customized environments without any performance degradation on in-domain tasks. Project website: https://vla-2.github.io.
ReMem-VLA: Empowering Vision-Language-Action Model with Memory via Dual-Level Recurrent Queries
Technical University of Munich(慕尼黑技术大学);Huawei Heisenberg Research Center(华为海森堡研究中心);University of Freiburg(弗赖堡大学);Nanjing University(南京大学);Huawei Technologies(华为技术)
VLA-Reasoner: Empowering Vision-Language-Action Models with Reasoning via Online Monte Carlo Tree Search
School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University(南洋理工大学电子与电气工程学院);Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School, Tsinghua University(清华大学深圳国际研究生院);School of Intelligent Engineering and Automation, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications(北京邮电大学智能工程与自动化学院)
AtomBridge: Agentic VLA Inference Plugin for Long-Horizon Tasks in Scientific Experiments
School of Computer Science and Engineering & School of Software Engineering & School of Artificial Intelligence, Southeast University, Nanjing, China(计算机科学与工程学院、软件工程学院、人工智能学院,东南大学,南京,中国);Pattern Learning and Mining Lab, Southeast University, Nanjing, China(模式学习与挖掘实验室,东南大学,南京,中国)
PokeVLA: Empowering Pocket-Sized Vision-Language-Action Model with Comprehensive World Knowledge Guidance
CASIA(中国科学院自动化研究所);TARS Robotics(TARS机器人实验室);Tsinghua University(清华大学);Fudan University(复旦大学);National University of Singapore(新加坡国立大学);Tongji University(同济大学)
RoboGene: Boosting VLA Pre-training via Diversity-Driven Agentic Framework for Real-World Task Generation
Beijing Innovation Center of Humanoid Robotics(北京人形机器人创新中心);The School of Advanced Manufacturing and Robotics, Peking University(北京大学先进制造与机器人学院);Beijing Institute of Technology(北京理工大学);The School of Mechanical Engineering and Automation, Beihang University(北航机械工程与自动化学院);State Key Laboratory of Multimedia Information Processing, School of Computer Science, Peking University(北京大学多媒体信息处理国家重点实验室)
Harness VLA: Steering Frozen VLAs into Reliable Manipulation Primitives via Memory-Guided Agents
Tsinghua University(清华大学);Striding AI(驰行人工智能公司);Purdue University(普渡大学);Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences(中国科学院自动化研究所);Infinigence AI(英飞智研人工智能公司);Zhongguancun Academy(中关村学院);Hong Kong University of Science and Technology(香港科技大学)
Goal-VLA: Image-Generative VLMs as Object-Centric World Models Empowering Zero-shot Robot Manipulation
School of Computing, National University of Singapore(新加坡国立大学计算机学院);The HKU Musketeers Foundation Institute of Data Science, The University of Hong Kong(香港大学数据科学研究院);Yuanpei College, Peking University(北京大学元培学院);Department of Automation, Tsinghua University(清华大学自动化系)
Johns Hopkins University(约翰霍普金斯大学);Italian Institute of Technology(意大利理工学院);University of Toronto(多伦多大学);Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard University(哈佛大学麻省总医院)
Towards Embodied Agentic AI: Review and Classification of LLM- and VLM-Driven Robot Autonomy and Interaction
Department of Computing, University of Turku(图尔库大学计算机系);Institute of Computer Science, Zurich University of Applied Sciences(应用科学大学计算机科学研究所);Centre for Artificial Ingelligence, Zurich University of Applied Sciences(应用科学大学人工智能中心);Agentic Systems Lab, Department of Management, Technology and Economics, ETH Zürich(苏黎世联邦理工学院管理、科技与经济系代理系统实验室);Faculty of Mathematics and Information Science, Warsaw University of Technology(华沙技术大学数学与信息科学学院)
RoboClaw: An Agentic Framework for Scalable Long-Horizon Robotic Tasks
AgiBot;National University of Singapore(新加坡国立大学);Shanghai Jiao Tong University(上海交通大学);MoE Key Lab of Artificial Intelligence, AI Institute, SJTU(上海交通大学人工智能研究院教育部人工智能重点实验室)
UniManip: General-Purpose Zero-Shot Robotic Manipulation with Agentic Operational Graph
School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore(南洋理工大学电子与电气工程学院);Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, China(清华大学自动化系)
Learning Robust Execution in Robotic Manipulation with Agentic Reinforcement Learning
School of Inteligence Science and Engineering, the Harbin Institute of Technology Shenzhen(哈尔滨工业大学(深圳)智能科学与工程学院);Faculty of Robot Science and Engineering, Northeastern University(东北大学机器人科学与工程学院)
A Comprehensive Review of Generative Physical Artificial Intelligence
Qualcomm Research(高通研究院);University of the Cumberlands(坎伯兰大学);BITS-Pilani(皮拉尼比尔拉理工学院);National University of Singapore(新加坡国立大学);Nanyang Technological University(南洋理工大学)
Human-assisted Robotic Policy Refinement via Action Preference Optimization
Gaoling School of Artificial Intelligence, Renmin University of China, Beijing(中国人民大学北京校区人工智能学院);Engineering Research Center of Next-Generation Intelligent Search(下一代智能搜索与推荐工程研究中心);Beijing Key Laboratory of Research on Large Models(北京大型模型研究重点实验室)
Uni-LaViRA: Language-Vision-Robot Actions Translation for Unified Embodied Navigation
Nanjing University(南京大学);Beihang University(北京航空航天大学);Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences(中国科学院自动化研究所);BMW (Nanjing) Information Technology Co., Ltd.(宝马(南京)信息技术有限公司);University of Rochester(罗切斯特大学)
SMART: Zero-Shot Sim-to-Real Articulated Object Manipulation via Large-Scale Synthetic Pretraining
Institute of Artificial Intelligence, China Telecom(中国电信人工智能研究院);Technical University of Munich(慕尼黑工业大学);Harbin Institute of Technology(哈尔滨工业大学);Shanghai Jiao Tong University(上海交通大学);Tsinghua University(清华大学);Zhejiang University(浙江大学)
Vision-and-Language Navigation for UAVs: Progress, Challenges, and a Research Roadmap
Autel Robotics, Shenzhen, China(大疆创新,深圳,中国);School of Intelligent Software and Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China(南京大学智能软件与工程学院,南京,中国);School of Computer, Data & Information Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA(威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校计算机、数据与信息科学学院,麦迪逊,WI,美国);Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China(南方科技大学,深圳,中国);The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China(香港大学,香港特别行政区,中国);School of Software and Microelectronics, Peking University, Beijing, China(北京大学软件与微电子学院,北京,中国)