Despite rapid progress, embodied agents still struggle with long-horizon manipulation that requires maintaining spatial consistency, causal dependencies, and goal constraints. A key limitation of existing approaches is that task reasoning is implicitly embedded in high-dimensional latent representations, making it challenging to separate task structure from perceptual variability. We introduce Grounded Scene-graph Reasoning (GSR), a structured reasoning paradigm that explicitly models world-state evolution as transitions over semantically grounded scene graphs. By reasoning step-wise over object states and spatial relations, rather than directly mapping perception to actions, GSR enables explicit reasoning about action preconditions, consequences, and goal satisfaction in a physically grounded space. To support learning such reasoning, we construct Manip-Cognition-1.6M, a large-scale dataset that jointly supervises world understanding, action planning, and goal interpretation. Extensive evaluations across RLBench, LIBERO, GSR-benchmark, and real-world robotic tasks show that GSR significantly improves zero-shot generalization and long-horizon task completion over prompting-based baselines. These results highlight explicit world-state representations as a key inductive bias for scalable embodied reasoning.
EmbodiedVAE: Disentangled Video VAE for Efficient and Controllable Embodied Manipulation
Beihang University(北京航空航天大学);Zhongguancun Academy(中关村学院);University of Science and Technology of China(中国科学技术大学);National University of Singapore(新加坡国立大学);CASIA, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences(中国科学院自动化研究所(CASIA));Microsoft Research Asia(微软亚洲研究院)
EmbodiedCoder: Parameterized Embodied Mobile Manipulation via Modern Coding Model
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS)(中国科学院大学);Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CASIA)(中国科学院自动化研究所);New Laboratory of Pattern Recognition (NLPR)(模式识别新实验室);State Key Laboratory of Multimodal Artificial Intelligence Systems (MAIS)(多模态人工智能系统国家重点实验室);Beihang University(北航);Chinese University of Hong Kong(香港大学)
EHC-MM: Embodied Holistic Control for Mobile Manipulation
Beijing Samsung Telecom R&D Center(北京三星通信技术研发中心);National Key Laboratory of General Artificial Intelligence(通用人工智能国家重点实验室);School of Intelligence Science and Technology, Peking University(北京大学智能科学与技术学院);PKU-WUHAN Institute for Artificial Intelligence(北京大学-武汉人工智能研究院);Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Peking University(北京大学人工智能研究院);Tsinghua University(清华大学);Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications(北京邮电大学)
LaGEA: Language Guided Embodied Agents for Robotic Manipulation
Department of Robotics;Mechatronics Engineering, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh;Center for Computational \& Data Sciences, Independent University, Bangladesh
ERRA: An Embodied Representation and Reasoning Architecture for Long-horizon Language-conditioned Manipulation Tasks
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology(香港科技大学);HKUST Shenzhen-Hong Kong Collaborative Innovation Research Institute(香港科技大学深港协同创新研究院);Monash University(莫纳什大学)
ManipulationNet: An Infrastructure for Benchmarking Real-World Robot Manipulation with Physical Skill Challenges and Embodied Multimodal Reasoning
Rice University(里士大学);U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology(美国国家标准与技术研究院);Massachusetts Institute of Technology(麻省理工学院);Karlsruhe Institute of Technology(卡尔斯鲁厄技术大学);Autodesk Research(Autodesk研究);University of California, Berkeley(加州大学伯克利分校);KTH Royal Institute of Technology(皇家理工学院);Tsinghua University(清华大学);Columbia University(哥伦比亚大学);ASTM International(美国材料与试验协会);Carnegie Mellon University(卡内基梅隆大学);German Aerospace Center (DLR)(德国航空航天中心);University of Texas at Dallas(德克萨斯大学达拉斯分校);University of Texas at Austin(德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校);NVIDIA Research(NVIDIA研究)
Speedup Patch: Learning a Plug-and-Play Policy to Accelerate Embodied Manipulation
National Key Laboratory for Novel Software Technology, Nanjing University, China;School of Artificial Intelligence, Nanjing University, China;Mila-Quebec AI Institute \& Université de Montréal, Canada
Towards Dexterous Embodied Manipulation via Deep Multi-Sensory Fusion and Sparse Expert Scaling
College of Intelligent Robotics and Advanced Manufacturing, Fudan University(智能机器人与先进制造学院,复旦大学);School of Information Science and Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology(信息科学与工程学院,哈尔滨工业大学)
Embodied Robot Manipulation in the Era of Foundation Models: Planning and Learning Perspectives
Xi’an Jiaotong Univeristy(西安交通大学);Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)(香港科技大学(广州));Chinese Academy of Sciences(中国科学院);Westlake University(西湖大学);Zhejiang University(浙江大学);University of Sydney(悉尼大学);BAAI(百度人工智能研究院);Peking University(北京大学)
A Survey of Robotic Navigation and Manipulation with Physics Simulators in the Era of Embodied AI
Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong(城市大学计算机科学系);School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University(南洋理工大学电子与电气工程学院);Department of Informatics, Universität Hamburg(汉堡大学信息学院)
Embodied Tree of Thoughts: Deliberate Manipulation Planning with Embodied World Model
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS)(中国科学院大学);Tsinghua University(清华大学);JD Explore Academy(京东探索学院);ShanghaiTech University(上海科技大学);Nanjing University(南京大学)
Guava: Distilling Frontier VLMs into a Compact Agent through a Robotic Manipulation Harness
University of Maryland College Park(马里兰大学帕克分校);University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign(伊利诺伊大学厄巴纳-香槟分校);University of Waterloo(滑铁卢大学);Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence(穆罕默德·本·扎耶德人工智能大学);University of Pennsylvania(宾夕法尼亚大学);Amazon FAR(亚马逊 FAR)
VLP: Vision-Language Preference Learning for Embodied Manipulation
Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School, Tsinghua University(清华大学深圳国际研究生院);Institute of Artificial Intelligence (TeleAI), China Telecom(中国电信人工智能研究院);King’s College London(伦敦国王学院)
DaDu-Corki: Algorithm-Architecture Co-Design for Embodied AI-powered Robotic Manipulation
Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences(中国科学院计算技术研究所);University of Chinese Academy of Sciences(中国科学院大学);Shenzhen Institute of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics for Society(深圳人工智能与机器人研究院);Meituan(美团);Tianjin University(天津大学)
Safe Embodied AI for Long-horizon Tasks: A Cross-layer Analysis of Robotic Manipulation
UNIST InnoCORE AI-Space Solar Initiative(UNIST创新核心人工智能空间太阳能计划);Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST)(乌山国立科学技术研究院);Automation and Systems Research Institute(自动化与系统研究所);Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering(电气与计算机工程系);Interdisciplinary Program in Artificial Intelligence(人工智能跨学科项目);LG Electronics(LG电子)
Humanoid Agent via Embodied Chain-of-Action Reasoning with Multimodal Foundation Models for Zero-Shot Loco-Manipulation
Embodied AI and Robotics (AIR) Lab, New York University, New York, USA and NYUAD Center for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, New York University Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, UAE(纽约大学Embodied AI和机器人实验室及纽约大学阿布扎赫尔人工智能与机器人中心);Harvard AI and Robotics Lab, Harvard University, Boston, USA(哈佛大学人工智能与机器人实验室);Department of Computer Science, University College London, London, UK(伦敦大学学院计算机科学系);Department of Computer Science, University of Liverpool, UK(利物浦大学计算机科学系);NYUAD Center for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, New York University Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, UAE(纽约大学阿布扎赫尔人工智能与机器人中心)
PACT: Self-Evolving Physical Safety Alignment for Diffusion Policies in Embodied Manipulation
Dept. of Comp. Sci. and Tech., Institute for AI, Tsinghua-Bosch Joint ML Center, THBI Lab, BNRist Center, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China(计算机科学与技术系,人工智能研究院,清华-博世联合机器学习中心,THBI实验室,BNRist中心,清华大学,北京,100084,中国);Peng Cheng Laboratory, 518108, China(鹏城实验室,518108,中国)
CometVLA: Co-Training on an Embodied Data Pyramid towards Physical Understanding
JD Explore Academy(京东探索研究院);School of Science and Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen(香港中文大学(深圳)理工学院);Shenzhen Institute of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics for Society(深圳市人工智能与机器人研究院);South China University of Technology(华南理工大学);Sun Yat-sen University(中山大学);School of Artificial Intelligence, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen(香港中文大学(深圳)人工智能学院)
Embodied Multimodal Grounding for Open-Vocabulary Mobile Manipulation via Semantic 3D Gaussian Splatting
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)(香港科技大学(广州));Midea Group(美的集团);The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology(香港科技大学)
Efficient Vision-Language-Action Models for Embodied Manipulation: A Systematic Survey
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);AiRiA;Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology(南京信息科学技术大学)