RobotValues is a benchmark of 10K value-conflict scenarios that reveals VLMs default to safety and accommodation while failing to follow instructions to prioritize other values 80% of the time.
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ENPIRE supplies four modules (Environment, Policy Improvement, Rollout, Evolution) that turn real-world robot training into an autonomous optimization loop driven by coding agents.
AutoDex automates the full perception-execution-labeling-reset loop for real-world dexterous grasping data collection, delivering 4.8x throughput over teleoperation and 76% success for retrieved grasps versus 34% from simulation-only data.
VLA-AD distills 7B VLA teachers into 158M students using offline VLM semantic guidance on task phases and directions, matching teacher performance on LIBERO with 44x size reduction and 3.28x speedup.
VLMs generalize affordance inference to non-humanoid robots but produce inconsistent results with a conservative bias of low false positives and high false negatives, especially for novel object manipulations.
This is the first survey on vision-language-action models, providing a taxonomy across three lines, plus summaries of datasets, simulators, benchmarks, challenges, and future directions in embodied AI.
An external runtime governance layer for embodied agents intercepts unauthorized actions at ~96% and recovers from runtime drift at ~91% under policy constraints in simulation, outperforming pre-execution-only baselines on continuous detection and recovery.
A thinking-learning interaction model enables robots to adapt input features, expand output categories, update models, and reconstruct actions via environmental interaction, with reported experimental gains.
A governed upgrade framework with interface, policy, behavioral, and recovery checks keeps unsafe activations at zero across multi-round AI capability upgrades on a PyBullet/ROS 2 manipulation testbed while retaining task success near naive upgrades.
CoEnv introduces a compositional environment that integrates real and simulated spaces for multi-agent robotic collaboration, using real-to-sim reconstruction, VLM action synthesis, and validated sim-to-real transfer to achieve high success rates on multi-arm manipulation tasks.
ROSClaw is a hierarchical framework that unifies vision-language model control with e-URDF-based sim-to-real mapping and closed-loop data collection to enable semantic-physical collaboration among heterogeneous multi-agent robots.
A survey organizing AI-powered research automation into five workflow stages, defining AutoResearch and Vibe Research, and proposing five evaluation dimensions while noting domain-conditioned limits on autonomy.
The paper proposes a bidirectional continuum between LLMs and control systems, covering LLM-assisted controller design, control-based LLM steering, and state-space modeling of LLMs.
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RobotValues: Evaluating Household Robots When Human Values Conflict
RobotValues is a benchmark of 10K value-conflict scenarios that reveals VLMs default to safety and accommodation while failing to follow instructions to prioritize other values 80% of the time.
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ENPIRE: Agentic Robot Policy Self-Improvement in the Real World
ENPIRE supplies four modules (Environment, Policy Improvement, Rollout, Evolution) that turn real-world robot training into an autonomous optimization loop driven by coding agents.
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AutoDex: An Automated Real-World System for Dexterous Grasping Data Collection
AutoDex automates the full perception-execution-labeling-reset loop for real-world dexterous grasping data collection, delivering 4.8x throughput over teleoperation and 76% success for retrieved grasps versus 34% from simulation-only data.
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Offline Semantic Guidance for Efficient Vision-Language-Action Policy Distillation
VLA-AD distills 7B VLA teachers into 158M students using offline VLM semantic guidance on task phases and directions, matching teacher performance on LIBERO with 44x size reduction and 3.28x speedup.
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Assessing VLM-Driven Semantic-Affordance Inference for Non-Humanoid Robot Morphologies
VLMs generalize affordance inference to non-humanoid robots but produce inconsistent results with a conservative bias of low false positives and high false negatives, especially for novel object manipulations.
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A Survey on Vision-Language-Action Models for Embodied AI
This is the first survey on vision-language-action models, providing a taxonomy across three lines, plus summaries of datasets, simulators, benchmarks, challenges, and future directions in embodied AI.
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Harnessing Embodied Agents: Runtime Governance for Policy-Constrained Execution
An external runtime governance layer for embodied agents intercepts unauthorized actions at ~96% and recovers from runtime drift at ~91% under policy constraints in simulation, outperforming pre-execution-only baselines on continuous detection and recovery.
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Beyond Predefined Learning Objects: A Thinking-Learning Interaction Model for Up-to-Date Autonomous Robot Learning
A thinking-learning interaction model enables robots to adapt input features, expand output categories, update models, and reconstruct actions via environmental interaction, with reported experimental gains.
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Governed Capability Evolution: Lifecycle-Time Compatibility Checking and Rollback for AI-Component-Based Systems, with Embodied Agents as Case Study
A governed upgrade framework with interface, policy, behavioral, and recovery checks keeps unsafe activations at zero across multi-round AI capability upgrades on a PyBullet/ROS 2 manipulation testbed while retaining task success near naive upgrades.
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CoEnv: Driving Embodied Multi-Agent Collaboration via Compositional Environment
CoEnv introduces a compositional environment that integrates real and simulated spaces for multi-agent robotic collaboration, using real-to-sim reconstruction, VLM action synthesis, and validated sim-to-real transfer to achieve high success rates on multi-arm manipulation tasks.
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ROSClaw: A Hierarchical Semantic-Physical Framework for Heterogeneous Multi-Agent Collaboration
ROSClaw is a hierarchical framework that unifies vision-language model control with e-URDF-based sim-to-real mapping and closed-loop data collection to enable semantic-physical collaboration among heterogeneous multi-agent robots.
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AutoResearch AI: Towards AI-Powered Research Automation for Scientific Discovery
A survey organizing AI-powered research automation into five workflow stages, defining AutoResearch and Vibe Research, and proposing five evaluation dimensions while noting domain-conditioned limits on autonomy.
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When control meets large language models: From words to dynamics
The paper proposes a bidirectional continuum between LLMs and control systems, covering LLM-assisted controller design, control-based LLM steering, and state-space modeling of LLMs.