Long-horizon visual goals remain surprisingly hard for robot manipulation.... We introduce Act2Goal, a goal-conditioned policy that uses a visual world model to reason about progress toward a goal, and practice it autonomously in the real world.show more

World Model meets robot policy! Robbyant's LingBot-VA: unifies video... world modeling and robotic policy learning. - A single model generates both future video and the actions to make it real. - Long-term memory enables long-horizon tasks. - Claims significant outperformance over π₀.₅ in real-world tasks. - It's open-sourceshow more

🧐Applying world models to improve real-world policy on challenging... manipulation tasks used to be considered out of reach. 😌After sustained effort, we’re now seeing encouraging progress. 🚀Thrilled to introduce RISE: Self-Improving Robot Policy with Compositional World Model RISE is, to our knowledge, the first work to use a world model as an effective learning environment for challenging real-world manipulation, enabling policy improvement on tasks that demand high dynamics, dexterity, and precision. Incredible teamwork with Kunyang Lin Hongyang Li Yue Xiangyu Hao Zhao Chonghao Simashow more

We released τ₀-VLA, a robot foundation model built for... long-horizon real-world manipulation. Robots can now clean rooms, cook meals, make drinks, collect laundry, and organize objects in autonomous episodes lasting up to 12 minutes. 🧵show more

#AGIBOTAIWeek Day4: Introducing GE-Sim 2.0 (Genie Envisioner World Simulator... 2.0) , a comprehensive embodied world simulator for robotic manipulation. By integrating future video generation, proprioceptive state estimation, and reward-based policy assessment, GE-Sim 2.0 moves beyond visual simulation toward an embodied world simulator with built-in evaluation capability, laying the foundation for a world-model-centric platform for closed-loop and interactive policy learning. It provides a practical framework for scalable evaluation and training of robotic manipulation policies. Project page: #AGIBOT #AGIBOTAIWeek #GenieEnvisioner #Robotics #visualsimulationshow more

I have been cleaning my daughter's mess for more... than two years now. Last weekend our robot came to home to do the job for me. 🤖 Our new work on visual whole-body control learns a policy to coordinate the robot legs and arms for mobile manipulation. See how the legs bend on grasping objects on the ground based on visual inputs autonomously. (It is NOT teleoperation!) We again adopt a Sim2Real approach and our policy generalizes to beaches, forests, and streets in San Diego. 👇🧵show more

How to use simulation data for real-world robot manipulation?... We present sim-and-real co-training, a simple recipe for manipulation. We demonstrate that sim data can significantly enhance real-world performance, even with notable differences between the sim and the real. (1/n)show more

Diffusion has shown great promise for generating robot **actions**,... can it act as a **world model** to generate the future conditioned on actions? In our work led by han qi Haocheng Yin and in collaboration with Yilun Du, we show a **controllable** action-conditioned video diffusion model can produce photorealistic and (near) physics-accurate future predictions. This ability strengthens the policy via: - ranking different action proposals and selecting the best, or - **visual** trajectory optimization by optimizing the action proposals using gradient ascent. Learn more about Generative Predictive Control (GPC) at:show more

Our vision is for AI that uses world models... to adapt in new and dynamic environments and efficiently learn new skills. We’re sharing V-JEPA 2, a new world model with state-of-the-art performance in visual understanding and prediction. V-JEPA 2 is a 1.2 billion-parameter model, trained on video, that can enable zero-shot planning in robots—allowing them to plan and execute tasks in unfamiliar environments. Learn more about V-JEPA 2 ➡️ As we continue working toward our goal of achieving advanced machine intelligence (AMI), we’re also releasing three new benchmarks for evaluating how well existing models can reason about the physical world from video. Learn more and download the new benchmarks ➡️show more

Rollouts in the real world are slow and expensive.... What if we could rollout trajectories entirely inside a world model (WM)? Introducing 🚀Ctrl-World🚀, a generative manipulation WM that can interact with advanced VLA policy in imagination. 🧵1/6show more

Testing robot policies on hardware is slow, expensive and... hard to scale. World models offer a promising path to accelerating robot policy development. We're sharing new research from the Runway Robotics team, in which we simulated 8 robot policies inside our General World Model and found 0.95 correlation with real-world results. Those early results point to world model simulation as a practical substitute for hardware evaluation, comparing favorably to existing real-to-sim approaches. Learn more at the link below.show more

Perceptive Humanoid Parkour (PHP) introduces a modular framework that... enables the Unitree G1 humanoid to perform long-horizon, vision-based parkour. - It chains retargeted human motion clips into diverse, long-horizon kinematic reference trajectories. - RL expert policies learn individual skills that are distilled into a depth-conditioned student policy. - The robot autonomously selects the appropriate skill based on the obstacle geometry.show more

Robot Learning needs 4D world models! Robot Learning needs... 4D world models! Robot Learning needs 4D world models! We introduce TesserAct, a 4D embodied world model that can simulate how agents interact with the 3D world over time! We achieve this by simply extending a pre-trained 2D video generation model to jointly predict RGB, depth, and surface normals. It enables: 1️⃣ Much better policy learning in the wild 2️⃣ Temporal + spatial coherence in 4D dynamic prediction 3️⃣ Novel view synthesis for embodied scenes Code: Paper Link: Project page:show more

🚀 We’re excited to announce LingBot-VA, a new state-of-the-art... robot policy model from Robbyant ! LingBot-VA is built on a causal, autoregressive video-action world model for generalist robot control. Highlights: (1) First unified autoregressive video-action world model for robot control (2) Low-latency inference with a new asynchronous execution pipeline (3) SOTA on RoboTwin (92.9%, firstever > 90%) and LIBERO (98.5%) (4) +20% over π0.5 on challenging real-world long-horizon & high-precision tasksshow more

NASA’s science data is freely available for anyone, anywhere... in the world to use. That means scientists and policy-makers, but it also means artists! Jewel (Jewel), a singer-songwriter and visual artist, used data from a @nasa ocean model in her latest artwork.show more

ViTacFormer is a unified visuo-tactile framework for dexterous robot... manipulation. It fuses high-res visual+tactile data using cross-attention and predicts future tactile signals via an autoregressive head, enabling multi-fingered hands to perform precise, long-horizon tasks.show more

Another day, another humanoid robot from china AGIBOT introduces... GO-1, a generalist foundation model that integrates a vision-language model with a latent planner for enhanced long-horizon and dexterous manipulation.show more

Robot policies must be both reliable and highly capable... to be useful; the best way to achieve this level of performance is with reinforcement learning. However, for reinforcement learning you are usually stuck between two difficult options: reinforcement in the real world is often risky and expensive, while reinforcement learning in a traditional simulator takes a lot of engineering work and has a persistent sim-to-real gap. What if instead you could train your robot purely in a world model? RISE by Jiazhi Yang et al. uses a compositional world model to predict the future and evaluate progress. This allows for a self-improving pipeline, which learns a world model from real data and then learns how the robot should perform different tasks. This pipeline results in a data-driven way to improve policy performance from real data but without real-world reinforcement learning. Watch Episode #86 of RoboPapers, with Chris Paxton and Jiafei Duan, to learn more!show more

📢 Announcing one of the most exciting works from... us this year on **scalable robot policy evaluation through real-to-sim transfer**, moving toward a scalable evaluation engine with structured world models that capture the appearance, geometry, and dynamics of environments involving deformable objects. 🤖 Evaluation remains one of the biggest bottlenecks in building general-purpose robots. Today, robots are still evaluated only in the real world, which is **orders of magnitude slower** than the development of language agents. We propose a new framework where simulation performance **strongly correlates** with the real world (r > 0.9), even for deformable objects. The key difference from existing work lies in the correlation between simulation and reality: if a robot model performs better in the digital world, does it also perform better in the real world? This question has long made people hesitant about simulation-based evaluation — especially for deformable objects. We are changing that. Our pipeline achieves effective real-to-sim transfer, establishing **state-of-the-art correlation** between simulation and reality for deformable object manipulation. It provides a **scalable and reproducible evaluation engine** for robot learning. 🌐show more

Every Japan World Cup Goal (2014–2022) 🇯🇵 A collection... of the goals that defined a generation. From Honda's leadership to Japan's historic upsets in Qatar, every World Cup goal from 2014 to 2022 in one videoshow more