cs.RO · 2026-09-01 · No. 102

Robotics, 2026-09-01.

3 new papers in cs.RO. Titles, authors, abstracts. Links to arXiv. Want this in your inbox every morning? Subscribe →

01 — The papers

3 entries
  1. 01

    SUN: Persistent Programs For Language-Grounded Control-to-Learning-to-Real Policies

    Weiqi Wang, Zhi Li, Yudong Lei, David Martinez, Xiaofeng Gao, Yuxin Jiang, Chenfanfu Jiang, Yingnian Wu, Demetri...

    cs.RO · cs.AI

    Bridging model-based control and learned policies in long-horizon manipulation has harbored a silent disagreement: control executes specified objectives, learning amortizes that behavior into a reactive policy, yet existing protocols discard task semantics, leaving rewards hand-crafted and behavior drifting from what control verified.We introduce Semantically UNified (SUN) Programs, typed executables where geometric and contact relations are...

    arxiv.org/abs/2608.31167 · PDF

  2. 02

    LightNav-0: Eliciting VLM Spatial Intelligence for Generalist Embodied Navigation

    Shaoan Wang, Aocheng Luo, Fei Huang, Jingyi Xu, Xiaoyang Wang, Yueyu Wang, Qianli Ma, Fan Yang, Ran Mei, Jia Wei,...

    cs.RO · cs.AI

    Embodied navigation requires agents to translate heterogeneous goals and visual observations into actions across tasks, environments, and robot embodiments. Modern vision-language models (VLMs) already encode spatial priors for visual grounding, spatial reasoning, and pointing, but these capabilities are rarely elicited directly for robot control. Existing navigation systems instead rely on task- or embodiment-specific components, fragmenting...

    arxiv.org/abs/2608.30935 · PDF

  3. 03

    PAVE: Predictive Alignment and Value-Guided Evolution for World-Action Policies

    Botong Zhao, Fang Yu, Tim, Senhua Zhu, Xinyuan Chen, Yue Lu

    cs.RO · cs.AI

    Direct vision-language-action policies generate continuous robot actions efficiently, but standard behavior cloning leaves two complementary gaps: their representations are not explicitly required to describe how the scene evolves over multiple time scales, and deployment trajectories of unequal quality are often reused without separating useful dynamics from undesirable behavior. We introduce \method, a direct world-action policy that...

    arxiv.org/abs/2608.30378 · PDF

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