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  1. TOOL · 量子位 (QbitAI) 中文(ZH) ·

    Ant Lingbo LingBot-VA Paper Accepted by Top Robotics Conference RSS 2026, Enabling Robots to Reason While Acting

    Ant Group's LingBot-VA, a causal world modeling framework for robot control, has been accepted into the prestigious Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) 2026 conference. This framework enables robots to predict environmental changes before acting, mimicking human-like observation, judgment, and action. LingBot-VA utilizes a Mixture-of-Transformers architecture and has demonstrated high success rates on simulated and real-world robotic tasks, showcasing strong data efficiency and generalization capabilities. The research aims to advance robots from simple instruction followers to systems with enhanced environmental understanding and autonomous decision-making. AI

    IMPACT Advances robot control by enabling predictive world modeling, potentially leading to more autonomous and adaptable robotic systems.

  2. RESEARCH · arXiv cs.AI English(EN) · · [2 sources]

    Key-Gram: Extensible World Knowledge for Embodied Manipulation

    Researchers have developed Key-Gram, a new framework designed to improve embodied control systems by separating linguistic knowledge from visual reasoning. This approach uses a conditional-memory module to store and retrieve instruction-derived knowledge, allowing the main model backbone to focus on visual processing and action inference. Key-Gram has demonstrated significant performance gains across various robotic manipulation tasks, including RoboTwin2.0 and real-world dual-arm scenarios, by enhancing compositional grounding and transfer learning. AI

    Key-Gram: Extensible World Knowledge for Embodied Manipulation

    IMPACT Externalizing linguistic memory in embodied AI could lead to more adaptable and efficient robotic systems capable of complex instruction following.

  3. TOOL · arXiv cs.AI English(EN) ·

    VLANeXt: Recipes for Building Strong VLA Models

    Researchers have developed VLANeXt, a new Vision-Language-Action (VLA) model that improves upon existing architectures by systematically analyzing and optimizing design choices. Through a unified framework and evaluation setup, they identified 12 key findings that form a practical recipe for building strong VLA models. VLANeXt demonstrates superior performance on benchmarks like LIBERO and LIBERO-plus, and shows effectiveness in real-world applications. The team has also released a comprehensive codebase to facilitate reproduction and further development in the VLA space. AI

    IMPACT Provides a structured approach and reproducible codebase for developing more capable Vision-Language-Action models.