Grounded Action Model: Building robot foundation models on 3D grounding instead of VLAs
DJiafei · x · 2026-09-23
Researchers introduce Grounded Action Model (GAM), a new paradigm for robot manipulation foundation models: instead of building on language or video models (VLAs/WAMs), GAM is constructed on top of a pretrained 3D grounding model. The core idea is "ground first, then learn to act," claiming 3D grounding yields more capable and generalizable manipulation. Details are shared in a thread.
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