10 NeurIPS 2026 robotics papers to watch: VLA inference and long-horizon tasks
shaohua0116 · x · 2026-09-28
X user heetezition rounds up 10 NeurIPS 2026 robotics/embodied AI papers worth watching:
- Embodied-R1.5: one model unifying physical reasoning, grounding, planning and robot control
- LaST-R1: reinforcing latent physical reasoning inside a VLA
- LessMimic: humanoid interaction via local geometry instead of motion mimicry
- Point4D: long-range 4D motion reconstruction through occlusions
- Grasp-Then-Plan with Failure Attribution: tells grasp failures from motion-policy failures
- OxyGen: shared KV caches for faster multi-task VLA inference
- PACE: helps robots track long-horizon task progress
- TDBench: tests whether VLMs truly understand physical scenes
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