#robotics

• 1 Jul 2026 · Paper summary

  Paper summary: Orca: The World is in Your Mind

  Orca learns one latent "world state" space from 125K hours of video and 160M event annotations via next-state prediction, and frozen, it supports text, image and robot-action readouts through small decoders.

• 5 May 2026 · Paper summary

  Paper summary: MolmoAct2: Action Reasoning Models for Real-world Deployment

  MolmoAct2 is a fully open action-reasoning model for practical robot deployment, with a new embodied-reasoning VLM backbone, open datasets including 720 hours of bimanual teleoperation, an open action tokenizer, and a lower-latency reasoning variant.

• 3 Feb 2026 · Paper summary

  Paper summary: Green-VLA: Staged Vision-Language-Action Model for Generalist Robots

  Green-VLA is a five-stage vision-language-action training recipe, from a base VLM to RL policy alignment, with one embodiment-aware action interface that controls humanoids, mobile manipulators and fixed arms.