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31 entries with reviewed evidence

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ACModels

ACT

ACT predicts chunks of robot actions from demonstrations, with the original project focused on fine-grained bimanual manipulation.

Imitation-learning policy
Reviewed 2026-09-28
ACModels

Action ControlNet (ACNet)

ACNet is a research adapter for reducing discontinuities when robot policies predict action chunks asynchronously from aging observations.

Delay-aware action adapter
Reviewed 2026-09-28
DIModels

Diffusion Policy

Diffusion Policy formulates visuomotor action generation as conditional denoising, with reference experiments and training artifacts available for inspection.

Diffusion action policy
Reviewed 2026-09-28
FIModels

Field Foundation Models

Field AI’s model family underpins an autonomy software offering for robot operation in variable field environments.

Embodied autonomy
Reviewed 2026-09-28
FIModels

Figure Helix

Figure’s vision-language-action model family for its humanoids, with an original upper-body release and a separately announced whole-body Helix 02 generation.

Vision-language-action
Reviewed 2026-09-28
GEModels

Gemini Robotics 2

Gemini Robotics 2 is the vision-language-action member of Google DeepMind’s Robotics 2 release, with access and control responsibilities distinct from the other family members.

Vision-language-action
Reviewed 2026-09-28
GEModels

Gemini Robotics ER 2

Gemini Robotics ER 2 is the embodied reasoning vlm member of Google DeepMind’s Robotics 2 release, with access and control responsibilities distinct from the other family members.

Embodied reasoning VLM
Reviewed 2026-09-28
GEModels

Gemini Robotics On-Device 2

Gemini Robotics On-Device 2 is the on-device vision-language-action member of Google DeepMind’s Robotics 2 release, with access and control responsibilities distinct from the other family members.

On-device vision-language-action
Reviewed 2026-09-28
GEModels

GEN-1

Generalist AI’s GEN-1 is a multimodal robotic model and inference system described around real-time actions and adaptation to specific robot tasks.

Robot foundation model
Reviewed 2026-09-28
COModels

NVIDIA Cosmos Predict

NVIDIA Cosmos Predict is a specialized Cosmos release with a defined video world model role; the inspected repository now directs future development to Cosmos 3.

Video world model
Reviewed 2026-09-28
COModels

NVIDIA Cosmos Reason

NVIDIA Cosmos Reason is a specialized Cosmos release with a defined physical reasoning vlm role; the inspected repository now directs future development to Cosmos 3.

Physical reasoning VLM
Reviewed 2026-09-28
COModels

NVIDIA Cosmos Transfer

NVIDIA Cosmos Transfer is a specialized Cosmos release with a defined controllable world generation role; the inspected repository now directs future development to Cosmos 3.

Controllable world generation
Reviewed 2026-09-28
GRModels

NVIDIA GR00T N2

A previewed world-action model in NVIDIA’s robotics roadmap, identified separately from the downloadable GR00T N1.7 release.

World-action model
Reviewed 2026-09-28
ISModels

NVIDIA Isaac GR00T N1.7

An open robot foundation model release with multimodal reasoning, a continuous-action diffusion head and documented fine-tuning paths for supported embodiments.

Vision-language-action
Reviewed 2026-09-28
OCModels

Octo

Octo is a generalist robot policy designed for adaptation to different observation and action spaces, with language or goal-image conditioning.

Generalist diffusion policy
Reviewed 2026-09-28
OPModels

OpenHelix

OpenHelix is an independent research implementation exploring a dual-system VLA architecture inspired by Figure’s Helix work.

Dual-system VLA research implementation
Reviewed 2026-09-28
OPModels

OpenVLA

OpenVLA is a research VLA with public weights and adaptation tooling, connecting visual observations and language instructions to manipulation actions.

Vision-language-action
Reviewed 2026-09-28
OPModels

OpenVLA-OFT

OpenVLA-OFT is an optimization and fine-tuning recipe that changes action decoding and representation for OpenVLA, with a separately documented bimanual extension.

VLA fine-tuning method
Reviewed 2026-09-28
PHModels

Physical Intelligence π0

A flow-matching VLA that starts from a pretrained vision-language model and learns continuous robot control across multiple robot configurations.

Vision-language-action
Reviewed 2026-09-28
PHModels

Physical Intelligence π0.5

A generalist VLA that combines heterogeneous robot data, semantic prediction and web-derived supervision to study manipulation beyond its training locations.

Vision-language-action
Reviewed 2026-09-28
PHModels

Physical Intelligence π0.6

A hierarchical VLA described in Physical Intelligence’s model card, with semantic subtask prediction and an action expert built around a Gemma 3 backbone.

Vision-language-action
Reviewed 2026-09-28
PHModels

Physical Intelligence π0.7

A steerable generalist robotic foundation model documented in a named Physical Intelligence research paper.

Vision-language-action
Reviewed 2026-09-28
RTModels

RT-1

RT-1 connects camera observations and language commands to robot actions through a transformer policy and compressed visual tokens.

Robotics transformer policy
Reviewed 2026-09-28
RTModels

RT-2

RT-2 studies transferring pretrained vision-language representations into robot control by treating robot action tokens as another output language.

Vision-language-action
Reviewed 2026-09-28
SKModels

Skild Brain

Skild AI’s general-purpose robotics model family, organized around high-level behavior and lower-level control across different robot forms.

Robot foundation model
Reviewed 2026-09-28
SMModels

SmolVLA

SmolVLA is a compact base VLA exposed through LeRobot, with continuous action generation and a documented path to task-specific fine-tuning.

Vision-language-action
Reviewed 2026-09-28
TSModels

TS-Mask VLA

TS-Mask VLA is a manipulation research framework that models temporal and spatial structure in discrete action sequences.

Discrete-diffusion VLA
Reviewed 2026-09-28
VLModels

VLA-Adapter

VLA-Adapter studies a lightweight connection between a visual-language backbone and action generation, with a public implementation and adaptation examples.

VLA adaptation architecture
Reviewed 2026-09-28
WAModels

Wayve AI Driver

Wayve’s AI Driver is an embedded driving software offering designed to be licensed to vehicle manufacturers and integrated with vehicle sensors and compute.

Autonomous driving
Reviewed 2026-09-28
WAModels

Wayve GAIA

GAIA is Wayve’s world-model family for driving simulation; the reviewed GAIA-4 release constructs closed-loop scenarios from recorded sensor data.

World model
Reviewed 2026-09-28
X-Models

X-VLA

X-VLA uses embodiment-related soft prompts to adapt a flow-based action policy across differing robot data sources.

Cross-embodiment vision-language-action
Reviewed 2026-09-28