🤖 Awesome Embodied Robotics and Agent

This is a curated list of "Embodied robotics or agent with Vision-Language Models (VLMs) and Large Language Models (LLMs)" research which is maintained by haonan.

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News🔥

[2025/03/18] Add some popular vision-language action (VLA) models. 🦾
[2024/06/28] Created a new board about agent self-evolutionary research. 🤖
[2024/06/07] Add Mobile-Agent-v2, a mobile device operation assistant with effective navigation via multi-agent collaboration. 🚀
[2024/05/13] Add "Learning Interactive Real-World Simulators"——outstanding paper award in ICLR 2024 🥇.
[2024/04/24] Add "A Survey on Self-Evolution of Large Language Models", a systematic survey on self-evolution in LLMs! 💥
[2024/04/16] Add some CVPR 2024 papers.
[2024/04/15] Add MetaGPT, accepted for oral presentation (top 1.2%) at ICLR 2024, ranking #1 in the LLM-based Agent category. 🚀
[2024/03/13] Add CRADLE, an interesting paper exploring LLM-based agent in Red Dead Redemption II！🎮

Development of Embodied Robotics and Benchmarks

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Table of Contents 🍃

• Survey
• Vision-Language-Action Model
• Self-Evolving Agents
• Advanced Agent Applications
• LLMs with RL or World Model
• Planning and Manipulation or Pretraining
• Multi-Agent Learning and Coordination
• Vision and Language Navigation
• Detection
• 3D Grounding
• Interactive Embodied Learning
• Rearrangement
• Benchmark
• Simulator
• Others

Methods

Survey

• A Survey on Vision-Language-Action Models for Embodied AI [arXiv 2024.03]
  The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Huawei Noah’s Ark Lab

• Large Multimodal Agents: A Survey [arXiv 2024.02] [Github]
  Junlin Xie^♣♡ Zhihong Chen^♣♡ Ruifei Zhang^♣♡ Xiang Wan^♣ Guanbin Li^{♠
  ♡}The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen ^♣Shenzhen Research Institute of Big Data, ^♠Sun Yat-sen University

• A Survey on Self-Evolution of Large Language Models [arXiv 2024.01]
  Key Lab of HCST (PKU), MOE; School of Computer Science, Peking University, Alibaba Group, Nanyang Technological University

• Agent AI: Surveying the Horizons of Multimodal Interaction [arXiv 2024.01]
  Stanford University, Microsoft Research, Redmond, University of California, Los Angeles, University of Washington, Microsoft Gaming

• Igniting Language Intelligence: The Hitchhiker’s Guide From Chain-of-Thought Reasoning to Language Agents [arXiv 2023.11]
  Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Amazon Web Services, Yale University

• The Rise and Potential of Large Language Model Based Agents: A Survey [arXiv 2023.09]
  Fudan NLP Group, miHoYo Inc

• A Survey on LLM-based Autonomous Agents [arXiv 2023,08]
  Gaoling School of Artificial Intelligence, Renmin University of China

Vision-Language-Action Model

• π0: A Vision-Language-Action Flow Model for General Robot Control [arXiv 2024.10] [Project page]
  Physical Intelligence

• Hi Robot: Open-Ended Instruction Following with Hierarchical Vision-Language-Action Models [arXiv 2025.02] [Project page]
  Physical Intelligence

• OpenVLA: An Open-Source Vision-Language-Action Model [arXiv 2024.01] [Github][Project page][HuggingFace🤗]
  Stanford University, UC Berkeley, Toyota Research Institute, Google Deepmind, Physical Intelligence, MIT

Self-Evolving Agents

• Meta-Control: Automatic Model-based Control System Synthesis for Heterogeneous Robot Skills [CoRL 2024] [Project page]
  Tianhao Wei^1*, Liqian Ma^12*, Rui Chen¹, Weiye Zhao¹, Changliu Liu^{1
  *}Equal Contribution ¹Carnegie Mellon University ²Tsinghua University

• AGENTGYM: Evolving Large Language Model-based Agents across Diverse Environments [arXiv 2024.06] [Github] [Project page]
  Fudan NLP Lab & Fudan Vision and Learning Lab

• Interactive Evolution: A Neural-Symbolic Self-Training Framework For Large Language Models [arXiv 2024.06] [Github]
  Fangzhi Xu^♢♡, Qiushi Sun^{2, ♡}, Kanzhi Cheng¹, Jun Liu^♢, Yu Qiao♡, Zhiyong Wu^{♡
  ♢}Xi’an Jiaotong University, ^♡Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, ¹The University of Hong Kong, ²Nanjing Univerisity

• Symbolic Learning Enables Self-Evolving Agents [arXiv 2024.06] [Github]
  Wangchunshu Zhou, Yixin Ou, Shengwei Ding, Long Li, Jialong Wu, Tiannan Wang, Jiamin Chen, Shuai Wang, Xiaohua Xu, Ningyu Zhang, Huajun Chen, Yuchen Eleanor Jiang
  AIWaves Inc. https://meta-control-paper.github.io/

Advanced Agent Applications

• Meta-Control: Automatic Model-based Control System Synthesis for Heterogeneous Robot Skills [CoRL 2024] [Project page]
  Tianhao Wei^1*, Liqian Ma^12*, Rui Chen¹, Weiye Zhao¹, Changliu Liu^{1 *}Equal Contribution ¹Carnegie Mellon University ²Tsinghua University

• [Embodied-agents] [Github]
  Seamlessly integrate state-of-the-art transformer models into robotics stacks.

• Mobile-Agent-v2: Mobile Device Operation Assistant with Effective Navigation via Multi-Agent Collaboration [arXiv 2024] [Github]
  Junyang Wang¹, Haiyang Xu², Haitao Jia¹, Xi Zhang², Ming Yan², Weizhou Shen², Ji Zhang², Fei Huang², Jitao Sang^{1
  1}Beijing Jiaotong University ²Alibaba Group

• Mobile-Agent: The Powerful Mobile Device Operation Assistant Family [ICLR 2024 Workshop LLM Agents] [Github]
  Junyang Wang¹, Haiyang Xu², Jiabo Ye², Ming Yan², Weizhou Shen², Ji Zhang², Fei Huang², Jitao Sang^{1
  1}Beijing Jiaotong University ²Alibaba Group

• [Machinascript-for-robots] [Github]
  Build LLM-powered robots in your garage with MachinaScript For Robots!

• DiffAgent: Fast and Accurate Text-to-Image API Selection with Large Language Model [CVPR 2024] [Github]
  Lirui Zhao^1,2 Yue Yang^2,4 Kaipeng Zhang² Wenqi Shao², Yuxin Zhang¹, Yu Qiao², Ping Luo^2,3 Rongrong Ji^{1
  1}Xiamen University, ²OpenGVLab, Shanghai AI Laboratory ³The University of Hong Kong, ⁴Shanghai Jiao Tong University

• MetaGPT: Meta Programming for A Multi-Agent Collaborative Framework [ICLR 2024 (oral)]
  DeepWisdom, AI Initiative, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Xiamen University, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Nanjing University, University of Pennsylvania, University of California, Berkeley, The Swiss AI Lab IDSIA/USI/SUPSI

• AppAgent: Multimodal Agents as Smartphone Users [Project page] [Github]
  Chi Zhang∗ ZhaoYang∗ JiaxuanLiu∗ YuchengHan XinChen Zebiao Huang BinFu GangYu†
  Tencent

LLMs with RL or World Model

• KALM: Knowledgeable Agents by Offline Reinforcement Learning from Large Language Model Rollouts [NeurIPS 2024] [Project Page]
  Jing-Cheng Pang, Si-Hang Yang, Kaiyuan Li, Jiaji Zhang, Xiong-Hui Chen, Nan Tang, Yang Yu
  ¹Nanjing University, ²Polixir.ai

• Learning Interactive Real-World Simulators [ICLR 2024 (Outstanding Papers)] [Project Page]
  Sherry Yang^1,2, Yilun Du³, Kamyar Ghasemipour², Jonathan Tompson², Leslie Kaelbling³, Dale Schuurmans², Pieter Abbeel^{1
  1}UC Berkeley, ²Google DeepMind, ³MIT

• Robust agents learn causal world models [ICLR 2024]
  Jonathan Richens*, TomEveritt
  Google DeepMind

• Embodied Multi-Modal Agent trained by an LLM from a Parallel TextWorld [CVPR 2024] [Github]
  Yijun Yang¹⁵⁴, Tianyi Zhou², Kanxue Li³, Dapeng Tao³, Lvsong Li⁴, Li Shen⁴, Xiaodong He⁴, Jing Jiang⁵, Yuhui Shi^{1
  1}Southern University of Science and Technology, ²University of Maryland, College Park, ³Yunnan University, ⁴JD Explore Academy, ⁵University of Technology Sydney

• Leveraging Pre-trained Large Language Models to Construct and Utilize World Models for Model-based Task Planning [NeurIPS 2023] [Project Page][Github]
  Lin_Guan¹, Karthik Valmeekam¹, Sarath Sreedharan², Subbarao Kambhampati^{1
  1}School of Computing & AI Arizona State University Tempe, AZ, ²Department of Computer Science Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO

• Eureka: Human-Level Reward Design via Coding Large Language Models [NeurIPS 2023 Workshop ALOE Spotlight] [Project page] [Github]
  Jason Ma^1,2, William Liang², Guanzhi Wang^1,3, De-An Huang¹, Osbert Bastani², Dinesh Jayaraman², Yuke Zhu^1,4, Linxi "Jim" Fan¹, Anima Anandkumar^{1,3
  1}NVIDIA; ²UPenn; ³Caltech; ⁴UT Austin

• RLAdapter: Bridging Large Language Models to Reinforcement Learning in Open Worlds [arXiv 2023]
  

• Can Language Agents Be Alternatives to PPO? A Preliminary Empirical Study on OpenAI Gym [arXiv 2023]
  

• RoboGPT: An intelligent agent of making embodied long-term decisions for daily instruction tasks [arXiv 2023]
  

• Aligning Agents like Large Language Models [arXiv 2023]
  

• AMAGO: Scalable In-Context Reinforcement Learning for Adaptive Agents [ICLR 2024 spotlight]
  

• STARLING: Self-supervised Training of Text-based Reinforcement Learning Agent with Large Language Models [arXiv 2023]
  

• Text2Reward: Dense Reward Generation with Language Models for Reinforcement Learning [ICLR 2024 spotlight]
  

• Leveraging Large Language Models for Optimised Coordination in Textual Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning [arXiv 2023]
  

• Online Continual Learning for Interactive Instruction Following Agents [ICLR 2024]
  

• ADAPTER-RL: Adaptation of Any Agent using Reinforcement Learning [arXiv 2023]
  

• Language Reward Modulation for Pretraining Reinforcement Learning [arXiv 2023]
  

• Informing Reinforcement Learning Agents by Grounding Natural Language to Markov Decision Processes [arXiv 2023]
  

• Learning to Model the World with Language [arXiv 2023]
  

• MAMBA: an Effective World Model Approach for Meta-Reinforcement Learning [ICLR 2024]
  

• Language Reward Modulation for Pretraining Reinforcement Learning [arXiv 2023] [Github]
  Ademi Adeniji, Amber Xie, Carmelo Sferrazza, Younggyo Seo, Stephen James, Pieter Abbeel
  ¹UC Berkeley

• Guiding Pretraining in Reinforcement Learning with Large Language Models [ICML 2023]
  Yuqing Du^1*, Olivia Watkins^1*, Zihan Wang², Cedric Colas ´^3,4, Trevor Darrell¹, Pieter Abbeel¹, Abhishek Gupta², Jacob Andreas^{3
  1}Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley, USA ²University of Washington, Seattle ³Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory ⁴ Inria, Flowers Laboratory.

Planning and Manipulation or Pretraining

• Meta-Control: Automatic Model-based Control System Synthesis for Heterogeneous Robot Skills [CoRL 2024] [Project page]
  Tianhao Wei^1*, Liqian Ma^12*, Rui Chen¹, Weiye Zhao¹, Changliu Liu^{1 *}Equal Contribution ¹Carnegie Mellon University ²Tsinghua University

• Voyager: An Open-Ended Embodied Agent with Large Language Models [NeurIPS 2023 Workshop ALOE Spotlight] [Project page] [Github]
  Guanzhi Wang^1,2, Yuqi Xie³, Yunfan Jiang⁴, Ajay Mandlekar¹, Chaowei Xiao^1,5, Yuke Zhu^1,3, Linxi Fan¹, Anima Anandkumar^{1,2 1}NVIDIA, ²Caltech, ³UT Austin, ⁴Stanford, ⁵UW Madison

• Agent-Pro: Learning to Evolve via Policy-Level Reflection and Optimization [ACL 2024][Github]
  Wenqi Zhang, Ke Tang, Hai Wu, Mengna Wang, Yongliang Shen, Guiyang Hou, Zeqi Tan, Peng Li, Yueting Zhuang, Weiming Lu

• Self-Contrast: Better Reflection Through Inconsistent Solving Perspectives [ACL 2024]
  Wenqi Zhang, Yongliang Shen, Linjuan Wu, Qiuying Peng, Jun Wang, Yueting Zhuang, Weiming Lu

• MineDreamer: Learning to Follow Instructions via Chain-of-Imagination for Simulated-World Control [arXiv 2024] [Project Page]
  Enshen Zhou^1,2 Yiran Qin^1,3 Zhenfei Yin^1,4 Yuzhou Huang³ Ruimao Zhang³ Lu Sheng² Yu Qiao¹ Jing Shao^{1
  1}Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, ²The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, ³Beihang University, ⁴The University of Sydney

• MP5: A Multi-modal Open-ended Embodied System in Minecraft via Active Perception [CVPR 2024] [Project Page]
  Yiran Qin^1,2 Enshen Zhou^1,3 Qichang Liu^1,4 Zhenfei Yin^1,5 Lu Sheng³ Ruimao Zhang² Yu Qiao¹ Jing Shao^{1
  1}Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, ²The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, ³Beihang University, ⁴Tsinghua University, ⁵The University of Sydney

• Code-as-Monitor: Constraint-aware Visual Programming for Reactive and Proactive Robotic Failure Detection [CVPR 2025] [Project Page]
  Enshen Zhou^1* Qi Su^2* Cheng Chi^3*; Zhizheng Zhang⁴ Zhongyuan Wang³ Tiejun Huang^2,3 Lu Sheng^1; He Wang^{2,3,4;
  1}Beihang University, ²Peking University, ³Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence, ⁴GalBot

• RILA: Reflective and Imaginative Language Agent for Zero-Shot Semantic Audio-Visual Navigation [CVPR 2024]
  Zeyuan Yang¹, LIU JIAGENG, Peihao Chen², Anoop Cherian³, Tim Marks, Jonathan Le Roux⁴, Chuang Gan^{5 1}Tsinghua University, ²South China University of Technology, ³Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs (MERL), ⁴Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs, ⁵MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab

• Towards General Computer Control: A Multimodal Agent for Red Dead Redemption II as a Case Study [arXiv 2024] [Project Page] [Code]
  Weihao Tan², Ziluo Ding¹, Wentao Zhang², Boyu Li¹, Bohan Zhou³, Junpeng Yue³, Haochong Xia², Jiechuan Jiang³, Longtao Zheng², Xinrun Xu1, Yifei Bi¹, Pengjie Gu²,
  ¹Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence (BAAI), China; ²Nanyang Technological University, Singapore; ³School of Computer Science, Peking University, China

• See and Think: Embodied Agent in Virtual Environment [arXiv 2023]
  Zhonghan Zhao^1*, Wenhao Chai^2*, Xuan Wang^1*, Li Boyi¹, Shengyu Hao¹, Shidong Cao¹, Tian Ye³, Jenq-Neng Hwang², Gaoang Wang^{1
  1}Zhejiang University ¹University of Washington ¹Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (GZ)

• Agent Instructs Large Language Models to be General Zero-Shot Reasoners [arXiv 2023]
  Nicholas Crispino¹, Kyle Montgomery¹, Fankun Zeng¹, Dawn Song², Chenguang Wang^{1
  1}Washington University in St. Louis, ²UC Berkeley

• JARVIS-1: Open-world Multi-task Agents with Memory-Augmented Multimodal Language Models [NeurIPS 2023] [Project Page]
  Zihao Wang^1,2 Shaofei Cai^1,2 Anji Liu³ Yonggang Jin⁴ Jinbing Hou⁴ Bowei Zhang⁵ Haowei Lin^1,2 Zhaofeng He⁴ Zilong Zheng⁶ Yaodong Yang¹ Xiaojian Ma^6† Yitao Liang^{1†
  1}Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Peking University, ²School of Intelligence Science and Technology, Peking University, ³Computer Science Department, University of California, Los Angeles, ⁴Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, ⁵School of Electronics Engineering and Computer Science, Peking University, ⁶Beijing Institute for General Artificial Intelligence (BIGAI)

• Describe, Explain, Plan and Select: Interactive Planning with Large Language Models Enables Open-World Multi-Task Agents [NeurIPS 2023]
  Zihao Wang^1,2 Shaofei Cai^1,2 Guanzhou Chen³ Anji Liu⁴ Xiaojian Ma⁴ Yitao Liang^{1,5†
  1}Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Peking University, ²School of Intelligence Science and Technology, Peking University, ³School of Computer Science, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, ⁴Computer Science Department, University of California, Los Angeles, ⁵Beijing Institute for General Artificial Intelligence (BIGAI)

• CAMEL: Communicative Agents for “Mind” Exploration of Large Scale Language Model Society [NeurIPS 2023] [Github] [Project page]
  Guohao Li, Hasan Abed Al Kader Hammoud, Hani Itani, Dmitrii Khizbullin, Bernard Ghanem
  ¹King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)

• Language Models as Zero-Shot Planners: Extracting Actionable Knowledge for Embodied Agents [arXiv 2022] [Github] [Project page]
  Wenlong Huang¹, Pieter Abbeel¹, Deepak Pathak², Igor Mordatch^{3
  1}UC Berkeley, ²Carnegie Mellon University, ³Google

• FILM: Following Instructions in Language with Modular Methods [ICLR 2022] [Github] [Project page]
  So Yeon Min¹, Devendra Singh Chaplot², Pradeep Ravikumar¹, Yonatan Bisk¹, Ruslan Salakhutdinov^{1
  1}Carnegie Mellon University ²Facebook AI Research

• Embodied Task Planning with Large Language Models [arXiv 2023] [Github] [Project page] [Demo] [Huggingface Model]
  Zhenyu Wu¹, Ziwei Wang^2,3, Xiuwei Xu^2,3, Jiwen Lu^2,3, Haibin Yan^{1*
  1}School of Automation, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, ²Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, ³Beijing National Research Center for Information Science and Technology

• SPRING: GPT-4 Out-performs RL Algorithms by Studying Papers and Reasoning [arXiv 2023]
  Yue Wu^1,4* , Shrimai Prabhumoye² , So Yeon Min¹ , Yonatan Bisk¹ , Ruslan Salakhutdinov¹ ,Amos Azaria³ , Tom Mitchell¹ , Yuanzhi Li^{1,4
  1}Carnegie Mellon University, ²NVIDIA, ³Ariel University, ⁴Microsoft Research

• PONI: Potential Functions for ObjectGoal Navigation with Interaction-free Learning [CVPR 2022 (Oral)] [Project page] [Github]
  Santhosh Kumar Ramakrishnan^1,2, Devendra Singh Chaplot¹, Ziad Al-Halah² Jitendra Malik^1,3, Kristen Grauman^{1,2
  1}Facebook AI Research, ²UT Austin, ³UC Berkeley

• Moving Forward by Moving Backward: Embedding Action Impact over Action Semantics [ICLR 2023] [Project page] [Github]
  Kuo-Hao Zeng¹, Luca Weihs², Roozbeh Mottaghi¹, Ali Farhadi^{1
  1}Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington, ²PRIOR @ Allen Institute for AI

• Modeling Dynamic Environments with Scene Graph Memory [ICML 2023]
  Andrey Kurenkov¹, Michael Lingelbach¹, Tanmay Agarwal¹, Emily Jin¹, Chengshu Li¹, Ruohan Zhang¹, Li Fei-Fei¹, Jiajun Wu¹, Silvio Savarese², Roberto Mart´ın-Mart´ın^{3
  1}Department of Computer Science, Stanford University ²Salesforce AI Research ³Department of Computer Science, University of Texas at Austin.

• Reasoning with Language Model is Planning with World Model [arXiv 2023]
  Shibo Hao^∗♣, Yi Gu^∗♣, Haodi Ma^♢, Joshua Jiahua Hong^♣, Zhen Wang^{♣ ♠}, Daisy Zhe Wang^♢, Zhiting Hu^{♣
  ♣}UC San Diego, ^♢University of Florida, ^♠Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence

• Do As I Can, Not As I Say: Grounding Language in Robotic Affordances [arXiv 2022]
  Robotics at Google, Everyday Robots

• Do Embodied Agents Dream of Pixelated Sheep?: Embodied Decision Making using Language Guided World Modelling [ICML 2023]
  Kolby Nottingham¹ Prithviraj Ammanabrolu² Alane Suhr² Yejin Choi^3,2 Hannaneh Hajishirzi^3,2 Sameer Singh^1,2 Roy Fox^{1
  1}Department of Computer Science, University of California Irvine ²Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence ³Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science

• Context-Aware Planning and Environment-Aware Memory for Instruction Following Embodied Agents [ICCV 2023]
  Byeonghwi Kim Jinyeon Kim Yuyeong Kim^1,* Cheolhong Min Jonghyun Choi^†
  Yonsei University ¹Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology

• Inner Monologue: Embodied Reasoning through Planning with Language Models [CoRL 2022] [Project page]
  Robotics at Google

• Language Models Meet World Models: Embodied Experiences Enhance Language Models [arXiv 2023] [Twitter]
  Jiannan Xiang^∗♠, Tianhua Tao^∗♠, Yi Gu^♠, Tianmin Shu^♢, Zirui Wang^♠, Zichao Yang^♡, Zhiting Hu^{♠
  ♠}UC San Diego, ^♣UIUC, ^♢MIT, ^♡Carnegie Mellon University

• AlphaBlock: Embodied Finetuning for Vision-Language Reasoning in Robot Manipulation [arXiv 2023] [Video]
  Chuhao Jin^1* , Wenhui Tan^1* , Jiange Yang^2* , Bei Liu3^† , Ruihua Song¹ , Limin Wang² , Jianlong Fu^{3†
  1}Renmin University of China, ²Nanjing University, ³Microsoft Research

• A Persistent Spatial Semantic Representation for High-level Natural Language Instruction Execution [CoRL 2021] [Project page] [Poster]
  Valts Blukis^1,2, Chris Paxton¹, Dieter Fox^1,3, Animesh Garg^1,4, Yoav Artzi^{2
  1}NVIDIA ²Cornell University ³University of Washington ⁴University of Toronto, Vector Institute

• LLM-Planner: Few-Shot Grounded Planning for Embodied Agents with Large Language Models [ICCV 2023] [Project page] [Github]
  Chan Hee Song¹, Jiaman Wu¹, Clayton Washington¹, Brian M. Sadler², Wei-Lun Chao¹, Yu Su^{1
  1}The Ohio State University, ²DEVCOM ARL

• Code as Policies: Language Model Programs for Embodied Control [arXiv 2023] [Project page] [Github] [Blog] [Colab]
  Jacky Liang, Wenlong Huang, Fei Xia, Peng Xu, Karol Hausman, Brian Ichter, Pete Florence, Andy Zeng
  Robotics at Google

• 3D-LLM: Injecting the 3D World into Large Language Models [arXiv 2023]
  ¹Yining Hong, ²Haoyu Zhen, ³Peihao Chen, ⁴Shuhong Zheng, ⁵Yilun Du, ⁶Zhenfang Chen, ^6,7Chuang Gan
  ¹UCLA ² SJTU ³ SCUT ⁴ UIUC ⁵ MIT ⁶MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab ⁷ Umass Amherst

• VoxPoser: Composable 3D Value Maps for Robotic Manipulation with Language Models [arXiv 2023] [Project page] [Online Demo]
  Wenlong Huang¹, Chen Wang¹, Ruohan Zhang¹, Yunzhu Li^1,2, Jiajun Wu¹, Li Fei-Fei^{1
  1}Stanford University ²University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

• Palm-e: An embodied multimodal language mode [ICML 2023] [Project page]
  ¹Robotics at Google ²TU Berlin 3Google Research

• Large Language Models as Commonsense Knowledge for Large-Scale Task Planning [arXiv 2023]
  Zirui Zhao Wee Sun Lee David Hsu
  School of Computing National University of Singapore

• An Embodied Generalist Agent in 3D World [ICML 2024]
  Jiangyong Huang, Silong Yong, Xiaojian Ma, Xiongkun Linghu, Puhao Li, Yan Wang, Qing Li, Song-Chun Zhu, Baoxiong Jia, Siyuan Huang Beijing Institute for General Artificial Intelligence (BIGAI)

Multi-Agent Learning and Coordination

• Building Cooperative Embodied Agents Modularly with Large Language Models [ICLR 2024] [Project page] [Github]
  Hongxin Zhang^1*, Weihua Du^2*, Jiaming Shan³, Qinhong Zhou¹, Yilun Du⁴, Joshua B. Tenenbaum⁴, Tianmin Shu⁴, Chuang Gan^{1,5
  1}University of Massachusetts Amherst, ²Tsinghua University, ³Shanghai Jiao Tong University, ⁴MIT, ⁵MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab

• War and Peace (WarAgent): Large Language Model-based Multi-Agent Simulation of World Wars [arXiv 2023]
  Wenyue Hua^1*, Lizhou Fan^2*, Lingyao Li², Kai Mei¹, Jianchao Ji¹, Yingqiang Ge¹, Libby Hemphill², Yongfeng Zhang^{1
  1}Rutgers University, ²University of Michigan

• MindAgent: Emergent Gaming Interaction [arXiv 2023]
  Ran Gong^*1† Qiuyuan Huang^*2‡ Xiaojian Ma^*1 Hoi Vo³ Zane Durante^†4 Yusuke Noda³ Zilong Zheng⁵ Song-Chun Zhu¹⁵⁶⁷⁸ Demetri Terzopoulos¹ Li Fei-Fei⁴ Jianfeng Gao^{2
  1}UCLA; ²Microsoft Research, Redmond; ³Xbox Team, Microsoft; ⁴Stanford; ⁵BIGAI; ⁶PKU; ⁷THU; ⁸UCLA

• Demonstration-free Autonomous Reinforcement Learning via Implicit and Bidirectional Curriculum [ICML 2023]
  Jigang Kim^*1,2 Daesol Cho^*1,2 H. Jin Kim^{1,3
  1}Seoul National University, ²Artificial Intelligence Institute of Seoul National University (AIIS), ³Automation and Systems Research Institute (ASRI).
  Note: This paper mainly focuses on reinforcement learning for Embodied AI.

• Adaptive Coordination in Social Embodied Rearrangement [ICML 2023]
  Andrew Szot^1,2 Unnat Jain¹ Dhruv Batra^1,2 Zsolt Kira² Ruta Desai¹ Akshara Rai^{1
  1}Meta AI ²Georgia Institute of Technology.

Vision and Language Navigation

• IndoorSim-to-OutdoorReal: Learning to Navigate Outdoors without any Outdoor Experience [arXiv 2023]
  Joanne Truong^1,2, April Zitkovich¹, Sonia Chernova², Dhruv Batra^2,3, Tingnan Zhang¹, Jie Tan¹, Wenhao Yu^{1
  1}Robotics at Google ²Georgia Institute of Technology ³Meta AI

• ESC: Exploration with Soft Commonsense Constraints for Zero-shot Object Navigation [ICML 2023]
  Kaiwen Zhou¹, Kaizhi Zheng¹, Connor Pryor¹, Yilin Shen², Hongxia Jin², Lise Getoor¹, Xin Eric Wang^{1
  1}University of California, Santa Cruz ²Samsung Research America.

• NavGPT: Explicit Reasoning in Vision-and-Language Navigation with Large Language Models [arXiv 2023]
  Gengze Zhou¹ Yicong Hong² Qi Wu^{1
  1}The University of Adelaide ²The Australian National University

• Instruct2Act: Mapping Multi-modality Instructions to Robotic Actions with Large Language Model [arXiv 2023] [Github]
  Siyuan Huang^1,2 Zhengkai Jiang⁴ Hao Dong³ Yu Qiao² Peng Gao² Hongsheng Li^{5
  1}Shanghai Jiao Tong University, ²Shanghai AI Laboratory, ³CFCS, School of CS, PKU, ⁴University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, ⁵The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Detection

• DetGPT: Detect What You Need via Reasoning [arXiv 2023]
  Renjie Pi^1∗ Jiahui Gao^2* Shizhe Diao^1∗ Rui Pan¹ Hanze Dong¹ Jipeng Zhang¹ Lewei Yao¹ Jianhua Han³ Hang Xu² Lingpeng Kong² Tong Zhang^{1
  1}The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology ²The University of Hong Kong 3Shanghai Jiao Tong University

3D Grounding

• LLM-Grounder: Open-Vocabulary 3D Visual Grounding with Large Language Model as an Agent [arXiv 2023]
  Jianing Yang^1,, Xuweiyi Chen^1,, Shengyi Qian¹, Nikhil Madaan, Madhavan Iyengar¹, David F. Fouhey^1,2, Joyce Chai^{1
  1}University of Michigan, ²New York University

• 3D-VisTA: Pre-trained Transformer for 3D Vision and Text Alignment [ICCV 2023]
  Ziyu Zhu, Xiaojian Ma, Yixin Chen, Zhidong Deng, Siyuan Huang, Qing Li Beijing Institute for General Artificial Intelligence (BIGAI)

Interactive Embodied Learning

• Meta-Control: Automatic Model-based Control System Synthesis for Heterogeneous Robot Skills [CoRL 2024] [Project page]
  Tianhao Wei^1*, Liqian Ma^12*, Rui Chen¹, Weiye Zhao¹, Changliu Liu^{1 *}Equal Contribution ¹Carnegie Mellon University ²Tsinghua University

• Grounding Large Language Models in Interactive Environments with Online Reinforcement Learning [ICML 2023]
  Thomas Carta^1*, Clement Romac ´^1,2, Thomas Wolf², Sylvain Lamprier³, Olivier Sigaud⁴, Pierre-Yves Oudeyer^{1
  1}Inria (Flowers), University of Bordeaux, ²Hugging Face, ³Univ Angers, LERIA, SFR MATHSTIC, F-49000, ⁴Sorbonne University, ISIR

• Learning Affordance Landscapes for Interaction Exploration in 3D Environments [NeurIPS 2020] [Project page]
  Tushar Nagarajan, Kristen Grauman
  UT Austin and Facebook AI Research, UT Austin and Facebook AI Research

• Embodied Question Answering in Photorealistic Environments with Point Cloud Perception [CVPR 2019 (oral)] [Slides]
  Erik Wijmans^1†, Samyak Datta¹, Oleksandr Maksymets^2†, Abhishek Das¹, Georgia Gkioxari², Stefan Lee¹, Irfan Essa¹, Devi Parikh^1,2, Dhruv Batra^{1,2
  1}Georgia Institute of Technology, ²Facebook AI Research

• Multi-Target Embodied Question Answering [CVPR 2019]
  Licheng Yu¹, Xinlei Chen³, Georgia Gkioxari³, Mohit Bansal¹, Tamara L. Berg^1,3, Dhruv Batra^{2,3
  1}University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ²Georgia Tech 3Facebook AI

• Neural Modular Control for Embodied Question Answering [CoRL 2018 (Spotlight)] [Project page] [Github]
  Abhishek Das¹,Georgia Gkioxari², Stefan Lee¹, Devi Parikh^1,2, Dhruv Batra^{1,2
  1}Georgia Institute of Technology ²Facebook AI Research

• Embodied Question Answering [CVPR 2018 (oral)] [Project page] [Github]
  Abhishek Das¹, Samyak Datta¹, Georgia Gkioxari2², Stefan Lee¹, Devi Parikh^2,1, Dhruv Batra^{2
  1}Georgia Institute of Technology, ²Facebook AI Research

Rearrangement

• A Simple Approach for Visual Room Rearrangement: 3D Mapping and Semantic Search [ICLR 2023]
  ¹Brandon Trabucco, ²Gunnar A Sigurdsson, ²Robinson Piramuthu, ^2,3Gaurav S. Sukhatme, ¹Ruslan Salakhutdinov
  ¹CMU, ²Amazon Alexa AI, ³University of Southern California

Benchmark

• SmartPlay: A Benchmark for LLMs as Intelligent Agents [ICLR 2024] [Github]
  Yue Wu^1,2, Xuan Tang¹, Tom Mitchell¹, Yuanzhi Li^{1,2 1}Carnegie Mellon University, ²Microsoft Research

• RoboGen: Towards Unleashing Infinite Data for Automated Robot Learning via Generative Simulation [arXiv 2023] [Project page] [Github]
  Yufei Wang¹, Zhou Xian¹, Feng Chen², Tsun-Hsuan Wang³, Yian Wang⁴, Katerina Fragkiadaki¹, Zackory Erickson¹, David Held¹, Chuang Gan^{4,5
  1}CMU, ²Tsinghua IIIS, ³MIT CSAIL, ⁴UMass Amherst, ⁵MIT-IBM AI Lab

• ALFWorld: Aligning Text and Embodied Environments for Interactive Learning [ICLR 2021] [Project page] [Github]
  Mohit Shridhar^† Xingdi Yuan^♡ Marc-Alexandre Côté^♡ Yonatan Bisk^‡ Adam Trischler^♡ Matthew Hausknecht^{♣
  ‡}University of Washington ^♡Microsoft Research, Montréal ^‡Carnegie Mellon University ^♣Microsoft Research

• ALFRED: A Benchmark for Interpreting Grounded Instructions for Everyday Tasks [CVPR 2020] [Project page] [Github]
  Mohit Shridhar¹ Jesse Thomason¹ Daniel Gordon¹ Yonatan Bisk^1,2,3 Winson Han³ Roozbeh Mottaghi^1,3 Luke Zettlemoyer¹ Dieter Fox^{1,4
  1}Paul G. Allen School of Computer Sci. & Eng., Univ. of Washington, ²Language Technologies Institute @ Carnegie Mellon University, ³Allen Institute for AI, ⁴NVIDIA
  

• VIMA: Robot Manipulation with Multimodal Prompts [ICML 2023] [Project page] [Github] [VIMA-Bench]
  Yunfan Jiang¹ Agrim Gupta^1† Zichen Zhang^2† Guanzhi Wang^3,4† Yongqiang Dou⁵ Yanjun Chen¹ Li Fei-Fei¹ Anima Anandkumar^3,4 Yuke Zhu^3,6‡ Linxi Fan^3‡
  

• SQA3D: Situated Question Answering in 3D Scenes [ICLR 2023] [Project page] [Slides] [Github]
  Xiaojian Ma² Silong Yong^1,3* Zilong Zheng¹ Qing Li¹ Yitao Liang^1,4 Song-Chun Zhu^1,2,3,4 Siyuan Huang^{1
  1}Beijing Institute for General Artificial Intelligence (BIGAI) ²UCLA ³Tsinghua University ⁴Peking University

• IQA: Visual Question Answering in Interactive Environments [CVPR 2018] [Github] [Demo video (YouTube)]
  Danie¹ Gordon1 Aniruddha Kembhavi² Mohammad Rastegari^2,4 Joseph Redmon¹ Dieter Fox^1,3 Ali Farhadi^{1,2
  1}Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science, University of Washington ²Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence ³Nvidia ⁴Xnor.ai

• Env-QA: A Video Question Answering Benchmark for Comprehensive Understanding of Dynamic Environments [ICCV 2021] [Project page] [Github]
  Difei Gao^1,2, Ruiping Wang^1,2,3, Ziyi Bai^1,2, Xilin Chen¹,
  ¹Key Laboratory of Intelligent Information Processing of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Institute of Computing Technology, CAS, ²University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, ³Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence

Simulator

• LEGENT: Open Platform for Embodied Agents [ACL 2024] [Project page] [Github]
  Tsinghua University
  

• AI2-THOR: An Interactive 3D Environment for Visual AI [arXiv 2022] [Project page] [Github]
  Allen Institute for AI, University of Washington, Stanford University, Carnegie Mellon University
  

• iGibson, a Simulation Environment for Interactive Tasks in Large Realistic Scenes [IROS 2021] [Project page] [Github]
  Bokui Shen*, Fei Xia* et al.
  

• Habitat: A Platform for Embodied AI Research [ICCV 2019] [Project page] [Habitat-Sim] [Habitat-Lab] [Habitat Challenge]
  Facebook AI Research, Facebook Reality Labs, Georgia Institute of Technology, Simon Fraser University, Intel Labs, UC Berkeley
  

• Habitat 2.0: Training Home Assistants to Rearrange their Habitat [NeurIPS 2021] [Project page]
  Facebook AI Research, Georgia Tech, Intel Research, Simon Fraser University, UC Berkeley

Others

• Least-to-Most Prompting Enables Complex Reasoning in Large Language Models [ICLR 2023]
  Google Research, Brain Team

• React: Synergizing reasoning and acting in language models [ICLR 2023]
  Shunyu Yao^1∗, Jeffrey Zhao², Dian Yu², Nan Du², Izhak Shafran², Karthik Narasimhan¹, Yuan Cao^{2
  1}Department of Computer Science, Princeton University ², Google Research, Brain team

• Algorithm of Thoughts: Enhancing Exploration of Ideas in Large Language Models [arXiv 2023]
  Virginia Tech, Microsoft

• Graph of Thoughts: Solving Elaborate Problems with Large Language Models [arXiv 2023]
  ETH Zurich, Cledar, Warsaw University of Technology

• Tree of Thoughts: Deliberate Problem Solving with Large Language Models [arXiv 2023]
  Shunyu Yao¹, Dian Yu², Jeffrey Zhao², Izhak Shafran², Thomas L. Griffiths¹, Yuan Cao², Karthik Narasimhan^{1
  1}Princeton University, ²Google DeepMind

• Chain-of-Thought Prompting Elicits Reasoning in Large Language Models [NeurIPS 2022]
  Jason Wei, Xuezhi Wang, Dale Schuurmans, Maarten Bosma, Brian Ichter, Fei Xia, Ed H. Chi, Quoc V. Le, Denny Zhou
  Google Research, Brain Team

• MINEDOJO: Building Open-Ended Embodied Agents with Internet-Scale Knowledge [NeurIPS 2022] [Github] [Project page] [Knowledge Base]
  Linxi Fan¹ , Guanzhi Wang^2∗ , Yunfan Jiang^3* , Ajay Mandlekar¹ , Yuncong Yang⁴ , Haoyi Zhu⁵ , Andrew Tang⁴ , De-An Huang¹ , Yuke Zhu^1,6† , Anima Anandkumar^{1,2†
  1}NVIDIA, ²Caltech, ³Stanford, ⁴Columbia, ⁵SJTU, ⁶UT Austin

• Distilling Internet-Scale Vision-Language Models into Embodied Agents [ICML 2023]
  Theodore Sumers^1∗ Kenneth Marino² Arun Ahuja² Rob Fergus² Ishita Dasgupta²
  

• LISA: Reasoning Segmentation via Large Language Model [arXiv 2023] [Github] [Huggingface Models] [Dataset] [Online Demo]
  TXin Lai¹ Zhuotao Tian² Yukang Chen¹ Yanwei Li¹ Yuhui Yuan³ Shu Liu² Jiaya Jia^{1,2
  1}The Chinese University of Hong Kong ²SmartMore ³MSRA
  

• Meta-Control: Automatic Model-based Control System Synthesis for Heterogeneous Robot Skills [CoRL 2024] [Project page]
  Tianhao Wei^1*, Liqian Ma^12*, Rui Chen¹, Weiye Zhao¹, Changliu Liu^{1 *}Equal Contribution ¹Carnegie Mellon University ²Tsinghua University

Acknowledge

[1] Video demo from this project
[2] Figure from this [project][https://robotics-transformer-x.github.io/)