Revisiting Embodied Chain-of-Thought for Generalizable Robot Manipulation

arXiv:2606.03784 · cs.RO · Submitted 2026-06-02 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-06-02

Updated: 2026-10-15

Terminology

• Chain-of-Thought (CoT) — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Generalization — 1× in this paper · explained in 13 episodes
• Reasoning Traces — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Semantic Understanding — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Trace — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Vision-Language-Action (VLA) Models — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes

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