RoboSPA: Can VLA Models Go Beyond Simple Scenes and Short-Horizon Tasks?

arXiv:2609.05324 · cs.RO, cs.AI, cs.CV · Submitted 2026-09-04 · Read on arXiv

cs.RO, cs.AI, cs.CV

Submitted: 2026-09-04

Updated: 2026-09-04

Comments: Accepted at the EMNLP 2026 Main Conference

Code: https://github.com/fanzhenxuan/RoboSPA

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Benchmark — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• VLA Models — 3× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Core — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Vision-Language-Action (VLA) Models — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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