Robotics PapersA programme for reading clubs

Topic 16 of 17

Video & generative modeling in robotics

Video and generative modeling is the upstream stack robotics borrows: diffusion and autoregressive models of pixels, video prediction, and the representation learning behind them. Robot world models and VLAs are largely these methods pointed at embodied data.

85papers in 2026-07
7.27%of all cs.RO that month
+0.73ppshare change, last 6 vs prior 12 months
24-month volume

arXiv query: cat:cs.RO AND (abs:"video generation" OR abs:"video diffusion" OR abs:"vision-language model")

Presented at reading clubs

These already have a slide kit, so they are the fastest ones to pick up and present.

2024-06-11
Qihang Yu, Mark Weber, Xueqing Deng +3 · 312 citations

Recent work

2026-09-02
Javier Alejandro Lopetegui Gonzalez, Paul Pacaud, Cordelia Schmid
2026-08-27
Zineng Tang, Kelsey R. Allen, Sjoerd van Steenkiste +2

392 papers in this corpus carry the video & generative modeling tag. How tagging works.