2026
mimic-video: Video-Action Models for Generalizable Robot Control Beyond VLAs
Jonas Pai, Liam Achenbach, Oliver Sanchez, Stefanos Charalambous, Victoriano Montesinos, Benedek Forrai +2
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Prevailing Vision-Language-Action Models (VLAs) for robotic manipulation are built upon vision-language backbones pretrained on large-scale, but disconnected static web data. As a result, despite improved semantic generalization, the policy must implicitly infer complex physical dynamics and tempora…