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Large Multimodal Models for Direct Robot Control: GPT-6 as a Beginning

Youwei Zhou, Bohan Hou, Yankai Fu, Yaoxu Lyu, Yifan Ye, Shilin Shan, Chen Guo, Jiaming Liu, Ran He, Caifeng Shan, Shanghang Zhang, Jianfei Yang, Zhihe Lu · 2026 · arXiv (Cornell University)

DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2610.28259 · cited by 0 works (OpenAlex) · open-access PDF

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Die jüngsten Fortschritte im Bereich des visuospatialen Verständnisses und der agentenorientierten Argumentation ermöglichen die direkte robotische Manipulation mit allgemeinen multimodalen Modellen, aber ihre verkörperten Fähigkeiten bleiben schlecht verstanden. Dieses Papier bewertet GPT-6 Astra systematisch für geschlossene Robotermanipulationen mithilfe eines leichten Agenten-Ausführungsrahmens. Wir untersuchen dann zuerst drei grundlegende inkarnierte Fähigkeiten - Tiefenwahrnehmung, verkörpert in Kontext-Lernen und taktile Sicherheitsverständnis - und zeigen, dass das Bewegungsmodell Tiefeinformationen ausnutzen kann, einfache Manipulationsstrategien aus kontextuellen Demonstrationen erwerben und taktile Rückmeldungen verwenden, um seine Aktionen zu korrigieren

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Abstract

Recent advances in visuospatial understanding and agentic reasoning enable direct robotic manipulation with general-purpose multimodal models, but their embodied capabilities remain poorly understood. This paper systematically evaluate GPT-6 Astra for closed-loop robotic manipulation using a lightweight agent execution framework. We first probe three fundamental embodied capabilities-depth perception, embodied in-context learning, and tactile understanding-and demonstrate that the model can exploit depth information, acquire simple manipulation strategies from contextual demonstrations, and use tactile feedback to correct its actions. We then evaluate GPT-6 Astra across five established manipulation benchmarks along six capability dimensions. Despite competitive performance on several benchmarks-26.92\% success on RoboDojo and 76.0\% on RoboTwin 2.0-our analysis reveals a pronounced gap between semantic reasoning and physical execution, particularly in consequence-aware action planning, precision, and complex motion coordination. To further examine these limitations, we introduce LIBERO-GeoMotion, a new benchmark of geometry-constrained tasks that require precise pose alignment, coordinated translation and rotation, and anticipation of physical action consequences. GPT-6 Astra achieves only 11.1\% zero-shot success, exposing the difficulty of translating spatial understanding into physically feasible motion. Real-world experiments corroborate these findings: zero-shot execution is feasible for simple tasks, yet persistent deficits remain in motion feasibility, precise control, and physical safety, while substantial inference latency further hinders practical deployment. Overall, our results characterize the emerging embodied capabilities of general-purpose multimodal models and delineate the key challenges toward safe, efficient, and reliable robotic manipulation.

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Topics: Embodied cognition, Computer science, Exploit, Human–computer interaction, Artificial intelligence, Action (physics)

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