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MolmoAct: Action Reasoning Models that can Reason in Space research paper by Ai2, 2025

Ai2 · Reasoning · Aug 11, 2025 · 232 citations · 45 upvotes · unverified

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Action Reasoning Models (ARMs) integrate perception, planning, and control to enable adaptable and explainable robotic behavior, achieving superior performance across various tasks and settings.

By Jason Lee, Jiafei Duan, Haoquan Fang and 16 more · arXiv 2508.07917 · PDF · Code

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IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation
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232, 31 influential · Semantic Scholar
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45 · Hugging Face
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