Spatial Policy: Guiding Visuomotor Robotic Manipulation with Spatial-Aware Modeling and Reasoning
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Abstract (arXiv)
Vision-centric hierarchical embodied models have demonstrated strong potential. However, existing methods lack spatial awareness capabilities, limiting their effectiveness in bridging visual plans to actionable control in complex environments. To address this problem, we propose Spatial Policy (SP), a unified spatial-aware visuomotor robotic manipulation framework via explicit spatial modeling and reasoning. Specifically, we first design a spatial-conditioned embodied video generation module to model spatially guided predictions through the spatial plan table. Then, we propose a flow-based action prediction module to infer executable actions with coordination. Finally, we propose a spatial reasoning feedback policy to refine the spatial plan table via dual-stage replanning. Extensive experiments show that SP substantially outperforms state-of-the-art baselines, achieving over 33% improvement on Meta-World and over 25% improvement on iTHOR, demonstrating strong effectiveness across 23 embodied control tasks. We additionally evaluate SP in real-world robotic experiments to verify its practical viability. SP enhances the practicality of embodied models for robotic control applications. Code and checkpoints are maintained at https://plantpotatoonmoon.github.io/SpatialPolicy/.
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- 2025VGGT-DP: Generalizable Robot Control via Vision Foundation Modelscited by 11
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- 2026Toward Unified Robot Learning: Bridging Representation, Vision-Language-Action, and World Models3 Sep 2026
- 2026Test-time Sparsity for Extreme Fast Action Diffusion13 May 2026
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- 2026Sparse ActionGen: Accelerating Diffusion Policy with Real-time Pruning19 Jan 2026
- 2025TS-DP: Reinforcement Speculative Decoding For Temporal Adaptive Diffusion Policy Acceleration13 Dec 2025
- 2025Compose Your Policies! Improving Diffusion-based or Flow-based Robot Policies via Test-time Distribution-level Composition1 Oct 2025
- 2025VGGT-DP: Generalizable Robot Control via Vision Foundation Models23 Sep 2025
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