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DRAW2ACT: Turning Depth-Encoded Trajectories into Robotic Demonstration Videos

arXiv 2512.14217 ↗First posted 16 Dec 2025cs.CV cs.ROcited by 2

On the map: Diffusion models → Diffusion and flow policies for robotics

Abstract (arXiv)

Video diffusion models provide powerful real-world simulators for embodied AI but remain limited in controllability for robotic manipulation. Recent works on trajectory-conditioned video generation address this gap but often rely on 2D trajectories or single modality conditioning, which restricts their ability to produce controllable and consistent robotic demonstrations. We present DRAW2ACT, a depth-aware trajectory-conditioned video generation framework that extracts multiple orthogonal representations from the input trajectory, capturing depth, semantics, shape and motion, and injects them into the diffusion model. Moreover, we propose to jointly generate spatially aligned RGB and depth videos, leveraging cross-modality attention mechanisms and depth supervision to enhance the spatio-temporal consistency. Finally, we introduce a multimodal policy model conditioned on the generated RGB and depth sequences to regress the robot's joint angles. Experiments on Bridge V2, Berkeley Autolab, and simulation benchmarks show that DRAW2ACT achieves superior visual fidelity and consistency while yielding higher manipulation success rates compared to existing baselines.

Key facts. Cited by 2 papers in the map (data through 7 Oct 2026). Placed in Diffusion and flow policies for robotics, one of 14 directions in Diffusion models. Builds on 37 of its 41 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 16 Dec 2025.

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  1. 2025RoboEnvision: A Long-Horizon Video Generation Model for Multi-Task Robot Manipulation27 Jun
  2. 2023Diffusion Policy: Visuomotor Policy Learning via Action Diffusion7 Mar

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