# VistaBot: View-Robust Robot Manipulation via Spatiotemporal-Aware View Synthesis

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.21914 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2604.21914/

## Key facts

- Cited by 1 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- First posted on arXiv 23 Apr 2026.

## Built on by (most cited first, 1 of 1)

- [Selective Cross-View Consistency for World Action Models: Held-Out Viewpoint Robustness Without Test-Time Camera Information](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2608.21402/) (2026)

## Abstract (arXiv)

Recently, end-to-end robotic manipulation models have gained significant attention for their generalizability and scalability. However, they often suffer from limited robustness to camera viewpoint changes when training with a fixed camera. In this paper, we propose VistaBot, a novel framework that integrates feed-forward geometric models with video diffusion models to achieve view-robust closed-loop manipulation without requiring camera calibration at test time. Our approach consists of three key components: 4D geometry estimation, view synthesis latent extraction, and latent action learning. VistaBot is integrated into both action-chunking (ACT) and diffusion-based (π0) policies and evaluated across simulation and real-world tasks. We further introduce the View Generalization Score (VGS) as a new metric for comprehensive evaluation of cross-view generalization. Results show that VistaBot improves VGS by 2.79× and 2.63× over ACT and π0, respectively, while also achieving high-quality novel view synthesis. Our contributions include a geometry-aware synthesis model, a latent action planner, a new benchmark metric, and extensive validation across diverse environments. The code and models will be made publicly available.