A Step Toward World Models: A Survey on Robotic Manipulation
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| author | Zhang, Peng-Fei Cheng, Ying Sun, Xiaofan Wang, Shijie Li, Fengling Zhu, Lei Shen, Heng Tao |
| author_facet | Zhang, Peng-Fei Cheng, Ying Sun, Xiaofan Wang, Shijie Li, Fengling Zhu, Lei Shen, Heng Tao |
| contents | Autonomous agents are increasingly expected to operate in complex, dynamic, and uncertain environments, performing tasks such as manipulation, navigation, and decision-making. Achieving these capabilities requires agents to understand the underlying mechanisms and dynamics of the world, moving beyond reactive control or simple replication of observed states. This motivates the development of world models as internal representations that encode environmental states, capture dynamics, and support prediction, planning, and reasoning. Despite growing interest, the definition, scope, architectures, and essential capabilities of world models remain ambiguous. In this survey, we go beyond prescribing a fixed definition and limiting our scope to methods explicitly labeled as world models. Instead, we examine approaches that exhibit the core capabilities of world models through a review of methods in robotic manipulation. We analyze their roles across perception, prediction, and control, identify key challenges and solutions, and distill the core components, capabilities, and functions that a fully realized world model should possess. Building on this analysis, we aim to motivate further development toward generalizable and practical world models for robotics. |
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| spellingShingle | A Step Toward World Models: A Survey on Robotic Manipulation Zhang, Peng-Fei Cheng, Ying Sun, Xiaofan Wang, Shijie Li, Fengling Zhu, Lei Shen, Heng Tao Robotics Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Autonomous agents are increasingly expected to operate in complex, dynamic, and uncertain environments, performing tasks such as manipulation, navigation, and decision-making. Achieving these capabilities requires agents to understand the underlying mechanisms and dynamics of the world, moving beyond reactive control or simple replication of observed states. This motivates the development of world models as internal representations that encode environmental states, capture dynamics, and support prediction, planning, and reasoning. Despite growing interest, the definition, scope, architectures, and essential capabilities of world models remain ambiguous. In this survey, we go beyond prescribing a fixed definition and limiting our scope to methods explicitly labeled as world models. Instead, we examine approaches that exhibit the core capabilities of world models through a review of methods in robotic manipulation. We analyze their roles across perception, prediction, and control, identify key challenges and solutions, and distill the core components, capabilities, and functions that a fully realized world model should possess. Building on this analysis, we aim to motivate further development toward generalizable and practical world models for robotics. |
| title | A Step Toward World Models: A Survey on Robotic Manipulation |
| topic | Robotics Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.02097 |