Paper

RynnVLA-Latent: Scaling Robotic Manipulation Foundation Models with 3D-Grounded Latent Actions

Learns 3D-grounded latent actions from raw video, then uses them as a shared pretraining target for a VLA before robot-specific action alignment.

arXiv ↗Oct 25, 2026Code ↗

  • robotics
  • robot manipulation
  • vision-language-action
  • latent actions
Pipeline diagram showing robot post-training method with RynnBrain and action expert
Pipeline diagram showing robot post-training method with RynnBrain and action expert

What it is

Pretrains robot policies from heterogeneous videos by learning 3D-grounded latent actions, then retargets the pretrained model to robot-specific controls. Instead of relying on scarce action-labeled demos or forcing incompatible control spaces together, it learns 3D-grounded latent actions from video transitions and trains a VLA to predict them, then adapts that pretrained policy to each robot's native actions.

Key results

  • 98.8% success on LIBERO
  • 84.7% on LIBERO-Plus without benchmark-specific adaptation
  • 88.6% average success on RoboTwin 2.0 bimanual benchmark

Shows latent-action supervision can scale robot policy pretraining beyond native action-labeled data across embodiments.

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