Repo

tau-0-vla

Handles long-horizon manipulation by proposing subtasks, searching over alternatives, and executing them with a shared low-level robot policy.

GitHub ↗Jul 26, 2026

  • robotics
  • vision-language-action
  • long-horizon
  • test-time-computation
Full pipeline diagram showing high-level/low-level policy and world-model-guided beam search
Full pipeline diagram showing high-level/low-level policy and world-model-guided beam search

What it is

Hierarchical vision-language-action model for long-horizon robot manipulation with world-model-guided test-time subtask search and cross-embodiment low-level control. Plans long-horizon manipulation as subtasks, searches alternatives at test time when needed, and executes the chosen subtask with a generalist low-level policy across robot embodiments.

Key results

  • Uses world-model-guided test-time computation for subtask search
  • Trained on 40,115 hours of heterogeneous real-world robot data
  • Supports cross-embodiment control via a unified 40D state/action space

Shows that hierarchical test-time reasoning can be integrated into a generalist robot foundation model for long-horizon manipulation.

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