arxivcs.RO2026-07-07
RoboTALES: Learning Reasoning-Guided Robot Policies via Task-Aligned Simulated Futures
Hanan Gani, Tejal Kulkarni, Madhoolika Chodavarapu, Nicklas Hansen, Manmohan Chandraker
Pretrained video generative models are promising backbones for visuomotor control, but their imagined futures often drift from task intent and are not reliably action-conditional. As a result, these models can be difficult to use for planning or policy extraction. To address thes…