VIA: Visual Interface Agent for Robot Control
Robot manipulation is a complex task that requires visual perception, physical reasoning, planning, and closed-loop control. General-purpose foundation models (FMs) have grown remarkably capable of some of these, especially perception and reasoning. Inspired by the growing ability of FM-powered agents to operate software through visual interfaces, we ask whether that same competence suffices to control a robot directly given the right interface. We present VIA (Visual Interface Agent), a framework that recasts robot control as an agentic task where an off-the-shelf agent drives a manipulator directly through an interface. The interface is a virtual workspace of interactable visual compone...
| Authors | Hengyuan Hu, Jensen Gao, Priya Sundaresan et al. |
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| Primary category | cs.RO |
| Published | 13 July 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 7 October 2026 |
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