Excited to share that VoLo: A Physical Orchestrator for Open-Vocabulary Long-Horizon Manipulation has been accepted to #CoRL2026! 🎉🤖 VoLo explores agentic robotics for long-horizon, open-vocabulary tasks, where a VLM acts as the robot’s brain with memory to reason, plan, monitor, detect failures, recover, and orchestrate tools—including VLA/WAMs, vision models, and action primitives. We also introduce RoboVoLo, a high-fidelity simulation benchmark with 126 tasks spanning common sense, memory/state tracking, complex references, and world knowledge, together with detailed diagnosis of current system limitations. This work was done during my internship at @nvidia @NVIDIAAI @NVIDIARobotics. Huge thanks to all collaborators @HugoHadfield1, Alexander Zook, @mikacuy, @luke_ch_song, @erwincoumans, @xuningy, Faisal Ladhak, @BirchfieldStan, Jonathan Tremblay, and @robovalts! 🔗 Project: chicychen.github.io/VoLo/ 💻 Code: github.com/NVlabs/VoLoAgent 📊 RoboVoLo Benchmark: github.com/NVlabs/RoboVoLo Looking forward to discussions at CoRL 2026 — hope to meet many of you in person! #CoRL2026 #AgenticRobotics #Robotics #EmbodiedAI #RobotLearning #PhysicalAI #NVIDIA

Wonderful to be back from #CVPR2026, and excited to share the release of our follow-up work: VoLo: A Physical Orchestrator for Open-Vocabulary Long-Horizon Manipulation VoLo introduces the idea of a physical orchestrator for open-vocabulary, long-horizon manipulation. Our goal is to move toward robots that can reason, plan, act, monitor, and recover by adaptively using VLA/WAMs, vision models, and action primitives as tools. We introduce three main contributions: 🤖 VoLoAgent — a physical orchestrator that plans, monitors, and recovers by adaptively using, halting, and redirecting robot actions with tools. 📊 RoboVoLo — a high-fidelity benchmark with 126 open-vocabulary long-horizon manipulation tasks spanning common sense, memory/state tracking, complex references, and world knowledge. 📈 A large-scale empirical study comparing action models, code-as-policy systems, TAMP-style systems, and ablations of the VoLoAgent orchestrator, complemented by real-robot experiments. This work was done during my internship at @NVIDIA and would not have been possible without my brilliant collaborators: Hugo Hadfield, Alexander Zook, @mikacuy, @luke_ch_song, @erwincoumans, @xuningy, Faisal Ladhak, @qu_1006, @BirchfieldStan, Jonathan Tremblay, and @robovalts. Huge thanks to everyone! 🔗 Project: chicychen.github.io/VoLo/ 🔗 Previous work, SpaceTools: spacetools.github.io/ #Robotics #EmbodiedAI #VisionLanguageModels #VLAModels #RobotLearning #NVIDIA #CVPR2026 #LongHorizonManipulation #AI #ComputerVision