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Open-Vocabulary Manipulation

The ability of a robot to manipulate objects specified by free-form language descriptions, even objects not seen during training. Open-vocabulary manipulation combines VLMs (for identifying objects from language queries) with manipulation policies. Models like CLIPort, VIMA, and RT-2 demonstrate open-vocabulary capabilities by grounding language in visual observations.

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