Valts Blukis ![](/sites/default/files/person/ValtsBlukis.2.JPG) Research Area(s) [Applied Perception](/index.php/research-area/applied-perception) [Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning ](/index.php/research-area/machine-learning-artificial-intelligence) [Computer Vision](/index.php/research-area/computer-vision) [Human Computer Interaction](/index.php/research-area/human-computer-interaction) [Robotics](/index.php/research-area/robotics) Main Field of Interest [Robotics](/index.php/research-area/robotics) Google Scholar [https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=i9-GzNYAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=i9-GzNYAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao) ### Publications ### 2026 [3D-GENERALIST: Vision-Language-Action Models for Crafting 3D Worlds](/publication/2026-03_3d-generalist-vision-language-action-models-crafting-3d-worlds) Fan-Yun Sun, Shengguang Wu, Christian Jacobsen, Thomas Yim, Haoming Zou, [Alex Zook](/person/alex-zook), Shangru Li, Yu-Hsin Chou, Ethem Can, Xunlei Wu, Clemens Eppner, [Valts Blukis](/person/valts-blukis), [Jonathan Tremblay](/person/jonathan-tremblay), Jiajun Wu, [Stan Birchfield](/person/stan-birchfield), Nick Haber [International Conference on 3D Vision 2026](https://3dvconf.github.io/2026/) ### 2025 [Towards a VLM Benchmark for Simulated Robotics](/publication/2025-06_towards-vlm-benchmark-simulated-robotics) [Xuning Yang](/person/xuning-yang), Clemens Eppner, [Valts Blukis](/person/valts-blukis), [Peter Belcak](/person/peter-belcak), [Stephen Tyree](/person/stephen-tyree), [Stan Birchfield](/person/stan-birchfield), [Fabio Ramos](/person/fabio-ramos), [Jonathan Tremblay](/person/jonathan-tremblay) [RSS 2025 Workshop on Large Foundation Models for Interactive Robot Learning](https://lfmrss2025.weebly.com/) [RoboSpatial: Teaching Spatial Understanding to 2D and 3D Vision-Language Models for Robotics](/publication/2025-06_robospatial-teaching-spatial-understanding-2d-and-3d-vision-language-models) Chan Hee Song, [Valts Blukis](/person/valts-blukis), [Jonathan Tremblay](/person/jonathan-tremblay), [Stephen Tyree](/person/stephen-tyree), Yu Su, [Stan Birchfield](/person/stan-birchfield) [CVPR 2025](https://cvpr.thecvf.com/) ### 2024 [RVT-2: Learning Precise Manipulation from Few Examples](/publication/2024-07_rvt-2-learning-precise-manipulation-few-examples) [Ankit Goyal](/person/ankit-goyal), [Valts Blukis](/person/valts-blukis), [Jie Xu](/person/jie-xu), [Yijie Guo](/person/yijie-guo), [Yu-Wei Chao](/person/yu-wei-chao), Dieter Fox [Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) 2024](https://roboticsconference.org/) [Neural Implicit Representation for Building Digital Twins of Unknown Articulated Objects](/publication/2024-06_neural-implicit-representation-building-digital-twins-unknown-articulated) Yijia Weng, [Bowen Wen](/person/bowen-wen), [Jonathan Tremblay](/person/jonathan-tremblay), [Valts Blukis](/person/valts-blukis), Dieter Fox, Leo Guibas, [Stan Birchfield](/person/stan-birchfield) [CVPR 2024](https://cvpr.thecvf.com/Conferences/2024) ### 2023 [RVT: Robotic View Transformer for 3D Object Manipulation](/index.php/publication/2023-11_rvt-robotic-view-transformer-3d-object-manipulation) [Ankit Goyal](/index.php/person/ankit-goyal), [Jie Xu](/index.php/person/jie-xu), [Yijie Guo](/index.php/person/yijie-guo), [Valts Blukis](/index.php/person/valts-blukis), [Yu-Wei Chao](/index.php/person/yu-wei-chao), Dieter Fox [Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL) 2023](https://www.corl2023.org) [TTA-COPE: Test-Time Adaptation for Category-Level Object Pose Estimation](/publication/2023-06_tta-cope-test-time-adaptation-category-level-object-pose-estimation) Taeyeop Lee, [Jonathan Tremblay](/person/jonathan-tremblay), [Valts Blukis](/person/valts-blukis), [Bowen Wen](/person/bowen-wen), Byeong-Uk Lee, Inkyu Shin, [Stan Birchfield](/person/stan-birchfield), In So Kweon, Kuk-Jin Yoon [CVPR 2023](https://cvpr2023.thecvf.com/) [BundleSDF: Neural 6-DoF Tracking and 3D Reconstruction of Unknown Objects](/publication/2023-06_bundlesdf-neural-6-dof-tracking-and-3d-reconstruction-unknown-objects) [Bowen Wen](/person/bowen-wen), [Jonathan Tremblay](/person/jonathan-tremblay), [Valts Blukis](/person/valts-blukis), [Stephen Tyree](/person/stephen-tyree), [Thomas Müller](/person/thomas-muller), Alex Evans, Dieter Fox, [Jan Kautz](/person/jan-kautz), [Stan Birchfield](/person/stan-birchfield) [CVPR 2023](https://cvpr2023.thecvf.com/) [CuRobo: Parallelized Collision-Free Robot Motion Generation](/publication/2023-05_curobo-parallelized-collision-free-robot-motion-generation) [Balakumar Sundaralingam](/person/balakumar-sundaralingam), [Siva Hari](/person/siva-hari), Adam Fishman, [Caelan Garrett](/person/caelan-garrett), Karl Van Wyk, [Valts Blukis](/person/valts-blukis), Alexander Millane, Helen Oleynikova, Ankur Handa, [Fabio Ramos](/person/fabio-ramos), Nathan Ratliff, Dieter Fox [IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)](https://www.icra2023.org/) [ProgPrompt: Generating Situated Robot Task Plans Using Large Language Models](/index.php/publication/2023-05_progprompt-generating-situated-robot-task-plans-using-large-language-models) Ishika Singh, [Valts Blukis](/index.php/person/valts-blukis), Arsalan Mousavian, [Ankit Goyal](/index.php/person/ankit-goyal), [Danfei Xu](/index.php/person/danfei-xu), [Jonathan Tremblay](/index.php/person/jonathan-tremblay), Dieter Fox, Jesse Thomason, Animesh Garg [The International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)](https://www.icra2023.org/welcome) ### 2022 [Correcting Robot Plans with Natural Language Feedback](/publication/2022-06_correcting-robot-plans-natural-language-feedback) Pratyusha Sharma, [Balakumar Sundaralingam](/person/balakumar-sundaralingam), [Valts Blukis](/person/valts-blukis), Chris Paxton, [Tucker Hermans](/person/tucker-hermans), Antonio Torralba, Jacob Andreas, Dieter Fox [Robotics Science and Systems (RSS) 2022](http://www.roboticsproceedings.org/rss18/index.html)