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PhysBrain 1.0 Technical Report

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Vision-language-action models have advanced rapidly, but robot trajectories alone provide limited coverage for learning broad physical understanding. PhysBrain 1.0 studies a complementary route: converting large-scale human egocentric video into structured physical commonsense supervision before robot adaptation. Our data engine extracts scene elements, spatial dynamics, action execution, and depth-aware relations, then turns them into question-answer supervision for training PhysBrain VLMs. The resulting physical priors are further transferred to VLA policies through a capability-preserving and language-sensitive adaptation design. Across multimodal QA benchmarks and embodied control benchmarks, including ERQA, PhysBench, SimplerEnv-WidowX, LIBERO, and RoboCasa, PhysBrain 1.0 achieves SOTA results and shows especially strong out-of-domain performance on SimplerEnv. These results suggest that scaling physical commonsense from human interaction video can provide an effective bridge from multimodal understanding to robot action.

Shijie Lian, Bin Yu, Xiaopeng Lin, Changti Wu, Hang Yuan, Xiaolin Hu, Zhaolong Shen, Yuzhuo Miao, Haishan Liu, Yuxuan Tian, Yukun Shi, Cong Huang, Kai Chen• 2026

Related benchmarks

TaskDatasetResultRank
Robot ManipulationLIBERO
Spatial Success Rate99.6
116
Robot ManipulationSimplerEnv WidowX
Success Rate: Put Spoon on Towel95.8
98
Robotic ManipulationRoboCasa GR1 Tabletop Manipulation (test)
PnP Bottle To Cabinet Close76
12
Robot ManipulationSimplerEnv GoogleRobot (out-of-domain)
Success Rate (Pick Coke Can)100
6
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