Qwen-VLA: Unifying Vision-Language-Action Modeling across Tasks, Environments, and Robot Embodiments
About
Embodied intelligence is often studied through specialized models for individual tasks such as manipulation or navigation, resulting in fragmented capabilities and limited generalization across tasks, environments, and robot embodiments. In this work, we study whether heterogeneous embodied decision-making problems can be unified within a single vision-language-action model. We present Qwen-VLA, a unified embodied foundation model that extends Qwen's vision-language modeling stack from perception, understanding, and reasoning to continuous action and trajectory generation through a DiT-based action decoder. Qwen-VLA is trained with a large-scale joint pretraining recipe over diverse data sources, including robotics manipulation trajectories, human egocentric demonstrations, synthetic simulation data, vision-and-language navigation data, trajectory-centric supervision, and auxiliary vision-language data. To support multiple robot platforms, we introduce embodiment-aware prompt conditioning, where robot-specific textual descriptions specify the current embodiment and control convention. We further cast manipulation, navigation, and trajectory prediction into a unified action-and-trajectory prediction framework, enabling transferable visual grounding, spatial reasoning, and continuous action generation across robot morphologies, task families, and environments. Experiments on manipulation, navigation, and trajectory-centric benchmarks show consistent multi-task performance and out-of-distribution generalization under variations in scene layout, background, lighting, object configuration, and robot embodiment. Qwen-VLA-Instruct achieves 97.9% on LIBERO, 73.7% on Simpler-WidowX, 86.1%/87.2% on RoboTwin-Easy/Hard, 69.0% OSR on R2R, 59.6% SR on RxR, 76.9% average OOD success in real-world ALOHA experiments, and 26.6% zero-shot success on DOMINO dynamic manipulation.
Related benchmarks
| Task | Dataset | Result | Rank | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Robot Manipulation | LIBERO | -- | 957 | |
| Vision-and-Language Navigation | R2R (val unseen) | Success Rate (SR)57.5 | 448 | |
| Vision-Language Navigation | RxR (val-unseen) | Success Rate (SR)59.6 | 62 | |
| Robot Manipulation | SimplerEnv OOD | Average Success Rate32 | 21 | |
| Robot Manipulation | RoboCasa-GR1 | Average Success Rate56.7 | 20 | |
| Dynamic Manipulation | DOMINO 35 suites (full) | Success Rate (SR)26.6 | 16 | |
| Robot Manipulation | RoboTwin Easy 2.0 | Average Success Rate86.1 | 14 | |
| Robotic Manipulation | RoboTwin Hard 2.0 | Success Rate87.2 | 13 | |
| Robot Manipulation | SIMPLER-WidowX | Success Rate73.7 | 5 | |
| Robot Manipulation | ALOHA (in-domain) | Pick and Place Success Rate96.2 | 4 |