Awesome-LLM-Robotics

This repo contains a curative list of papers using Large Language/Multi-Modal Models for Robotics/RL. Template from awesome-Implicit-NeRF-Robotics

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Overview

• Awesome-LLM-Robotics
  • Overview
  • Surveys
  • Reasoning
  • Planning
  • Manipulation
  • Instructions and Navigation
  • Simulation Frameworks
  • Safety, Risks, Red Teaming, and Adversarial Testing
  • Libraries and Tools
  • Citation

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Surveys

• "Safety in Embodied AI: A Survey of Risks, Attacks, and Defenses", arXiv, May 2026, [Paper] [Website]
• "A Survey of Robotic Language Grounding: Tradeoffs between Symbols and Embeddings", IJCAI, Aug 2024, [Paper]
• "A Superalignment Framework in Autonomous Driving with Large Language Models", arXiv, Jun 2024, [Paper]
• "Neural Scaling Laws for Embodied AI", arXiv, May 2024. [Paper]
• "On the Prospects of Incorporating Large Language Models (LLMs) in Automated Planning and Scheduling (APS)", ICAPS, May 2024, [Paper] [Website]
• "Toward General-Purpose Robots via Foundation Models: A Survey and Meta-Analysis", arXiv, Dec 2023. [Paper] [Paper List] [Website]
• "Language-conditioned Learning for Robotic Manipulation: A Survey", arXiv, Dec 2023, [Paper]
• "Foundation Models in Robotics: Applications, Challenges, and the Future", arXiv, Dec 2023, [Paper] [Paper List]
• "Robot Learning in the Era of Foundation Models: A Survey", arXiv, Nov 2023, [Paper]
• "The Development of LLMs for Embodied Navigation", arXiv, Nov 2023, [Paper]

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Reasoning

• RoboTracer: "RoboTracer: Mastering Spatial Trace with Reasoning in Vision-Language Models for Robotics", arXiv, Dec 2025. [Paper] [Code] [Website]
• RoboRefer: "RoboRefer: Towards Spatial Referring with Reasoning in Vision-Language Models for Robotics", arXiv, June 2025. [Paper] [Code] [Website]
• RoboSpatial: "RoboSpatial: Teaching Spatial Understanding to 2D and 3D Vision-Language Models for Robotics", CVPR, June 2025. [Paper] [Code] [Website]
• RobotxR1: "RobotxR1: Enabling Embodied Robotic Intelligence on Large Language Models through Closed-Loop Reinforcement Learning", arXiv, May 2025. [Paper]
• SPINE: "SPINE: Online Semantic Planning for Missions with Incomplete Natural Language Specifications in Unstructured Environments", International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), May 2025. [Paper] [Website]
• ELLMER: "Embodied large language models enable robots to complete long-horizon tasks in unpredictable settings", Nature Machine Intelligence, Mar 2025. [Paper] [Website]
• AHA: "AHA: A Vision-Language-Model for Detecting and Reasoning over Failures in Robotic Manipulation", arXiv, Oct 2024. [Paper] [Website]

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Planning

• FLARE: "Multi-Modal Grounded Planning and Efficient Replanning For Learning Embodied Agents with a Few Examples", AAAI, Mar 2025. [Paper] [Code]
• LLM+MAP: "LLM+MAP: Bimanual Robot Task Planning using Large Language Models and Planning Domain Definition Language", arxiv, Mar 2025. [Paper] [Code]
• Code-as-Monitor: "Constraint-aware Visual Programming for Reactive and Proactive Robotic Failure Detection", CVPR, 2025. [[Paper](https://ar