How VLAs (Really) Work In Open-World Environments
[arXiv] [project page] [code]IROS 2026. Amir Rasouli, Yangzheng Wu, Zhiyuan Li, Rui Heng Yang, Xuan Zhao, Charles Eret, Sajjad Pakdamansavoji
Distracted Robot: How Visual Clutter Undermine Robotic Manipulation
[arXiv] [project page] [code]ICRA 2026. Amir Rasouli, Montgomery Alban, Sajjad Pakdamansavoji, Zhiyuan Li, Zhanguang Zhang, Aaron Wu, Xuan Zhao
Improving Robotic Manipulation Robustness via NICE Scene Surgery
[arXiv] [project page] [code]ICRA 2026. Sajjad Pakdamansavoji, Mozhgan Pourkeshavarz, Adam Sigal, Zhiyuan Li, Rui Heng Yang, Amir Rasouli — Corresponding author
WALDO: Where Unseen Model-based 6D Pose Estimation Meets Occlusion
[arXiv] [project page] [code]WACV 2026. Sajjad Pakdamansavoji, Yintao Ma, Amir Rasouli, Tongtong Cao — Corresponding author
AnyBox: Efficient Zero-Shot 9DoF Pose Estimation of Boxes for Robotic Manipulation
[arXiv] [project page] [code]ECCV 2026 R6D Workshop. Yintao Ma, Sajjad Pakdamansavoji, Charles Eret, Rui Heng Yang, Xuan Zhao, Yingxue Zhang, Tongtong Cao, Amir Rasouli — Equal contribution, corresponding author
Do World Action Models Generalize Better than VLAs? A Robustness Study
[arXiv] [project page] [code]Preprint. Zhanguang Zhang, Zhiyuan Li, Behnam Rahmati, Rui Heng Yang, Yintao Ma, Amir Rasouli, Sajjad Pakdamansavoji, Yangzheng Wu, Lingfeng Zhang, Tongtong Cao, Feng Wen, Xinyu Wang, Xingyue Quan, Yingxue Zhang
OpenPyRo-A1: An Open Python-Based Low-Cost Bimanual Robot for Embodied AI
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 11(1), 746–753. Hongyi Huang, Christopher E. Mower, Guanqi Huang, S. Das, M. Dierking, G. Luo, K. Tan, X. Chen, et al.
Don’t Get Distracted: Improving Robotic Perception Robustness via In-Context Visual Scene Editing
CoRL 2025 Workshop on Making Sense of Data in Robotics. Mozhgan Pourkeshavarz, Adam Sigal, Sajjad Pakdamansavoji, Zhiyuan Li, Rui Heng Yang, Amir Rasouli
Ground Plane Projection for Improved Traffic Analytics at Intersections
[arXiv] [project page] [code]IEEE ITSC 2024 — Best Application Paper Award. Sajjad Pakdamansavoji, Kumar Vaibhav Jha, Baher Abdulhai, James H. Elder