[2603.00420] TMR-VLA:Vision-Language-Action Model for Magnetic Motion Control of Tri-leg Silicone-based Soft Robot

Computer Science > Robotics arXiv:2603.00420 (cs) [Submitted on 28 Feb 2026] Title:TMR-VLA:Vision-Language-Action Model for Magnetic Motion Control of Tri-leg Silicone-based Soft Robot Authors:Ruijie Tang, Chi Kit Ng, Kaixuan Wu, Long Bai, Guankun Wang, Yiming Huang, Yupeng Wang, Hongliang Ren View a PDF of the paper titled TMR-VLA:Vision-Language-Action Model for Magnetic Motion Control of Tri-leg Silicone-based Soft Robot, by Ruijie Tang and 7 other authors View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract:In-vivo environments, magnetically actuated soft robots offer advantages such as wireless operation and precise control, showing promising potential for painless detection and therapeutic procedures. We developed a trileg magnetically driven soft robot (TMR) whose multi-legged design enables more flexible gaits and diverse motion patterns. For the silicone made of reconfigurable soft robots, its navigation ability can be separated into sequential motions, namely squatting, rotation, lifting a leg, walking and so on. Its motion and behavior depend on its bending shapes. To bridge motion type description and specific low-level voltage control, we introduced TMR-VLA, an end-to-end multi-modal system for a trileg magnetic soft robot capable of performing hybrid motion types, which is promising for developing a navigation ability by adapting its shape to language-constrained motion types. The TMR-VLA deploys embodied endoluminal localization ability from EndoVLA, and fuses sequential f...