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Embodied-R1.5: Evolving Physical Intelligence via Embodied Foundation Models

Embodied-R1.5 is an 8B-parameter embodied foundation model achieving state-of-the-art results on 16 of 24 embodied VLM benchmarks via multi-task balanced RL and a closed-loop planner-grounder-corrector framework.

Yifu Yuan, Yaoting Huang, Xianze Yao, Shuoheng Zhang, Linqi Han, Yutong Li, Pengyi Li, Jiangeng Sun, Wenting Jia, Yucheng Hu, YuHao Liu, Ruihao Liao, Qiyu Wu, Yuxiao Li, zhao zhang, Zibin Dong, Fei Ni, YAN ZHENG, Shuyang Gu, Yi Ma, Hongyao Tang, Han Hu, Jianye Hao

Published 2026Sydney Poster Session 1 · Tue, Dec 8, 10:00 AM–1:00 PM local time · Hall 1-4▲ 59 on Hugging FaceCode ★ 60arXiv ↗OpenReview ↗

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Abstract

We introduce Embodied-R1.5, a unified Embodied Foundation Model (EFM) that integrates comprehensive embodied reasoning capabilities, spanning embodied cognition, task planning, correction, and pointing, within a single architecture toward general physical intelligence. Leveraging three automated data construction pipelines to significantly expand the data coverage of critical capabilities, we build a large-scale data system of over 15B tokens, and design a multi-task balanced RL recipe to alleviate heterogeneous task conflicts. We further introduce a Planner-Grounder-Corrector (PGC) closed-loop framework that enables a single model to autonomously execute and self-correct over long-horizon tasks. With only 8B parameters, Embodied-R1.5 achieves SOTA on 16 out of 24 embodied VLM benchmarks, surpassing leading models like Gemini-Robotics-ER-1.5 and GPT-5.4. Benefiting from the internalized embodied capabilities, Embodied-R1.5 can be fine-tuned into a VLA with only a small amount of data, outperforming leading VLA models like $π_{0.5}$ across 4 popular manipulation benchmark suites. We further conduct extensive zero-shot real-robot experiments, validating performance in instruction following, affordance grounding, articulated object manipulation, and long-horizon complex tasks, demonstrating strong generalization to the physical world. We open-source model weights, datasets, training code, and EmbodiedEvalKit, an evaluation framework tailored for embodied tasks, to facilitate future research in EFMs.