Multimodal Embodied Agents: A Unified Capability-centric Perspective from Computer-Use to Robot-Use

What happened: A paper introduces PAPAV, a capability-centric framework defining five functions for multimodal embodied agents: Perceive, Anticipate, Plan, Act, and Verify. Why it matters: The authors state that evaluation is heavily concentrated on Act, leaving Anticipate and Verify largely hidden behind task success. They position PAPAV as a basis for measuring progress across all five capabilities rather than task success alone.

A paper introduces PAPAV, a capability-centric framework defining five functions for multimodal embodied agents: Perceive, Anticipate, Plan, Act, and Verify.

The authors state that evaluation is heavily concentrated on Act, leaving Anticipate and Verify largely hidden behind task success. They position PAPAV as a basis for measuring progress across all five capabilities rather than task success alone.