--- license: mit library_name: pytorch tags: - Robotics - Vision-Language-Action - Manipulation - Multimodal - Sensor-Fusion - Diffusion language: - en pipeline_tag: robotics arxiv: - 2606.17598 ---
MuseVLA: An Adaptive Multimodal Sensing Vision-Language-Action Model for Robotic Manipulation

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MuseVLA is an adaptive multimodal sensing Vision-Language-Action (VLA) model for robotic manipulation. Built on top of [VITRA](https://github.com/microsoft/VITRA), MuseVLA treats novel sensors as on-demand tools: it first selects the modality needed for a task, grounds the selected sensor observation in the RGB image, and then generates robot actions. The model supports thermal, acoustic, and mmWave radar sensing in addition to RGB observations. MuseVLA achieves an average success rate of **80.6%** across thermal-, audio-, and radar-guided manipulation tasks, as well as **66.7%** average success on unseen sensor-guided tasks. All our [code](https://github.com/microsoft/MuseVLA) and [pre-trained model weights](https://huggingface.co/microsoft/MuseVLA) are licensed under the MIT license. Please refer to our [paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.17598), [code repository](https://github.com/microsoft/MuseVLA), and [dataset](https://huggingface.co/datasets/microsoft/MuseVLA-dataset) for more details. ## Model Summary - **Model type:** Vision-Language-Action Model - **Sensor modalities:** RGB, thermal, acoustic, and mmWave radar - **Language(s) (NLP):** en - **License:** MIT - **Training Dataset:** [MuseVLA-dataset](https://huggingface.co/datasets/microsoft/MuseVLA-dataset) - **Repository:** [https://github.com/microsoft/MuseVLA](https://github.com/microsoft/MuseVLA) - **Paper:** [MuseVLA: An Adaptive Multimodal Sensing Vision-Language-Action Model for Robotic Manipulation](https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.17598) ## Citation ```bibtex @misc{liu2026musevlaadaptivemultimodalsensing, title={MuseVLA: An Adaptive Multimodal Sensing Vision-Language-Action Model for Robotic Manipulation}, author={Xingyuming Liu and Ruichun Ma and Heyu Guo and Qixiu Li and Qingwen Yang and Lin Luo and Shiqi Jiang and Chenren Xu and Jiaolong Yang and Baining Guo}, year={2026}, eprint={2606.17598}, archivePrefix={arXiv}, primaryClass={cs.RO}, url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.17598}, } ```