ResearchResearch paperRobotics & Embodied AI · Multimodal Models · Computer Vision1 source · Oct 17, 2026

EndoVLA-OOV: Language-Conditioned Out-of-View Target Acquisition in Robotic Endoscopy

We present EndoVLA-OOV, a language-conditioned vision-language-action policy for out-of-view target acquisition in robotic endoscopy.

Key points

  • The scan-then-revisit workflow of upper gastrointestinal endoscopy requires bringing a previously observed suspicious region back into view for closer inspection.
  • Acquiring such targets requires translating anatomical and appearance descriptions into camera motions from partial observations of a confined, deformable environment.
  • To support policy learning, we provide an open-source VLA dataset containing 1,050 episodes across six tasks and approximately 262k observation-action pairs.
  • These results support language-guided endoscopic revisitation across the evaluated environments and robot embodiments and demonstrate the benefit of expanded task-specific demonstrations.

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  • [1]EndoVLA-OOV: Language-Conditioned Out-of-View Target Acquisition in Robotic Endoscopy
    arXiv (AI, ML, NLP, CV, robotics, multi-agent) · Oct 17, 03:28 PM
    We present EndoVLA-OOV, a language-conditioned vision-language-action policy for out-of-view target acquisition in robotic endoscopy.
    The scan-then-revisit workflow of upper gastrointestinal endoscopy requires bringing a previously observed suspicious region back into view for closer inspection.

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