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PointCast: One World Model for Rigid, Articulated, and Deformable Object Manipulation

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Sep 23, 2026 · UTC

World models are useful for robotic manipulation because robots can predict how actions change the states of objects before executing them. We present PointCast, a point-set world model that spans rigid, articulated, and deformable object manipulation. Its state is a set of 3D points on the object and the end-effector, mesh-free and topology-agnostic. Each point keeps its identity and is supervised on its own trajectory, which teaches the model where every point goes rather than only the shape the points form. Its backbone is a diffusion transformer that denoises a short window of future point

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