# ZeroDex: Zero-shot long-horizon dexterous manipulation via multi-view 3D-grounded VLM reasoning

- Source: arXiv cs.RO
- Published: 2026-10-21T04:00:00.000Z
- RoboHot: https://robohot.news/en/items/m0ezchd5ta5ksac913ez6ltwy
- Original: https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.19340

## Summary

ZeroDex is a zero-shot long-horizon dexterous manipulation framework that grounds language instructions into executable 3D task plans from calibrated multi-view RGB images. It leverages the 2D grounding ability VLMs already possess and lifts it to the metric 3D quantities manipulation requires (contact points, placement targets, tool-motion anchors) through multi-view fusion; execution is driven by these 3D groundings rather than a learned policy, requiring no demonstrations or post-training for a specific task or embodiment.