# Move-Then-Operate: A VLA Framework That Decouples Robotic Manipulation into Move and Operate Phases

- Source: arXiv cs.RO
- Published: 2026-10-22T04:00:00.000Z
- RoboHot: https://robohot.news/en/items/uqb4wek9g182fnrsbq8a5ghvj
- Original: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.23620

## Summary

Move-Then-Operate is a vision-language-action (VLA) framework that explicitly decouples robotic manipulation into two behavioral phases: coarse relocation (move) and contact-critical interaction (operate), using a dual-expert policy routed by a learnable phase selector.