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RynnUnify: Towards Unified Embodied Brain

Paper · arXiv 2610.32965 · daily list of October 26, 2026

Minghao Zhu, Bohan Hou, Kun Xiang, Zixuan Wang, Yinzhou Tang, Yifei Yang and 17 more

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We introduce RynnUnify, a 16B unified embodied model that combines strong embodied understanding with long-horizon visual planning through interleaved video--language reasoning. With capabilities spanning spatial reasoning, physical prediction, and grounding, RynnUnify connects an understanding of the physical world with visual anticipation of how it evolves across successive subtasks. Building on these capabilities, we further develop an agentic extension through reinforcement learning to selectively use video predictions for reasoning about unobserved states and interaction outcomes. We also develop a world-action extension of the full RynnUnify model, translating its understanding and prediction capabilities into robot control. To evaluate these capabilities, we introduce Rynn-VP and Rynn-GEU for long-horizon visual planning and anticipatory reasoning. Experiments show that RynnUnify achieves the highest average embodied understanding score among the evaluated unified multimodal models and improves the Rynn-VP overall score by 9.75 points over Cosmos 3 Nano. Its agentic extension improves the Rynn-GEU average by 6.0 points over direct reasoning, while the world-action extension achieves 51.5\% success on 20 selected composite RoboCasa365 tasks and 46.7\% average success across three real-robot tasks. Together, these results establish RynnUnify as a shared foundation for embodied understanding, visual planning, and robot control, taking a step toward a unified embodied brain.

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agentic
an AI system that plans and takes several steps, often by calling tools, towards a goal.
reinforcement learning
training by trial and error: good actions earn a reward, and the model adjusts to earn more.
multimodal
able to work with more than one kind of data, such as text together with images, audio or video.

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On arXiv, under the identifier 2610.32965: the abstract page is https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.32965 and the PDF is https://arxiv.org/pdf/2610.32965. The text on this page is the authors' abstract, not a summary.

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