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A survey paper on World Action Models. WAMs are moving robotics from reacting to the present toward predicting consequences before acting. A model only counts as a WAM when its predicted future directly helps produce, score, verify, or train the action. The trend is “dream less, act more”: full video generation is often too slow and memory-heavy for real control loops. Many newer systems skip rendered video and use latent features, geometry, affordance maps, or motion representations instead. Photorealistic futures are not necessarily the most useful; flow, masks, tactile signals, and physically grounded latents may constrain action better. There is no single winning architecture because every design trades predictive richness against latency, memory, action-label cost, and physical reliability. The biggest open question is whether robots can spend heavy predictive compute only when uncertainty, contact, or irreversible error makes it necessary. – arxiv. org/abs/2606.20781 Title: "World Action Models: A Survey"