# Research team uses NanoBanana image generation to plan rope manipulation

> Original title: Using image generation as sort of a visual imagination for planning! 🍌

- Source: Paige Bailey
- Published: 2026-11-10T14:29:57.000Z
- Bad Influence: https://badinfluence.news/items/nrqw1sw22z0bc3d93j9058bim
- Original: https://x.com/DynamicWebPaige/status/2120162048260612481

## Summary

A research team uses NanoBanana, an image generation model, to synthesize goal images for deformable object manipulation from a scene and a text prompt, such as passing a rope through a red slot. The method is presented as a visual imagination step for planning, and the paper is listed at Spotlight S5 and Poster S2 #45.

## Post

Using image generation as sort of a visual imagination for planning! 🍌

Given a scene + prompt (ex: "pass rope through red slot"), this team uses @NanoBanana to synthesize the goal image for deformable object manipulation.

📍 Spotlight S5 | Poster S2 #45
🔗 https://openreview.net/forum?id=3hsq75Gmr9

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