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Robotics Research Publications
An open index of robotics research papers, refreshed daily.
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MANIPULATION papers(5,629)
Clear ✕Towards Long-horizon Embodied Agents with Tool-Aligned Vision-Language-Action Models
Zixing Lei, Changxing Liu, Yichen Xiong +5 more
2026
SECOND-Grasp: Semantic Contact-guided Dexterous Grasping
Han Yi Shin, Heeju Ko, Jaewon Mun +6 more
2026
What to Ignore, What to React: Visually Robust RL Fine-Tuning of VLA Models
Yuanfang Peng, Jingjing Fu, Chuheng Zhang +6 more
2026
Object Manipulation of the Variable Topology Truss system
Andrew Jang-Ho Bae, Myeongjin Choi, Haorui Li +2 more
2026
TouchAnything: A Dataset and Framework for Bimanual Tactile Estimation from Egocentric Video
Jianyi Zhou, Ziteng Gao, Feiyang Hong +11 more
2026
When Absolute State Fails: Evaluating Proprioceptive Encodings for Robust Manipulation
Maxime Alvarez, Ryo Watanabe, Paul Crook +4 more
2026
SafeManip: A Property-Driven Benchmark for Temporal Safety Evaluation in Robotic Manipulation
Chengyue Huang, Khang Vo Huynh, Sebastian Elbaum +2 more
2026
Morphologically Equivariant Flow Matching for Bimanual Mobile Manipulation
Max Siebenborn, Daniel Ordoñez Apraez, Sophie Lueth +4 more
2026
From Imagined Futures to Executable Actions: Mixture of Latent Actions for Robot Manipulation
Yajie Li, Bozhou Zhang, Chun Gu +5 more
2026
X-Imitator: Spatial-Aware Imitation Learning via Bidirectional Action-Pose Interaction
Kai Xiong, Hongjie Fang, Lixin Yang +1 more
2026
From Reaction to Anticipation: Proactive Failure Recovery through Agentic Task Graph for Robotic Manipulation
Sheng Xu, Ruixing Jin, Huayi Zhou +6 more
2026
Learning Action Manifold with Multi-view Latent Priors for Robotic Manipulation
Junjin Xiao, Dongyang Li, Yandan Yang +9 more
2026
See What Matters: Differentiable Grid Sample Pruning for Generalizable Vision-Language-Action Model
Yixu Feng, Zinan Zhao, Yanxiang Ma +4 more
2026
Beyond World-Frame Action Heads: Motion-Centric Action Frames for Vision-Language-Action Models
Huoren Yang, Jianchao Zhao, Hu Yusong +7 more
2026
Observer-Based Fixed-Time Nested Sliding-Mode Control for Tip-Position Regulation of a Single-Link Flexible Manipulator
Atul Sharma, Chayan Kumar Paul, S. Janardhanan
2026
DreamAvoid: Critical-Phase Test-Time Dreaming to Avoid Failures in VLA Policies
Xianzhe Fan, Yuxiang Lu, Shenyuan Gao +4 more
2026
Introducing Environmental Constraints to Grasping Strategies for Paper-Like Flexible Materials Using a Soft Gripper
Yi Dong, Yang Li, Jinjun Duan +1 more
2026
Rainbow Deep Q-Learning with Kinematics-Aware Design for Cooperative Delta and 3-RRS Parallel Robot Insertion
Hassen Nigatu, Gaokun Shi, Jituo Li +2 more
2026
Sampling-Based Follow-the-Leader Motion Planning for Manipulator-Mounted Continuum Robots
Chengnan Shentu, Nicholas Baldassini, Oluwagbotemi D. Iseoluwa +2 more
2026
Coordinated Diffusion: Generating Multi-Agent Behavior Without Multi-Agent Demonstrations
Lasse Peters, Laura Ferranti, Andrea Bajcsy +1 more
2026
Offline Policy Evaluation for Manipulation Policies via Discounted Liveness Formulation
Hao Wang, Joshua Bowden, Colton Crosby +1 more
2026
Behavioral Mode Discovery for Fine-tuning Multimodal Generative Policies
Alberta Longhini, David Emukpere, Jean-Michel Renders +1 more
2026
Forecast-aware Gaussian Splatting for Predictive 3D Representation in Language-Guided Pick-and-Place Manipulation
Kaixin Jia, Jiacheng Xu
2026
HarmoWAM: Harmonizing Generalizable and Precise Manipulation via Adaptive World Action Models
Qiuxuan Feng, Jiale Yu, Jiaming Liu +8 more
2026