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MANIPULATION papers(59,346)
Clear ✕JointHOI: Jointly Generating Contact Maps Enhances Hand Object Interaction Generation
Mingyeong Song, Jungbin Cho, Jisoo Kim +5 more
2026
CoRe: Combined Rewards with Vision-Language Model Feedback for Preference-Aligned Reinforcement Learning
Hexian Ni, Tao Lu, Yinghao Cai
2026
Imagining the Sense of Touch: Touch-Informed Manipulation via Imagined Tactile Representations
Zhiyuan Zhang, Adeesh Desai, Jyun-Chi Hu +7 more
2026
One Demonstration Is Enough for Real-World Robotic Reinforcement Learning
Yuwan Liu, Hongze Yu, Song Liu +5 more
2026
VLAFlow: A Unified Training Framework for Vision-Language-Action Models via Co-training and Future Latent Alignment
Guoyang Xia, Fengfa Li, Hongjin Ji +4 more
2026
BIFROST: Bridging Invariant Feature Representation for Observation-space Sim2Real Transfer
Yunfu Deng, Josiah P. Hanna
2026
Neuro-Symbolic Safety Guidance for Vision-Language-Action Models via Constrained Flow Matching
William English, Hao Zheng, Rickard Ewetz
2026
Structured 4D Latent Predictive Model for Robot Planning
Zhiyi Li, Peilin Wu, Xiaoshen Han +2 more
2026
FAR: Failure-Aware Retry for Test-Time Recovery and Continual Policy Improvement
Haoran Hao, Shahram Najam Syed, Jeffrey Ichnowski +1 more
2026
Human-Centric Transferable Tactile Pre-Training for Dexterous Robotic Manipulation
Chi Zhang, Penglin Cai, Ziheng Xi +6 more
2026
AutoSpeed: Annotation-Free Stage-Adaptive Motion Speed Learning for Robot Manipulation
Qingda Hu, Ziheng Qiu, Jieru Zhao +2 more
2026
DynaWM: A Base-VLA-Guided World Foundation Model for Moving-Object Manipulation
Chongkei Chang, Zhidong Deng
2026
DeWorldSG: Depth-Aware 3D Semantic Scene Graph Generation via World-Model Priors
Seok-Young Kim, Abdelrahman Elskhawy, Taewook Ha +4 more
2026
Local Motion Matters: A Deconstruct-Recompose Paradigm for Reinforcement Learning Pre-training from Videos
Jinwen Wang, Youfang Lin, Xiaobo Hu +2 more
2026
Task-Relevant Representation Decoupling for Visual Reinforcement Learning Generalization
Jinwen Wang, Youfang Lin, Xiaobo Hu +4 more
2026
ABot-M0.5: Unified Mobility-and-Manipulation World Action Model
Ronghan Chen, Yandan Yang, Zuojin Tang +17 more
2026
Enhancing Robustness in Robot-Environment Interactions through Passive Compliant Degrees of Freedom: A Hybrid Position-Force Control Approach with Feedback Linearization
Rahman Ardakanian, Iman Kardan, AliAkbar Akbari +1 more
2026
Learning from Demonstration via Spatiotemporal Tubes for Unknown Euler-Lagrange Systems
Ratnangshu Das, Puneeth Shankar, Varuni Buereddy +2 more
2026
VLM-AR3L: Vision-Language Models for Absolute and Relative Rewards in Reinforcement Learning
Kuan-Chen Chen, Winston Chen, Wei-Fang Sun +1 more
2026
Robust Operational Space Control with Conformal Disturbance Bounds for Safe Redundant Manipulation
Wenhua Liu, Fan Zhang, Qin Lin
2026
NeHMO: Neural Hamilton-Jacobi Reachability Learning for Decentralized Safe Multi-Arm Motion Planning
Qingyi Chen, Zachary Kingston, Ahmed H. Qureshi
2026
Balanced High-Sensitivity and Wide-Range Flexible Sensor for Human-Machine Interaction
S. Q. Zhu, Xiaoming Cai, Weiqi Xiao +7 more
2026
Integrating machine learning into acupuncture research: a scoping review
Wancy Chan, Guan-Jun Huang, Chien-Chen Huang +1 more
2026
Spraying Conformal Hydrogel Skins as Functional Platform
Hui Yuan, Yifeng Shen, Yiqun Zhao +13 more
2026