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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 ✕PriorVLA: Prior-Preserving Adaptation for Vision-Language-Action Models
Xinyu Guo, Bin Xie, Wei Chai +4 more
2026
Unified Noise Steering for Efficient Human-Guided VLA Adaptation
Junjie Lu, Xinyao Qin, Yuhua Jiang +6 more
2026
ALAM: Algebraically Consistent Latent Action Model for Vision-Language-Action Models
Zuojin Tang, Haoyun Liu, Xinyuan Chang +11 more
2026
XQCfD: Accelerating Fast Actor-Critic Algorithms with Prior Data and Prior Policies
Daniel Palenicek, Florian Vogt, Joe Watson +3 more
2026
ForceFlow: Learning to Feel and Act via Contact-Driven Flow Matching
Shuoheng Zhang, Yifu Yuan, Hongyao Tang +7 more
2026
VEGA: Visual Encoder Grounding Alignment for Spatially-Aware Vision-Language-Action Models
Hao Wang, Xiaobao Wei, Jingyang He +10 more
2026
HeteroGenManip: Generalizable Manipulation For Heterogeneous Object Interactions
Zhenhao Shen, Zeming Yang, Yue Chen +5 more
2026
Retrieve-then-Steer: Online Success Memory for Test-Time Adaptation of Generative VLAs
Jianchao Zhao, Huoren Yang, Yusong Hu +6 more
2026
Muninn: Your Trajectory Diffusion Model But Faster
Gokul Puthumanaillam, Hao Jiang, Ruben Hernandez +4 more
2026
StereoPolicy: Improving Robotic Manipulation Policies via Stereo Perception
Evans Han, Yunfan Jiang, Yingke Wang +6 more
2026
JODA: Composable Joint Dynamics for Articulated Objects
Tianhong Gao, Cheng Yu, Yinghao Xu +1 more
2026
LoopVLA: Learning Sufficiency in Recurrent Refinement for Vision-Language-Action Models
Boyang Shen, Kaixiang Yang, Hao Wang +4 more
2026
Zero-Shot Sim-to-Real Robot Learning: A Dexterous Manipulation Study on Reactive Catching
Kejia Ren, Gaotian Wang, Andrew S. Morgan +1 more
2026
MVB-Grasp: Minimum-Volume-Box Filtering of Diffusion-based Grasps for Frontal Manipulation
Bibek Poudel, Abdul Basit, Muhammad Shafique
2026
ACSAC: Adaptive Chunk Size Actor-Critic with Causal Transformer Q-Network
Qian Chen, Junqiao Zhao, Hongtu Zhou +4 more
2026
RePO-VLA: Recovery-Driven Policy Optimization for Vision-Language-Action Models
Weijia Liufu, Xiaoyu Guo, Ruiyi Chen +16 more
2026
Transceiver-Integrated BD-RIS: Wave-Domain Signal Processing for Sustainable and Inclusive 6G
Mahmoud Raeisi, Ayoub Ammar Boudjelal, Henk Wymeersch +2 more
2026
IMPACT: An Implicit Active-Set Augmented Lagrangian for Fast Contact-Implicit Trajectory Optimization
Jiayun Li, Dejian Gong, Georgia Chalvatzaki
2026
HyDRA Scorpion: A Cost-effective and Modular ROV for Real-Time Underwater Inspection, Intervention, and Object Detection
Anika Tabassum Orchi, Md Farhan Zaman, Md Darain Khan +16 more
2026
A low-cost mockup to simulate robotic laser cutting in nuclear decommissioning
Frederico Fernandes Afonso Silva, Murilo Marques Marinho, Bruno Vilhena Adorno
2026
ECHO: Continuous Hierarchical Memory for Vision-Language-Action Models
Yanbin Hu, Jin Cui, Jiayi Lu +6 more
2026
ClickSeg3D: Few-Click Interactive Segmentation via Semantic Embeddings
Xueyang Kang, Zijian Yu, Kourosh Khoshelham +1 more
2026
ElasticFlow: One-Step Physics-Consistent Policy with Elastic Time Horizons for Language-Guided Manipulation
Kewei Chen, Yayu Long, Shuai Li +1 more
2026
ProcVLM: Learning Procedure-Grounded Progress Rewards for Robotic Manipulation
Youhe Feng, Hansen Shi, Haoyang Li +7 more
2026