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MANIPULATION papers(59,385)
Clear ✕Hybrid Robotic Meta-gripper for Tomato Harvesting: Analysis of Auxetic Structures with Lattice Orientation Variations
Shahid Ansari, Vivek Gupta, Bishakh Bhattacharya
2025
VITA-VLA: Efficiently Teaching Vision-Language Models to Act via Action Expert Distillation
Shaoqi Dong, Chaoyou Fu, Haihan Gao +12 more
2025
Dynamic Quadrupedal Legged and Aerial Locomotion via Structure Repurposing
Chenghao Wang, Kaushik Venkatesh Krishnamurthy, Shreyansh Pitroda +5 more
2025
PhysToolBench: Benchmarking Physical Tool Understanding for MLLMs
Zixin Zhang, Kanghao Chen, Xingwang Lin +6 more
2025
Placeit! A Framework for Learning Robot Object Placement Skills
Amina Ferrad, Johann Huber, François Hélénon +3 more
2025
HANDO: Hierarchical Autonomous Navigation and Dexterous Omni-loco-manipulation
Jingyuan Sun, Chaoran Wang, Mingyu Zhang +6 more
2025
PLEXUS Hand: Lightweight Four-Motor Prosthetic Hand Enabling Precision-Lateral Dexterous Manipulation
Yuki Kuroda, Tomoya Takahashi, Cristian C Beltran-Hernandez +2 more
2025
iMoWM: Taming Interactive Multi-Modal World Model for Robotic Manipulation
Chuanrui Zhang, Zhengxian Wu, Guanxing Lu +2 more
2025
Model-Based Lookahead Reinforcement Learning for in-hand manipulation
Alexandre Lopes, Catarina Barata, Plinio Moreno
2025
CDE: Concept-Driven Exploration for Reinforcement Learning
Le Mao, Andrew H. Liu, Renos Zabounidis +3 more
2025
Point and Go: Intuitive Reference Frame Reallocation in Mode Switching for Assistive Robotics
A. Wang, C. Jiang, M. Przystupa +2 more
2025
BLAZER: Bootstrapping LLM-based Manipulation Agents with Zero-Shot Data Generation
Rocktim Jyoti Das, Harsh Singh, Diana Turmakhan +5 more
2025
NovaFlow: Zero-Shot Manipulation via Actionable Flow from Generated Videos
Hongyu Li, Lingfeng Sun, Yafei Hu +4 more
2025
R2RGEN: Real-to-Real 3D Data Generation for Spatially Generalized Manipulation
Xiuwei Xu, Angyuan Ma, Hankun Li +4 more
2025
DexMan: Learning Bimanual Dexterous Manipulation from Human and Generated Videos
Jhen Hsieh, Kuan-Hsun Tu, Kuo-Han Hung +1 more
2025
Don't Run with Scissors: Pruning Breaks VLA Models but They Can Be Recovered
Jason Jabbour, Dong-Ki Kim, Max Smith +6 more
2025
Validation of collision-free spheres of Stewart-Gough platforms for constant orientations using the Application Programming Interface of a CAD software
Bibekananda Patra, Rajeevlochana G. Chittawadigi, Sandipan Bandyopadhyay
2025
Towards Reliable LLM-based Robot Planning via Combined Uncertainty Estimation
Shiyuan Yin, Chenjia Bai, Zihao Zhang +4 more
2025
FastUMI-100K: Advancing Data-driven Robotic Manipulation with a Large-scale UMI-style Dataset
Kehui Liu, Zhongjie Jia, Yang Li +14 more
2025
Executable Analytic Concepts as the Missing Link Between VLM Insight and Precise Manipulation
Mingyang Sun, Jiude Wei, Qichen He +3 more
2025
USIM and U0: A Vision-Language-Action Dataset and Model for General Underwater Robots
Junwen Gu, Zhiheng Wu, Pengxuan Si +8 more
2025
DM1: MeanFlow with Dispersive Regularization for 1-Step Robotic Manipulation
Guowei Zou, Haitao Wang, Hejun Wu +3 more
2025
Trajectory Conditioned Cross-embodiment Skill Transfer
YuHang Tang, Yixuan Lou, Pengfei Han +4 more
2025
DEAS: DEtached value learning with Action Sequence for Scalable Offline RL
Changyeon Kim, Haeone Lee, Younggyo Seo +2 more
2025