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MANIPULATION papers(59,346)
Clear ✕Human-as-Humanoid: Enabling Zero-Shot Humanoid Learning from Ego-Exo Human Videos with Human-Aligned Embodiments
Xiaopeng Lin, Ruoqi Yang, Shijie Lian +14 more
2026
OopsieVerse: A Safety Benchmark with Damage-Aware Simulation for Robot Manipulation
Arnav Balaji, Arpit Bahety, Sriniket Ambatipudi +3 more
2026
CoDex: Learning Compositional Dexterous Functional Manipulation without Demonstrations
Bowen Jiang, William Painter Reger, Roberto Martin-Martin
2026
RoboTacDex: A Dexterous Visual-Tactile-Action Dataset for Humanoid Manipulation
Xinyi Wang, Donghan Li, Zi'Ang Chen +5 more
2026
UniTacVLA: Unified Tactile Understanding and Prediction in Vision Language Action Models
Xidong Zhang, Yichi Zhang, Jiaxin Shi +5 more
2026
Robustness of Robotic Manipulation: Foundations and Frontiers
Yifei Dong, Zhanyi Sun, Lujie Yang +5 more
2026
ChronoFlow-Policy: Unifying Past-Current-Future Interaction Flow in Visuomotor Policy Learning
Bokai Lin, Yifu Xu, Xinyu Zhan +6 more
2026
Stage-Transition Dense Reward Modeling for Reinforcement Learning
Yang Yang, Bingjie Chen, Zihan Wang +4 more
2026
3D HAMSTER: Bridging Planning and Control in Hierarchical Vision Language Action Models through 3D Trajectory Guidance
Dongyoon Hwang, Byungkun Lee, Dongjin Kim +7 more
2026
TactX: Learning Shared Tactile Representations Across Diverse Sensors
Junsung Park, Sachin Bhadang, Carmelo Sferrazza +2 more
2026
Agentic RAG-VLM: Affordance-Aware Retrieval-Augmented Generation with Self-Reflective Planning for Robotic Grasping
Tao Chen, Lizheng Liu, Jiaxu Wang +4 more
2026
MIRTH: Mutual-Information Reasoning with Temporal Hubs for Vision-Language-Action Agents
Hao Sun, Yu Song, Shiyu Teng +2 more
2026
Efficient Sim-to-Real Transfer of World-Action Models from Synthetic Priors
Zixing Wang, Kausik Sivakumar, Jinghuan Shang +5 more
2026
Labimus: A Simulation and Benchmark for Humanoid Dexterous Manipulation in Chemical Laboratory
Yuhan Wu, Zhao Jin, Tao Li +9 more
2026
Multisensory Continual Learning: Adapting Pretrained Visuomotor Policies to Force
Jaden Clark, Changhao Wang, Yihuai Gao +5 more
2026
The Quadruped Soft Tail: Compliant Grasping and Swabbing for Contamination Surveys in Harsh Environments
Harald Minde Hansen, Nandita Gallacher, Kristin Y. Pettersen +2 more
2026
From Grasps to Dexterity: Large-Scale Grasp Pretraining for Dexterous Manipulation
Ying Yuan, Xinyu Liu, Sriram Krishna +1 more
2026
GROW$^2$: Grounding Which and Where for Robot Tool Use
Yuhong Deng, Yuyao Liu, David Hsu
2026
Sequential Planning via Anchored Robotic Keypoints
Bryce Grant, Aryeh Rothenberg, Logan Senning +3 more
2026
Training Vision-Language-Action Models with Dense Embodied Chain-of-Thought Supervision
Haoyang Li, Guanlin Li, Youhe Feng +9 more
2026
Grasp-Oriented Non-Prehensile Manipulation via Learning a Graspability Field
Licheng Zhong, Gim Hee Lee
2026
Behavior Prompting Policy: Demonstrations as Prompts for Manipulation
Austin Patel, Ben Pekarek, Joel Enrique Castro Hernandez +1 more
2026
Vision-Language-Action Models: Experimental Insights from a Real-World UR5 Platform
Mathilde Hochedel, Marc Lalonde
2026
Chronos: A Physics-Informed Full-History Framework for Non-Markovian Long-Horizon Manipulation
Yulin Zhou, Yimeng Wang, Nengyu Wang +9 more
2026