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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 ✕ANCHOR: A Physically Grounded Closed-Loop Framework for Robust Home-Service Mobile Manipulation
Jinhao Jiang, Shengyu Fang, Sibo Zuo +2 more
2026
HANDFUL: Sequential Grasp-Conditioned Dexterous Manipulation with Resource Awareness
Ethan Foong, Yunshuang Li, Hao Jiang +2 more
2026
Asymmetric-Information Resource Allocation Games: An LP Approach to Purposeful Deception
Longxu Pan, Yue Guan, Daigo Shishika +1 more
2026
DiscreteRTC: Discrete Diffusion Policies are Natural Asynchronous Executors
Pengcheng Wang, Kaiwen Hong, Chensheng Peng +4 more
2026
Libra-VLA: Achieving Learning Equilibrium via Asynchronous Coarse-to-Fine Dual-System
Yifei Wei, Linqing Zhong, Yi Liu +4 more
2026
An analysis of sensor selection for fruit picking with suction-based grippers
Eva Krueger, Marcus Rosette, Joseph R. Davidson
2026
SpecRLBench: A Benchmark for Generalization in Specification-Guided Reinforcement Learning
Zijian Guo, İlker Işık, H. M. Sabbir Ahmad +1 more
2026
Learning Human-Intention Priors from Large-Scale Human Demonstrations for Robotic Manipulation
Yifan Xie, YuAn Wang, Guangyu Chen +3 more
2026
$M^2$-VLA: Boosting Vision-Language Models for Generalizable Manipulation via Layer Mixture and Meta-Skills
Siyao Xiao, Yuhong Zhang, Zhifang Liu +9 more
2026
Betting for Sim-to-Real Performance Evaluation
Zaid Mahboob, Yujia Chen, Bowen Weng
2026
Cooptimizing Safety and Performance Using Safety Value-Constrained Model Predictive Control
Hao Wang, Nam Nguyen, Armand Jordana +2 more
2026
Move-Then-Operate: Behavioral Phasing for Human-Like Robotic Manipulation
Haoming Xu, Lei Lei, Jie Gu +3 more
2026
Tube Diffusion Policy: Reactive Visual-Tactile Policy Learning for Contact-rich Manipulation
Teng Xue, Alberto Rigo, Bingjian Huang +4 more
2026
Keypoint-based Dynamic Object 6-DoF Pose Tracking via Event Camera
Zhe Wang, Qijin Song, Zihao Li +2 more
2026
Efficient Rationale-based Retrieval: On-policy Distillation from Generative Rerankers based on JEPA
Teng Chen, Sheng Xu, Feixiang Guo +4 more
2026
BridgeACT: Bridging Human Demonstrations to Robot Actions via Unified Tool-Target Affordances
Yifan Han, Jianxiang Liu, Haoyu Zhang +3 more
2026
GazeVLA: Learning Human Intention for Robotic Manipulation
Chengyang Li, Kaiyi Xiong, Yuan Xu +3 more
2026
QDTraj: Exploration of Diverse Trajectory Primitives for Articulated Objects Robotic Manipulation
Mathilde Kappel, Mahdi Khoramshahi, Louis Annabi +2 more
2026
Point & Grasp: Flexible Selection of Out-of-Reach Objects Through Probabilistic Cue Integration
Xuejing Luo, Hee-Seung Moon, Christian Holz +1 more
2026
LeHome: A Simulation Environment for Deformable Object Manipulation in Household Scenarios
Zeyi Li, Yushi Yang, Shawn Xie +15 more
2026
CodeGraphVLP: Code-as-Planner Meets Semantic-Graph State for Non-Markovian Vision-Language-Action Models
Khoa Vo, Sieu Tran, Taisei Hanyu +8 more
2026
Learning-augmented robotic automation for real-world manufacturing
Yunho Kim, Quan Nguyen, Taewhan Kim +2 more
2026
Wiggle and Go! System Identification for Zero-Shot Dynamic Rope Manipulation
Arthur Jakobsson, Abhinav Mahajan, Karthik Pullalarevu +6 more
2026
Long-Horizon Manipulation via Trace-Conditioned VLA Planning
Isabella Liu, An-Chieh Cheng, Rui Yan +7 more
2026