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MANIPULATION papers(59,346)
Clear ✕Learning Motion Feasibility from Point Clouds in Cluttered Environments
Sajid Ansari, Arthi, Girish Varma +1 more
2026
RoboNav-Arm: Agentic AI-Driven Navigation and Obstacle Avoidance for Robotic Manipulator in Cluttered Environments
Aachal Sharma, Narendra Kumar Dhar
2026
Tactile-WAM: Touch-Aware World Action Model with Tactile Asymmetric Attention
Siyu Wu, Linjing You, Junjie Zhu +7 more
2026
WatchAct: A Benchmark for Behavior-Grounded Robot Manipulation
Baiqi Li, Ce Zhang, Yu Fang +4 more
2026
Play2Perfect: What Matters in Dexterous Play Pretraining for Precise Assembly?
Tyler Ga Wei Lum, Kushal Kedia, C. Karen Liu +1 more
2026
A System for Fast, Resilient, and Adaptable Loco-Manipulation Behaviors on Humanoid Robots
Duncan William Calvert
2026
CoStream: Composing Simple Behaviors for Generalizable Complex Manipulation
Haonan Chen, Yuxiang Ma, Stephen Tian +7 more
2026
KRVF: A Source-Aware Semantic Voxel World Representation for Edge Mobile Manipulation
Runfeng Ling
2026
Learning Action Priors for Cross-embodiment Robot Manipulation
Dong Jing, Tianqi Zhang, Jiaqi Liu +5 more
2026
ForceBand: Learning Forceful Manipulation with sEMG
Botao He, Zhi Wang, Linna Kuang +8 more
2026
RoboTales: ROBOTic Anthropomorphic LEarning Systems
Andrew Chen, Ju-Hung Chen, Phurinat Pinyomit +1 more
2026
OmniContact: Chaining Meta-Skills via Contact Flow for Generalizable Humanoid Loco-Manipulation
Runyi Yu, Xiaoyi Lin, Ji Ma +11 more
2026
Action ControlNet: A Lightweight Delay-Aware Adapter for Smooth Asynchronous Control in Vision-Language-Action Models
Tiecheng Guo, Meng Guo
2026
DSP-SLAM++: A Unified Framework for Multi-Class, High-Fidelity Object SLAM in the Wild
Ahmad Kourani, Ghina Daoud, Daniel Asmar +1 more
2026
DeformGen: Dynamics-Based Topology Augmentation for Deformable Manipulation Policy Learning
Zili Lin, Wenyao Zhang, Yuyang Zhang +9 more
2026
Morphology-Specific Closed-Loop Control of Logarithmic-Spiral Continuum Arms via Online Jacobian Error Compensation
Partha Datta, Yi Jin, Wei Lin +1 more
2026
LiMoDE: Rethinking Lifelong Robot Manipulation from a Mixture-of-Dynamic-Experts Perspective
Zhihao Gu, Lin Wang
2026
ROAD-VLA: Robust Online Adaptation via Self-Distillation for Vision-Language-Action Models
Kejing Wang, Toan Nguyen, Minh Hoang Nguyen +2 more
2026
RMTL: Reinforced Micro-task Learning for Long-Horizon Manipulation with VLM Rewards
Anıl Can Ateş, Orhan Kahraman, Cihan Topal
2026
WOLF-VLA: Whole-Body Humanoid Optimal Locomotion Framework for Vision-Language-Action Learning
Melya Boukheddimi, Omar Adjali, Daniel Sontag +1 more
2026
AISPO: Enhancing Depth Reliability for Robotic Manipulation of Non-Lambertian Objects via Affine-Invariant Shape Prior
Zhiming Chen, Linfang Zheng, Kun Zhang +4 more
2026
Decoupling Semantics and Geometric Grounding: Spatial Visual Prompts for Language-Conditioned Imitation Learning
Yanzhe Tang, Xinyu Shao, Yuxuan Hu +6 more
2026
Self Capacitive Tactile Sensor System designed for Companion Robots
Mohsin Ali, Hidenobu Sumioka, Shuhei Ikemoto
2026
DynaMOMA: Instantaneous Prediction of Grasp Poses for Mobile Manipulation of Dynamic Objects
Zhinan Yu, Junyan Xu, Jiazhao Zhang +9 more
2026