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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 ✕VistaBot: View-Robust Robot Manipulation via Spatiotemporal-Aware View Synthesis
Songen Gu, Yuhang Zheng, Weize Li +6 more
2026
Hi-WM: Human-in-the-World-Model for Scalable Robot Post-Training
Yaxuan Li, Zhongyi Zhou, Yefei Chen +5 more
2026
X2-N: A Transformable Wheel-legged Humanoid Robot with Dual-mode Locomotion and Manipulation
Yan Ning, Xingzhou Chen, Delong Li +6 more
2026
FingerViP: Learning Real-World Dexterous Manipulation with Fingertip Visual Perception
Zhen Zhang, Weinan Wang, Hejia Sun +4 more
2026
How VLAs (Really) Work In Open-World Environments
Amir Rasouli, Yangzheng Wu, Zhiyuan Li +4 more
2026
Full-Body Dynamic Safety for Robot Manipulators: 3D Poisson Safety Functions for CBF-Based Safety Filters
Meg Wilkinson, Gilbert Bahati, Ryan M. Bena +3 more
2026
Neuro-Symbolic Manipulation Understanding with Enriched Semantic Event Chains
Fatemeh Ziaeetabar
2026
DeVI: Physics-based Dexterous Human-Object Interaction via Synthetic Video Imitation
Hyeonwoo Kim, Jeonghwan Kim, Kyungwon Cho +1 more
2026
PokeVLA: Empowering Pocket-Sized Vision-Language-Action Model with Comprehensive World Knowledge Guidance
Yupeng Zheng, Xiang Li, Songen Gu +12 more
2026
Visual-Tactile Peg-in-Hole Assembly Learning from Peg-out-of-Hole Disassembly
Yongqiang Zhao, Xuyang Zhang, Zhuo Chen +3 more
2026
A Kinematic Framework for Evaluating Pinch Configurations in Robotic Hand Design without Object or Contact Models
HyoJae Kang, Joonho Lee, Hyunmok Jung +1 more
2026
FingerEye: Continuous and Unified Vision-Tactile Sensing for Dexterous Manipulation
Zhixuan Xu, Yichen Li, Xuanye Wu +2 more
2026
Kinematic Optimization of Phalanx Length Ratios in Robotic Hands Using Potential Dexterity
HyoJae Kang, Joonho Lee, Jeongdo Ahn +1 more
2026
Occupancy Reward Shaping: Improving Credit Assignment for Offline Goal-Conditioned Reinforcement Learning
Aravind Venugopal, Jiayu Chen, Xudong Wu +3 more
2026
Passive Variable Impedance For Shared Control
Maximilian Mühlbauer, Nepomuk Werner, Ribin Balachandran +4 more
2026
VTouch++: A Multimodal Dataset with Vision-Based Tactile Enhancement for Bimanual Manipulation
Qianxi Hua, Xinyue Li, Zheng Yan +4 more
2026
Bimanual Robot Manipulation via Multi-Agent In-Context Learning
Alessio Palma, Indro Spinelli, Vignesh Prasad +4 more
2026
ETac: A Lightweight and Efficient Tactile Simulation Framework for Learning Dexterous Manipulation
Zhe Xu, Feiyu Zhao, Xiyan Huang +1 more
2026
Cortex 2.0: Grounding World Models in Real-World Industrial Deployment
Adriana Aida, Walid Amer, Katarina Bankovic +17 more
2026
JoyAI-RA 0.1: A Foundation Model for Robotic Autonomy
Tianle Zhang, Zhihao Yuan, Dafeng Chi +17 more
2026
EmbodiedMidtrain: Bridging the Gap between Vision-Language Models and Vision-Language-Action Models via Mid-training
Yiyang Du, Zhanqiu Guo, Xin Ye +2 more
2026
VLA Foundry: A Unified Framework for Training Vision-Language-Action Models
Jean Mercat, Sedrick Keh, Kushal Arora +5 more
2026
Learning Hybrid-Control Policies for High-Precision In-Contact Manipulation Under Uncertainty
Hunter L. Brown, Geoffrey Hollinger, Stefan Lee
2026
Assessing VLM-Driven Semantic-Affordance Inference for Non-Humanoid Robot Morphologies
Jess Jones, Raul Santos-Rodriguez, Sabine Hauert
2026