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MANIPULATION papers(59,346)
Clear ✕GRAFT: Graph-Based Affordance Transfer via Part Correspondence
Mengying Lin, Utkarsh Mishra, Ajay Mandlekar +1 more
2026
RigPI: Dynamic Parameter Identification of Rigid Body via VLM-Seeded Differentiable Simulation
Xincheng He, Rongrong Zhang, Wei Jiang +1 more
2026
InSight: Self-Guided Skill Acquisition via Steerable VLAs
Maggie Wang, Lars Osterberg, Stephen Tian +3 more
2026
World Value Models for Robotic Manipulation
Zhihao Wang, Jianxiong Li, Yu Cui +4 more
2026
Beyond Monotonic Progress: Retry-Supervised Value Learning for Robot Imitation
Xinyao Qin, Junjie Lu, Kaixin Wang +7 more
2026
Enabling Robust Cloth Manipulation via Inference-Time Simulator-in-the-Loop Refinement
Xin Liu, Yulin Li, Ziming Li +7 more
2026
G$^3$VLA: Geometric inductive bias for Vision-Language-Action Models
Yue Peng, Yongzhe Zhao, Artur Habuda +5 more
2026
FT-WBC: Learning Fault-Tolerant Whole-Body Control for Legged Loco-Manipulation
Yudong Zhong, Pengfei Mai, Sikai Guo +6 more
2026
NoContactNoWorries: Estimating Contact through Vision and Proprioception for In-Hand Dexterous Manipulation
Soham Patil, Avirup Das, Sourabh Bhosale +1 more
2026
RE4: Transformation-aware Imitation of Object Interactions Using Manipulation Modes
Arsh Chawla, Rahul Shome
2026
PDS Joint: A Parametric Double-Spiral Joint Tailored for Dexterous Hands
Haoyang Li, Yibo Wen, Yixiang Fan +2 more
2026
RoBoSR: Structured Scene Representations for Embodied Robotic Reasoning
Kewei Hu, Wanchan Yu, Fangwen Chen +6 more
2026
Grounding Generative Policies in Physics: Optimization-Guided Diffusion for Robot Control
Sabrina Bodmer, René Zurbrügg, Tifanny Portela +5 more
2026
MinInter: Minimizing Trajectory Interpolation During Data Augmentation for Imitation Learning
Qingyang Wang, Xingang Liu, Changwei Yao +4 more
2026
A thin robot made of flexible electronics for in-situ machining and inspection of large structures.
Wang H, Dai Y, Wang T +5 more
Nature communications · 2026
Robotic Workstations in Microextraction Techniques: Technological Evolution and Analytical Impact.
Peris-Pastor G, Benedé JL, Chisvert A
Analytical chemistry · 2026
Neuromodulatory effects of voluntary-motor-effort-driven wrist-hand robot in sensorimotor dynamics after stroke.
Huo Y, Li W, Ding F +4 more
Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation · 2026
Learning Dexterous Manipulation Using Contact Wrench Guidance From Human Demonstration
Xinghao Zhu, Zixi Liu, Shalin Jain +17 more
2026
Enforcing Human-like Kinematics in Dexterous Piano Playing via Adversarial Posture Regularization
Bin Qiu, Yanming Shao, Guanyu Cai +1 more
2026
CoorDex: Coordinating Body and Hand Priors for Continuous Dexterous Humanoid Loco-Manipulation
Sikai Li, Shuning Li, Zhenyu Wei +3 more
2026
IMAGIN-4D: Image-Guided Controllable Interaction Generation
Sai Kumar Dwivedi, Federica Bogo, Buğra Tekin +6 more
2026
Learning Process Rewards via Success Visitation Matching for Efficient RL
Raymond Tsao, Andrew Wagenmaker, Sergey Levine
2026
Learning to See While Learning to Act: Diffusion Models for Active Perception in Robot Imitation
Kuancheng Wang, Vaibhav Saxena, Shuo Cheng +2 more
2026
dVLA-RL: Reinforcement Learning over Denoising Trajectories for Discrete Diffusion Vision-Language-Action Models
Yuhao Wu, Yitian Liu, Weijie Shen +13 more
2026