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MANIPULATION papers(59,357)
Clear ✕PanoVine: Whole-Body Visuomotor Control for Soft Growing Vine Robot
Yimeng Qin, Xiaomeng Xu, William Heap +3 more
2026
Improving Robotic Imitation Learning via Trajectory Standardization
Licheng Yang, Lingfeng Qian, Fei Zheng +4 more
2026
RoboGaze: Evaluating Robot World Models via Structured Vision-Language Analysis
Minh-Loi Nguyen, Nghiem Tuong Diep, Hung Khang Nguyen +10 more
2026
HiL-ResRL: A Model-Agnostic Finetuning Adapter via Human-in-the-loop Residual Reinforcement Learning
Jingyi Liu, Zhaohong Mai, ShunSen He +5 more
2026
Cloak: Zero-Shot Cross-Embodiment Manipulation by Masking the End-Effector from the VLA
Michael Piseno, Guy Tevet, C. Karen Liu
2026
UniFS: Unified Fast-to-Slow Hierarchical Architecture for Vision-Language-Action Models
Lin Sun, Zhiwei Guan, Conglin Wang +7 more
2026
Spatiotemporal modulation of surface texture for information encoding and object manipulation.
Yang X, Sim J, Zhao RR
Nature communications · 2026
PolicyTrim: Boosting Intrinsic Policy Efficiency of Vision-Language-Action Models
Xianghui Wang, Feng Chen, Wenbo Zhang +4 more
2026
ARP: Enhancing Quantized Skill Abstractions via Visual Alignment and Iterative Refinement for Robotic Manipulation
Yuntian Wang, Zesheng Jia, Yuhui Duan +5 more
2026
Invariant Stochastic Filtering on SE(3) for Inertial-Encoder State Estimation of Serial Rigid Manipulators
S. Yaqubi, J. Mattila
2026
Tactile Genesis: Exploring Tactile Sensors at Scale for Learning Dexterous Tasks
Trinity Chung, Kashu Yamazaki, Dhruv Patel +4 more
2026
FlowDPG: Deterministic Policy Gradient on Flow Matching Policies for Real-World Manipulation
Kexin Shi, Junyao Shi, Poorvi Hebbar +5 more
2026
Control-Aware Manipulation of ArduPilot via Legitimate MAVLink Commands: Simulation and Hardware Validation
Feras Benchellal andLotfi Ben Othmane, Yasaswini Konapalli, Cihan Tunc +1 more
2026
Any-Body Guard: Universal Safeguarding for Manipulation Policies via Action Masking
Alex Beaudin, Hanna Krasowski, Kartik Nagpal +3 more
2026
Geometric Reconstruction of Extrinsic Contact Trajectories using Tactile Sensing and Proprioception for Tool Manipulation
Seojung Min, Yoonjin Kim, Jeong-Jung Kim +1 more
2026
Physics-Informed Eikonal Caging for Whole-Arm Manipulation Planning
Yan Zhang, Yiming Li, Yifei Dong +2 more
2026
RoboLineage: Agent-Native Data Lifecycle Governance Across Robot Policy Iterations
Qian Luo, Wentao Guo, Zhennan Qin +4 more
2026
DeformX: A Versatile Co-Simulation Framework for Deformable Linear Objects
Yi Yang, Xiang Fei, Lehong Wang +5 more
2026
KITE: Decoupling Kinematics and Interaction for Zero-Shot Cross-Embodiment Manipulation
Qianxu Wang, Kuan Fang
2026
RARM: Confidence-Gated Progress Reward Modeling for RL in Manipulation
Pengzhi Yang, Xinyu Wang, Pengyu Jing +7 more
2026
CoRDE: Concept-Prior Routed Diffusion Experts for Structural Generalization in Robot Manipulation
Haidong Huang, Xixin Zhao, Yaohua Zhou +5 more
2026
Characterization of kinematic synergies during upright reaching tasks.
Ceriello I, Bufacchi I, Borzuola R +2 more
Journal of biomechanics · 2026
THREAD: Trajectory Planning for Hybrid Rigid-Soft Manipulators with Environment-Aware Diffusion
Shivani Kamtikar, Pranav Asthana, Naveen Kumar Uppalapati +2 more
2026
Rotation-Aware Point-Cloud Embeddings for Vision-Based In-Hand Reorientation
Yashom Dighe, Karthik Dantu
2026