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MANIPULATION papers(59,358)
Clear ✕Rotation-Aware Point-Cloud Embeddings for Vision-Based In-Hand Reorientation
Yashom Dighe, Karthik Dantu
2026
Shape-programmable Magnetic Soft Membranes for Mechanically Active Microchannels
Direnc Akyildiz, Fatih Kocabas, Xiangyi Tan +1 more
2026
Imitation from Heterogeneous Demonstrations using Grounded Latent-Action World Models
Tianyou Wang, Anson Lei, Joe Watson +1 more
2026
VQActFlow: Vector-Quantized Action Mode Steering for Multi-Task Robot Manipulation
Zhigen Zhao, Mark Leggiero, Yipu Chen +5 more
2026
Robot Critics that Sweat the Small Stuff
Sruthi Sudhakar, Junbang Liang, Sreehari Rammohan +3 more
2026
UniviewVLA: A Unified Multiview Vision-Language-Action Model with World Modeling
Tao Xu, Runhao Zhang, Zhijian Huang +7 more
2026
Decoupling the Declarative from the Procedural in Vision-Language-Action Models
Nikolaos Tsagkas, Andreas Sochopoulos, Chris Xiaoxuan Lu +2 more
2026
ASCII Art Turns LLMs into VLA Controllers
Yitao Jiang, Roy Xing, Luyang Zhao +3 more
2026
Manipulider: A Multi-Engine Buoyancy-Controlled Robot for Thrusterless Underwater Gliding and Manipulation
Yitao Jiang, Yewei Huang, Weizhi Cao +5 more
2026
Robot Self-Improvement via Human-Video Dynamics Models
Hanzhi Chen, Anran Zhang, Simon Schaefer +5 more
2026
VLA-FAIL: Efficient Task Failure Detection for Finetuned Vision-Language-Action Models
Florian Seligmann, Emiliyan Gospodinov, Enes Ulas Dincer +1 more
2026
NAC: Neural Action Codec for Vision-Language-Action Models
Ahad Jawaid, Yu Xiang
2026
A Human-Inspired Thumb-Index Robotic Hand with Strain Gauges Embedded in Soft Joints
Jonas Papenbrock, Shubhan Patni, Tomaso Lisini Baldi +4 more
2026
Remember what you did?: Learning Behavioral Memories for Partially Observable Object Manipulation
Kuancheng Wang, Seungho Yeom, Jinglin Cao +3 more
2026
Pose-Agnostic Robotic Functional Grasping via Observation-Action Canonicalization
Le Qiu, Cole Harrison, Jiankai Sun +5 more
2026
Factor-Aware Mixture-of-Experts with Pretrained Encoder for Combinatorial Generalization
Feihong Zhang, Guojian Zhan, Zeyu He +8 more
2026
MV-WAM: Manifold-Aware World Action Model with Value Augmentation
Jintao Chen, Peidong Jia, Qingpo Wuwu +13 more
2026
BayesFP: Posterior Estimation for Flow-Based Policies via Feynman-Kac Sampling
Sreevardhan Sirigiri, Weiming Zhi, Fabio Ramos
2026
R2HandoverSim: A Simulation Framework and Benchmark for Robot-to-Human Object Handovers
Hanxin Zhang, Abdulqader Dhafer, Hongbiao Dong +1 more
2026
Inductive Generalization for Robotic Manipulation
Annabella Macaluso, Haochen Zhang, Ishaan Masilamony +2 more
2026
Magnetorheological phase-change McKibben actuators for frequency-controlled actuation and high force output.
Gupta D, Santapuri S
Scientific reports · 2026
Geometric Entropy: When Trajectory Diversity Helps and Hurts in Imitation Learning
Qian Luo, Ruizhe Liu, Pei Zhou +2 more
2026
MemoryWAM: Efficient World Action Modeling with Persistent Memory
Sizhe Yang, Juncheng Mu, Tianming Wei +8 more
2026
Generating Robot Hands from Human Demonstrations
Sha Yi, Nicklas Hansen, Xueqian Bai +3 more
2026