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MANIPULATION papers(59,358)
Clear ✕TaCauchy: An Extensible FEM Framework for Vision-Based Tactile Simulation
Hengfei Zhao, Yifan Xie, Junhao Gong +6 more
2026
Co-VLA: Coordination-Aware Structured Action Modeling for Dual-Arm Vision-Language-Action Systems
Yandong Wang, Jiaqian Yu, Xiongfeng Peng +8 more
2026
Efficiently Linking Real Scenes with Synthetic Data Generation for AI-based Cognitive Robotics and Computer Vision Applications
Paul Koch, Vivek Chavan, André Sers +4 more
2026
Finetuning Vision-Language-Action Models Requires Fewer Layers Than You Think
Gia-Binh Nguyen, Trong-Bao Ho, Thien-Loc Ha +17 more
2026
Frequency-Aware Flow Matching for Continuous and Consistent Robotic Action Generation
Jianing Guo, Fangzheng Chen, Zihao Mao +12 more
2026
EventVLA: Event-Driven Visual Evidence Memory for Long-Horizon Vision-Language-Action Policies
Ganlin Yang, Zhangzheng Tu, Yuqiang Yang +10 more
2026
ENPIRE: Agentic Robot Policy Self-Improvement in the Real World
Wenli Xiao, Jia Xie, Tonghe Zhang +14 more
2026
Evaluation of Augmented Reality-based Intuitive Interface for Robot-Assisted Transesophageal Echocardiography: A User Study
Xiu Zhang*, Matteo Di Mauro*, Sofia Breschi +4 more
2026
One-to-Two Acting: A Novel Framework for Single-arm Agent Action Expansion to Dual Arms
Youbin Yao, Nieqin Cao, Mingyan Li +3 more
2026
Perturbation-Based Uncertainty for Failure Detection in Vision-Language-Action Models
Yousung Lee, Dongsoo Har
2026
EquiVLA: A General Framework for Rotationally Equivariant Vision-Language-Action Models
Thien-Loc Ha, Quang-Tan Nguyen, Trong-Bao Ho +8 more
2026
Start Right, Arrive Right: Asynchronous Execution via Initial Noise Selection
Trong-Bao Ho, Quang-Tan Nguyen, Thien-Loc Ha +7 more
2026
Temporal Self-Imitation Learning
Yinsen Jia, Boyuan Chen
2026
Sliding mode control gain optimization for a robot arm manipulator using an improved stochastic framework.
Tahiri H, Tahiri MA, Sayyouri M +2 more
Scientific reports · 2026
Viola seed pod architecture shapes sequential, force-augmented pinching.
Kim C, Won J, Kim D +3 more
Science (New York, N.Y.) · 2026
DF-ExpEnse: Diffusion Filtered Exploration for Sample Efficient Finetuning
Calvin Luo, Chen Sun, Shuran Song
2026
Fail-RAG : A Retrieval Augmented Generation Informed Framework for Robot Failure Identification
Ameya Salvi, Jie Hu
2026
One Demo is Worth a Thousand Trajectories: Action-View Augmentation for Visuomotor Policies
Chuer Pan, Litian Liang, Dominik Bauer +4 more
2026
3D-DLP: Self-Supervised 3D Object-Centric Scene Representation Learning
Ellina Zhang, Madhaven Iyengar, Amir Zadeh +4 more
2026
Zero-Shot Long-Horizon Dexterous Manipulation via Multi-View 3D-Grounded VLM Reasoning
Jisoo Kim, Sangwon Baik, Taeksoo Kim +4 more
2026
Do as I Do: Dexterous Manipulation Data from Everyday Human Videos
Bhawna Paliwal, Haritheja Etukuru, William Liang +3 more
2026
Modeling Branches for Active Manipulation using Iterative Parameter Estimation
Madhav Rijal, Rashik Shrestha, Trevor Smith +1 more
2026
Seeing Through Occlusion: Deterministic Arm Kinematic Correction for Robot Teleoperation
Thomas M. Kwok, Nicholas Koenig, Yue Hu
2026
Mobile Pedipulation for Object Sliding via Hierarchical Control on a Wheeled Bipedal Robot
Yue Qin, Yulun Zhuang, Zelin Shen +1 more
2026