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MANIPULATION papers(59,358)
Clear ✕RoboProcessBench: Benchmarking Process-Aware Understanding in Vision-Language Robotic Manipulation
Dayu Xia, Yue Shi, Yao Mu +7 more
2026
GenHOI: Contact-Aware Humanoid-Object Interaction by Imitating Generated Videos without Task-Specific Training
Zhihai Bi, Qiang Zhang, Guoyang Zhao +8 more
2026
SERF: Spatiotemporal Environment and Robot Feature Map for Long-Horizon Mobile Manipulation
Sunghwan Kim, Byeonghyun Pak, Kehan Long +2 more
2026
Towards Reliable Sequential Object Picking in Clutter: The Runner-up Solution to RGMC 2025
Wei Yu, Xidan Zhang, Ziyi Zheng +2 more
2026
An Embodied Simulation Platform, Benchmark, and Data-Efficient Augmentation Framework for Wet-Lab Robotics
Zhe Liu, Huanbo Jin, Zhaohui Du +8 more
2026
Bounding Boxes as Goals: Language-Conditioned Grasping via Neuro-Symbolic Planning
Allison Andreyev, Landon Eum, Nestor Tiglao +1 more
2026
AIR-VLA+: Decoupling Movement and Manipulation via Cascaded Dual-Action Decoders with Asymmetric MoE for Aerial Robots
Jianli Sun, Bin Tian, Qiyao Zhang +6 more
2026
Sparse2Act: Learning Action-Aligned Sparse 3D Representations for Cross-Domain Robot Manipulation
Yu Guo, Chang Yu, Siyu Ma +4 more
2026
EquiDexFlow: Contact-Grounded SE(3)-Equivariant Dexterous Grasp Generative Flows
Clinton Enwerem, John S. Baras, Calin Belta
2026
EgoEngine: From Egocentric Human Videos to High-Fidelity Dexterous Robot Demonstrations
Yangcen Liu, Shuo Cheng, Xinchen Yin +6 more
2026
World Pilot: Steering Vision-Language-Action Models with World-Action Priors
Zefu Lin, Rongxu Cui, Junjia Xu +4 more
2026
DIRECT: When and Where Should You Allocate Test-Time Compute in Embodied Planners?
Jadelynn Dao, Milan Ganai, Yasmina Abukhadra +7 more
2026
UniIntervene: Agentic Intervention for Efficient Real-World Reinforcement Learning
Haoyuan Deng, Yitong Gao, Yudong Lin +3 more
2026
APT: Action Expert Pretraining Improves Instruction Generalization of Vision-Language-Action Policies
Kechun Xu, Zhenjie Zhu, Anzhe Chen +2 more
2026
Fourier Features Let Agents Learn High Precision Policies with Imitation Learning
Balázs Gyenes, Emiliyan Gospodinov, Jan Frieling +5 more
2026
Making Foresight Actionable: Repurposing Representation Alignment in World Action Models
Lu Qiu, Yizhuo Li, Yi Chen +3 more
2026
Intelligent Automation for Embodied Benchmark Construction: Pipelines, Embodiments, Simulators, and Trends
Jinshan Lai, Jianwei Hu, Baoyang Jiang +7 more
2026
Bridging the Morphology Gap: Adapting VLA Models to Dexterous Manipulation via Intent-Conditioned Fine-Tuning
Chuanke Pang, Junyi Huang, Zhijun Zhao +3 more
2026
DAM-VLA: Decoupled Asynchronous Multimodal Vision Language Action model
Pankhuri Vanjani, Zhuoyue Li, Jakub Suliga +4 more
2026
Action-Effect Memory Pretraining for Robot Manipulation
Yijing Zhou, Qiwei Liang, Sitong Zhuang +5 more
2026
$μ$VLA: On Recurrent Memory for Partially Observable Manipulation in VLA Models
Egor Cherepanov, Nikita Kachaev, Daniil Zelezetsky +6 more
2026
VICX: Generalizable Robot Manipulation via Video Generation and In-Context Operator Network
Song Chen, Linyan Xiang, Ying Zhou +1 more
2026
Learning Unions of Convex Sets via Invertible Latent Decomposition for Path Planning
Taerim Yoon, Dongho Kang, Kisang Park +3 more
2026
PAWS: Preference Learning with Advantage-Weighted Segments
Aleksandar Taranovic, Onur Celik, Niklas Freymuth +6 more
2026