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MANIPULATION papers(59,358)
Clear ✕Dexterous Point Policy: Learning Point-based Dexterous Hand Policies from Human Demonstrations
Beomjun Kim, Seong Hyeon Park, Seunghoon Sim +3 more
2026
VeriSpace: Spatially Grounded Action Verification for Vision-Language-Action Models
Guiyu Zhao, Longteng Guo, Junyou Zhu +6 more
2026
UMI-Bench 1.0: An Open and Reproducible Real-World Benchmark for Tabletop Robotic Manipulation with UMI Data
Shi Jin, Yuntian Wang, Yuhui Duan +16 more
2026
Test-time Adversarial Takeover: A Real-time Hijacking Interface against Robotic Diffusion Policies
Zi Yin, Peilin Chai, Siyuan Huang +1 more
2026
HiMem-WAM: Hierarchical Memory-Gated World Action Models for Robotic Manipulation
Xiaoquan Sun, Ruijian Zhang, Chen Cao +12 more
2026
SARM2: Multi-Task Stage Aware Reward Modeling for Self Improving Robotic Manipulation
Qianzhong Chen, Hau Zheng, Justin Yu +8 more
2026
What Matters in Orchestrating Robot Policies: A Systematic Study of Hierarchical VLA Agents
Jiaheng Hu, Mohit Shridhar, Caden Lu +4 more
2026
A Robotic High-Throughput Grid-Search Platform for Mapping Phase Behavior in Triblock Copolymer-Homopolymer Blends.
Upreti S, Xu L, Moniruzzaman M +10 more
ACS nano · 2026
YUBI: Yielding Universal Bidigital Interface for Bimanual Dexterous Manipulation at Scale
Takehiko Ohkawa, Jumpei Arima, Yuki Noguchi +16 more
2026
What Demonstration Curation Metrics Do to Your Policy
Aarav Bedi
2026
Efficient-WAM: A 1B-Parameter World-Action Model with Low-Cost Future Imagination
Jiajun Li, Tiecheng Guo, Yifan Ye +9 more
2026
Robotic Nonprehensile Object Transportation with a Hanging Tray
Adam Heins, Angela P. Schoellig
2026
GHOST: Hierarchical Sub-Goal Policies for Generalizing Robot Manipulation
Sriram Krishna, Ben Eisner, Haotian Zhan +5 more
2026
MemoryVLA++: Temporal Modeling via Memory and Imagination in Vision-Language-Action Models
Hao Shi, Weiye Li, Bin Xie +6 more
2026
iMaC: Translating Actions into Motion and Contact Images for Embodied World Models
Zhenyu Wu, Xiuwei Xu, Yukun Zhou +8 more
2026
AHA-WAM:Asynchronous Horizon-Adaptive World-Action Modeling with Observation-Guided Context Routing
Jisong Cai, Long Ling, Shiwei Chu +10 more
2026
SynManDex: Synthesizing Human-like Dexterous Grasps from Synthetic Human Pre-Grasps
Yanming Shao, Zanxin Chen, Wenwei Lin +5 more
2026
AetheRock: An Arm-Worn Robot Teaching System for Force-Guided Vision-Tactile Learning
Hong Li, Yue Xu, Yihan Tang +8 more
2026
Difference-Aware Retrieval Policies for Imitation Learning
Quinn Pfeifer, Ethan Pronovost, Paarth Shah +3 more
2026
Your Model Already Knows: Attention-Guided Safety Filter for Vision-Language-Action Models
Seongbin Park, Fan Zhang, Baharan Mirzasoleiman +2 more
2026
ProbeAct: Probe-Guided Training-Free Failure Recovery in Vision-Language-Action Models
Fan Zhang, Seongbin Park, Baharan Mirzasoleiman +2 more
2026
Physics-Aware Sparse Learning and Selective Online Adaptation for Euler-Lagrange Robot Dynamics
Rishabh Dev Yadav, Samaksh Ujjawal, Sihao Sun +2 more
2026
ReCoVLA: VLM-Guided Reward Compilation for Failure Recovery in Vision-Language-Action Policies
Haodi Hu, Chung-Ta Huang, Jing Liu +4 more
2026
DexPIE: Stable Dexterous Policy Improvement from Real-World Experience
Ruizhe Liao, Wenrui Chen, Liangji Zeng +4 more
2026