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MANIPULATION papers(59,358)
Clear ✕CT-VAM: A Cerebello-Thalamic-Inspired Vision-Action Model for Efficient Visuomotor Control
Jiacheng Li, Yize Guo, Jiabin Guo +2 more
2026
Dense Force Estimation with an Event-based Optical Tactile Sensor
Agis Politis, René Zurbrügg, Valentina Cavinato
2026
ReGIL: Retrieval-Guided Imitation Learning from a Single Demonstration
Yuying Zhang, Francesco Verdoja, Wenyan Yang +1 more
2026
TORL-VLA: Tactile Guided Online Reinforcement Learning for Contact-Rich Manipulation
Huaihang Zheng, Yi Yang, Kai Ma +8 more
2026
KPGrasp: Scalable Keypoint Flow Matching for Dexterous Grasp Generation
Yuansen Huang, Jiayi Chen, Haoran Liu +6 more
2026
Back to the Familiar Future: Failure Recovery for VLA Policies via Pre-Imagined Milestone Selection
Suyeon Shin, Juwon Kim, Hyeonbin Park +4 more
2026
EgoTactile: Learning Grasp Pressure for Everyday Objects from Egocentric Video
Yuan Zeng, Yujia Shi, Tiao Tan +6 more
2026
MotionWAM: Towards Foundation World Action Models for Real-Time Humanoid Loco-Manipulation
Jia Zheng, Teli Ma, Yudong Fan +3 more
2026
EPS3D: End-to-End Feed-Forward 3D Panoptic Segmentation
Runsong Zhu, Jiaxin Guo, Xiaoyang Guo +9 more
2026
Benchmarking Vision-Language-Action Models on SO-101: Failure and Recovery Analysis
Yi Yu, Xinchuan Qiu
2026
Video2Sim2Real: Full-Stack Autonomous Dexterous Skill Acquisition from a Single Human Video
Yunhai Han, Jianuo Qiu, Linhao Bai +14 more
2026
Unifying Object-Centric World Models and Diffusion Policy: A Hierarchical Framework for Multi-Stage Robotic Tasks
Raktim Gautam Goswami, Prashanth Krishnamurthy, Yann LeCun +1 more
2026
RGB-S: Image-Aligned Tactile Saliency for Robust Dexterous Manipulation
Shengcheng Luo, Kefei Wu, Xiaoying Zhou +3 more
2026
Guided Discovery of New Behaviors using Diffusion Policies
Dian Yu, Sebastian Sanokowski, Majid Khadiv
2026
Dream-Tac: A Unified Tactile World Action Model for Contact-Rich Robot Manipulation
Yunfan Lou, Yifan Ye, Yankai Fu +7 more
2026
Latent Diffusion Policy: Shaping Latent Spaces for Diffusion-Based Robotic Manipulation
Zhexuan Zhou, Yichen Lai, Jinhao Zhang +3 more
2026
HARBOR: A Harness Framework for Agentic Robot Reinforcement Learning
Zechu Li, Yufeng Jin, Xiaoyang Liu +4 more
2026
Reinforcement Learning for Flow-Matching Policies with Density Transport
Boshu Lei, Kostas Daniilidis, Antonio Loquercio
2026
Real-IKEA: Physical Fidelity is the Prerequisite for Robust Manipulation
Kunqi Xu, Zhenhao Huang, Siyuan Luo +2 more
2026
FAWAM: Force-Aware World Action Models for Closed-Loop Contact-Rich Manipulation
Haotian He, Zeyu Yan, Qipeng Liu +2 more
2026
When Video Misreads: Closed-Loop Distillation of Reading Heuristics for Exploratory Manipulation Trace QA
Haizhou Ge, Yufei Jia, Yue Li +5 more
2026
Autonomous Aerial Manipulation via Contextual Contrastive Meta Reinforcement Learning
Lixuan Jin, Bingxuan Lan, Xinyi Bao +9 more
2026
GEAR-VLA: Learning Geometry-Aware Action Representations for Generalizable Robotic Manipulation
Yuan Zhang, Shiqi Zhang, Yedong Shen +11 more
2026
GraspFoM: Towards Reconstruction-Driven Robotic Grasping with 3D Foundation Priors
Dongli Wu, Xiaobao Wei, Hao Wang +5 more
2026