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Robotics Research Publications
An open index of robotics research papers, refreshed daily.
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MANIPULATION papers(5,629)
Clear ✕Coverage First Next Best View for Inspection of Cluttered Pipe Networks Using Mobile Manipulators
Joshua Raymond Bettles, Jiaxu Wu, Bruno Vilhena Adorno +2 more
2026
OGScene3D: Incremental Open-Vocabulary 3D Gaussian Scene Graph Mapping for Scene Understanding
Siting Zhu, Ziyun Lu, Guangming Wang +5 more
2026
MG-Grasp: Metric-Scale Geometric 6-DoF Grasping Framework with Sparse RGB Observations
Kangxu Wang, Siang Chen, Chenxing Jiang +3 more
2026
S-VAM: Shortcut Video-Action Model by Self-Distilling Geometric and Semantic Foresight
Haodong Yan, Zhide Zhong, Jiaguan Zhu +10 more
2026
Towards the Vision-Sound-Language-Action Paradigm: The HEAR Framework for Sound-Centric Manipulation
Chang Nie, Tianchen Deng, Guangming Wang +2 more
2026
PhysQuantAgent: An Inference Pipeline of Mass Estimation for Vision-Language Models
Hisayuki Yokomizo, Taiki Miyanishi, Yan Gang +3 more
2026
Large Reward Models: Generalizable Online Robot Reward Generation with Vision-Language Models
Yanru Wu, Weiduo Yuan, Ang Qi +3 more
2026
Ultrafast Sampling-based Kinodynamic Planning via Differential Flatness
Thai Duong, Clayton W. Ramsey, Zachary Kingston +2 more
2026
AsgardBench -- Evaluating Visually Grounded Interactive Planning Under Minimal Feedback
Andrea Tupini, Lars Liden, Reuben Tan +2 more
2026
FEEL (Force-Enhanced Egocentric Learning): A Dataset for Physical Action Understanding
Eadom Dessalene, Botao He, Michael Maynord +5 more
2026
Emergent Dexterity via Diverse Resets and Large-Scale Reinforcement Learning
Patrick Yin, Tyler Westenbroek, Zhengyu Zhang +9 more
2026
Simulation Distillation: Pretraining World Models in Simulation for Rapid Real-World Adaptation
Jacob Levy, Tyler Westenbroek, Kevin Huang +6 more
2026
You've Got a Golden Ticket: Improving Generative Robot Policies With A Single Noise Vector
Omkar Patil, Ondrej Biza, Thomas Weng +7 more
2026
Towards Generalizable Robotic Manipulation in Dynamic Environments
Heng Fang, Shangru Li, Shuhan Wang +3 more
2026
Look Before Acting: Enhancing Vision Foundation Representations for Vision-Language-Action Models
Yulin Luo, Hao Chen, Zhuangzhe Wu +10 more
2026
From Passive Observer to Active Critic: Reinforcement Learning Elicits Process Reasoning for Robotic Manipulation
Yibin Liu, Yaxing Lyu, Daqi Gao +5 more
2026
RoCo Challenge at AAAI 2026: Benchmarking Robotic Collaborative Manipulation for Assembly Towards Industrial Automation
Haichao Liu, Yuheng Zhou, Zhenyu Wu +14 more
2026
End-to-End Dexterous Grasp Learning from Single-View Point Clouds via a Multi-Object Scene Dataset
Tao Geng, Dapeng Yang, Ziwei Liu +6 more
2026
MoE-ACT: Scaling Multi-Task Bimanual Manipulation with Sparse Language-Conditioned Mixture-of-Experts Transformers
Kangjun Guo, Haichao Liu, Yanji Sun +3 more
2026
Coupled Particle Filters for Robust Affordance Estimation
Patrick Lowin, Vito Mengers, Oliver Brock
2026
ForceVLA2: Unleashing Hybrid Force-Position Control with Force Awareness for Contact-Rich Manipulation
Yang Li, Zhaxizhuoma, Hongru Jiang +11 more
2026
Master Micro Residual Correction with Adaptive Tactile Fusion and Force-Mixed Control for Contact-Rich Manipulation
Xingting Li, Yifan Xie, Han Liu +4 more
2026
Confusion-Aware In-Context-Learning for Vision-Language Models in Robotic Manipulation
Yayun He, Zuheng Kang, Botao Zhao +3 more
2026
AeroGrab: A Unified Framework for Aerial Grasping in Cluttered Environments
Shivansh Pratap Singh, Naveen Sudheer Nair, Samaksh Ujjawal +4 more
2026