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MANIPULATION papers(59,358)
Clear ✕Coarse-to-Control: Action-Token Planning for Vision-Language-Action Models
Jinhao Wu, Shiduo Zhang, Yicheng Liu +9 more
2026
LARA: Latent Action Representation Alignment for Vision-Language-Action Models
Mengya Liu, Baoxiong Jia, Jiangyong Huang +2 more
2026
Dreaming when Necessary: Advancing World Action Models with Adaptive Multi-Modal Reasoning
Yinzhou Tang, Jingbo Xu, Yu Shang +4 more
2026
Task Editing for Generalizable 3D Visuomotor Policy Learning
Jian-Jian Jiang, YiHan Yang, Lan Wei +6 more
2026
GenPO++: Generative Policy Optimization with Jacobian-free Likelihood Ratios
Ke Hu, Shutong Ding, Panxin Tao +2 more
2026
ActionMap: Robot Policy Learning via Voxel Action Heatmap
Pei Yang, Hai Ci, Yanzhe Chen +3 more
2026
A Cross-view Fusion Framework for Robust 6-DoF Grasp Pose Estimation
Kangjian Zhu, Haobo Jiang, Jianjun Qian +1 more
2026
Neuro-Symbolic Learning for Long-Horizon Task Planning Under Complex Logical Constraints
Qiwei Du, Zitong Zhan, Shaoshu Su +7 more
2026
What Is My Robot Thinking? Design Considerations for Transparent and Trustworthy Shared Autonomy
Atharv Belsare, Zohre Karimi, Connor Mattson +2 more
2026
STRIPS-WM: Learning Grounded Propositional STRIPS-style World Models from Images
Abhiroop Ajith, Constantinos Chamzas
2026
Bioinspired spatiotemporal control of microhelix formation and actuation.
Hu X, Greenvall BR, Chia E +3 more
Science advances · 2026
Architecting three-dimensional reconfigurable matter from pop-up kirigami with programmable multistability.
Zhou T, Huang C, Zhao H +4 more
Science advances · 2026
Multidimensional evaluation of a two-level-of-compliance quasi-passive prosthetic wrist: functional, biomechanical, cognitive and user-experience outcomes in trans-radial limb loss.
Braccili E, Anastasi D, Zimei E +5 more
Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation · 2026
AxisGuide: Grounding Robot Action Coordinate System in RGB Observations for Robust Visuomotor Manipulation
Jiyun Jang, Yujin Sung, Woosung Joung +5 more
2026
Optimal Control Approach for Non-prehensile Ball Juggling Using a 7-DoF Manipulator
Joel Ramadani, Vasilije Rakčević, Riddhiman Laha +4 more
2026
AEGIS: A Backup Reflex for Physical AI
Josef Chen
2026
What Matters When Cotraining Robot Manipulation Policies on Everyday Human Videos?
Richard Li, Aditya Prakash, Andrew Wen +3 more
2026
HANDOFF: Humanoid Agentic Task-Space Whole-Body Control via Distilled Complementary Teachers
Lizhi Yang, Junheng Li, Nehar Poddar +5 more
2026
TempoVLA: Learning Speed-Controllable Vision-Language-Action Policies
Dong Jing, Jingchen Nie, Tianqi Zhang +4 more
2026
PhyRoGen: Synthetic Generation of Physical Robot Manipulation Puzzles Using Procedural Content Generation
Lennart Julian Droß, Andreas Orthey, Marc Toussaint
2026
Synthetic Data Generation and Vision-based Wrinkle and Keypoint Detection for Bimanual Cloth Manipulation
Ariel Herrera, Xueyang Kang, Atal Anil Kumar
2026
Multi-Resolution Tactile Imitation Learning for Contact-Rich Robotic Manipulation
Rickmer Krohn, Erik Helmut, Niklas Funk +3 more
2026
ActiveMimic: Egocentric Video Pretraining with Active Perception
Xingyao Lin, Guojin Zhong, Tianyi Lu +4 more
2026
AffordanceVLA: A Vision-Language-Action Model Empowering Action Generation through Affordance-Aware Understanding
Qize Yu, Jiadi You, Yuran Wang +10 more
2026