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MANIPULATION papers(59,358)
Clear ✕MotionDisco: Motion Discovery for Extreme Humanoid Loco-Manipulation
Ilyass Taouil, Michal Ciebelski, Shafeef Omar +4 more
2026
L-SDPPO: Policy Optimization of Spiking Diffusion Policy for Intra-vehicular Robotic Manipulation
Liwen Zhang, Dong Zhou, Guanghui Sun +4 more
2026
Sample-efficient Low-level Motion Planning for Robotic Manipulation Tasks via Zero-shot Transfer Learning
Yuanzhi He, Victor Romero-Cano, José J. Patiño +3 more
2026
RealDexUMI: A Wearable Universal Manipulation Interface for Dexterous Robot Learning
Chaoyi Xu, Yixuan Jiang, Jiahui Huan +7 more
2026
DexFuture: Hierarchical Future-State Visuomotor Targeting for Bimanual Dexterous Tool Use
Runfa Blark Li, Kuang-Ting Tu, Nikola Raicevic +6 more
2026
Safe Embodied AI for Long-horizon Tasks: A Cross-layer Analysis of Robotic Manipulation
Dabin Kim, Daemin Park, Sangyub Lee +4 more
2026
Embodied Spatial Affordance: Spatial-Aware Affordance Learning for Embodied Navigation and Manipulation.
Hao X, Tang Y, Zhang L +5 more
IEEE transactions on image processing : a publication of the IEEE Signal Processing Society · 2026
Event-Triggered Predefined-Time-Synchronized Model Predictive Selective Impedance Control.
Xue J, Liang W, Xu Y +3 more
IEEE transactions on cybernetics · 2026
Self-adaptive Under actuated Biomimetic Soft Robotic Hand Exoskeleton to Improve dexterity and Grasping Capabilities.
Abdelhafiz MH, Spaich E, Dosen S +1 more
Bioinspiration & biomimetics · 2026
MoDex: A Diffusion Policy for Sequential Multi-Object Dexterous Grasping
Haofei Lu, Hongjia Liu, Yifei Dong +3 more
2026
Efficient Computation of Distance Functions for Navigation Vector Fields in Lie Groups
Vinicius M. Gonçalves, João Baião, Felipe Bartelt +4 more
2026
GRAIL: Generating Humanoid Loco-Manipulation from 3D Assets and Video Priors
Tianyi Xie, Haotian Zhang, Jinhyung Park +17 more
2026
Flash-WAM: Modality-Aware Distillation for World Action Models
Arman Akbari, Ci Zhang, Arash Akbari +6 more
2026
HapTile: A Haptic-Informed Vision-Tactile-Language-Action Dataset for Contact-Rich Imitation Learning
Amirhosein Alian, Yongqiang Zhao, Shiyi Gu +5 more
2026
Dream.exe: Can Video Generation Models Dream Executable Robot Manipulation?
Rui Zhao, Kaiming Yang, Jifeng Zhu +6 more
2026
Inverse Manipulation through Symbolic Planning and Residual Operator Learning
Yigit Yildirim, Giuseppe Rauso, Riccardo Caccavale +1 more
2026
SoftPINCH: EMG-Driven Soft Exoskeleton Assistance for Finger Flexion and Grasping
Nicklas Nikolaj Grønvall, Magnus Malthe Sigsgaard Nielsen, Xiaofeng Xiong +1 more
2026
A New Quaternion-Joint Cable-Driven Redundant Manipulator Configuration and its Control Through FABRIK and Residual Reinforcement Learning
Tanapath Pornthisan, Thanapat Kemthong, Thanyapisit Kangsathien +3 more
2026
Highly Programmable Liquid Crystalline Polyurethane/MXene Hybrids for Large-Strain, High-Work-Capacity Artificial Muscles.
Zhao YX, Yin X, Wang YK +3 more
Small (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) · 2026
TAMP-OS: An Open-Source Workflow for Tactile 3D-Printable Lithographs.
Gonzalez-Vazquez N, Faulkner R, Gamez V +4 more
Integrative and comparative biology · 2026
Adaptive super-twisting sliding mode control for robust tracking of wearable PAM-driven robotic manipulator.
Ezez SF, Tesfaye DG, Mohammed TK +2 more
Scientific reports · 2026
Universal bioinspired adhesives for arbitrary unknown surfaces toward dexterous robotic manipulation.
Wang D, Wei R, Zhang J +6 more
Microsystems & nanoengineering · 2026
Instant-Fold: In-Context Imitation Learning for Deformable Object Manipulation
Yilong Wang, Cheng Qian, Edward Johns
2026
What Are We Actually Benchmarking in Robot Manipulation?
Tianchong Jiang, Xiangshan Tan, Samuel Wheeler +3 more
2026