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MANIPULATION papers(59,358)
Clear ✕DLO-Lab: Benchmarking Deformable Linear Object Manipulations with Differentiable Physics
Junyi Cao, Yian Wang, Ziyan Xiong +3 more
2026
Affordance2Action: Task-Conditioned Scene-level Affordance Grounding for Real-Time Manipulation
Litao Liu, Yifan Han, Pengfei Yi +9 more
2026
SimuScene: Simulation-Ready Compositional 3D Scene Reconstruction from a Single Image
Inhee Lee, Sangwon Baik, Sungjoo Kim +3 more
2026
Preference-Calibrated Human-in-the-Loop Reinforcement Learning for Robotic Manipulation
Zeyi Liu, Guangyao Liu, Yinuo Qu +6 more
2026
PointAction: 3D Points as Universal Action Representations for Robot Control
Mutian Tong, Han Jiang, Qiao Feng +2 more
2026
WorkBenchMark: A LEGO-Based Assembly Benchmark with an Assembly-by-Disassembly Baseline for the Smart Manufacturing League
Wenbo Ma, Daniel Swoboda, Matteo Tschesche +1 more
2026
Unified Video-Action Joint Denoising for Dexterous Action and Data Generation
Dingrui Wang, YuAn Wang, Jinkun Liu +4 more
2026
Denoising Tells When to Replan: Denoising-Variance Adaptive Chunking for Flow-Based Robot Policies
Xiangdong Feng, Yuxuan Cheng, Chen Shi +5 more
2026
Optimal Design and Analytical Modeling of a Soft Fin-Ray Effect Gripper Finger Using the Finite Rigid Elements Method
Sara Adeli, Hassan Sayyaadi
2026
Revisiting Embodied Chain-of-Thought for Generalizable Robot Manipulation
Nan Sun, Yuan Zhang, Yongkun Yang +10 more
2026
PHASER: Phase-Aware and Semantic Experience Replay for Vision-Language-Action Models
Ziyang Chen, Shaoguang Wang, Weiyu Guo +5 more
2026
Static and Dynamic Representations for Tactile Contact-Angle Estimation with Event-Based Sensors
Yanhui Lu, Efi Psomopoulou, Benjamin Ward-Cherrier
2026
OpenEAI-Platform: An Open-source Embodied Artificial Intelligence Hardware-Software Unified Platform
Jinyuan Zhang, Luoyi Fan, Leiyu Wang +4 more
2026
Extreme Motion Generation via Hybrid Null-Space Control for Straight-Line Path Following
Xinyi Yuan, Weiwei Wan, Kensuke Harada
2026
Grasp-Then-Plan with Failure Attribution: A Closed Two-Stage Framework for Precise and Generalizable Robotic Manipulation
Jiahao Xu, Peiyuan Wang, Hanzhuo Zhang +7 more
2026
GPU-Parallel Multi-Task Reinforcement Learning with Demonstration Guided Policy Optimization
Rui Zhang, Qiwei Wu, Zhengyu Zhang +5 more
2026
SplitAdapter: Load-Aware Humanoid Loco-Manipulation via Factorized Adaptation
Jeonguk Kang, Hanbyel Cho, Sanghyun Kang +1 more
2026
Dive into the Scene: Breaking the Perceptual Bottleneck in Vision-Language Decision Making via Focus Plan Generation
Boyuan Xiao, Bohong Chen, Yumeng Li +3 more
2026
EaDex: A Cross-Embodiment Dexterous Manipulation Framework from Low-Cost Demonstrations
Qian Zhao, Xin Tong, Chengdong Wu +2 more
2026
GeoAlign: Beyond Semantics with State-Guided Spatial Alignment in VLA Models
Yizhi Chen, Zhanxiang Cao, Xinyi Peng +14 more
2026
Toward Gripper-Integrated Active Electrosense for Pre-Contact Sensing in Underwater Soft Grippers
Ahsan Tanveer, Muhammad Hamza, Waqar Hussain Afridi +2 more
2026
ConTrack: Constrained Hand Motion Tracking with Adaptive Trade-off Control
Yutong Liang, Quanquan Peng, Ri-Zhao Qiu +1 more
2026
How Visible Are Silent Manipulation Failures? An Observability Study of False-Success Detection in Simulated Robot Episodes
Aarav Bedi
2026
TTT-VLA: Test-Time Latent Prompt Optimization for Vision-Language-Action Models
Wenbo Zhang, Jianxiong Li, Shuai Yang +4 more
2026