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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 ✕SaPaVe: Towards Active Perception and Manipulation in Vision-Language-Action Models for Robotics
Mengzhen Liu, Enshen Zhou, Cheng Chi +6 more
2026
ComFree-Sim: A GPU-Parallelized Analytical Contact Physics Engine for Scalable Contact-Rich Robotics Simulation and Control
Chetan Borse, Zhixian Xie, Wei-Cheng Huang +1 more
2026
EgoIntent: An Egocentric Step-level Benchmark for Understanding What, Why, and Next
Ye Pan, Chi Kit Wong, Yuanhuiyi Lyu +6 more
2026
Cross-Domain Policy Optimization via Bellman Consistency and Hybrid Critics
Ming-Hong Chen, Kuan-Chen Pan, You-De Huang +2 more
2026
Ada3Drift: Adaptive Training-Time Drifting for One-Step 3D Visuomotor Robotic Manipulation
Chongyang Xu, Yixian Zou, Ziliang Feng +2 more
2026
RADAR: Closed-Loop Robotic Data Generation via Semantic Planning and Autonomous Causal Environment Reset
Yongzhong Wang, Keyu Zhu, Yong Zhong +3 more
2026
COTONET: A custom cotton detection algorithm based on YOLO11 for stage of growth cotton boll detection
Guillem González, Guillem Alenyà, Sergi Foix
2026
Concurrent Prehensile and Nonprehensile Manipulation: A Practical Approach to Multi-Stage Dexterous Tasks
Hao Jiang, Yue Wu, Yue Wang +2 more
2026
Learn Structure, Adapt on the Fly: Multi-Scale Residual Learning and Online Adaptation for Aerial Manipulators
Samaksh Ujjawal, Naveen Sudheer Nair, Shivansh Pratap Singh +3 more
2026
Diversity You Can Actually Measure: A Fast, Model-Free Diversity Metric for Robotics Datasets
Sreevardhan Sirigiri, Nathan Samuel de Lara, Christopher Agia +2 more
2026
RoboClaw: An Agentic Framework for Scalable Long-Horizon Robotic Tasks
Ruiying Li, Yunlang Zhou, YuYao Zhu +15 more
2026
A Generalized Theory of Load Distribution in Redundantly-actuated Robotic Systems
Joshua Flight, Clément Gosselin
2026
Grounding Robot Generalization in Training Data via Retrieval-Augmented VLMs
Jensen Gao, Dorsa Sadigh, Sandy Huang +1 more
2026
Seeing Isn't Orienting: A Cognitively Grounded Benchmark Reveals Systematic Orientation Failures in MLLMs Supplementary
Nazia Tasnim, Keanu Nichols, Yuting Yang +4 more
2026
Deployment-Time Reliability of Learned Robot Policies
Christopher Agia
2026
PPGuide: Steering Diffusion Policies with Performance Predictive Guidance
Zixing Wang, Devesh K. Jha, Ahmed H. Qureshi +1 more
2026
Learning Adaptive Force Control for Contact-Rich Sample Scraping with Heterogeneous Materials
Cenk Cetin, Shreyas Pouli, Gabriella Pizzuto
2026
Contact Coverage-Guided Exploration for General-Purpose Dexterous Manipulation
Zixuan Liu, Ruoyi Qiao, Chenrui Tie +5 more
2026
A gripper for flap separation and opening of sealed bags
Sergi Foix, Jaume Oriol, Carme Torras +1 more
2026
FG-CLTP: Fine-Grained Contrastive Language Tactile Pretraining for Robotic Manipulation
Wenxuan Ma, Chaofan Zhang, Yinghao Cai +3 more
2026
COT-FM: Cluster-wise Optimal Transport Flow Matching
Chiensheng Chiang, Kuan-Hsun Tu, Jia-Wei Liao +2 more
2026
FutureVLA: Joint Visuomotor Prediction for Vision-Language-Action Model
Xiaoxu Xu, Hao Li, Jinhui Ye +7 more
2026
Cybo-Waiter: A Physical Agentic Framework for Humanoid Whole-Body Locomotion-Manipulation
Peng Ren, Haoyang Ge, Chuan Qi +5 more
2026
AdaClearGrasp: Learning Adaptive Clearing for Zero-Shot Robust Dexterous Grasping in Densely Cluttered Environments
Zixuan Chen, Wenquan Zhang, Jing Fang +7 more
2026