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MANIPULATION papers(59,358)
Clear ✕Implicit Drifting Policy: One-Step Action Generation via Conditional Expert Geometry
Zemin Yang, Yaoyu He, Yiming Zhong +5 more
2026
Beyond Task Success: Behavioral and Representational Diagnostics for WAM and VLA
Hung Mai, Bin Zhu, Tuan Do
2026
Expanding Spatial and Temporal Context for Robotic Imitation Learning With Scene Graphs
Jianing Qian, Qinhe Peng, Emmanuel Panov +4 more
2026
Learning Multi-Modal Trajectory Policies for Data-Efficient Robotic Manipulation
Zijia Chen, Yuenan Hou, Xinhua Jiang +3 more
2026
GraspGen-X: Cross-Embodiment 6-DOF Diffusion-based Grasping
Beining Han, Yu-Wei Chao, Erwin Coumans +5 more
2026
Make Your VLA More Robust Without More Data By Interleaving Motion Planning
Dan BW Choe, Sundhar Vinodh Sangeetha, Samuel Coogan +1 more
2026
Threading Optimization for Vision-Language-Action Model Inference in Low-Cost Smart Agricultural Manipulation
Keith Truongcao, Christopher Nhu, Zijian An +3 more
2026
SafeVLA-Bench: A Benchmark for the Success-Safety Gap in Vision-Language-Action Models
Jialiang Fan, Weizhe Xu, Oleg Sokolsky +2 more
2026
SKIP: Sparse Keyframe Interpolation Paradigm for Efficient Embodied World Models
Ziheng He, Yixiang Chen, Ning Yang +11 more
2026
Dynamic Resilient Spatio-Semantic Memory with Hybrid Localization for Mobile Manipulation
Zhijie Yan, Shufei Li, Ze Zhang +3 more
2026
A Four-Tier Communication Architecture and Sim-to-Real Validation of a Graphical Open-Source Platform for Robotic Engineering Education
Thien Tran, Khang Duong, Minh Tran +3 more
2026
PACE: Phase-Aware Chunk Execution for Robot Policies with Action Chunking
Junnan Nie, Jiayi Li, Jiachen Zhang +4 more
2026
PaCo-VLA: Passivity-Shielded Compliance Prior for Contact-Rich Vision-Language-Action Manipulation
Haofan Cao, Zhaoyang Li, Zhichao You +2 more
2026
A passive universal grasping mechanism based on an everting shell
Mythra V. S. Balakuntala, Safvan Palathingal, G. K. Ananthasuresh
2026
ROG-Grasp: Root-Oriented Geometry for Robotic Grasping and Placement
Zijian An, Augustus Sroka, Ran Yang +8 more
2026
SoFiE: Soft Finger Exoskeleton for Intelligent Grasping
Magnus Malthe Sigsgaard Nielsen, Nicklas Nikolaj Grønvall, Xiaofeng Xiong +1 more
2026
Behavior Cloning of MPC for 3-DOF Robotic Manipulators
Theo Guegan, Dexter Wen Jie Teo
2026
StressDream: Steering Video World Models for Robust Policy Evaluation and Improvement
Junwon Seo, Sushant Veer, Ran Tian +6 more
2026
Per-Group Error, Not Total MSE: Fine-Tuning Vision-Language-Action Models for 11-DoF Mobile Manipulation
Pau Montagut Bofi, Mario García Blasco, Tessa Pulli +1 more
2026
Cuttlebot: a platform demonstration for complex, autonomous, bio-inspired swimmers
Alexander Nicholas White, Ang Leo Li, Alexander Yin +5 more
2026
Learning Controlled Separation of Small Objects Between Two Fingers with a Tactile Skin
Ulf Kasolowsky, Berthold Bäuml
2026
Batched Differentiable Rigid Body Dynamics in PyTorch for GPU-Accelerated Robot Learning
Yue Wang, Yanran Xu, Wenbo Wu +2 more
2026
Adaptive Artificial Time-Delay Control with Barrier Lyapunov Constraints for Euler-Lagrange Robots
Saksham Gupta, Rishabh Dev Yadav, Sarthak Mishra +5 more
2026
Learning Terrain-Aware Whole-Body Control for Perceptive Legged Loco-Manipulation
Sikai Guo, Yudong Zhong, Guoyang Zhao +3 more
2026