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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 ✕Stein Variational Ergodic Surface Coverage with SE(3) Constraints
Jiayun Li, Yufeng Jin, Sangli Teng +2 more
2026
From Flow to One Step: Real-Time Multi-Modal Trajectory Policies via Implicit Maximum Likelihood Estimation-based Distribution Distillation
Ju Dong, Liding Zhang, Lei Zhang +7 more
2026
CORAL: Scalable Multi-Task Robot Learning via LoRA Experts
Yuankai Luo, Woping Chen, Tong Liang +1 more
2026
See, Plan, Rewind: Progress-Aware Vision-Language-Action Models for Robust Robotic Manipulation
Tingjun Dai, Mingfei Han, Tingwen Du +5 more
2026
GST-VLA: Structured Gaussian Spatial Tokens for 3D Depth-Aware Vision-Language-Action Models
Md Selim Sarowar, Omer Tariq, Sungho Kim
2026
PlayWorld: Learning Robot World Models from Autonomous Play
Tenny Yin, Zhiting Mei, Zhonghe Zheng +8 more
2026
Characterization, Analytical Planning, and Hybrid Force Control for the Inspire RH56DFX Hand
Xuan Tan, William Xie, Nikolaus Correll
2026
FAME: Force-Adaptive RL for Expanding the Manipulation Envelope of a Full-Scale Humanoid
Niraj Pudasaini, Yutong Zhang, Jensen Lavering +2 more
2026
Exp-Force: Experience-Conditioned Pre-Grasp Force Selection with Vision-Language Models
Siqi Shang, Minchao Huang, Bill Fan +1 more
2026
OmniGuide: Universal Guidance Fields for Enhancing Generalist Robot Policies
Yunzhou Song, Long Le, Yong-Hyun Park +7 more
2026
Diff-Muscle: Efficient Learning for Musculoskeletal Robotic Table Tennis
Wentao Zhao, Jun Guo, Kangyao Huang +2 more
2026
Bilevel Planning with Learned Symbolic Abstractions from Interaction Data
Fatih Dogangun, Burcu Kilic, Serdar Bahar +1 more
2026
MetaWorld-X: Hierarchical World Modeling via VLM-Orchestrated Experts for Humanoid Loco-Manipulation
Yutong Shen, Hangxu Liu, Penghui Liu +6 more
2026
CONTACT: CONtact-aware TACTile Learning for Robotic Disassembly
Yosuke Saka, Jyun-Chi Hu, Adeesh Desai +6 more
2026
EquiBim: Learning Symmetry-Equivariant Policy for Bimanual Manipulation
Zhiyuan Zhang, Aditya Mohan, Seungho Han +3 more
2026
AtomVLA: Scalable Post-Training for Robotic Manipulation via Predictive Latent World Models
Xiaoquan Sun, Zetian Xu, Chen Cao +9 more
2026
Tactile Recognition of Both Shapes and Materials with Automatic Feature Optimization-Enabled Meta Learning
Hongliang Zhao, Wenhui Yang, Yang Chen +3 more
2026
StructBiHOI: Structured Articulation Modeling for Long--Horizon Bimanual Hand--Object Interaction Generation
Zhi Wang, Liu Liu, Ruonan Liu +2 more
2026
MoMaStage: Skill-State Graph Guided Planning and Closed-Loop Execution for Long-Horizon Indoor Mobile Manipulation
Chenxu Li, Zixuan Chen, Yetao Li +5 more
2026
$Δ$VLA: Prior-Guided Vision-Language-Action Models via World Knowledge Variation
Yijie Zhu, Jie He, Rui Shao +4 more
2026
PhaForce: Phase-Scheduled Visual-Force Policy Learning with Slow Planning and Fast Correction for Contact-Rich Manipulation
Mingxin Wang, Zhirun Yue, Renhao Lu +7 more
2026
SAIL: Test-Time Scaling for In-Context Imitation Learning with VLM
Makoto Sato, Yusuke Iwasawa, Yujin Tang +1 more
2026
FlowTouch: View-Invariant Visuo-Tactile Prediction
Seongjin Bien, Carlo Kneissl, Tobias Jülg +6 more
2026
TRIAGE: Type-Routed Interventions via Aleatoric-Epistemic Gated Estimation in Robotic Manipulation and Adaptive Perception -- Don't Treat All Uncertainty the Same
Divake Kumar, Sina Tayebati, Devashri Naik +4 more
2026