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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 ✕Foundational World Models Accurately Detect Bimanual Manipulator Failures
Isaac R. Ward, Michelle Ho, Houjun Liu +7 more
2026
Is Your Safe Controller Actually Safe? A Critical Review of CBF Tautologies and Hidden Assumptions
Taekyung Kim
2026
MotionBits: Video Segmentation through Motion-Level Analysis of Rigid Bodies
Howard H. Qian, Kejia Ren, Yu Xiang +2 more
2026
Learning-Based Robust Control: Unifying Exploration and Distributional Robustness for Reliable Robotics via Free Energy
Hozefa Jesawada, Giovanni Russo, Abdalla Swikir +1 more
2026
Uncertainty-Aware Adaptive Dynamics For Underwater Vehicle-Manipulator Robots
Edward Morgan, Nenyi K Dadson, Corina Barbalata
2026
Unified Learning of Temporal Task Structure and Action Timing for Bimanual Robot Manipulation
Christian Dreher, Patrick Dormanns, Andre Meixner +1 more
2026
Stability-Guided Exploration for Diverse Motion Generation
Eckart Cobo-Briesewitz, Tilman Burghoff, Denis Shcherba +2 more
2026
Safe Consensus of Cooperative Manipulation with Hierarchical Event-Triggered Control Barrier Functions
Simiao Zhuang, Bingkun Huang, Zewen Yang
2026
Few-Shot Neural Differentiable Simulator: Real-to-Sim Rigid-Contact Modeling
Zhenhao Huang, Siyuan Luo, Bingyang Zhou +3 more
2026
Robotic Foundation Models for Industrial Control: A Comprehensive Survey and Readiness Assessment Framework
David Kube, Simon Hadwiger, Tobias Meisen
2026
Restoring Linguistic Grounding in VLA Models via Train-Free Attention Recalibration
Ninghao Zhang, Bin Zhu, Shijie Zhou +1 more
2026
Proprioceptive Shape Estimation of Tensegrity Manipulators Using Energy Minimisation
Tufail Ahmad Bhat, Shuhei Ikemoto
2026
Swooper: Learning High-Speed Aerial Grasping With a Simple Gripper
Ziken Huang, Xinze Niu, Bowen Chai +2 more
2026
AnyCamVLA: Zero-Shot Camera Adaptation for Viewpoint Robust Vision-Language-Action Models
Hyeongjun Heo, Seungyeon Woo, Sang Min Kim +4 more
2026
OpenHEART: Opening Heterogeneous Articulated Objects with a Legged Manipulator
Seonghyeon Lim, Hyeonwoo Lee, Seunghyun Lee +2 more
2026
EmboAlign: Aligning Video Generation with Compositional Constraints for Zero-Shot Manipulation
Gehao Zhang, Zhenyang Ni, Payal Mohapatra +3 more
2026
Safe-Night VLA: Seeing the Unseen via Thermal-Perceptive Vision-Language-Action Models for Safety-Critical Manipulation
Dian Yu, Qingchuan Zhou, Bingkun Huang +2 more
2026
Contact-Grounded Policy: Dexterous Visuotactile Policy with Generative Contact Grounding
Zhengtong Xu, Yeping Wang, Ben Abbatematteo +4 more
2026
Control Lyapunov Functions for Underactuated Soft Robots
Huy Pham, Zach J. Patterson
2026
cuRoboV2: Dynamics-Aware Motion Generation with Depth-Fused Distance Fields for High-DoF Robots
Balakumar Sundaralingam, Adithyavairavan Murali, Stan Birchfield
2026
RealWonder: Real-Time Physical Action-Conditioned Video Generation
Wei Liu, Ziyu Chen, Zizhang Li +3 more
2026
Residual RL--MPC for Robust Microrobotic Cell Pushing Under Time-Varying Flow
Yanda Yang, Sambeeta Das
2026
Task Parameter Extrapolation via Learning Inverse Tasks from Forward Demonstrations
Serdar Bahar, Fatih Dogangun, Matteo Saveriano +2 more
2026
PRISM: Personalized Refinement of Imitation Skills for Manipulation via Human Instructions
Arnau Boix-Granell, Alberto San-Miguel-Tello, Magí Dalmau-Moreno +1 more
2026