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MANIPULATION papers(59,358)
Clear ✕World Models for Robotic Manipulation: A Survey
Fangyuan Wang, Ziyuan Wang, Guorui Pei +15 more
2026
Simultaneous Contact Selection and Planning for Contact-Rich Manipulation with Cascaded Optimization
Zhe Zhang, Xingrong Diao, Haoxiang Liang +4 more
2026
SANTS: A State-Adaptive Scheduler for World Action Models
Yirui Sun, Guangyu Zhuge, Keliang Liu +4 more
2026
Frequency-Guided Action Diffusion via Sub-Frequency Manifold Traversal
Junlin Wang
2026
Tabero: Learning Gentle Manipulation with Closed-Loop Force Feedback from Vision, Touch, and Language
Qiwei Wu, Rui Zhang, Xin Xiang +4 more
2026
Turning Video Models into Generalist Robot Policies
Sizhe Lester Li, Evan Kim, Xingjian Bai +4 more
2026
Adaptive constraint-following control for maintenance robotic manipulator with uncertainties.
Ma Y, Xu D, Wang Z +1 more
Scientific reports · 2026
Structural analysis and optimization of an autonomous robot designed for greenhouse roof cleaning.
Amin A, Wang X, Sun G +6 more
Scientific reports · 2026
Whole-Body Coordination and Spinopelvic Alignment during Yoga Standing Maneuvers: Comparing Practitioners with Non-Practitioners.
Yu J, Omofuma I, Biskup D +2 more
IEEE transactions on neural systems and rehabilitation engineering : a publication of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society · 2026
Colosseum V2: Benchmarking Generalization for Vision Language Action Models
Jeremy Morgan, Prajwal Vijay, Hyeonho Oh +6 more
2026
Agentic Language-to-Objective Synthesis for Optofluidic Assembly
Ivan Saraev, Elena Erben, Weida Liao +4 more
2026
Riding the Shifting Potential: When Reactive Control Suffices for Multi-Goal Behavior
Vito Mengers, Oliver Brock
2026
FineVLA: Fine-Grained Instruction Alignment for Steerable Vision-Language-Action Policies
Xintong Hu, Xuhong Huang, Jinyu Zhang +11 more
2026
GE-Sim 2.0: A Roadmap Towards Comprehensive Closed-loop Video World Simulators for Robotic Manipulation
Boxiang Qiu, Liliang Chen, Yue Liao +12 more
2026
TCBiRRT: Rapid Motion Planning for Tightly Coupled Dual-arm Space Manipulator Using Task-space Random Expansion
Jiawei Zhang, Xinhao Miao, Jifeng Guo +2 more
2026
Container Unloading via Reinforcement Learning: Picking Order, Deadlock Avoidance, and Proof-of-Concept Simulation
Jan Rüdiger, Max Schenke, Daniel Weber
2026
VR-DAgger: Immersive VR for Dexterous Data Collection and Uncertainty-Guided On-Policy Correction
René Zurbrügg, Tifanny Portela, Arjun Bhardwaj +3 more
2026
Object Pose and Shape Estimation for Grasping: Does it Work?
Pavan Karke, Kushal Shah, Gaurav Singh +3 more
2026
HyperSim: A Holistic Sim-To-Real Framework For Robust Robotic Manipulation
Junyi Dong, Haotian Luo, Ziwei Xu +11 more
2026
A Factory-Floor Deployment Case Study of VLA Pipelines for Industrial Packaging Task: Workflow, Failures, and Lessons
Brian Zhu, Philipp Schmitt, Philine Meister +12 more
2026
PhyPush: One Push is All You Need for Sensorless Physical Property Estimation with Physics-Guided Transformers
Koyo Fujii, Luis Figueredo, Praminda Caleb-Solly +4 more
2026
OASIS: Observation-Action Space Alignment via SE(3) Trajectory Prediction for Robotic Manipulation
Xinzhe Chen, Sihua Ren, Liqi Huang +5 more
2026
Implicit Null-space Manifold Generation for Redundant Robotic Systems
Taiki Ishigaki, Teresa Vidal-Calleja, Ko Ayusawa +1 more
2026
TapSampling: Inference-Time Sampling with a Task-Progress-Understanding Verifier for Robotic Manipulation
Sizhe Zhao, Shengping Zhang, Shuo Yang +3 more
2026