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MANIPULATION papers(59,346)
Clear ✕Vision and force-guided robotic system for autonomous nut threading with cross-threading detection
Kevin Wellington, Musa K. Jouaneh, Jessica Tingley +2 more
Robotics and Autonomous Systems · 2026
Bioinspired Coil-Wrap Soft Gripper with Frictional Self-Locking for Enhanced Adaptability and High Load Capacity.
Wei C, Yao J, Yu X +3 more
Soft robotics · 2026
Designing Soft Arms with Octopus-Like Dexterity: Insights from Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Finite Element Analysis.
Ahmadi S, Cummings S, Roy C +5 more
Soft robotics · 2026
DenseReward: Dense Reward Learning via Failure Synthesis for Robotic Manipulation
Yu Fang, Wanxi Dong, Jiaqi Liu +7 more
2026
ChunkFlow: Towards Continuity-Consistent Chunked Policy Learning
Zhao Yang, Yinan Shi, Mingyuan Yao +3 more
2026
VistaVLA: Geometry- and Semantic-Aware 3D Gaussian-Grounded VLA for Robotic Manipulation
Mohan Liu, Zhihao Gu, Xuanyu Chen +5 more
2026
Reducing Temporal Redundancy for Efficient Vision-Language-Action Inference
Yuzhou Wu, Yuxin Zheng, Muchun Niu +6 more
2026
A Soft Grasper with Bioinspired Morphology and Synthetic Nervous System Control Reduces Damage to Deformable Objects and Fruits During Handling.
Li Y, Sukhnandan R, Chiel HJ +2 more
Bioinspiration & biomimetics · 2026
More than a Manipulator: Planning Propellant-Free Attitude Maneuvers for Free-Floating Spacecraft
Harsh G. Bhundiya, Avi Soval, Keenan Albee
2026
Robust In-Hand Manipulation via Priors in Reinforcement Learning and Mechanical Design
Yifei Chen, Shihan Lu, Ed Colgate +1 more
2026
Mixture of Frames Policy: Multi-Frame Action Denoising for Bimanual Mobile Manipulation
Dian Wang, Jisang Park, Xiaomeng Xu +3 more
2026
A Minimalist Retargeting-Guided Reinforcement Learning Recipe for Dexterous Manipulation
Yunhai Feng, Natalie Leung, Jiaxuan Wang +3 more
2026
Trajectory Planning and Certification for 3-DOF Robot Manipulators Using Real Quantifier Elimination Based on Comprehensive Gröbner Systems
Yu Nakai, Akira Terui, Masahiko Mikawa
2026
See like a Robot: Robot-Centric Pointmaps for Vision-Language-Action Models
Byungkun Lee, Dongyoon Hwang, Dongjin Kim +3 more
2026
Towards Human-level Dexterous Teleoperation
Puhao Li, Zeyuan Chen, Yingying Wu +9 more
2026
EDAR: Learning Environment-Dependent Action Representations for Robotic Manipulation
Yuecheng Xu, Tong Yang, Jingkai Jia +3 more
2026
CR-Solver: GPU-Accelerated Kinematics Solver for Tendon-driven Continuum Robots
Heqing Yang, Yang Yi, Linqing Zhong +2 more
2026
Pix2Act: Image-Space Manipulation Policies with Equivariant Augmentation
Haojie Huang, Linfeng Zhao, Haotian Liu +9 more
2026
VIA: Visual Interface Agent for Robot Control
Hengyuan Hu, Priya Sundaresan, Jensen Gao +1 more
2026
GraspGraphNet: Graph-Structured Multi-Embodiment Dexterous Grasp Generation
Yeonseo Lee, Taeyeop Lee, Hyosup Shin +2 more
2026
SegDiff: Segmented Trajectory Diffusion for Consistent and Adaptive Robot Manipulation
Haidong Cao, Wenjun Cao, Quanhao Li +5 more
2026
Affordance-Based Manipulation Planning with Text Goals and Sim-to-Real Generalisation via Real-to-Sim Image Conversion
Solvi Arnold, Rin Karashima, Tadashi Adachi +2 more
2026
Wearing A Coat: Dual-Arm Robot-Assisted Dressing with Differentiable Clothing Simulation
Yiming Liu, Lijun Han, Hesheng Wang
2026
Integrating Agglomerative Perception with One-step Action Generation for Robotic Manipulation.
Wang S, Wang L, Huo H +3 more
IEEE transactions on pattern analysis and machine intelligence · 2026