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Robotics Research Publications
An open index of robotics research papers, refreshed daily.
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MANIPULATION papers(5,632)
Clear ✕Tacmap: Bridging the Tactile Sim-to-Real Gap via Geometry-Consistent Penetration Depth Map
Lei Su, Zhijie Peng, Renyuan Ren +4 more
2026
ADM-DP: Adaptive Dynamic Modality Diffusion Policy through Vision-Tactile-Graph Fusion for Multi-Agent Manipulation
Enyi Wang, Wen Fan, Dandan Zhang
2026
LiLo-VLA: Compositional Long-Horizon Manipulation via Linked Object-Centric Policies
Yue Yang, Shuo Cheng, Yu Fang +4 more
2026
Vector Fields for Path Following on Lie Groups with Application in Robot Control
Felipe Bartelt, Luciano C. A. Pimenta, Weijia Yao +1 more
2026
VLA Knows Its Limits
Haoxuan Wang, Gengyu Zhang, Yan Yan +2 more
2026
Provably Safe Generative Sampling with Constricting Barrier Functions
Darshan Gadginmath, Ahmed Allibhoy, Fabio Pasqualetti
2026
Unified Complementarity-Based Contact Modeling and Planning for Soft Robots
Milad Azizkhani, Yue Chen
2026
Squint: Fast Visual Reinforcement Learning for Sim-to-Real Robotics
Abdulaziz Almuzairee, Henrik I. Christensen
2026
ActionReasoning: Robot Action Reasoning in 3D Space with LLM for Robotic Brick Stacking
Guangming Wang, Qizhen Ying, Yixiong Jing +2 more
2026
HALO: A Unified Vision-Language-Action Model for Embodied Multimodal Chain-of-Thought Reasoning
Quanxin Shou, Fangqi Zhu, Shawn Chen +9 more
2026
Surface-based Manipulation Using Tunable Compliant Porous-Elastic Soft Sensing
Gayatri Indukumar, Muhammad Awais, Diana Cafiso +2 more
2026
Notes-to-Self: Scratchpad Augmented VLAs for Memory Dependent Manipulation Tasks
Sanjay Haresh, Daniel Dijkman, Apratim Bhattacharyya +1 more
2026
Task-oriented grasping for dexterous robots using postural synergies and reinforcement learning
Dimitrios Dimou, José Santos-Victor, Plinio Moreno
2026
IG-RFT: An Interaction-Guided RL Framework for VLA Models in Long-Horizon Robotic Manipulation
Zhian Su, Weijie Kong, Haonan Dong +1 more
2026
Robot Local Planner: A Periodic Sampling-Based Motion Planner with Minimal Waypoints for Home Environments
Keisuke Takeshita, Takahiro Yamazaki, Tomohiro Ono +1 more
2026
Object-Scene-Camera Decomposition and Recomposition for Data-Efficient Monocular 3D Object Detection
Zhaonian Kuang, Rui Ding, Meng Yang +2 more
2026
BFA++: Hierarchical Best-Feature-Aware Token Prune for Multi-View Vision Language Action Model
Haosheng Li, Weixin Mao, Zihan Lan +6 more
2026
Inner Speech as Behavior Guides: Steerable Imitation of Diverse Behaviors for Human-AI coordination
Rakshit Trivedi, Kartik Sharma, David C Parkes
2026
Grasp to Act: Dexterous Grasping for Tool Use in Dynamic Settings
Harsh Gupta, Mohammad Amin Mirzaee, Wenzhen Yuan
2026
PhysMem: Scaling Test-Time Memory for Embodied Physical Reasoning
Haoyang Li, Yang You, Hao Su +1 more
2026
UniLACT: Depth-Aware RGB Latent Action Learning for Vision-Language-Action Models
Manish Kumar Govind, Dominick Reilly, Pu Wang +1 more
2026
NovaPlan: Zero-Shot Long-Horizon Manipulation via Closed-Loop Video Language Planning
Jiahui Fu, Junyu Nan, Lingfeng Sun +5 more
2026
AdaWorldPolicy: World-Model-Driven Diffusion Policy with Online Adaptive Learning for Robotic Manipulation
Ge Yuan, Qiyuan Qiao, Jing Zhang +1 more
2026
To Move or Not to Move: Constraint-based Planning Enables Zero-Shot Generalization for Interactive Navigation
Apoorva Vashisth, Manav Kulshrestha, Pranav Bakshi +3 more
2026