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MANIPULATION papers(59,358)
Clear ✕Offline Semantic Guidance for Efficient Vision-Language-Action Policy Distillation
Jin Shi, Brady Zhang, Yishun Lu
2026
Health-Conditioned Vision-Language-Action Models for Malfunction-Aware Robot Control
Hüseyin Arslan, Özgür Erkent
2026
Learning Sim-Grounded Policies for Bimanual Rope Manipulation from Human Teleoperation Data
Gina Wigginghaus, Tim Missal, Berk Guler +2 more
2026
OHP-RL: Online Human Preference as Guidance in Reinforcement Learning for Robot Manipulation
Yunyang Mo, Jian Li, Qiwei Wu +2 more
2026
FocalPolicy: Frequency-Optimized Chunking and Locally Anchored Flow Matching for Coherent Visuomotor Policy
Qian He, Zhenshuo Yang, Wenqi Liang +3 more
2026
GAP: Geometric Anchor Pre-training for Data-Efficient Visuomotor Learning of Manipulation Tasks
Davide Buoso, Andrea Protopapa, Stefano Di Carlo +2 more
2026
Learning Dynamic Pick-and-Place for a Legged Manipulator
Moonkyu Jung, Jiseong Lee, Zhengmao He +8 more
2026
KaRMA: A Kinematic Metric for Fine Manipulation Ability in Robotic Hands
Martin Peticco, Pulkit Agrawal
2026
SkiP: When to Skip and When to Refine for Efficient Robot Manipulation
Mingtong Dai, Guanqi Peng, Yongjie Bai +5 more
2026
FLASH: Efficient Visuomotor Policy via Sparse Sampling
Jiaqi Bai, Jindou Jia, Yuxuan Hu +5 more
2026
Next-Generation Harvester Technologies: Synergizing Smart Grading and Biomechanical Damage Control in Mechanized Tomato Production.
Jing J, Chen Y, Zhao P +4 more
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026
Uncertainty-Calibrated Safety Gating for Vision-Language- Action Manipulation Under Domain Shift: Reliability Gains and Intervention-Efficiency Trade-Offs.
Ghaleb AM, Allahloh AS, Mejjaouli S +2 more
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026
Where to Perch in a Tree: Vision-Guidance for Tree-Grasping Drones
Alex Dunnett, Leonie Bottomley, Mirko Kovac +1 more
2026
Diffusion Policy for Coordinated Control of a Nonholonomic Mobile Base and Dual Arms in Door Opening and Passing
Shangqun Yu, Matthew En, Daniel Wu +4 more
2026
Hand-in-the-Loop: Improving VLA Policies for Dexterous Manipulation via Seamless Hand-Arm Intervention
Zhuohang Li, Liqun Huang, Wei Xu +5 more
2026
Evo-Depth: A Lightweight Depth-Enhanced Vision-Language-Action Model
Tao Lin, Yuxin Du, Jiting Liu +14 more
2026
Learning Cross-Coupled and Regime Dependent Dynamics for Aerial Manipulation
Rishabh Dev Yadav, Samaksh Ujjawal, Sihao Sun +2 more
2026
IntentVLA: Short-Horizon Intent Modeling for Aliased Robot Manipulation
Shijie Lian, Bin Yu, Xiaopeng Lin +8 more
2026
DSSP: Diffusion State Space Policy with Full-History Encoding
Zhiyuan Guan, Jianshu Hu, Han Fang +5 more
2026
DiffPhD: A Unified Differentiable Solver for Projective Heterogeneous Materials in Elastodynamics with Contact-Rich GPU-Acceleration
Shih-Yu Lai, Sung-Han Tien, Jui-I Huang +9 more
2026
Admittance-Guided Inverter Dispatch Command Manipulation Attack: A Grid Stability-Oriented Approach
Hongwei Zhen, Ze Yu, Xin Xiang +2 more
2026
Quantifying Cyber-Vulnerability in Power Electronics Systems via an Impedance-Based Attack Reachable Domain
Hongwei Zhen, Ze Yu, Xin Xiang +2 more
2026
Behavior Cloning for Active Perception with Low-Resolution Egocentric Vision
Anthony Bilic, Chen Chen, Ladislau Bölöni
2026
WarmPrior: Straightening Flow-Matching Policies with Temporal Priors
Sinjae Kang, Chanyoung Kim, Kaixin Wang +2 more
2026