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MANIPULATION papers(59,358)
Clear ✕Sampling-Based Follow-the-Leader Motion Planning for Manipulator-Mounted Continuum Robots
Chengnan Shentu, Nicholas Baldassini, Oluwagbotemi D. Iseoluwa +2 more
2026
Coordinated Diffusion: Generating Multi-Agent Behavior Without Multi-Agent Demonstrations
Lasse Peters, Laura Ferranti, Andrea Bajcsy +1 more
2026
Offline Policy Evaluation for Manipulation Policies via Discounted Liveness Formulation
Hao Wang, Joshua Bowden, Colton Crosby +1 more
2026
Behavioral Mode Discovery for Fine-tuning Multimodal Generative Policies
Alberta Longhini, David Emukpere, Jean-Michel Renders +1 more
2026
Forecast-aware Gaussian Splatting for Predictive 3D Representation in Language-Guided Pick-and-Place Manipulation
Kaixin Jia, Jiacheng Xu
2026
HarmoWAM: Harmonizing Generalizable and Precise Manipulation via Adaptive World Action Models
Qiuxuan Feng, Jiale Yu, Jiaming Liu +8 more
2026
PriorVLA: Prior-Preserving Adaptation for Vision-Language-Action Models
Xinyu Guo, Bin Xie, Wei Chai +4 more
2026
Unified Noise Steering for Efficient Human-Guided VLA Adaptation
Junjie Lu, Xinyao Qin, Yuhua Jiang +6 more
2026
ALAM: Algebraically Consistent Latent Action Model for Vision-Language-Action Models
Zuojin Tang, Haoyun Liu, Xinyuan Chang +11 more
2026
XQCfD: Accelerating Fast Actor-Critic Algorithms with Prior Data and Prior Policies
Daniel Palenicek, Florian Vogt, Joe Watson +3 more
2026
ForceFlow: Learning to Feel and Act via Contact-Driven Flow Matching
Shuoheng Zhang, Yifu Yuan, Hongyao Tang +7 more
2026
VEGA: Visual Encoder Grounding Alignment for Spatially-Aware Vision-Language-Action Models
Hao Wang, Xiaobao Wei, Jingyang He +10 more
2026
HeteroGenManip: Generalizable Manipulation For Heterogeneous Object Interactions
Zhenhao Shen, Zeming Yang, Yue Chen +5 more
2026
Retrieve-then-Steer: Online Success Memory for Test-Time Adaptation of Generative VLAs
Jianchao Zhao, Huoren Yang, Yusong Hu +6 more
2026
Muninn: Your Trajectory Diffusion Model But Faster
Gokul Puthumanaillam, Hao Jiang, Ruben Hernandez +4 more
2026
StereoPolicy: Improving Robotic Manipulation Policies via Stereo Perception
Evans Han, Yunfan Jiang, Yingke Wang +6 more
2026
JODA: Composable Joint Dynamics for Articulated Objects
Tianhong Gao, Cheng Yu, Yinghao Xu +1 more
2026
LoopVLA: Learning Sufficiency in Recurrent Refinement for Vision-Language-Action Models
Boyang Shen, Kaixiang Yang, Hao Wang +4 more
2026
Zero-Shot Sim-to-Real Robot Learning: A Dexterous Manipulation Study on Reactive Catching
Kejia Ren, Gaotian Wang, Andrew S. Morgan +1 more
2026
MVB-Grasp: Minimum-Volume-Box Filtering of Diffusion-based Grasps for Frontal Manipulation
Bibek Poudel, Abdul Basit, Muhammad Shafique
2026
ACSAC: Adaptive Chunk Size Actor-Critic with Causal Transformer Q-Network
Qian Chen, Junqiao Zhao, Hongtu Zhou +4 more
2026
RePO-VLA: Recovery-Driven Policy Optimization for Vision-Language-Action Models
Weijia Liufu, Xiaoyu Guo, Ruiyi Chen +16 more
2026
Transceiver-Integrated BD-RIS: Wave-Domain Signal Processing for Sustainable and Inclusive 6G
Mahmoud Raeisi, Ayoub Ammar Boudjelal, Henk Wymeersch +2 more
2026
IMPACT: An Implicit Active-Set Augmented Lagrangian for Fast Contact-Implicit Trajectory Optimization
Jiayun Li, Dejian Gong, Georgia Chalvatzaki
2026