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MANIPULATION papers(59,346)
Clear ✕A Single Diffusion-Policy Controller for Multi-Task Block Pushing with Zero-Shot Sim-to-Real Transfer
Haitong Ma, Haldun Balim, Yang Hu +2 more
2026
D-SafeMPC: Diffusion-Driven Safe Model Predictive Control with Discrete-Time Control Barrier Functions
Erdi Sayar, Ersin Daş, Joel W. Burdick +2 more
2026
Compositional Context Fine-Tuning Vision-Language Model for Complex Assembly Action Understanding from Videos
Hao Zheng, Jinyi Huang, Tiantian Zheng +2 more
2026
Action Map Policy: Learning 3D Closed-loop Manipulation via Pixel Classification
Haojie Huang, Zhang Ye, Linfeng Zhao +7 more
2026
SUREFlow: State-space Uncertainty-aware REsidual Flow Matching for Robust Robot Manipulation
Md Tanvir Islam, Sai Navaneet Peddapalli, Sangmoon Lee +1 more
2026
On the Efficiency of LoRA Fine-Tuning for Vision-Language-Action Models in Industrial Robotic Manipulation
Finn Ferchau, Daniel Pommer, Cristian Axenie
2026
TAC-LOCO: Unified Whole-Body Control for Quadrupedal TACtile-Informed LOCO-Manipulation
Muqun Hu, Yuhao Zhou, Kabir Ray Malik +4 more
2026
PinFT: Miniature 5-Axis Force/Torque Sensor Embeddable to Tweezer-like Tool
Leo King, Jenny Chen, Tae Myung Huh
2026
Task Planning for Mobile Manipulation in Retail Stores using Foundation Models with Iterative Re-planning
Vismay Vakharia, Sanjana Garai, Rolif Lima +3 more
2026
Robo-ValueRL: Reliable Value Estimation for Offline-to-Online Reinforcement Learning
Wenke Xia, Pei Ren, Wenbo Yu +10 more
2026
B-spline Policy: Accelerating Manipulation Policies via B-spline Action Representations
Xiaoshen Han, Haoyu Xiong, Haonan Chen +4 more
2026
PAC-ACT: Post-training Actor-Critic for Action Chunking Transformers
Yujie Pang, Zudong Li
2026
Task-Adaptive Design of Modular Aerial Manipulators Under Airflow Exposure Constraints
Mengguang Li, Heinz Koeppl
2026
DemoBridge: A Simulation-in-the-Loop Toolkit for Single-View Human Demonstration Retargeting
Zehao Wang, Fabien Despinoy, Sergey Zakharov +2 more
2026
One-Shot Multimodal Learning from Demonstration with Force-Constrained Elastic Maps
Brendan Hertel, Jonathan Spanos, Navya Garg +1 more
2026
PhysV2A: Reachability-Gated and Semantic-Mask-Constrained Feasibility Completion for Video-to-Robot Manipulation
Haohui Huang, Junda Duan, Tao Teng +1 more
2026
Robot Trajectron V3: A Probabilistic Shared Control Framework for SE(3) Manipulation
Pinhao Song, Zhongxi Li, Ze Fu +2 more
2026
More Structure, Not More Capacity: Object-Centric Representations for Visuomotor Imitation Learning
Yi Li, Alexandre Chapin, Liming Chen +2 more
2026
Tactile and Vision Conditioned Contact-Centric Control for Whole-Arm Manipulation
Rishabh Madan, Angchen Xie, Samantha Saak +7 more
2026
GenVid2Robot: From Video Generation to Robot Manipulation via Rigid-Geometric Consistency
Haohui Huang, Xi Yuan, Panpan Liao +4 more
2026
TactiDex: A Real-World Tactile-Guided Benchmark for Human-Like Dexterous Manipulation
Suting Ni, Hanbing Zhang, Zhenyu Wei +4 more
2026
TS-Mask VLA: 2D Temporal-Spatial Masking for Vision-Language-Action Model with Effective Bridging
Shengzhuo Yang, Ronghao Yu, Chuanjie Lv +5 more
2026
Learning More from Less: Reinforcement Learning from Hindsight
Iris Xu, Sunshine Jiang, John Marangola +8 more
2026
Ionogels with ultrafast electroresponsive adhesion switching based on physical gel-sol transition of silk fibroin.
Kang J, Zhang T, Liu Q +6 more
Materials horizons · 2026