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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 ✕VideoAfford: Grounding 3D Affordance from Human-Object-Interaction Videos via Multimodal Large Language Model
Hanqing Wang, Mingyu Liu, Xiaoyu Chen +9 more
2026
AnyTouch 2: General Optical Tactile Representation Learning For Dynamic Tactile Perception
Ruoxuan Feng, Yuxuan Zhou, Siyu Mei +6 more
2026
Preference Aligned Visuomotor Diffusion Policies for Deformable Object Manipulation
Marco Moletta, Michael C. Welle, Danica Kragic
2026
SERNF: Sample-Efficient Real-World Dexterous Policy Fine-Tuning via Action-Chunked Critics and Normalizing Flows
Chenyu Yang, Denis Tarasov, Davide Liconti +2 more
2026
Sci-VLA: Agentic VLA Inference Plugin for Long-Horizon Tasks in Scientific Experiments
Yiwen Pang, Bo Zhou, Changjin Li +5 more
2026
Certified Gradient-Based Contact-Rich Manipulation via Smoothing-Error Reachable Tubes
Wei-Chen Li, Glen Chou
2026
CAPER: Constrained and Procedural Reasoning for Robotic Scientific Experiments
Jinghan Yang, Jingyi Hou, Xinbo Yu +2 more
2026
SceneSmith: Agentic Generation of Simulation-Ready Indoor Scenes
Nicholas Pfaff, Thomas Cohn, Sergey Zakharov +2 more
2026
TwinRL: Digital Twin-Driven Reinforcement Learning for Real-World Robotic Manipulation
Qinwen Xu, Jiaming Liu, Rui Zhou +11 more
2026
$χ_{0}$: Resource-Aware Robust Manipulation via Taming Distributional Inconsistencies
Checheng Yu, Chonghao Sima, Gangcheng Jiang +14 more
2026
Contact-Anchored Policies: Contact Conditioning Creates Strong Robot Utility Models
Zichen Jeff Cui, Omar Rayyan, Haritheja Etukuru +16 more
2026
Mimic Intent, Not Just Trajectories
Renming Huang, Chendong Zeng, Wenjing Tang +3 more
2026
A Precise Real-Time Force-Aware Grasping System for Robust Aerial Manipulation
Kenghou Hoi, Yuze Wu, Annan Ding +4 more
2026
Constrained Sampling to Guide Universal Manipulation RL
Marc Toussaint, Cornelius V. Braun, Eckart Cobo-Briesewitz +3 more
2026
UniPlan: Vision-Language Task Planning for Mobile Manipulation with Unified PDDL Formulation
Haoming Ye, Yunxiao Xiao, Cewu Lu +1 more
2026
Bi-Adapt: Few-shot Bimanual Adaptation for Novel Categories of 3D Objects via Semantic Correspondence
Jinxian Zhou, Ruihai Wu, Yiwei Liu +5 more
2026
Learning Human-Like Badminton Skills for Humanoid Robots
Yeke Chen, Shihao Dong, Xiaoyu Ji +10 more
2026
ReefFlex: A Generative Design Framework for Soft Robotic Grasping of Organic and Fragile objects
Josh Pinskier, Sarah Baldwin, Stephen Rodan +1 more
2026
DexFormer: Cross-Embodied Dexterous Manipulation via History-Conditioned Transformer
Ke Zhang, Lixin Xu, Chengyi Song +4 more
2026
Informative Object-centric Next Best View for Object-aware 3D Gaussian Splatting in Cluttered Scenes
Seunghoon Jeong, Eunho Lee, Jeongyun Kim +1 more
2026
Aerial Manipulation with Contact-Aware Onboard Perception and Hybrid Control
Yuanzhu Zhan, Yufei Jiang, Muqing Cao +1 more
2026
STEP: Warm-Started Visuomotor Policies with Spatiotemporal Consistency Prediction
Jinhao Li, Yuxuan Cong, Yingqiao Wang +5 more
2026
Self-Supervised Bootstrapping of Action-Predictive Embodied Reasoning
Milan Ganai, Katie Luo, Jonas Frey +2 more
2026
From Ellipsoids to Midair Control of Dynamic Hitches
Jiawei Xu, Subhrajit Bhattacharya, David Saldaña
2026