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MANIPULATION papers(59,358)
Clear ✕2D and 3D Grasp Planners for the GET Asymmetrical Gripper
Andrew Goldberg, Ethan Ransing, Anton Kourakin +3 more
2026
Robot Planning and Situation Handling with Active Perception
Austine Oloo, Zainab Altaweel, Yohei Hayamizu +9 more
2026
TSN-Affinity: Similarity-Driven Parameter Reuse for Continual Offline Reinforcement Learning
Dominik Żurek, Kamil Faber, Marcin Pietron +2 more
2026
Variational Neural Belief Parameterizations for Robust Dexterous Grasping under Multimodal Uncertainty
Clinton Enwerem, Shreya Kalyanaraman, John S. Baras +1 more
2026
Privileged Foresight Distillation: Zero-Cost Future Correction for World Action Models
Pengcheng Fang, Hongli Chen, Xiaohao Cai
2026
KinDER: A Physical Reasoning Benchmark for Robot Learning and Planning
Yixuan Huang, Bowen Li, Vaibhav Saxena +9 more
2026
GS-Playground: A High-Throughput Photorealistic Simulator for Vision-Informed Robot Learning
Yufei Jia, Heng Zhang, Ziheng Zhang +17 more
2026
ANCHOR: A Physically Grounded Closed-Loop Framework for Robust Home-Service Mobile Manipulation
Jinhao Jiang, Shengyu Fang, Sibo Zuo +2 more
2026
HANDFUL: Sequential Grasp-Conditioned Dexterous Manipulation with Resource Awareness
Ethan Foong, Yunshuang Li, Hao Jiang +2 more
2026
Asymmetric-Information Resource Allocation Games: An LP Approach to Purposeful Deception
Longxu Pan, Yue Guan, Daigo Shishika +1 more
2026
DiscreteRTC: Discrete Diffusion Policies are Natural Asynchronous Executors
Pengcheng Wang, Kaiwen Hong, Chensheng Peng +4 more
2026
Libra-VLA: Achieving Learning Equilibrium via Asynchronous Coarse-to-Fine Dual-System
Yifei Wei, Linqing Zhong, Yi Liu +4 more
2026
An analysis of sensor selection for fruit picking with suction-based grippers
Eva Krueger, Marcus Rosette, Joseph R. Davidson
2026
SpecRLBench: A Benchmark for Generalization in Specification-Guided Reinforcement Learning
Zijian Guo, İlker Işık, H. M. Sabbir Ahmad +1 more
2026
Learning Human-Intention Priors from Large-Scale Human Demonstrations for Robotic Manipulation
Yifan Xie, YuAn Wang, Guangyu Chen +3 more
2026
$M^2$-VLA: Boosting Vision-Language Models for Generalizable Manipulation via Layer Mixture and Meta-Skills
Siyao Xiao, Yuhong Zhang, Zhifang Liu +9 more
2026
Betting for Sim-to-Real Performance Evaluation
Zaid Mahboob, Yujia Chen, Bowen Weng
2026
Cooptimizing Safety and Performance Using Safety Value-Constrained Model Predictive Control
Hao Wang, Nam Nguyen, Armand Jordana +2 more
2026
Move-Then-Operate: Behavioral Phasing for Human-Like Robotic Manipulation
Haoming Xu, Lei Lei, Jie Gu +3 more
2026
Tube Diffusion Policy: Reactive Visual-Tactile Policy Learning for Contact-rich Manipulation
Teng Xue, Alberto Rigo, Bingjian Huang +4 more
2026
Keypoint-based Dynamic Object 6-DoF Pose Tracking via Event Camera
Zhe Wang, Qijin Song, Zihao Li +2 more
2026
Efficient Rationale-based Retrieval: On-policy Distillation from Generative Rerankers based on JEPA
Teng Chen, Sheng Xu, Feixiang Guo +4 more
2026
BridgeACT: Bridging Human Demonstrations to Robot Actions via Unified Tool-Target Affordances
Yifan Han, Jianxiang Liu, Haoyu Zhang +3 more
2026
GazeVLA: Learning Human Intention for Robotic Manipulation
Chengyang Li, Kaiyi Xiong, Yuan Xu +3 more
2026