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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 ✕Recurrent-Depth VLA: Implicit Test-Time Compute Scaling of Vision-Language-Action Models via Latent Iterative Reasoning
Yalcin Tur, Jalal Naghiyev, Haoquan Fang +4 more
2026
Global Symmetry and Orthogonal Transformations from Geometrical Moment $n$-tuples
Omar Tahri
2026
"Meet My Sidekick!": Effects of Separate Identities and Control of a Single Robot in HRI
Drake Moore, Arushi Aggarwal, Emily Taylor +3 more
2026
Differentiate-and-Inject: Enhancing VLAs via Functional Differentiation Induced by In-Parameter Structural Reasoning
Jingyi Hou, Leyu Zhou, Chenchen Jing +3 more
2026
Going with the Flow: Koopman Behavioral Models as Implicit Planners for Visuo-Motor Dexterity
Yunhai Han, Linhao Bai, Ziyu Xiao +6 more
2026
Trace-Focused Diffusion Policy for Multi-Modal Action Disambiguation in Long-Horizon Robotic Manipulation
Yuxuan Hu, Xiangyu Chen, Chuhao Zhou +4 more
2026
Why Look at It at All?: Vision-Free Multifingered Blind Grasping Using Uniaxial Fingertip Force Sensing
Edgar Lee, Junho Choi, Taemin Kim +2 more
2026
SURE: Safe Uncertainty-Aware Robot-Environment Interaction using Trajectory Optimization
Zhuocheng Zhang, Haizhou Zhao, Xudong Sun +2 more
2026
Perception-Control Coupled Visual Servoing for Textureless Objects Using Keypoint-Based EKF
Allen Tao, Jun Yang, Stanko Oparnica +1 more
2026
DynaRetarget: Dynamically-Feasible Retargeting using Sampling-Based Trajectory Optimization
Victor Dhedin, Ilyass Taouil, Shafeef Omar +4 more
2026
RAPID: Reconfigurable, Adaptive Platform for Iterative Design
Zi Yin, Fanhong Li, Shurui Zheng +1 more
2026
Think Proprioceptively: Embodied Visual Reasoning for VLA Manipulation
Fangyuan Wang, Peng Zhou, Jiaming Qi +3 more
2026
The Law of Task-Achieving Body Motion: Axiomatizing Success of Robot Manipulation Actions
Malte Huerkamp, Jonas Dech, Michael Beetz
2026
Beyond the Majority: Long-tail Imitation Learning for Robotic Manipulation
Junhong Zhu, Ji Zhang, Jingkuan Song +2 more
2026
MultiGraspNet: A Multitask 3D Vision Model for Multi-gripper Robotic Grasping
Stephany Ortuno-Chanelo, Paolo Rabino, Enrico Civitelli +2 more
2026
MosaicThinker: On-Device Visual Spatial Reasoning for Embodied AI via Iterative Construction of Space Representation
Haoming Wang, Qiyao Xue, Weichen Liu +1 more
2026
HiWET: Hierarchical World-Frame End-Effector Tracking for Long-Horizon Humanoid Loco-Manipulation
Zhanxiang Cao, Liyun Yan, Yang Zhang +7 more
2026
Coupled Local and Global World Models for Efficient First Order RL
Joseph Amigo, Rooholla Khorrambakht, Nicolas Mansard +1 more
2026
CommCP: Efficient Multi-Agent Coordination via LLM-Based Communication with Conformal Prediction
Xiaopan Zhang, Zejin Wang, Zhixu Li +2 more
2026
InterPrior: Scaling Generative Control for Physics-Based Human-Object Interactions
Sirui Xu, Samuel Schulter, Morteza Ziyadi +4 more
2026
Visuo-Tactile World Models
Carolina Higuera, Sergio Arnaud, Byron Boots +3 more
2026
PIRATR: Parametric Object Inference for Robotic Applications with Transformers in 3D Point Clouds
Michael Schwingshackl, Fabio F. Oberweger, Mario Niedermeyer +2 more
2026
TaSA: Two-Phased Deep Predictive Learning of Tactile Sensory Attenuation for Improving In-Grasp Manipulation
Pranav Ponnivalavan, Satoshi Funabashi, Alexander Schmitz +2 more
2026
PLATO Hand: Shaping Contact Behavior with Fingernails for Precise Manipulation
Dong Ho Kang, Aaron Kim, Mingyo Seo +3 more
2026