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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 ✕Learning-based Initialization of Trajectory Optimization for Path-following Problems of Redundant Manipulators
Minsung Yoon, Mincheul Kang, Daehyung Park +1 more
2026
Manipulation via Force Distribution at Contact
Haegu Lee, Yitaek Kim, Casper Hewson Rask +1 more
2026
RDT2: Exploring the Scaling Limit of UMI Data Towards Zero-Shot Cross-Embodiment Generalization
Songming Liu, Bangguo Li, Kai Ma +5 more
2026
RPL: Learning Robust Humanoid Perceptive Locomotion on Challenging Terrains
Yuanhang Zhang, Younggyo Seo, Juyue Chen +7 more
2026
Moving On, Even When You're Broken: Fail-Active Trajectory Generation via Diffusion Policies Conditioned on Embodiment and Task
Gilberto G. Briscoe-Martinez, Yaashia Gautam, Rahul Shetty +3 more
2026
Language Movement Primitives: Grounding Language Models in Robot Motion
Yinlong Dai, Benjamin A. Christie, Daniel J. Evans +2 more
2026
PokeNet: Learning Kinematic Models of Articulated Objects from Human Observations
Anmol Gupta, Weiwei Gu, Omkar Patil +2 more
2026
Flow Policy Gradients for Robot Control
Brent Yi, Hongsuk Choi, Himanshu Gaurav Singh +9 more
2026
World-Gymnast: Training Robots with Reinforcement Learning in a World Model
Ansh Kumar Sharma, Yixiang Sun, Ninghao Lu +3 more
2026
SoMA: A Real-to-Sim Neural Simulator for Robotic Soft-body Manipulation
Mu Huang, Hui Wang, Kerui Ren +5 more
2026
PRISM: Performer RS-IMLE for Single-pass Multisensory Imitation Learning
Amisha Bhaskar, Pratap Tokekar, Stefano Di Cairano +1 more
2026
FD-VLA: Force-Distilled Vision-Language-Action Model for Contact-Rich Manipulation
Ruiteng Zhao, Wenshuo Wang, Yicheng Ma +4 more
2026
Synchronized Online Friction Estimation and Adaptive Grasp Control for Robust Gentle Grasp
Zhenwei Niu, Xiaoyi Chen, Jiayu Hu +3 more
2026
A Unified Control Architecture for Macro-Micro Manipulation using a Active Remote Center of Compliance for Manufacturing Applications
Patrick Frank, Christian Friedrich
2026
Towards Exploratory and Focused Manipulation with Bimanual Active Perception: A New Problem, Benchmark and Strategy
Yuxin He, Ruihao Zhang, Tianao Shen +2 more
2026
BTGenBot-2: Efficient Behavior Tree Generation with Small Language Models
Riccardo Andrea Izzo, Gianluca Bardaro, Matteo Matteucci
2026
From Knowing to Doing Precisely: A General Self-Correction and Termination Framework for VLA models
Wentao Zhang, Aolan Sun, Wentao Mo +3 more
2026
RFS: Reinforcement Learning with Residual Flow Steering for Dexterous Manipulation
Entong Su, Tyler Westenbroek, Anusha Nagabandi +1 more
2026
DDP-WM: Disentangled Dynamics Prediction for Efficient World Models
Shicheng Yin, Kaixuan Yin, Weixing Chen +3 more
2026
Uncertainty-Aware Non-Prehensile Manipulation with Mobile Manipulators under Object-Induced Occlusion
Jiwoo Hwang, Taegeun Yang, Jeil Jeong +2 more
2026
GSR: Learning Structured Reasoning for Embodied Manipulation
Kewei Hu, Michael Zhang, Wei Ying +7 more
2026
AgenticLab: A Real-World Robot Agent Platform that Can See, Think, and Act
Pengyuan Guo, Zhonghao Mai, Zhengtong Xu +7 more
2026
Latent Reasoning VLA: Latent Thinking and Prediction for Vision-Language-Action Models
Shuanghao Bai, Jing Lyu, Wanqi Zhou +9 more
2026
Improving Robustness of Vision-Language-Action Models by Restoring Corrupted Visual Inputs
Daniel Yezid Guarnizo Orjuela, Leonardo Scappatura, Veronica Di Gennaro +3 more
2026