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MANIPULATION papers(59,358)
Clear ✕ETac: A Lightweight and Efficient Tactile Simulation Framework for Learning Dexterous Manipulation
Zhe Xu, Feiyu Zhao, Xiyan Huang +1 more
2026
Cortex 2.0: Grounding World Models in Real-World Industrial Deployment
Adriana Aida, Walid Amer, Katarina Bankovic +17 more
2026
JoyAI-RA 0.1: A Foundation Model for Robotic Autonomy
Tianle Zhang, Zhihao Yuan, Dafeng Chi +17 more
2026
EmbodiedMidtrain: Bridging the Gap between Vision-Language Models and Vision-Language-Action Models via Mid-training
Yiyang Du, Zhanqiu Guo, Xin Ye +2 more
2026
VLA Foundry: A Unified Framework for Training Vision-Language-Action Models
Jean Mercat, Sedrick Keh, Kushal Arora +5 more
2026
Learning Hybrid-Control Policies for High-Precision In-Contact Manipulation Under Uncertainty
Hunter L. Brown, Geoffrey Hollinger, Stefan Lee
2026
Assessing VLM-Driven Semantic-Affordance Inference for Non-Humanoid Robot Morphologies
Jess Jones, Raul Santos-Rodriguez, Sabine Hauert
2026
Wrench-Aware Admittance Control for Unknown-Payload Manipulation
Hossein Gholampour, Logan E. Beaver
2026
Forward Dynamics of Variable Topology Mechanisms - The Case of Constraint Activation
Andreas Mueller
2026
RoboWM-Bench: A Benchmark for Evaluating World Models in Robotic Manipulation
Feng Jiang, Yang Chen, Kyle Xu +8 more
2026
AI-Enabled Image-Based Hybrid Vision/Force Control of Tendon-Driven Aerial Continuum Manipulators
Shayan Sepahvand, Farrokh Janabi-Sharifi, Farhad Aghili
2026
Gated Memory Policy
Yihuai Gao, Jinyun Liu, Shuang Li +1 more
2026
SynAgent: Generalizable Cooperative Humanoid Manipulation via Solo-to-Cooperative Agent Synergy
Wei Yao, Haohan Ma, Hongwen Zhang +6 more
2026
DAG-STL: A Hierarchical Framework for Zero-Shot Trajectory Planning under Signal Temporal Logic Specifications
Ruijia Liu, Ancheng Hou, Xiao Yu +1 more
2026
COFFAIL: A Dataset of Successful and Anomalous Robot Skill Executions in the Context of Coffee Preparation
Alex Mitrevski, Ayush Salunke
2026
A Comparative Evaluation of Geometric Accuracy in NeRF and Gaussian Splatting
Mikolaj Zielinski, Eryk Vykysaly, Bartlomiej Biesiada +3 more
2026
Muscle-inspired magnetic actuators that push, pull, crawl, and grasp
Muhammad Bilal Khan, Florian Hofmann, Kilian Schäfer +2 more
2026
Can Explicit Physical Feasibility Benefit VLA Learning? An Empirical Study
Yubai Wei, Chen Wu, Hashem Haghbayan
2026
SpaceDex: Generalizable Dexterous Grasping in Tiered Workspaces
Wensheng Wang, Chuanjun Guo, Wei Wei +2 more
2026
StableIDM: Stabilizing Inverse Dynamics Model against Manipulator Truncation via Spatio-Temporal Refinement
Kerui Li, Zhe Jing, Xiaofeng Wang +6 more
2026
ST-$π$: Structured SpatioTemporal VLA for Robotic Manipulation
Chuanhao Ma, Hanyu Zhou, Shihan Peng +3 more
2026
OFlow: Injecting Object-Aware Temporal Flow Matching for Robust Robotic Manipulation
Kuanning Wang, Ke Fan, Chenhao Qiu +5 more
2026
Periodic Steady-State Control of a Handkerchief-Spinning Task Using a Parallel Anti-Parallelogram Tendon-driven Wrist
Lei Liu, Haonan Zhang, Huahang Xu +8 more
2026
DART: Learning-Enhanced Model Predictive Control for Dual-Arm Non-Prehensile Manipulation
Autrio Das, Shreya Bollimuntha, Madala Venkata Renu Jeevesh +5 more
2026