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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 ✕Information Filtering via Variational Regularization for Robot Manipulation
Jinhao Zhang, Wenlong Xia, Yaojia Wang +6 more
2026
Scalable Surface-Based Manipulation Through Modularity and Inter-Module Object Transfer
Pratik Ingle, Jørn Lambertsen, Kasper Støy +1 more
2026
Disentangling perception and reasoning for improving data efficiency in learning cloth manipulation without demonstrations
Donatien Delehelle, Fei Chen, Darwin Caldwell
2026
CoFreeVLA: Collision-Free Dual-Arm Manipulation via Vision-Language-Action Model and Risk Estimation
Xuanran Zhai, Binkai Ou, Qiaojun Yu +2 more
2026
From Instruction to Event: Sound-Triggered Mobile Manipulation
Hao Ju, Shaofei Huang, Hongyu Li +4 more
2026
AIR-VLA: Vision-Language-Action Systems for Aerial Manipulation
Jianli Sun, Bin Tian, Qiyao Zhang +5 more
2026
DexTac: Learning Contact-aware Visuotactile Policies via Hand-by-hand Teaching
Xingyu Zhang, Chaofan Zhang, Boyue Zhang +3 more
2026
Nimbus: A Unified Embodied Synthetic Data Generation Framework
Zeyu He, Yuchang Zhang, Yuanzhen Zhou +10 more
2026
Spotlighting Task-Relevant Features: Object-Centric Representations for Better Generalization in Robotic Manipulation
Alexandre Chapin, Bruno Machado, Emmanuel Dellandréa +1 more
2026
Towards Space-Based Environmentally-Adaptive Grasping
Leonidas Askianakis, Aleksandr Artemov
2026
Abstracting Robot Manipulation Skills via Mixture-of-Experts Diffusion Policies
Ce Hao, Xuanran Zhai, Yaohua Liu +1 more
2026
Deep Koopman Iterative Learning and Stability-Guaranteed Control for Unknown Nonlinear Time-Varying Systems
Hengde Zhang, Yunxiao Ren, Zhisheng Duan +2 more
2026
WheelArm-Sim: A Manipulation and Navigation Combined Multimodal Synthetic Data Generation Simulator for Unified Control in Assistive Robotics
Guangping Liu, Tipu Sultan, Vittorio Di Giorgio +3 more
2026
Learning From a Steady Hand: A Weakly Supervised Agent for Robot Assistance under Microscopy
Huanyu Tian, Martin Huber, Lingyun Zeng +7 more
2026
One Step Is Enough: Dispersive MeanFlow Policy Optimization
Guowei Zou, Haitao Wang, Hejun Wu +3 more
2026
Vibro-Sense: Robust Vibration-based Impulse Response Localization and Trajectory Tracking for Robotic Hands
Wadhah Zai El Amri, Nicolás Navarro-Guerrero
2026
MARVL: Multi-Stage Guidance for Robotic Manipulation via Vision-Language Models
Xunlan Zhou, Xuanlin Chen, Shaowei Zhang +4 more
2026
STORM: Slot-based Task-aware Object-centric Representation for robotic Manipulation
Alexandre Chapin, Emmanuel Dellandréa, Liming Chen
2026
Demonstration-Free Robotic Control via LLM Agents
Brian Y. Tsui, Alan Y. Fang, Tiffany J. Hwu
2026
TaF-VLA: Tactile-Force Alignment in Vision-Language-Action Models for Force-aware Manipulation
Yuzhe Huang, Pei Lin, Wanlin Li +5 more
2026
Shallow-π: Knowledge Distillation for Flow-based VLAs
Boseong Jeon, Yunho Choi, Taehan Kim
2026
TouchGuide: Inference-Time Steering of Visuomotor Policies via Touch Guidance
Zhemeng Zhang, Jiahua Ma, Xincheng Yang +13 more
2026
TRACER: Texture-Robust Affordance Chain-of-Thought for Deformable-Object Refinement
Wanjun Jia, Kang Li, Fan Yang +7 more
2026
Real-Time Robot Execution with Masked Action Chunking
Haoxuan Wang, Gengyu Zhang, Yan Yan +3 more
2026