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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 ✕Active Cross-Modal Visuo-Tactile Perception of Deformable Linear Objects
Raffaele Mazza, Ciro Natale, Pietro Falco
2026
DroneVLA: VLA based Aerial Manipulation
Fawad Mehboob, Monijesu James, Amir Habel +3 more
2026
RIM Hand : A Robotic Hand with an Accurate Carpometacarpal Joint and Nitinol-Supported Skeletal Structure
Joon Lee, Jeongyoon Han, Doyoung Kim +1 more
2026
A General One-Shot Multimodal Active Perception Framework for Robotic Manipulation: Learning to Predict Optimal Viewpoint
Deyun Qin, Zezhi Liu, Hanqian Luo +2 more
2026
Diffusion-based Inverse Model of a Distributed Tactile Sensor for Object Pose Estimation
Ante Marić, Giammarco Caroleo, Alessandro Albini +3 more
2026
MATTERIX: toward a digital twin for robotics-assisted chemistry laboratory automation
Kourosh Darvish, Arjun Sohal, Abhijoy Mandal +17 more
2026
ForeDiffusion: Foresight-Conditioned Diffusion Policy via Future View Construction for Robot Manipulation
Weize Xie, Yi Ding, Ying He +5 more
2026
Dynamic Hand Gesture Recognition for Robot Manipulator Tasks
Dharmendra Sharma, Peeyush Thakur, Sandeep Gupta +2 more
2026
Autonomous Manipulation of Hazardous Chemicals and Delicate Objects in a Self-Driving Laboratory: A Sliding Mode Approach
Shifa Sulaiman, Francesco Schetter, Tobias Jensen +2 more
2026
ReWorld: Multi-Dimensional Reward Modeling for Embodied World Models
Baorui Peng, Wenyao Zhang, Liang Xu +5 more
2026
Learning Diverse Skills for Behavior Models with Mixture of Experts
Wangtian Shen, Jinming Ma, Mingliang Zhou +1 more
2026
From Shallow Waters to Mariana Trench: A Survey of Bio-inspired Underwater Soft Robots
Jie Wang, Peng Du, Yiyuan Zhang +2 more
2026
Active Semantic Mapping of Horticultural Environments Using Gaussian Splatting
Jose Cuaran, Naveen K. Upalapati, Girish Chowdhary
2026
BiKC+: Bimanual Hierarchical Imitation with Keypose-Conditioned Coordination-Aware Consistency Policies
Hang Xu, Yizhou Chen, Dongjie Yu +2 more
2026
Learning Semantic-Geometric Task Graph-Representations from Human Demonstrations
Franziska Herbert, Vignesh Prasad, Han Liu +2 more
2026
ACoT-VLA: Action Chain-of-Thought for Vision-Language-Action Models
Linqing Zhong, Yi Liu, Yifei Wei +4 more
2026
X-Distill: Cross-Architecture Vision Distillation for Visuomotor Learning
Maanping Shao, Feihong Zhang, Gu Zhang +3 more
2026
Skill-Aware Diffusion for Generalizable Robotic Manipulation
Aoshen Huang, Jiaming Chen, Jiyu Cheng +3 more
2026
A3D: Adaptive Affordance Assembly with Dual-Arm Manipulation
Jiaqi Liang, Yue Chen, Qize Yu +4 more
2026
Where to Touch, How to Contact: Hierarchical RL-MPC Framework for Geometry-Aware Long-Horizon Dexterous Manipulation
Zhixian Xie, Yu Xiang, Michael Posa +1 more
2026
Approximately Optimal Global Planning for Contact-Rich SE(2) Manipulation on a Graph of Reachable Sets
Simin Liu, Tong Zhao, Bernhard Paus Graesdal +5 more
2026
Future Optical Flow Prediction Improves Robot Control & Video Generation
Kanchana Ranasinghe, Honglu Zhou, Yu Fang +7 more
2026
The impact of tactile sensor configurations on grasp learning efficiency -- a comparative evaluation in simulation
Eszter Birtalan, Miklós Koller
2026
Terrain-Adaptive Mobile 3D Printing with Hierarchical Control
Shuangshan Nors Li, J. Nathan Kutz
2026