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MANIPULATION papers(59,358)
Clear ✕Chameleon: Episodic Memory for Long-Horizon Robotic Manipulation
Xinying Guo, Chenxi Jiang, Hyun Bin Kim +4 more
2026
3D-Mix for VLA: A Plug-and-Play Module for Integrating VGGT-based 3D Information into Vision-Language-Action Models
Bin Yu, Shijie Lian, Xiaopeng Lin +8 more
2026
A Sensorless, Inherently Compliant Anthropomorphic Musculoskeletal Hand Driven by Electrohydraulic Actuators
Misato Sonoda, Ronan Hinchet, Amirhossein Kazemipour +2 more
2026
Toward Generalist Neural Motion Planners for Robotic Manipulators: Challenges and Opportunities
Davood Soleymanzadeh, Ivan Lopez-Sanchez, Hao Su +3 more
2026
Knowledge-Guided Manipulation Using Multi-Task Reinforcement Learning
Aditya Narendra, Mukhammadrizo Maribjonov, Dmitry Makarov +2 more
2026
Event-Driven Proactive Assistive Manipulation with Grounded Vision-Language Planning
Fengkai Liu, Hao Su, Haozhuang Chi +6 more
2026
Task-Space Singularity Avoidance for Control Affine Systems Using Control Barrier Functions
Kimia Forghani, Suraj Raval, Lamar Mair +2 more
2026
VTAM: Video-Tactile-Action Models for Complex Physical Interaction Beyond VLAs
Haoran Yuan, Weigang Yi, Zhenyu Zhang +9 more
2026
ABot-PhysWorld: Interactive World Foundation Model for Robotic Manipulation with Physics Alignment
Yuzhi Chen, Ronghan Chen, Dongjie Huo +11 more
2026
Strain-Parameterized Coupled Dynamics and Dual-Camera Visual Servoing for Aerial Continuum Manipulators
Niloufar Amiri, Farrokh Janabi-Sharifi
2026
Efficient Hybrid SE(3)-Equivariant Visuomotor Flow Policy via Spherical Harmonics for Robot Manipulation
Qinglun Zhang, Shen Cheng, Tian Dan +3 more
2026
Gaze-Regularized Vision-Language-Action Models for Robotic Manipulation
Anupam Pani, Yanchao Yang
2026
PHANTOM Hand
Teng Yan, Jiongxu Chen, Qixiang Hua +4 more
2026
TRAP: Hijacking VLA CoT-Reasoning via Adversarial Patches
Zhengxian Huang, Wenjun Zhu, Haoxuan Qiu +2 more
2026
VLA-IAP: Training-Free Visual Token Pruning via Interaction Alignment for Vision-Language-Action Models
Jintao Cheng, Haozhe Wang, Weibin Li +7 more
2026
Agile-VLA: Few-Shot Industrial Pose Rectification via Implicit Affordance Anchoring
Teng Yan, Zhengyang Pei, Chengyu Shi +8 more
2026
VLGOR: Visual-Language Knowledge Guided Offline Reinforcement Learning for Generalizable Agents
Pengsen Liu, Maosen Zeng, Nan Tang +4 more
2026
Grounding Sim-to-Real Generalization in Dexterous Manipulation: An Empirical Study with Vision-Language-Action Models
Ruixing Jin, Zicheng Zhu, Ruixiang Ouyang +4 more
2026
SG-VLA: Learning Spatially-Grounded Vision-Language-Action Models for Mobile Manipulation
Ruisen Tu, Arth Shukla, Sohyun Yoo +5 more
2026
Trajectory Generation for Underactuated Soft Robot Manipulators using Discrete Elastic Rod Dynamics
Beibei Liu, Akua K. Dickson, Ran Jing +1 more
2026
GIFT: Generalizing Intent for Flexible Test-Time Rewards
Fin Amin, Nathaniel Dennler, Andreea Bobu
2026
CaP-X: A Framework for Benchmarking and Improving Coding Agents for Robot Manipulation
Max Fu, Justin Yu, Karim El-Refai +12 more
2026
ThinkJEPA: Empowering Latent World Models with Large Vision-Language Reasoning Model
Haichao Zhang, Yijiang Li, Shwai He +5 more
2026
DualCoT-VLA: Visual-Linguistic Chain of Thought via Parallel Reasoning for Vision-Language-Action Models
Zhide Zhong, Junfeng Li, Junjie He +10 more
2026