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MANIPULATION papers(59,358)
Clear ✕DexDrummer: In-Hand, Contact-Rich, and Long-Horizon Dexterous Robot Drumming
Hung-Chieh Fang, Amber Xie, Jennifer Grannen +2 more
2026
Closed-Loop Verbal Reinforcement Learning for Task-Level Robotic Planning
Dmitrii Plotnikov, Iaroslav Kolomiets, Dmitrii Maliukov +10 more
2026
ROBOGATE: Adaptive Failure Discovery for Safe Robot Policy Deployment via Two-Stage Boundary-Focused Sampling
Azuki Kim
2026
Beyond Viewpoint Generalization: What Multi-View Demonstrations Offer and How to Synthesize Them for Robot Manipulation?
Boyang Cai, Qiwei Liang, Jiawei Li +11 more
2026
MineRobot: A Unified Framework for Kinematics Modeling and Solving of Underground Mining Robots in Virtual Environments
Shengzhe Hou, Xinming Lu, Tianyu Zhang +2 more
2026
BiPreManip: Learning Affordance-Based Bimanual Preparatory Manipulation through Anticipatory Collaboration
Yan Shen, Feng Jiang, Zichen He +5 more
2026
HyReach: Vision-Guided Hybrid Manipulator Reaching in Unseen Cluttered Environments
Shivani Kamtikar, Kendall Koe, Justin Wasserman +5 more
2026
GAPG: Geometry Aware Push-Grasping Synergy for Goal-Oriented Manipulation in Clutter
Lijingze Xiao, Jinhong Du, Yang Cong +2 more
2026
Cortical Policy: A Dual-Stream View Transformer for Robotic Manipulation
Xuening Zhang, Qi Lv, Xiang Deng +3 more
2026
Geometrically Plausible Object Pose Refinement using Differentiable Simulation
Anil Zeybek, Rhys Newbury, Snehal Dikhale +3 more
2026
Enhancing Vision-Based Policies with Omni-View and Cross-Modality Knowledge Distillation for Mobile Robots
Kai Li, Shiyu Zhao
2026
Speedup Patch: Learning a Plug-and-Play Policy to Accelerate Embodied Manipulation
Zhichao Wu, Junyin Ye, Zhilong Zhang +6 more
2026
Memory Over Maps: 3D Object Localization Without Reconstruction
Rui Zhou, Xander Yap, Jianwen Cao +3 more
2026
The Robot's Inner Critic: Self-Refinement of Social Behaviors through VLM-based Replanning
Jiyu Lim, Youngwoo Yoon, Kwanghyun Park
2026
AGILE: A Comprehensive Workflow for Humanoid Loco-Manipulation Learning
Huihua Zhao, Rafael Cathomen, Lionel Gulich +6 more
2026
Generalized Task-Driven Design of Soft Robots via Reduced-Order FEM-based Surrogate Modeling
Yao Yao, David Howard, Perla Maiolino
2026
A Closed-Form CLF-CBF Controller for Whole-Body Continuum Soft Robot Collision Avoidance
Kiwan Wong, Maximillian Stölzle, Wei Xiao +1 more
2026
Speculative Policy Orchestration: A Latency-Resilient Framework for Cloud-Robotic Manipulation
Chanh Nguyen, Shutong Jin, Florian T. Pokorny +1 more
2026
VAMPO: Policy Optimization for Improving Visual Dynamics in Video Action Models
Zirui Ge, Pengxiang Ding, Baohua Yin +16 more
2026
Generation Models Know Space: Unleashing Implicit 3D Priors for Scene Understanding
Xianjin Wu, Dingkang Liang, Tianrui Feng +5 more
2026
Not All Features Are Created Equal: A Mechanistic Study of Vision-Language-Action Models
Bryce Grant, Xijia Zhao, Peng Wang
2026
MonoArt: Progressive Structural Reasoning for Monocular Articulated 3D Reconstruction
Haitian Li, Haozhe Xie, Junxiang Xu +3 more
2026
OmniVTA: Visuo-Tactile World Modeling for Contact-Rich Robotic Manipulation
Yuhang Zheng, Songen Gu, Weize Li +11 more
2026
Sparse Autoencoders Reveal Interpretable and Steerable Features in VLA Models
Aiden Swann, Lachlain McGranahan, Hugo Buurmeijer +2 more
2026