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MANIPULATION papers(59,358)
Clear ✕DreamPlan: Efficient Reinforcement Fine-Tuning of Vision-Language Planners via Video World Models
Emily Yue-Ting Jia, Weiduo Yuan, Tianheng Shi +3 more
2026
BrickSim: A Physics-Based Simulator for Manipulating Interlocking Brick Assemblies
Haowei Wen, Ruixuan Liu, Weiyi Piao +2 more
2026
CABTO: Context-Aware Behavior Tree Grounding for Robot Manipulation
Yishuai Cai, Xinglin Chen, Yunxin Mao +4 more
2026
DexGrasp-Zero: A Morphology-Aligned Policy for Zero-Shot Cross-Embodiment Dexterous Grasping
Yuliang Wu, Yanhan Lin, WengKit Lao +4 more
2026
Reconciling distributed compliance with high-performance control in continuum soft robotics
Vito Daniele Perfetta, Daniel Feliu-Talegon, Ebrahim Shahabi +1 more
2026
A Pin-Array Structured Climbing Robot for Stable Locomotion on Steep Rocky Terrain
Keita Nagaoka, Kentaro Uno, Kazuya Yoshida
2026
LIMBERO: A Limbed Climbing Exploration Robot Toward Traveling on Rocky Cliffs
Kentaro Uno, Masazumi Imai, Kazuki Takada +7 more
2026
Rewarding DINO: Predicting Dense Rewards with Vision Foundation Models
Pierre Krack, Tobias Jülg, Wolfram Burgard +1 more
2026
Coverage First Next Best View for Inspection of Cluttered Pipe Networks Using Mobile Manipulators
Joshua Raymond Bettles, Jiaxu Wu, Bruno Vilhena Adorno +2 more
2026
OGScene3D: Incremental Open-Vocabulary 3D Gaussian Scene Graph Mapping for Scene Understanding
Siting Zhu, Ziyun Lu, Guangming Wang +5 more
2026
MG-Grasp: Metric-Scale Geometric 6-DoF Grasping Framework with Sparse RGB Observations
Kangxu Wang, Siang Chen, Chenxing Jiang +3 more
2026
S-VAM: Shortcut Video-Action Model by Self-Distilling Geometric and Semantic Foresight
Haodong Yan, Zhide Zhong, Jiaguan Zhu +10 more
2026
Towards the Vision-Sound-Language-Action Paradigm: The HEAR Framework for Sound-Centric Manipulation
Chang Nie, Tianchen Deng, Guangming Wang +2 more
2026
PhysQuantAgent: An Inference Pipeline of Mass Estimation for Vision-Language Models
Hisayuki Yokomizo, Taiki Miyanishi, Yan Gang +3 more
2026
Large Reward Models: Generalizable Online Robot Reward Generation with Vision-Language Models
Yanru Wu, Weiduo Yuan, Ang Qi +3 more
2026
Ultrafast Sampling-based Kinodynamic Planning via Differential Flatness
Thai Duong, Clayton W. Ramsey, Zachary Kingston +2 more
2026
AsgardBench -- Evaluating Visually Grounded Interactive Planning Under Minimal Feedback
Andrea Tupini, Lars Liden, Reuben Tan +2 more
2026
FEEL (Force-Enhanced Egocentric Learning): A Dataset for Physical Action Understanding
Eadom Dessalene, Botao He, Michael Maynord +5 more
2026
Emergent Dexterity via Diverse Resets and Large-Scale Reinforcement Learning
Patrick Yin, Tyler Westenbroek, Zhengyu Zhang +9 more
2026
Simulation Distillation: Pretraining World Models in Simulation for Rapid Real-World Adaptation
Jacob Levy, Tyler Westenbroek, Kevin Huang +6 more
2026
You've Got a Golden Ticket: Improving Generative Robot Policies With A Single Noise Vector
Omkar Patil, Ondrej Biza, Thomas Weng +7 more
2026
Towards Generalizable Robotic Manipulation in Dynamic Environments
Heng Fang, Shangru Li, Shuhan Wang +3 more
2026
Look Before Acting: Enhancing Vision Foundation Representations for Vision-Language-Action Models
Yulin Luo, Hao Chen, Zhuangzhe Wu +10 more
2026
From Passive Observer to Active Critic: Reinforcement Learning Elicits Process Reasoning for Robotic Manipulation
Yibin Liu, Yaxing Lyu, Daqi Gao +5 more
2026