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MANIPULATION papers(59,358)
Clear ✕COAD: Constant-Time Planning for Continuous Goal Manipulation with Compressed Library and Online Adaptation
Adil Shiyas, Zhuoyun Zhong, Constantinos Chamzas
2026
One-Step Flow Policy: Self-Distillation for Fast Visuomotor Policies
Shaolong Li, Lichao Sun, Yongchao Chen
2026
Push, Press, Slide: Mode-Aware Planar Contact Manipulation via Reduced-Order Models
Melih Özcan, Umut Orguner, Ozgur S. Oguz
2026
A Learning-Based Approach for Contact Detection, Localization, and Force Estimation of Continuum Manipulators With Integrated OFDR Optical Fiber
Mobina Tavangarifard, Jonathan S. Kacines, Qiyu Li +1 more
2026
OmniStream: Mastering Perception, Reconstruction and Action in Continuous Streams
Yibin Yan, Jilan Xu, Shangzhe Di +2 more
2026
$Ψ_0$: An Open Foundation Model Towards Universal Humanoid Loco-Manipulation
Songlin Wei, Hongyi Jing, Boqian Li +12 more
2026
HandelBot: Real-World Piano Playing via Fast Adaptation of Dexterous Robot Policies
Amber Xie, Haozhi Qi, Dorsa Sadigh
2026
BrainMem: Brain-Inspired Evolving Memory for Embodied Agent Task Planning
Xiaoyu Ma, Lianyu Hu, Wenbing Tang +4 more
2026
SaPaVe: Towards Active Perception and Manipulation in Vision-Language-Action Models for Robotics
Mengzhen Liu, Enshen Zhou, Cheng Chi +6 more
2026
ComFree-Sim: A GPU-Parallelized Analytical Contact Physics Engine for Scalable Contact-Rich Robotics Simulation and Control
Chetan Borse, Zhixian Xie, Wei-Cheng Huang +1 more
2026
EgoIntent: An Egocentric Step-level Benchmark for Understanding What, Why, and Next
Ye Pan, Chi Kit Wong, Yuanhuiyi Lyu +6 more
2026
Cross-Domain Policy Optimization via Bellman Consistency and Hybrid Critics
Ming-Hong Chen, Kuan-Chen Pan, You-De Huang +2 more
2026
Ada3Drift: Adaptive Training-Time Drifting for One-Step 3D Visuomotor Robotic Manipulation
Chongyang Xu, Yixian Zou, Ziliang Feng +2 more
2026
RADAR: Closed-Loop Robotic Data Generation via Semantic Planning and Autonomous Causal Environment Reset
Yongzhong Wang, Keyu Zhu, Yong Zhong +3 more
2026
COTONET: A custom cotton detection algorithm based on YOLO11 for stage of growth cotton boll detection
Guillem González, Guillem Alenyà, Sergi Foix
2026
Concurrent Prehensile and Nonprehensile Manipulation: A Practical Approach to Multi-Stage Dexterous Tasks
Hao Jiang, Yue Wu, Yue Wang +2 more
2026
Learn Structure, Adapt on the Fly: Multi-Scale Residual Learning and Online Adaptation for Aerial Manipulators
Samaksh Ujjawal, Naveen Sudheer Nair, Shivansh Pratap Singh +3 more
2026
Diversity You Can Actually Measure: A Fast, Model-Free Diversity Metric for Robotics Datasets
Sreevardhan Sirigiri, Nathan Samuel de Lara, Christopher Agia +2 more
2026
RoboClaw: An Agentic Framework for Scalable Long-Horizon Robotic Tasks
Ruiying Li, Yunlang Zhou, YuYao Zhu +15 more
2026
A Generalized Theory of Load Distribution in Redundantly-actuated Robotic Systems
Joshua Flight, Clément Gosselin
2026
Grounding Robot Generalization in Training Data via Retrieval-Augmented VLMs
Jensen Gao, Dorsa Sadigh, Sandy Huang +1 more
2026
Seeing Isn't Orienting: A Cognitively Grounded Benchmark Reveals Systematic Orientation Failures in MLLMs Supplementary
Nazia Tasnim, Keanu Nichols, Yuting Yang +4 more
2026
Deployment-Time Reliability of Learned Robot Policies
Christopher Agia
2026
PPGuide: Steering Diffusion Policies with Performance Predictive Guidance
Zixing Wang, Devesh K. Jha, Ahmed H. Qureshi +1 more
2026