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MANIPULATION papers(59,358)
Clear ✕AR-VLA: True Autoregressive Action Expert for Vision-Language-Action Models
Yutong Hu, Jan-Nico Zaech, Nikolay Nikolov +6 more
2026
TiPToP: A Modular Open-Vocabulary Planning System for Robotic Manipulation
William Shen, Nishanth Kumar, Sahit Chintalapudi +7 more
2026
MuxGel: Simultaneous Dual-Modal Visuo-Tactile Sensing via Spatially Multiplexing and Deep Reconstruction
Zhixian Hu, Zhengtong Xu, Sheeraz Athar +2 more
2026
Robotic Scene Cloning:Advancing Zero-Shot Robotic Scene Adaptation in Manipulation via Visual Prompt Editing
Binyuan Huang, Yuqing Wen, Yucheng Zhao +5 more
2026
ReTac-ACT: A State-Gated Vision-Tactile Fusion Transformer for Precision Assembly
Minchi Ruan, LiangQing Zhou, Hongtong Li +4 more
2026
Trajectory Optimization for Self-Wrap-Aware Cable-Towed Planar Object Manipulation under Implicit Tension Constraints
Yu Li, Amin Fakhari, Hamid Sadeghian
2026
NS-VLA: Towards Neuro-Symbolic Vision-Language-Action Models
Ziyue Zhu, Shangyang Wu, Shuai Zhao +5 more
2026
Beyond Short-Horizon: VQ-Memory for Robust Long-Horizon Manipulation in Non-Markovian Simulation Benchmarks
Honghui Wang, Zhi Jing, Jicong Ao +4 more
2026
Stein Variational Ergodic Surface Coverage with SE(3) Constraints
Jiayun Li, Yufeng Jin, Sangli Teng +2 more
2026
From Flow to One Step: Real-Time Multi-Modal Trajectory Policies via Implicit Maximum Likelihood Estimation-based Distribution Distillation
Ju Dong, Liding Zhang, Lei Zhang +7 more
2026
CORAL: Scalable Multi-Task Robot Learning via LoRA Experts
Yuankai Luo, Woping Chen, Tong Liang +1 more
2026
See, Plan, Rewind: Progress-Aware Vision-Language-Action Models for Robust Robotic Manipulation
Tingjun Dai, Mingfei Han, Tingwen Du +5 more
2026
GST-VLA: Structured Gaussian Spatial Tokens for 3D Depth-Aware Vision-Language-Action Models
Md Selim Sarowar, Omer Tariq, Sungho Kim
2026
PlayWorld: Learning Robot World Models from Autonomous Play
Tenny Yin, Zhiting Mei, Zhonghe Zheng +8 more
2026
Characterization, Analytical Planning, and Hybrid Force Control for the Inspire RH56DFX Hand
Xuan Tan, William Xie, Nikolaus Correll
2026
FAME: Force-Adaptive RL for Expanding the Manipulation Envelope of a Full-Scale Humanoid
Niraj Pudasaini, Yutong Zhang, Jensen Lavering +2 more
2026
Exp-Force: Experience-Conditioned Pre-Grasp Force Selection with Vision-Language Models
Siqi Shang, Minchao Huang, Bill Fan +1 more
2026
OmniGuide: Universal Guidance Fields for Enhancing Generalist Robot Policies
Yunzhou Song, Long Le, Yong-Hyun Park +7 more
2026
Diff-Muscle: Efficient Learning for Musculoskeletal Robotic Table Tennis
Wentao Zhao, Jun Guo, Kangyao Huang +2 more
2026
Bilevel Planning with Learned Symbolic Abstractions from Interaction Data
Fatih Dogangun, Burcu Kilic, Serdar Bahar +1 more
2026
MetaWorld-X: Hierarchical World Modeling via VLM-Orchestrated Experts for Humanoid Loco-Manipulation
Yutong Shen, Hangxu Liu, Penghui Liu +6 more
2026
CONTACT: CONtact-aware TACTile Learning for Robotic Disassembly
Yosuke Saka, Jyun-Chi Hu, Adeesh Desai +6 more
2026
EquiBim: Learning Symmetry-Equivariant Policy for Bimanual Manipulation
Zhiyuan Zhang, Aditya Mohan, Seungho Han +3 more
2026
AtomVLA: Scalable Post-Training for Robotic Manipulation via Predictive Latent World Models
Xiaoquan Sun, Zetian Xu, Chen Cao +9 more
2026