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MANIPULATION papers(59,358)
Clear ✕Tactile Recognition of Both Shapes and Materials with Automatic Feature Optimization-Enabled Meta Learning
Hongliang Zhao, Wenhui Yang, Yang Chen +3 more
2026
StructBiHOI: Structured Articulation Modeling for Long--Horizon Bimanual Hand--Object Interaction Generation
Zhi Wang, Liu Liu, Ruonan Liu +2 more
2026
MoMaStage: Skill-State Graph Guided Planning and Closed-Loop Execution for Long-Horizon Indoor Mobile Manipulation
Chenxu Li, Zixuan Chen, Yetao Li +5 more
2026
$Δ$VLA: Prior-Guided Vision-Language-Action Models via World Knowledge Variation
Yijie Zhu, Jie He, Rui Shao +4 more
2026
PhaForce: Phase-Scheduled Visual-Force Policy Learning with Slow Planning and Fast Correction for Contact-Rich Manipulation
Mingxin Wang, Zhirun Yue, Renhao Lu +7 more
2026
SAIL: Test-Time Scaling for In-Context Imitation Learning with VLM
Makoto Sato, Yusuke Iwasawa, Yujin Tang +1 more
2026
FlowTouch: View-Invariant Visuo-Tactile Prediction
Seongjin Bien, Carlo Kneissl, Tobias Jülg +6 more
2026
TRIAGE: Type-Routed Interventions via Aleatoric-Epistemic Gated Estimation in Robotic Manipulation and Adaptive Perception -- Don't Treat All Uncertainty the Same
Divake Kumar, Sina Tayebati, Devashri Naik +4 more
2026
See and Switch: Vision-Based Branching for Interactive Robot-Skill Programming
Petr Vanc, Jan Kristof Behrens, Václav Hlaváč +1 more
2026
AffordGrasp: Cross-Modal Diffusion for Affordance-Aware Grasp Synthesis
Xiaofei Wu, Yi Zhang, Yumeng Liu +3 more
2026
EnergyAction: Unimanual to Bimanual Composition with Energy-Based Models
Mingchen Song, Xiang Deng, Jie Wei +3 more
2026
Unified Structural-Hydrodynamic Modeling of Underwater Underactuated Mechanisms and Soft Robots
Chenrui Zhang, Yiyuan Zhang, Yunfei Ye +3 more
2026
RoboRouter: Training-Free Policy Routing for Robotic Manipulation
Yiteng Chen, Zhe Cao, Hongjia Ren +9 more
2026
Choose What to Observe: Task-Aware Semantic-Geometric Representations for Visuomotor Policy
Haoran Ding, Liang Ma, Yaxun Yang +7 more
2026
Viewpoint-Agnostic Grasp Pipeline using VLM and Partial Observations
Dilermando Almeida, Juliano Negri, Guilherme Lazzarini +4 more
2026
Physics-infused Learning for Aerial Manipulator in Winds and Near-Wall Environments
Yiming Zhang, Junyi Geng
2026
ProgAgent:A Continual RL Agent with Progress-Aware Rewards
Jinzhou Tan, Gabriel Adineera, Jinoh Kim
2026
AeroPlace-Flow: Language-Grounded Object Placement for Aerial Manipulators via Visual Foresight and Object Flow
Sarthak Mishra, Rishabh Dev Yadav, Naveen Nair +2 more
2026
RoboPCA: Pose-centered Affordance Learning from Human Demonstrations for Robot Manipulation
Zhanqi Xiao, Ruiping Wang, Xilin Chen
2026
GLASS: Graph and Vision-Language Assisted Semantic Shape Correspondence
Qinfeng Xiao, Guofeng Mei, Qilong Liu +5 more
2026
AtomicVLA: Unlocking the Potential of Atomic Skill Learning in Robots
Likui Zhang, Tao Tang, Zhihao Zhan +9 more
2026
TempoFit: Plug-and-Play Layer-Wise Temporal KV Memory for Long-Horizon Vision-Language-Action Manipulation
Jun Sun, Boyu Yang, Jiahao Zhang +7 more
2026
ACCURATE: Arbitrary-shaped Continuum Reconstruction Under Robust Adaptive Two-view Estimation
Yaozhi Zhang, Shun Yu, Yugang Zhang +1 more
2026
ICLR: In-Context Imitation Learning with Visual Reasoning
Toan Nguyen, Weiduo Yuan, Songlin Wei +3 more
2026