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MANIPULATION papers(59,346)
Clear ✕RoboTALES: Learning Reasoning-Guided Robot Policies via Task-Aligned Simulated Futures
Hanan Gani, Tejal Kulkarni, Madhoolika Chodavarapu +2 more
2026
GraspIT: A Dataset Bridging the Sim-to-Real gap and back for Validated Grasping SE(3) Pose Generation
Paul Koch. Adem Karakurt, André Sers
2026
FORGE: Towards Functional Tool-Use Generalization via Keypoint Trajectory Reasoning
Chuhao Zhou, Liquan Wang, Shuxin Cao +5 more
2026
3D Printing of Magnetic Soft Materials for Functional Structures and Devices.
Yu S, Yan Y, Chen M +5 more
Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.) · 2026
Length Control of Pneumatic Artificial Muscles Inspired by Intrafusal-Extrafusal Muscle Interactions.
Sakamoto K, Masuda Y, Takeda SI +1 more
Bioinspiration & biomimetics · 2026
Dynamic Evaluation of Classical and Control-Aware Optimal Trajectory Planning in Robot Manipulators
Bhanuka Dayawansa, Rohan Munasinghe
2026
From Fixed to Free Cameras: Calibration-Free View-Robust Vision-Language-Action Model
Wenhao Li, Xueying Jiang, Quanhao Qian +4 more
2026
Deform360: A Massive Multi-view Visuotactile Dataset for Deformable World Models
Hongyu Li, Wanjia Fu, Xiaoyan Cong +11 more
2026
Cortex: A Bidirectionally Aligned Embodied Agent Framework for Long-horizon Manipulation
Jiaqi Peng, Xiqian Yu, Delin Feng +10 more
2026
InternVLA-A1.5: Unifying Understanding, Latent Foresight, and Action for Compositional Generalization
Haoxiang Ma, Junhao Cai, Xiaoxu Xu +17 more
2026
Closing the Reality Gap: Zero-Shot Sim-to-Real Deployment for Dexterous Force-Based Grasping and Manipulation
Zhe Zhao, Zhibin Li, Yilin Ou +1 more
2026
DSWAM: A Dual-System World Action Foundation Model for Fine-Grained Robot Manipulation
Jian Zhu, Jianjun Zhang, Taiyi Su +10 more
2026
CAC-VLA: Context-Gated Action Conditioning for Vision-Language-Action Models
Yifu Xiong, Wenhao Yu, Jiaxuan Lin +5 more
2026
Learning 4D Geometric Priors for Inference-Efficient World Action Models
Jianjun Zhang, Jian Zhu, Taiyi Su +4 more
2026
Aerial Manipulation: Contact, Medium Coupling, and the Geometry of Readiness
Antonio Franchi
2026
Geometry-Aware Motion Latents for Learning Robust Manipulation Policies
Yunchao Zhang, Yijia Weng, Ruizhe Liu +3 more
2026
KAM-WM: Kinematic Affordance Maps from Latent World Models for Robot Manipulation
Xinyu Shao, Keru Zhou, Guowei Huang +3 more
2026
SILO: Simulation-in-the-Loop Sim-to-Real Transfer for Multi-Stage Cable Routing
Stone Tao, Jie Xu, Hesam Rabeti +3 more
2026
Simple-to-Complex Structured Demonstrations for Vision-Language-Action Learning
Xinchuan Qiu, Yi Yu
2026
HUGS: Guiding Unified Dexterous Grasp Synthesis Across Modes and Scales via Learned Human Priors
Mingrui Yu, Yongpeng Jiang, Yongyi Jia +4 more
2026
NIR and Oxidative Stress-Modulated Intestinal Peristalsis Motion of Tubular Conductive Thermo-Hydrogel Actuator.
Kim AH, Jo H, Roy K +1 more
Nano-micro letters · 2026
Mask2Real-WM: Segmentation Masks as a Sim-to-Real Bridge for Controllable Dexterous World Models
Riccardo O. Feingold, Davide Liconti, Chenyu Yang +1 more
2026
VLA Grounder: Language-Conditioning Space Optimization for Black-Box VLA Models
Damir Shodiev, Aleksei Staroverov, Nikita Kachaev +2 more
2026
RoboDojo: A Unified Sim-and-Real Benchmark for Comprehensive Evaluation of Generalist Robot Manipulation Policies
Tianxing Chen, Yue Chen, Zixuan Li +17 more
2026