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Robotics Research Publications
An open index of robotics research papers, refreshed daily.
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MANIPULATION papers(5,629)
Clear ✕Active Defense Against False Data Injection Attacks in Robotic Manipulators
Gabriele Gualandi, Carl Mikael Larsson, Alessandro V. Papadopoulos
2026
TacSE3: Equivariant SE(3) Motion Estimation from Low-Texture Visuotactile Images for In-Gripper Tracking and Compensation
Zhongyuan Liao, Junzhe Wang, Qingyang Liu +6 more
2026
A Dexterous and Compliant Gripper With Soft Hydraulic Actuation for Microgravity Manipulation
William Su, Jordan Kam, Yixiao Wang +1 more
2026
Virtues of Ordered Chaos: Planning with Topple Actions in Tabletop Stack Rearrangement
Hao Lu, Rahul Shome
2026
Optimal Knock-Pick Planning for Tightly Packed Tabletop Blocks With Parallel Grippers
Hao Lu, Rahul Shome
2026
From a Single Demonstration to a General Policy for Contact-Rich Manipulation
Xing Li, Oliver Brock
2026
Visual Sculpting: Visually-Aligned Planning Representations for Long-Horizon Robot Clay Sculpting
Peter Schaldenbrand, Jean Oh
2026
RoboFlow4D: A Lightweight Flow World Model Toward Real-Time Flow-Guided Robotic Manipulation
Sixu Lin, Junliang Chen, Huaiyuan Xu +8 more
2026
AffordVLA: Injecting Affordance Representations into Vision-Language-Action Models via Implicit Feature Alignment
Weijie Kong, Zhian Su, Wei Yu +1 more
2026
Rapid Vibration Suppression and Trajectory Tracking of a Serial Manipulator with Multi-Flexible Links
Chengyi Wang, Yilong Huang, Ji Wang
2026
Tactile-based Multimodal Fusion in Embodied Intelligence: A Survey of Vision, Language, and Contact-Driven Paradigms
Zhixiang Cao, Di Tian, Runwei Guan +11 more
2026
Task Capability Improvement Algorithm for Collaborative Manipulators
Keshab Patra, Arpita Sinha, Anirban Guha
2026
Contrastive Conceptor Activation Steering (COAST): Unlocking Vision-Language-Action Models through Hidden States
Miranda Muqing Miao, Subin Kim, Brandon Yang +1 more
2026
Generalizable and Actionable Parts Pose Estimation with Symmetry Annotation-Free Learning Strategy
Wenxiao Chen, Xueyu Yuan, Liu Liu +2 more
2026
SADP: Subgoal-Aware Diffusion Policy for Explainable Robots Learned from Foundation Model Generated Demonstrations
Site Hu, Takato Horii
2026
Nori Bot: A Sub-$1,000 Floor-to-Counter Mobile Manipulator
Antonio Li, Sungjoon Park, Wen Ni Chew
2026
EUPHORIA: Efficient Universal Planning via Hybrid Optimization for Robust Industrial Robotic Assembly
Shih-Yu Lai, Chia-Ching Yen, Yang-Ting Shen +3 more
2026
DexJoCo: A Benchmark and Toolkit for Task-Oriented Dexterous Manipulation on MuJoCo
Hanwen Wang, Weizhi Zhao, Xiangyu Wang +11 more
2026
Offline Semantic Guidance for Efficient Vision-Language-Action Policy Distillation
Jin Shi, Brady Zhang, Yishun Lu
2026
Health-Conditioned Vision-Language-Action Models for Malfunction-Aware Robot Control
Hüseyin Arslan, Özgür Erkent
2026
Learning Sim-Grounded Policies for Bimanual Rope Manipulation from Human Teleoperation Data
Gina Wigginghaus, Tim Missal, Berk Guler +2 more
2026
OHP-RL: Online Human Preference as Guidance in Reinforcement Learning for Robot Manipulation
Yunyang Mo, Jian Li, Qiwei Wu +2 more
2026
FocalPolicy: Frequency-Optimized Chunking and Locally Anchored Flow Matching for Coherent Visuomotor Policy
Qian He, Zhenshuo Yang, Wenqi Liang +3 more
2026
GAP: Geometric Anchor Pre-training for Data-Efficient Visuomotor Learning of Manipulation Tasks
Davide Buoso, Andrea Protopapa, Stefano Di Carlo +2 more
2026