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MANIPULATION papers(59,346)
Clear ✕ACE-Brain-0.5: A Unified Embodied Foundational Model for Physical Agentic AI
ACE-Brain Team, :, Ziyang Gong +17 more
2026
Learning Task-Sufficient World Models by Synergizing Agentic Exploration and Structured Modeling
Fan Feng, Yujia Zheng, Minghao Fu +5 more
2026
A Perception-Manipulation Robotics System for Food Cutting
Xinyuan Luo, Wenzhen Yuan
2026
HALO-WA: Hybrid-Attention Latent-Guided Online Reinforcement Learning for World-Action Models
Angen Ye, Weijie Ke, Xiaofeng Wang +7 more
2026
FLOAT Drone for Physical Interaction: Lateral Airflow Reduction, Wrench Modeling, and Adaptive Control
Junxiao Lin, Kehan Zhou, Shuhang Ji +4 more
2026
SoftVTBench: A Safety-Aware Visuo-Tactile Benchmark for Physically Constrained Robotic Manipulation of Deformable Objects
Bowen Jing, Mingxin Wang, Ruiyang Hao +15 more
2026
XS-VLA: Coupling Coarse-grained Spatial Distillation with Latent Flow Matching for Lightweight Robotic Control
Lei Iok Tong, Qingchen Xie, Wei Huang +5 more
2026
ACE: Agentic Control for Embodied Manipulation via Zero-shot Workflow Reasoning
Iok Tong Lei, QianZhi Li, Ying Jie Yap +5 more
2026
Conflict-Based Lazy Search for Fast Multi-Manipulator Planning
Dongliang Zheng, Zhipeng Wang, Siqi Wang +4 more
2026
Electrospun Liquid Crystal Elastomers as Stress-Free Thermo- and Photoresponsive Actuators.
Braidi N, Zanoni M, Turriani M +6 more
ACS applied materials & interfaces · 2026
Worldscape-MoE: A Unified Mixture-of-Experts World Model for Scalable Heterogeneous Action Control
Jianjie Fang, Yongyan Xu, Ziyou Wang +13 more
2026
WSA$_1$: a 3D-Centric World-Spatial-Action Model for Generalizable Robot Control
Jiahao Jiang, Jianing Zhang, Zhenhan Yin +8 more
2026
High-Fidelity One-Step Generative Visuomotor Policy via Recursive Correction, Frequency Consistency, and Contrastive Flow Matching
Yuran Chen, Xinye Cai, Zhonglin Gong +1 more
2026
ObjRetarget: An Object-Aware Motion Retargeting Framework with Anthropomorphic Arm Constraints and Polyhedral Hand Modeling
Yuanchuan Lai, Qing Gao, Ziyan Liang +2 more
2026
Occluding the Solution Space: Planner-Agnostic Adversarial Attacks on Tolerance-Aware Manipulation
Keke Tang, Tianyu Hao, Weilong Peng +5 more
2026
CoRE-VLA: Towards Scalable and Robust Vision-Language-Action Modeling via Conditional Routing of Experts
Haozhe Zhang, Sixian Li, Yifei Zhang +5 more
2026
Single twistable tendon-driven continuum robots.
Lai J, Liu Y, Ren TA +5 more
Nature communications · 2026
Cable-net deployment robot for automated protective barrier installation on the transmission lines.
Wang L, Xie G, Liu Y +1 more
Scientific reports · 2026
A high-dexterity soft neuroprosthetic hand for daily activities.
Zhang N, Yang X, Zong Z +7 more
Nature communications · 2026
Strong Adhesives Mediated by Dynamic Phase-Locking.
Dai F, Qi W, Wu B +2 more
Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.) · 2026
A novel SE-ResNet architecture for continuous estimation of wrist and hand movements from HD-sEMG.
Pan L, Chen Z, Li J
Medical & biological engineering & computing · 2026
ROBOCYCLE: Autonomous Dual-Arm Robotic Manipulation and Coordination for Recycling Applications
Rubén de J. Hilario-Cruz, Jesus A. García-González, Enrique Coronado +1 more
2026
Cross-Embodiment Robot Manipulation via a Unified Hand Action Space
Luis Felipe Casas, Robert Teal, Keval Shah +3 more
2026
CoorGrasp: Coordinated Contact Control for Adaptive Dexterous Grasping Under Uncertainty
Mingrui Yu, Yongpeng Jiang, Yongyi Jia +2 more
2026