🔬 Government#152 Gaithersburg, United States
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Robotics Division
NIST Robotics Division develops standards, measurements, and testing methodologies for robotics technologies. The division conducts research in perception, manipulation, and autonomous systems to advance industrial and service robot capabilities.
robotics standardsperceptionmanipulationautonomous vehiclesindustrial robotics
Notable achievements
Robot performance standards, manipulation benchmarks, autonomous vehicle testing frameworks
Notable work
Robotic grasping standardsMobile manipulation benchmarksRobot perception evaluation protocols
Recent publications
All papers →Matched by this lab's specialties (keyword overlap + direct affiliation)
MANIPULATION
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A hierarchical approach to imitation learning for manipulation tasks requiring time varying forces
Rishabh Shukla, Adithya Santhosh, Shaili Gandhi +2 more
Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing · 2026
MANIPULATION
Open access
How VLAs Fail Differently: Black-Box Action Monitoring Reveals Architecture-Specific Failure Signatures
Krishnam Gupta
2026
MANIPULATION
Open access
What Frozen VLAs Already Know About Success: A Probing Study of Value-Like Structure in Foundation Robot Policies
Jiachen Zhang, Junnan Nie, Junyi Lao +4 more
2026
PERCEPTION
Open access
OSMa-Bench++: Toward Open-Ended Benchmarking of Semantic Mapping for Manipulation with Prompt-Generated Synthetic Scenes
Regina Kurkova, Maxim Popov, Sergey Kolyubin
2026
MANIPULATION
Open access
EXPO-FT: Sample-Efficient Reinforcement Learning Finetuning for Vision-Language-Action Models
Perry Dong, Kuo-Han Hung, Tian Gao +2 more
2026
MANIPULATION
Open access
GAP: Geometric Anchor Pre-training for Data-Efficient Visuomotor Learning of Manipulation Tasks
Davide Buoso, Andrea Protopapa, Stefano Di Carlo +2 more
2026