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Robotics Research Publications
An open index of robotics research papers, refreshed daily.
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MANIPULATION papers(58,805)
Clear ✕Optimal Control Approach for Non-prehensile Ball Juggling Using a 7-DoF Manipulator
Joel Ramadani, Vasilije Rakčević, Riddhiman Laha +4 more
2026
AEGIS: A Backup Reflex for Physical AI
Josef Chen
2026
What Matters When Cotraining Robot Manipulation Policies on Everyday Human Videos?
Richard Li, Aditya Prakash, Andrew Wen +3 more
2026
HANDOFF: Humanoid Agentic Task-Space Whole-Body Control via Distilled Complementary Teachers
Lizhi Yang, Junheng Li, Nehar Poddar +5 more
2026
TempoVLA: Learning Speed-Controllable Vision-Language-Action Policies
Dong Jing, Jingchen Nie, Tianqi Zhang +4 more
2026
PhyRoGen: Synthetic Generation of Physical Robot Manipulation Puzzles Using Procedural Content Generation
Lennart Julian Droß, Andreas Orthey, Marc Toussaint
2026
Synthetic Data Generation and Vision-based Wrinkle and Keypoint Detection for Bimanual Cloth Manipulation
Ariel Herrera, Xueyang Kang, Atal Anil Kumar
2026
Multi-Resolution Tactile Imitation Learning for Contact-Rich Robotic Manipulation
Rickmer Krohn, Erik Helmut, Niklas Funk +3 more
2026
ActiveMimic: Egocentric Video Pretraining with Active Perception
Xingyao Lin, Guojin Zhong, Tianyi Lu +4 more
2026
AffordanceVLA: A Vision-Language-Action Model Empowering Action Generation through Affordance-Aware Understanding
Qize Yu, Jiadi You, Yuran Wang +10 more
2026
MotionDisco: Motion Discovery for Extreme Humanoid Loco-Manipulation
Ilyass Taouil, Michal Ciebelski, Shafeef Omar +4 more
2026
L-SDPPO: Policy Optimization of Spiking Diffusion Policy for Intra-vehicular Robotic Manipulation
Liwen Zhang, Dong Zhou, Guanghui Sun +4 more
2026
Sample-efficient Low-level Motion Planning for Robotic Manipulation Tasks via Zero-shot Transfer Learning
Yuanzhi He, Victor Romero-Cano, José J. Patiño +3 more
2026
RealDexUMI: A Wearable Universal Manipulation Interface for Dexterous Robot Learning
Chaoyi Xu, Yixuan Jiang, Jiahui Huan +7 more
2026
DexFuture: Hierarchical Future-State Visuomotor Targeting for Bimanual Dexterous Tool Use
Runfa Blark Li, Kuang-Ting Tu, Nikola Raicevic +6 more
2026
Safe Embodied AI for Long-horizon Tasks: A Cross-layer Analysis of Robotic Manipulation
Dabin Kim, Daemin Park, Sangyub Lee +4 more
2026
Self-adaptive Under actuated Biomimetic Soft Robotic Hand Exoskeleton to Improve dexterity and Grasping Capabilities.
Abdelhafiz MH, Spaich E, Dosen S +1 more
Bioinspiration & biomimetics · 2026
Embodied Spatial Affordance: Spatial-Aware Affordance Learning for Embodied Navigation and Manipulation.
Hao X, Tang Y, Zhang L +5 more
IEEE transactions on image processing : a publication of the IEEE Signal Processing Society · 2026
Event-Triggered Predefined-Time-Synchronized Model Predictive Selective Impedance Control.
Xue J, Liang W, Xu Y +3 more
IEEE transactions on cybernetics · 2026
MoDex: A Diffusion Policy for Sequential Multi-Object Dexterous Grasping
Haofei Lu, Hongjia Liu, Yifei Dong +3 more
2026
Efficient Computation of Distance Functions for Navigation Vector Fields in Lie Groups
Vinicius M. Gonçalves, João Baião, Felipe Bartelt +4 more
2026
GRAIL: Generating Humanoid Loco-Manipulation from 3D Assets and Video Priors
Tianyi Xie, Haotian Zhang, Jinhyung Park +17 more
2026
Flash-WAM: Modality-Aware Distillation for World Action Models
Arman Akbari, Ci Zhang, Arash Akbari +6 more
2026
HapTile: A Haptic-Informed Vision-Tactile-Language-Action Dataset for Contact-Rich Imitation Learning
Amirhosein Alian, Yongqiang Zhao, Shiyi Gu +5 more
2026