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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 ✕Dream.exe: Can Video Generation Models Dream Executable Robot Manipulation?
Rui Zhao, Kaiming Yang, Jifeng Zhu +6 more
2026
Inverse Manipulation through Symbolic Planning and Residual Operator Learning
Yigit Yildirim, Giuseppe Rauso, Riccardo Caccavale +1 more
2026
SoftPINCH: EMG-Driven Soft Exoskeleton Assistance for Finger Flexion and Grasping
Nicklas Nikolaj Grønvall, Magnus Malthe Sigsgaard Nielsen, Xiaofeng Xiong +1 more
2026
A New Quaternion-Joint Cable-Driven Redundant Manipulator Configuration and its Control Through FABRIK and Residual Reinforcement Learning
Tanapath Pornthisan, Thanapat Kemthong, Thanyapisit Kangsathien +3 more
2026
Adaptive super-twisting sliding mode control for robust tracking of wearable PAM-driven robotic manipulator.
Ezez SF, Tesfaye DG, Mohammed TK +2 more
Scientific reports · 2026
Highly Programmable Liquid Crystalline Polyurethane/MXene Hybrids for Large-Strain, High-Work-Capacity Artificial Muscles.
Zhao YX, Yin X, Wang YK +3 more
Small (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) · 2026
Universal bioinspired adhesives for arbitrary unknown surfaces toward dexterous robotic manipulation.
Wang D, Wei R, Zhang J +6 more
Microsystems & nanoengineering · 2026
TAMP-OS: An Open-Source Workflow for Tactile 3D-Printable Lithographs.
Gonzalez-Vazquez N, Faulkner R, Gamez V +4 more
Integrative and comparative biology · 2026
Instant-Fold: In-Context Imitation Learning for Deformable Object Manipulation
Yilong Wang, Cheng Qian, Edward Johns
2026
What Are We Actually Benchmarking in Robot Manipulation?
Tianchong Jiang, Xiangshan Tan, Samuel Wheeler +3 more
2026
DLO-Lab: Benchmarking Deformable Linear Object Manipulations with Differentiable Physics
Junyi Cao, Yian Wang, Ziyan Xiong +3 more
2026
Affordance2Action: Task-Conditioned Scene-level Affordance Grounding for Real-Time Manipulation
Litao Liu, Yifan Han, Pengfei Yi +9 more
2026
SimuScene: Simulation-Ready Compositional 3D Scene Reconstruction from a Single Image
Inhee Lee, Sangwon Baik, Sungjoo Kim +3 more
2026
Preference-Calibrated Human-in-the-Loop Reinforcement Learning for Robotic Manipulation
Zeyi Liu, Guangyao Liu, Yinuo Qu +6 more
2026
PointAction: 3D Points as Universal Action Representations for Robot Control
Mutian Tong, Han Jiang, Qiao Feng +2 more
2026
Unified Video-Action Joint Denoising for Dexterous Action and Data Generation
Dingrui Wang, YuAn Wang, Jinkun Liu +4 more
2026
Denoising Tells When to Replan: Denoising-Variance Adaptive Chunking for Flow-Based Robot Policies
Xiangdong Feng, Yuxuan Cheng, Chen Shi +5 more
2026
Optimal Design and Analytical Modeling of a Soft Fin-Ray Effect Gripper Finger Using the Finite Rigid Elements Method
Sara Adeli, Hassan Sayyaadi
2026
Revisiting Embodied Chain-of-Thought for Generalizable Robot Manipulation
Nan Sun, Yuan Zhang, Yongkun Yang +10 more
2026
PHASER: Phase-Aware and Semantic Experience Replay for Vision-Language-Action Models
Ziyang Chen, Shaoguang Wang, Weiyu Guo +5 more
2026
Static and Dynamic Representations for Tactile Contact-Angle Estimation with Event-Based Sensors
Yanhui Lu, Efi Psomopoulou, Benjamin Ward-Cherrier
2026
OpenEAI-Platform: An Open-source Embodied Artificial Intelligence Hardware-Software Unified Platform
Jinyuan Zhang, Luoyi Fan, Leiyu Wang +4 more
2026
Extreme Motion Generation via Hybrid Null-Space Control for Straight-Line Path Following
Xinyi Yuan, Weiwei Wan, Kensuke Harada
2026
Grasp-Then-Plan with Failure Attribution: A Closed Two-Stage Framework for Precise and Generalizable Robotic Manipulation
Jiahao Xu, Peiyuan Wang, Hanzhuo Zhang +7 more
2026