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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 ✕GPU-Parallel Multi-Task Reinforcement Learning with Demonstration Guided Policy Optimization
Rui Zhang, Qiwei Wu, Zhengyu Zhang +5 more
2026
SplitAdapter: Load-Aware Humanoid Loco-Manipulation via Factorized Adaptation
Jeonguk Kang, Hanbyel Cho, Sanghyun Kang +1 more
2026
Dive into the Scene: Breaking the Perceptual Bottleneck in Vision-Language Decision Making via Focus Plan Generation
Boyuan Xiao, Bohong Chen, Yumeng Li +3 more
2026
EaDex: A Cross-Embodiment Dexterous Manipulation Framework from Low-Cost Demonstrations
Qian Zhao, Xin Tong, Chengdong Wu +2 more
2026
GeoAlign: Beyond Semantics with State-Guided Spatial Alignment in VLA Models
Yizhi Chen, Zhanxiang Cao, Xinyi Peng +14 more
2026
Toward Gripper-Integrated Active Electrosense for Pre-Contact Sensing in Underwater Soft Grippers
Ahsan Tanveer, Muhammad Hamza, Waqar Hussain Afridi +2 more
2026
ConTrack: Constrained Hand Motion Tracking with Adaptive Trade-off Control
Yutong Liang, Quanquan Peng, Ri-Zhao Qiu +1 more
2026
How Visible Are Silent Manipulation Failures? An Observability Study of False-Success Detection in Simulated Robot Episodes
Aarav Bedi
2026
TTT-VLA: Test-Time Latent Prompt Optimization for Vision-Language-Action Models
Wenbo Zhang, Jianxiong Li, Shuai Yang +4 more
2026
ModuLoop : Low-Level Code Generation using Modular Synthesizer and Closed-Loop Debugger for Robotic Control
Gina Yoon, Sumin Lee, Joo Yong Sim
2026
A U-Shaped Robotic Gripper with Displacement and Deformation Controlled by Programmable Magnetic Fields.
Liguo D, Yan A, Yuting Z +5 more
Bioinspiration & biomimetics · 2026
Three-dimensional printing of multilayer stretchable electronics with inclined interconnect accesses.
Zhao W, Deng Y, Zhang Y +7 more
Nature communications · 2026
Dual-wavelength photopatterning unlocks spatially programmable heterogeneity in liquid crystal elastomers.
Wang Y, He E, Liang H +7 more
Nature communications · 2026
Direct Informed Sampling on Riemannian Manifolds via Loewner Order Lower Bounds
Phone Thiha Kyaw, Jonathan Kelly
2026
SeeTraceAct: Visibility-Aware Latent Planning from Cross-Embodiment Demonstration Videos
Jaehyeon Son, Junhyun Kim, Kyle Kam +7 more
2026
AFUN: Towards an Affordance Foundation Model for Functionality Understanding
Zhaoning Wang, Yi Zhong, Jiawei Fu +2 more
2026
Intercepting the Future: Latent-Space Predictive World Model for Dynamic VLA Manipulation
Shahram Najam Syed, Arthur Jakobsson, Haoran Hao +1 more
2026
NDPP-Grasp: Non-Differentiable Physical Plausibility Constraint-Guided Task-Oriented Dexterous Grasp Generation
Qiuchi Xiang, Haoxuan Qu, Hossein Rahmani +1 more
2026
RoboSemanticBench: Diagnosing Semantic Grounding in Action Prediction for VLA Models
Bin Yu, Yao Zhang, Haishan Liu +9 more
2026
Dexterity-BEV: Aligning 3D World and Actions for Generalizable Robot Policies Learning
Huayi Zhou, Wei Gao, Dekun Lu +12 more
2026
Coherent Off-Policy Improvement of Large Behavior Models with Learned Rewards
Christian Scherer, Joe Watson, Theo Gruner +3 more
2026
Co-training with Ego-centric Video and Demonstration for Robot Navigation Task
Shoya Kuno, Yumo Ouchi, Kanata Suzuki
2026
Learning Action-Conditional and Object-Centric Gaussian Splatting World Models for Rigid Objects
Jens U. Kreber, Lukas Mack, Joerg Stueckler
2026
Set-Supervised Diffusion Policy: Learning Action-Chunking Diffusion through Corrections
Zhaoting Li, Gang Chen, Javier Alonso-Mora +2 more
2026