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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 ✕Behavior Cloning of MPC for 3-DOF Robotic Manipulators
Theo Guegan, Dexter Wen Jie Teo
2026
StressDream: Steering Video World Models for Robust Policy Evaluation and Improvement
Junwon Seo, Sushant Veer, Ran Tian +6 more
2026
Per-Group Error, Not Total MSE: Fine-Tuning Vision-Language-Action Models for 11-DoF Mobile Manipulation
Pau Montagut Bofi, Mario García Blasco, Tessa Pulli +1 more
2026
Cuttlebot: a platform demonstration for complex, autonomous, bio-inspired swimmers
Alexander Nicholas White, Ang Leo Li, Alexander Yin +5 more
2026
Learning Controlled Separation of Small Objects Between Two Fingers with a Tactile Skin
Ulf Kasolowsky, Berthold Bäuml
2026
Batched Differentiable Rigid Body Dynamics in PyTorch for GPU-Accelerated Robot Learning
Yue Wang, Yanran Xu, Wenbo Wu +2 more
2026
Adaptive Artificial Time-Delay Control with Barrier Lyapunov Constraints for Euler-Lagrange Robots
Saksham Gupta, Rishabh Dev Yadav, Sarthak Mishra +5 more
2026
Learning Terrain-Aware Whole-Body Control for Perceptive Legged Loco-Manipulation
Sikai Guo, Yudong Zhong, Guoyang Zhao +3 more
2026
Surface Constraint Policy for Learning Surface-Constrained and Dynamically Feasible Robot Skills
Shuai Ke, Jiexin Zhang, Huan Zhao +4 more
2026
DeMaVLA: A Vision-Language-Action Foundation Model for Generalizable Deformable Manipulation
Taiyi Su, Jian Zhu, Tianjian Wang +9 more
2026
Survival Reinforcement Learning: Toward Scalable Self-Supervised RL
Franki Nguimatsia-Tiofack, Fabian Schramm, Théotime Le Hellard +1 more
2026
Wall-OSS-0.5 Technical Report
Ryan Yu, Pushi Zhang, Starrick Liu +17 more
2026
Feat2Go: Visual Feature-Grounded Value Estimation for Embodied Reinforcement Learning
Junyang Shu, Zhiwei Lin, Bingqing Wei +1 more
2026
Two Degree-of-Freedom Vibratory Transport in a Grasp
C. L. Yako, Shenli Yuan, Kenneth Salisbury
2026
Object-Informed Model Predictive Path Integral Control for Non-Prehensile Robot Manipulation
Nikola Raicevic, Bharath Raam Radhakrishnan, Chenbin Yu +2 more
2026
GSAM: A Generalizable and Safe Robotic Framework for Articulated Object Manipulation
Beichen Shao, Mengying Xie, Heng Su +5 more
2026
WristCompass: Kinematic Coupling as a Learnable Visual Concept for Ego-Camera Orientation
Varun Nair, Vidyut Baradwaj, Jiahang He +3 more
2026
Bioinspired Swallowing Soft Gripper with Toroidal Optical Waveguides for Multimodal Interactive Perception.
Xiang S, Niu M, Fang W +4 more
Soft robotics · 2026
Armadillo-inspired active morphing skeletons for soft machines.
Zhou J, Zhou W, Lee SJ +3 more
Science advances · 2026
BOKBO (Best of K Bad Options): Calibrated Abstention for VLA Policies
Anya Singh, Cabrel Happi, Jai Relan +2 more
2026
Any-ttach: Quick End-effector Swapping Enables Manipulation Dexterity with Simplicity
Weizhe Ni, Jinzhou Li, Haoyu Li +3 more
2026
ARISTO Hand: Sensing-Driven Distal Hyperextension for Fine-Grained Manipulation
Aaron Kim, Dong Ho Kang, Mark Helwig +4 more
2026
Physics-informed Goal-Conditioned Reinforcement Learning under Hybrid Contact Dynamics
Vittorio Giammarino, Anastasios Manganaris, Ahmed H. Qureshi
2026
ELAN4D: Embodiment-Centric 4D Supervision for Vision-Language-Action Models via Plug-and-Play Adaptation
Zeyuan He, Bowen Yang, Zhirui Fang +9 more
2026