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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 ✕VR-DAgger: Immersive VR for Dexterous Data Collection and Uncertainty-Guided On-Policy Correction
René Zurbrügg, Tifanny Portela, Arjun Bhardwaj +3 more
2026
Object Pose and Shape Estimation for Grasping: Does it Work?
Pavan Karke, Kushal Shah, Gaurav Singh +3 more
2026
HyperSim: A Holistic Sim-To-Real Framework For Robust Robotic Manipulation
Junyi Dong, Haotian Luo, Ziwei Xu +11 more
2026
A Factory-Floor Deployment Case Study of VLA Pipelines for Industrial Packaging Task: Workflow, Failures, and Lessons
Brian Zhu, Philipp Schmitt, Philine Meister +12 more
2026
PhyPush: One Push is All You Need for Sensorless Physical Property Estimation with Physics-Guided Transformers
Koyo Fujii, Luis Figueredo, Praminda Caleb-Solly +4 more
2026
OASIS: Observation-Action Space Alignment via SE(3) Trajectory Prediction for Robotic Manipulation
Xinzhe Chen, Sihua Ren, Liqi Huang +5 more
2026
Implicit Null-space Manifold Generation for Redundant Robotic Systems
Taiki Ishigaki, Teresa Vidal-Calleja, Ko Ayusawa +1 more
2026
TapSampling: Inference-Time Sampling with a Task-Progress-Understanding Verifier for Robotic Manipulation
Sizhe Zhao, Shengping Zhang, Shuo Yang +3 more
2026
EXPO-FT: Sample-Efficient Reinforcement Learning Finetuning for Vision-Language-Action Models
Perry Dong, Kuo-Han Hung, Tian Gao +2 more
2026
FOUND-IT: Foundation-model-first Task-driven 3D Scene Graphs with Granularity on Demand
Dominic Maggio, Nicolas Gorlo, Luca Carlone
2026
Prior Policy Guided Dual-Agent Coordinated Manipulation Planning of Spacecraft-Manipulator System
Yuhui Hu, Dong Zhou, Kaihong Ouyang +3 more
2026
InvariantCloud: A Globally Invariant, Uniquely Indexed Point Cloud Framework for Robust 6-DoF Tactile Pose Tracking
Pengfei Ye, Yuxiang Ma, Yi Zhou +3 more
2026
X-DiffVLA: X-Embodied Diffusion Action Heads for Vision-Language-Action Models
Boyu Li, Chaoyi Xu, Haoqi Yuan +5 more
2026
HumanEgo: Zero-Shot Robot Learning from Minutes of Human Egocentric Videos
Zhi, Wang, Botao He +5 more
2026
Dynamic Neural Koopman Distillation for Real-Time Robot Control Using Diffusion Models
Lei Zheng, Peiqi Yu, Zengqi Peng +2 more
2026
Manifold-Constrained MPPI: Real-Time Sampling-Based Control Under Hard Constraints
Seulchan Lee, Sanghyun Kim
2026
Sum of Costs Diffusion with Dynamic Guidance for Motion Planning
Aysu Aylin Kaplan, Özgür Erkent
2026
DexSIM: Real-time Dexterous Simulation with Unified Causal Video Diffusion
Adam Lee
2026
Smoother Action Chunking Flow Policy via Prior-Corrected Orthogonal Trust-Region Guidance
Kai Fang, Hailong Pei, Xuemin Chi
2026
RoboHitch: Learning Visual Affordance from Disordered Keypoints for Hitch Knots Tying
Jiahui Zuo, Boyang Zhang, Fumin Zhang
2026
IsaacIPC: Coupling High-Fidelity Simulation and Realistic Rendering for Contact-Rich Robotic Systems
Qixin Liang, Zhongqing Han
2026
Afford-VLA: Action-Aligned Visual Planning via Internalized Affordance
Runze Wang, Yuqian Fu, Yu Li +7 more
2026
Robotic Strawberry Harvesting with Robust Vision and Deep Reinforcement Learning based Sim-to-Real Control
Al Bashir, Shao-Yang Chang, Partho Ghose +3 more
2026
Instrumentation for Imitation Learning: Enhancing Training Datasets for Clothes Hanger Insertion
Remko Proesmans, Thomas Lips, Francis wyffels
2026