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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 ✕Closed-Loop Sim-to-Real Reinforcement Learning for Deformable Microfiber Shape Control
Alessandro Amici, Houari Bettahar, Veeti Jaakkola +1 more
2026
roto 2.0: The Robot Tactile Olympiad
Elle Miller, Jayaram Reddy, Ayush Deshmukh +4 more
2026
PointACT: Vision-Language-Action Models with Multi-Scale Point-Action Interaction
Shizhe Chen, Paul Pacaud, Cordelia Schmid
2026
Learning Robust Dexterous In-Hand Manipulation from Joint Sensors with Proprioceptive Transformer
Senlan Yao, Chenyu Yang, Jaehoon Kim +2 more
2026
Learning Structural Latent Points for Efficient Visual Representations in Robotic Manipulation
Yicheng Jiang, Jiaxu Wang, Junhao He +8 more
2026
Humanoid Whole-Body Manipulation via Active Spatial Brain and Generalizable Action Cerebellum
Zhizhao Liang, Yi-Lin Wei, Xuhang Chen +6 more
2026
WiXus: A Wheeled-Legged Robot with Wire-Driven Environmental Utilizing to Integrate Mobility and Manipulation
Shintaro Inoue, Kento Kawaharazuka, Temma Suzuki +2 more
2026
Mobile UMI: Cross-View Diffusion Policy with Decoupled Kinematics for Mobile Manipulation
Haoran Huang, Haonan Dong, Huixu Dong
2026
DISC: Decoupling Instruction from State-Conditioned Control via Policy Generation
Hanxiang Ren, Pei Zhou, Xunzhe Zhou +1 more
2026
Demo-JEPA: Joint-Embedding Predictive Architecture for One-shot Cross-Embodiment Imitation
Jingyang He, Guangrun Li, Jieyu Zhang +3 more
2026
VLA-REPLICA: A Low-Cost, Reproducible Benchmark for Real-World Evaluation of Vision-Language-Action Models
Alex S. Huang, Jiahui Zhang, Shiqing Tang +1 more
2026
GaussianDream: A Feed-Forward 3D Gaussian World Model for Robotic Manipulation
Zijian Zhang, Yuqing Jiang, Qian Cheng +6 more
2026
VBT-MPC: Vision-Based Tactile MPC for Contour Following
Edison Velasco-Sanchez, Luis F. Recalde, Guanrui Li +1 more
2026
Spatially Prompted Visual Trajectory Prediction for Egocentric Manipulation
Yifan Li, Xinyu Zhou, Yunhao Ge +1 more
2026
Beyond Binary Success: A Diagnostic Meta-Evaluation Framework for Fine-Grained Manipulation
He-Yang Xu, Pengyuan Zhang, Zongyuan Ge +5 more
2026
World-Ego Modeling for Long-Horizon Evolution in Hybrid Embodied Tasks
Zuyao Lin, Jianhui Zhang, Peidong Jia +3 more
2026
RoHIL: Robust Human-in-the-Loop Robotic Reinforcement Learning Against Illumination Variations
Shuoqin Zhang, Yixin Xiong, Xiru Gao +4 more
2026
Beyond Action Residuals: Real-World Robot Policy Steering via Bottleneck Latent Reinforcement Learning
Dongjie Yu, Kun Lei, Zhennan Jiang +2 more
2026
RoVLA: Multi-Consistency Constraints for Robust Vision-Language-Action Models
Jingzhou Luo, Yifan Wen, Yongjie Bai +3 more
2026
PAPO-VLA: Planning-Aware Policy Optimization for Vision-Language-Action Models
Peizheng Guo, Jingyao Wang, Changwen Zheng +1 more
2026
SWEET: Sparse World Modeling with Image Editing for Embodied Task Execution
Yiren Song, Yihan Wang, Xiyao Deng +2 more
2026
ContextFlow: Hierarchical Task-State Alignment for Long-Horizon Embodied Agents
Shuhan Guo, Kun Zhang, Haifei Liu +4 more
2026
Hi-RAGrasp: A Human-in-the-Loop Experience-Augmented Method for Task-Oriented Grasping.
Liu Y, Hu Y, Liu Y +1 more
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026
Automatically Improving Simulation Physics for Articulated Objects
Anh-Quan Pham
2026