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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 ✕Neural Operators for Design-Space Surrogate Modeling of Tendon-Actuated Continuum Robots
Branden Frieden, James M. Ferguson, Alan Kuntz +1 more
2026
Distributionally Robust Control via Stein Variational Inference for Contact-Rich Manipulation
Hrishikesh Sathyanarayan, Victor Vantilborgh, Harish Ravichandar +2 more
2026
ESI-Bench: Towards Embodied Spatial Intelligence that Closes the Perception-Action Loop
Yining Hong, Jiageng Liu, Han Yin +5 more
2026
DexHoldem: Playing Texas Hold'em with Dexterous Embodied System
Feng Chen, Tianzhe Chu, Li Sun +6 more
2026
ManiSoft: Towards Vision-Language Manipulation for Soft Continuum Robotics
Ziyu Wei, Luting Wang, Chen Gao +2 more
2026
Not What You Asked For: Typographic Attacks in Household Robot Manipulation
Ali Iranmanesh, Peng Liu
2026
Key-Gram: Extensible World Knowledge for Embodied Manipulation
Jingjing Fan, Siyuan Li, Botao Ren +1 more
2026
StableHand: Quality-Aware Flow Matching for World-Space Dual-Hand Motion Estimation from Egocentric Video
Huajian Zeng, Chaohua Yao, Yuantai Zhang +3 more
2026
Advanced PID architectures for tracking changing active constraints
Sigurd Skogestad
2026
Qumus: Realization of An Embodied AI Quantum Material Experimentalist
Lihan Shi, Zhaoyi Joy Zheng, Xinzhe Juan +14 more
2026
Dynamic robotic cloth folding with efficient Koopman operator-based model predictive control
Edoardo Caldarelli, Franco Coltraro, Adrià Colomé +2 more
2026
Active Defense Against False Data Injection Attacks in Robotic Manipulators
Gabriele Gualandi, Carl Mikael Larsson, Alessandro V. Papadopoulos
2026
TacSE3: Equivariant SE(3) Motion Estimation from Low-Texture Visuotactile Images for In-Gripper Tracking and Compensation
Zhongyuan Liao, Junzhe Wang, Qingyang Liu +6 more
2026
From Human Videos to Robot Manipulation: A Survey on Scalable Vision-Language-Action Learning with Human-Centric Data
Zhiyuan Feng, Qixiu Li, Huizhi Liang +12 more
2026
A Dexterous and Compliant Gripper With Soft Hydraulic Actuation for Microgravity Manipulation
William Su, Jordan Kam, Yixiao Wang +1 more
2026
Virtues of Ordered Chaos: Planning with Topple Actions in Tabletop Stack Rearrangement
Hao Lu, Rahul Shome
2026
Optimal Knock-Pick Planning for Tightly Packed Tabletop Blocks With Parallel Grippers
Hao Lu, Rahul Shome
2026
From a Single Demonstration to a General Policy for Contact-Rich Manipulation
Xing Li, Oliver Brock
2026
Visual Sculpting: Visually-Aligned Planning Representations for Long-Horizon Robot Clay Sculpting
Peter Schaldenbrand, Jean Oh
2026
RoboFlow4D: A Lightweight Flow World Model Toward Real-Time Flow-Guided Robotic Manipulation
Sixu Lin, Junliang Chen, Huaiyuan Xu +8 more
2026
AffordVLA: Injecting Affordance Representations into Vision-Language-Action Models via Implicit Feature Alignment
Weijie Kong, Zhian Su, Wei Yu +1 more
2026
Rapid Vibration Suppression and Trajectory Tracking of a Serial Manipulator with Multi-Flexible Links
Chengyi Wang, Yilong Huang, Ji Wang
2026
Tactile-based Multimodal Fusion in Embodied Intelligence: A Survey of Vision, Language, and Contact-Driven Paradigms
Zhixiang Cao, Di Tian, Runwei Guan +11 more
2026
Task Capability Improvement Algorithm for Collaborative Manipulators
Keshab Patra, Arpita Sinha, Anirban Guha
2026