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MANIPULATION papers(58,805)
Clear ✕Contrastive Conceptor Activation Steering (COAST): Unlocking Vision-Language-Action Models through Hidden States
Miranda Muqing Miao, Subin Kim, Brandon Yang +1 more
2026
Generalizable and Actionable Parts Pose Estimation with Symmetry Annotation-Free Learning Strategy
Wenxiao Chen, Xueyu Yuan, Liu Liu +2 more
2026
VLAMotor: Test-Guided Enhancement of Vision-Language-Action Models via Agent-BasedData Synthesis
Zeqin Liao, Peifan Ren, Zixu Gao +6 more
2026
SADP: Subgoal-Aware Diffusion Policy for Explainable Robots Learned from Foundation Model Generated Demonstrations
Site Hu, Takato Horii
2026
Nori Bot: A Sub-$1,000 Floor-to-Counter Mobile Manipulator
Antonio Li, Sungjoon Park, Wen Ni Chew
2026
EUPHORIA: Efficient Universal Planning via Hybrid Optimization for Robust Industrial Robotic Assembly
Shih-Yu Lai, Chia-Ching Yen, Yang-Ting Shen +3 more
2026
DexJoCo: A Benchmark and Toolkit for Task-Oriented Dexterous Manipulation on MuJoCo
Hanwen Wang, Weizhi Zhao, Xiangyu Wang +11 more
2026
Offline Semantic Guidance for Efficient Vision-Language-Action Policy Distillation
Jin Shi, Brady Zhang, Yishun Lu
2026
Health-Conditioned Vision-Language-Action Models for Malfunction-Aware Robot Control
Hüseyin Arslan, Özgür Erkent
2026
Learning Sim-Grounded Policies for Bimanual Rope Manipulation from Human Teleoperation Data
Gina Wigginghaus, Tim Missal, Berk Guler +2 more
2026
OHP-RL: Online Human Preference as Guidance in Reinforcement Learning for Robot Manipulation
Yunyang Mo, Jian Li, Qiwei Wu +2 more
2026
FocalPolicy: Frequency-Optimized Chunking and Locally Anchored Flow Matching for Coherent Visuomotor Policy
Qian He, Zhenshuo Yang, Wenqi Liang +3 more
2026
GAP: Geometric Anchor Pre-training for Data-Efficient Visuomotor Learning of Manipulation Tasks
Davide Buoso, Andrea Protopapa, Stefano Di Carlo +2 more
2026
Learning Dynamic Pick-and-Place for a Legged Manipulator
Moonkyu Jung, Jiseong Lee, Zhengmao He +8 more
2026
KaRMA: A Kinematic Metric for Fine Manipulation Ability in Robotic Hands
Martin Peticco, Pulkit Agrawal
2026
SkiP: When to Skip and When to Refine for Efficient Robot Manipulation
Mingtong Dai, Guanqi Peng, Yongjie Bai +5 more
2026
FLASH: Efficient Visuomotor Policy via Sparse Sampling
Jiaqi Bai, Jindou Jia, Yuxuan Hu +5 more
2026
Next-Generation Harvester Technologies: Synergizing Smart Grading and Biomechanical Damage Control in Mechanized Tomato Production.
Jing J, Chen Y, Zhao P +4 more
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026
Uncertainty-Calibrated Safety Gating for Vision-Language- Action Manipulation Under Domain Shift: Reliability Gains and Intervention-Efficiency Trade-Offs.
Ghaleb AM, Allahloh AS, Mejjaouli S +2 more
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026
Where to Perch in a Tree: Vision-Guidance for Tree-Grasping Drones
Alex Dunnett, Leonie Bottomley, Mirko Kovac +1 more
2026
Diffusion Policy for Coordinated Control of a Nonholonomic Mobile Base and Dual Arms in Door Opening and Passing
Shangqun Yu, Matthew En, Daniel Wu +4 more
2026
Hand-in-the-Loop: Improving VLA Policies for Dexterous Manipulation via Seamless Hand-Arm Intervention
Zhuohang Li, Liqun Huang, Wei Xu +5 more
2026
Evo-Depth: A Lightweight Depth-Enhanced Vision-Language-Action Model
Tao Lin, Yuxin Du, Jiting Liu +14 more
2026
Learning Cross-Coupled and Regime Dependent Dynamics for Aerial Manipulation
Rishabh Dev Yadav, Samaksh Ujjawal, Sihao Sun +2 more
2026