Research
Robotics Research Publications
An open index of robotics research papers, refreshed daily.
Research Advisor
Describe your robotics research problem — get fitting method families grounded in real papers.
papers in the database
MANIPULATION papers(58,805)
Clear ✕Learning Action Manifold with Multi-view Latent Priors for Robotic Manipulation
Junjin Xiao, Dongyang Li, Yandan Yang +9 more
2026
See What Matters: Differentiable Grid Sample Pruning for Generalizable Vision-Language-Action Model
Yixu Feng, Zinan Zhao, Yanxiang Ma +4 more
2026
Beyond World-Frame Action Heads: Motion-Centric Action Frames for Vision-Language-Action Models
Huoren Yang, Jianchao Zhao, Hu Yusong +7 more
2026
Observer-Based Fixed-Time Nested Sliding-Mode Control for Tip-Position Regulation of a Single-Link Flexible Manipulator
Atul Sharma, Chayan Kumar Paul, S. Janardhanan
2026
DreamAvoid: Critical-Phase Test-Time Dreaming to Avoid Failures in VLA Policies
Xianzhe Fan, Yuxiang Lu, Shenyuan Gao +4 more
2026
Introducing Environmental Constraints to Grasping Strategies for Paper-Like Flexible Materials Using a Soft Gripper
Yi Dong, Yang Li, Jinjun Duan +1 more
2026
Rainbow Deep Q-Learning with Kinematics-Aware Design for Cooperative Delta and 3-RRS Parallel Robot Insertion
Hassen Nigatu, Gaokun Shi, Jituo Li +2 more
2026
Sampling-Based Follow-the-Leader Motion Planning for Manipulator-Mounted Continuum Robots
Chengnan Shentu, Nicholas Baldassini, Oluwagbotemi D. Iseoluwa +2 more
2026
Coordinated Diffusion: Generating Multi-Agent Behavior Without Multi-Agent Demonstrations
Lasse Peters, Laura Ferranti, Andrea Bajcsy +1 more
2026
Offline Policy Evaluation for Manipulation Policies via Discounted Liveness Formulation
Hao Wang, Joshua Bowden, Colton Crosby +1 more
2026
Behavioral Mode Discovery for Fine-tuning Multimodal Generative Policies
Alberta Longhini, David Emukpere, Jean-Michel Renders +1 more
2026
Forecast-aware Gaussian Splatting for Predictive 3D Representation in Language-Guided Pick-and-Place Manipulation
Kaixin Jia, Jiacheng Xu
2026
HarmoWAM: Harmonizing Generalizable and Precise Manipulation via Adaptive World Action Models
Qiuxuan Feng, Jiale Yu, Jiaming Liu +8 more
2026
PriorVLA: Prior-Preserving Adaptation for Vision-Language-Action Models
Xinyu Guo, Bin Xie, Wei Chai +4 more
2026
Unified Noise Steering for Efficient Human-Guided VLA Adaptation
Junjie Lu, Xinyao Qin, Yuhua Jiang +6 more
2026
ALAM: Algebraically Consistent Latent Action Model for Vision-Language-Action Models
Zuojin Tang, Haoyun Liu, Xinyuan Chang +11 more
2026
XQCfD: Accelerating Fast Actor-Critic Algorithms with Prior Data and Prior Policies
Daniel Palenicek, Florian Vogt, Joe Watson +3 more
2026
ForceFlow: Learning to Feel and Act via Contact-Driven Flow Matching
Shuoheng Zhang, Yifu Yuan, Hongyao Tang +7 more
2026
VEGA: Visual Encoder Grounding Alignment for Spatially-Aware Vision-Language-Action Models
Hao Wang, Xiaobao Wei, Jingyang He +10 more
2026
HeteroGenManip: Generalizable Manipulation For Heterogeneous Object Interactions
Zhenhao Shen, Zeming Yang, Yue Chen +5 more
2026
Retrieve-then-Steer: Online Success Memory for Test-Time Adaptation of Generative VLAs
Jianchao Zhao, Huoren Yang, Yusong Hu +6 more
2026
Muninn: Your Trajectory Diffusion Model But Faster
Gokul Puthumanaillam, Hao Jiang, Ruben Hernandez +4 more
2026
StereoPolicy: Improving Robotic Manipulation Policies via Stereo Perception
Evans Han, Yunfan Jiang, Yingke Wang +6 more
2026
JODA: Composable Joint Dynamics for Articulated Objects
Tianhong Gao, Cheng Yu, Yinghao Xu +1 more
2026