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MANIPULATION papers(58,805)
Clear ✕BioProVLA-Agent: An Affordable, Protocol-Driven, Vision-Enhanced VLA-Enabled Embodied Multi-Agent System with Closed-Loop-Capable Reasoning for Biological Laboratory Manipulation
Zhaohui Du, Zhe Wang, Hongmei Fei +7 more
2026
PISTO: Proximal Inference for Stochastic Trajectory Optimization
Hongzhe Yu, Zinuo Chang, Yongxin Chen
2026
An Aerial Manipulator for Perception-Driven Flower Targeting Toward Contactless Pollination in Vertical Farming
Chenzhe Jin, Zhuohang Wu, Yifan Cai +4 more
2026
Lie Group Formulation of Recursive Dynamics Algorithms of Higher Order for Floating-Base Robots
Ahmed Ali, Chiara Gabellieri, Antonio Franchi
2026
OA-WAM: Object-Addressable World Action Model for Robust Robot Manipulation
Yushan Liu, Peibo Sun, Shoujie Li +7 more
2026
Toward Visually Realistic Simulation: A Benchmark for Evaluating Robot Manipulation in Simulation
Yixin Zhu, Zixiong Wang, Jian Yang +4 more
2026
CKT-WAM: Parameter-Efficient Context Knowledge Transfer Between World Action Models
Yuhua Jiang, Yijun Guo, Hongbing Yang +7 more
2026
RobotEQ: Transitioning from Passive Intelligence to Active Intelligence in Embodied AI
Kuofei Fang, Xinyi Che, Haomin Ouyang +12 more
2026
When to Trust Imagination: Adaptive Action Execution for World Action Models
Rui Wang, Yue Zhang, Jiehong Lin +4 more
2026
VLA-GSE: Boosting Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning in VLA with Generalized and Specialized Experts
Yuhua Jiang, Junjie Lu, Xinyao Qin +4 more
2026
MaMi-HOI: Harmonizing Global Kinematics and Local Geometry for Human-Object Interaction Generation
Hao Wang, Shiqi Wang, Qi Liu
2026
TriRelVLA: Triadic Relational Structure for Generalizable Embodied Manipulation
Hanyu Zhou, Chuanhao Ma, Gim Hee Lee
2026
Contact-Free Grasp Stability Prediction with In-Hand Time-of-Flight Sensors
Kyle DuFrene, Cindy Grimm
2026
Modular Lie Algebraic PDE Control of Multibody Flexible Manipulators
Sadeq Yaqubi, Jouni Mattila
2026
When Life Gives You BC, Make Q-functions: Extracting Q-values from Behavior Cloning for On-Robot Reinforcement Learning
Lakshita Dodeja, Ondrej Biza, Shivam Vats +5 more
2026
ConsisVLA-4D: Advancing Spatiotemporal Consistency in Efficient 3D-Perception and 4D-Reasoning for Robotic Manipulation
Wei Li, Jizhihui Liu, Li Yixing +3 more
2026
Reduced-order Neural Modeling with Differentiable Simulation for High-Detail Tactile Perception
Yuhu Guo, Zhikai Shen, Jiasheng Qu +4 more
2026
3D Printing of Passively Actuated Self-Folding Robots with Integrated Functional Modules
Gaolin Ge, Qifeng Yang, Haoran Lu +3 more
2026
From Reach to Insert: Tactile-Augmented Precision Assembly under Sub-Millimeter Tolerances
Xinpan Meng, Siyao Huang, JingPu Yang +6 more
2026
Angle-I2P: Angle-Consistent-Aware Hierarchical Attention for Cross-Modality Outlier Rejection
Muyao Peng, Shun Zou, Pei An +2 more
2026
HDFlow: Hierarchical Diffusion-Flow Planning for Long-horizon Tasks
Nandiraju Gireesh, Yuanliang Ju, Chaoyi Xu +3 more
2026
StateVLM: A State-Aware Vision-Language Model for Robotic Affordance Reasoning
Xiaowen Sun, Matthias Kerzel, Mengdi Li +3 more
2026
RoboAlign-R1: Distilled Multimodal Reward Alignment for Robot Video World Models
Hao Wu, Yuqi Li, Yuan Gao +10 more
2026
Sensorless State Estimation and Control for Agile Cable-Suspended Payload Transport by Quadrotors
Ana Maria Nascimento, Augusto Sales, Antonio Marcus Lima +1 more
2026