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MANIPULATION papers(58,805)
Clear ✕Quasi-Static Control of Discrete Cosserat Rod
Srishti Siddharth
2026
A Principled Approach for Creating High-fidelity Synthetic Demonstrations for Imitation Learning
Moniruzzaman Akash, Momotaz Begum
2026
TAIL-Safe: Task-Agnostic Safety Monitoring for Imitation Learning Policies
Riad Ahmed, Momotaz Begum
2026
VLA-ATTC: Adaptive Test-Time Compute for VLA Models with Relative Action Critic Model
Wenhao Li, Xiu Su, Yichao Cao +5 more
2026
Sentinel-VLA: A Metacognitive VLA Model with Active Status Monitoring for Dynamic Reasoning and Error Recovery
Wenhao Li, Xiu Su, Dan Niu +6 more
2026
Online Safety Filter for Deformable Object Manipulation with Horizon Agnostic Neural Operators
Jiaxing Li, Hanjiang Hu, Zhuoyuan Wang +2 more
2026
Recovering Hidden Reward in Diffusion-Based Policies
Yanbiao Ji, Qiuchang Li, Yuting Hu +7 more
2026
MSACT: Multistage Spatial Alignment for Stable Low-Latency Fine Manipulation
Xianbo Cai, Hideyuki Ichiwara, Masaki Yoshikawa +1 more
2026
Stereo Multistage Spatial Attention for Real-Time Mobile Manipulation Under Visual Scale Variation and Disturbances
Xianbo Cai, Hideyuki Ichiwara, Hyogo Hiruma +3 more
2026
Thinking in Text and Images: Interleaved Vision--Language Reasoning Traces for Long-Horizon Robot Manipulation
Jinkun Liu, Haohan Chi, Lingfeng Zhang +6 more
2026
Learning while Deploying: Fleet-Scale Reinforcement Learning for Generalist Robot Policies
Yi Wang, Xinchen Li, Pengwei Xie +13 more
2026
PrefMoE: Robust Preference Modeling with Mixture-of-Experts Reward Learning
Ziqin Yuan, Ruiqi Wang, Dezhong Zhao +2 more
2026
Embodied Interpretability: Linking Causal Understanding to Generalization in Vision-Language-Action Models
Hanxin Zhang, Mingshuo Xu, Abdulqader Dhafer +3 more
2026
A Model-based Visual Contact Localization and Force Sensing System for Compliant Robotic Grippers
Kaiwen Zuo, Shuyuan Yang, Zonghe Chua
2026
Lucid-XR: An Extended-Reality Data Engine for Robotic Manipulation
Yajvan Ravan, Adam Rashid, Alan Yu +8 more
2026
E$^2$DT: Efficient and Effective Decision Transformer with Experience-Aware Sampling for Robotic Manipulation
Kaiyan Zhao, Borong Zhang, Yiming Wang +4 more
2026
LaST-R1: Reinforcing Robotic Manipulation via Adaptive Physical Latent Reasoning
Hao Chen, Jiaming Liu, Zhonghao Yan +10 more
2026
RopeDreamer: A Kinematic Recurrent State Space Model for Dynamics of Flexible Deformable Linear Objects
Tim Missal, Lucas Domingues, Berk Guler +3 more
2026
FlexiTac: A Low-Cost, Open-Source, Scalable Tactile Sensing Solution for Robotic Systems
Binghao Huang, Yunzhu Li
2026
Function-based Parametric Co-Design Optimization of Dexterous Hands
Mohammad Amin Mirzaee, Harsh Gupta, Wenzhen Yuan
2026
PRTS: A Primitive Reasoning and Tasking System via Contrastive Representations
Yang Zhang, Jiangyuan Zhao, Chenyou Fan +11 more
2026
Learning Tactile-Aware Quadrupedal Loco-Manipulation Policies
Pokuang Zhou, Yuhao Zhou, Quan Khanh Luu +7 more
2026
Global Sampling-Based Trajectory Optimization for Contact-Rich Manipulation via KernelSOS
Zhongqi Wei, Frederike Dümbgen
2026
Interaction Forces and Internal Loads in Parallel Manipulators with Actuation Redundancy
Joshua Flight, Clément Gosselin
2026