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MANIPULATION papers(58,805)
Clear ✕Move-Then-Operate: Behavioral Phasing for Human-Like Robotic Manipulation
Haoming Xu, Lei Lei, Jie Gu +3 more
2026
Tube Diffusion Policy: Reactive Visual-Tactile Policy Learning for Contact-rich Manipulation
Teng Xue, Alberto Rigo, Bingjian Huang +4 more
2026
Keypoint-based Dynamic Object 6-DoF Pose Tracking via Event Camera
Zhe Wang, Qijin Song, Zihao Li +2 more
2026
Efficient Rationale-based Retrieval: On-policy Distillation from Generative Rerankers based on JEPA
Teng Chen, Sheng Xu, Feixiang Guo +4 more
2026
BridgeACT: Bridging Human Demonstrations to Robot Actions via Unified Tool-Target Affordances
Yifan Han, Jianxiang Liu, Haoyu Zhang +3 more
2026
GazeVLA: Learning Human Intention for Robotic Manipulation
Chengyang Li, Kaiyi Xiong, Yuan Xu +3 more
2026
QDTraj: Exploration of Diverse Trajectory Primitives for Articulated Objects Robotic Manipulation
Mathilde Kappel, Mahdi Khoramshahi, Louis Annabi +2 more
2026
Point & Grasp: Flexible Selection of Out-of-Reach Objects Through Probabilistic Cue Integration
Xuejing Luo, Hee-Seung Moon, Christian Holz +1 more
2026
LeHome: A Simulation Environment for Deformable Object Manipulation in Household Scenarios
Zeyi Li, Yushi Yang, Shawn Xie +15 more
2026
CodeGraphVLP: Code-as-Planner Meets Semantic-Graph State for Non-Markovian Vision-Language-Action Models
Khoa Vo, Sieu Tran, Taisei Hanyu +8 more
2026
Learning-augmented robotic automation for real-world manufacturing
Yunho Kim, Quan Nguyen, Taewhan Kim +2 more
2026
Wiggle and Go! System Identification for Zero-Shot Dynamic Rope Manipulation
Arthur Jakobsson, Abhinav Mahajan, Karthik Pullalarevu +6 more
2026
Long-Horizon Manipulation via Trace-Conditioned VLA Planning
Isabella Liu, An-Chieh Cheng, Rui Yan +7 more
2026
VistaBot: View-Robust Robot Manipulation via Spatiotemporal-Aware View Synthesis
Songen Gu, Yuhang Zheng, Weize Li +6 more
2026
Hi-WM: Human-in-the-World-Model for Scalable Robot Post-Training
Yaxuan Li, Zhongyi Zhou, Yefei Chen +5 more
2026
X2-N: A Transformable Wheel-legged Humanoid Robot with Dual-mode Locomotion and Manipulation
Yan Ning, Xingzhou Chen, Delong Li +6 more
2026
FingerViP: Learning Real-World Dexterous Manipulation with Fingertip Visual Perception
Zhen Zhang, Weinan Wang, Hejia Sun +4 more
2026
How VLAs (Really) Work In Open-World Environments
Amir Rasouli, Yangzheng Wu, Zhiyuan Li +4 more
2026
Full-Body Dynamic Safety for Robot Manipulators: 3D Poisson Safety Functions for CBF-Based Safety Filters
Meg Wilkinson, Gilbert Bahati, Ryan M. Bena +3 more
2026
Neuro-Symbolic Manipulation Understanding with Enriched Semantic Event Chains
Fatemeh Ziaeetabar
2026
DeVI: Physics-based Dexterous Human-Object Interaction via Synthetic Video Imitation
Hyeonwoo Kim, Jeonghwan Kim, Kyungwon Cho +1 more
2026
PokeVLA: Empowering Pocket-Sized Vision-Language-Action Model with Comprehensive World Knowledge Guidance
Yupeng Zheng, Xiang Li, Songen Gu +12 more
2026
Visual-Tactile Peg-in-Hole Assembly Learning from Peg-out-of-Hole Disassembly
Yongqiang Zhao, Xuyang Zhang, Zhuo Chen +3 more
2026
A Kinematic Framework for Evaluating Pinch Configurations in Robotic Hand Design without Object or Contact Models
HyoJae Kang, Joonho Lee, Hyunmok Jung +1 more
2026