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MANIPULATION papers(58,805)
Clear ✕frax: Fast Robot Kinematics and Dynamics in JAX
Daniel Morton, Marco Pavone
2026
Real-Time Projected Adaptive Control for Closed-Chain Co-Manipulative Continuum Robots
Rana Danesh, Farrokh Janabi-Sharifi, Farhad Aghili
2026
Primitive-based Truncated Diffusion for Efficient Trajectory Generation of Differential Drive Mobile Manipulators
Long Xu, Choilam Wong, Yuhang Zhong +3 more
2026
Adaptive Action Chunking at Inference-time for Vision-Language-Action Models
Yuanchang Liang, Xiaobo Wang, Kai Wang +5 more
2026
Learning Dexterous Grasping from Sparse Taxonomy Guidance
Juhan Park, Taerim Yoon, Seungmin Kim +10 more
2026
VLA-Forget: Vision-Language-Action Unlearning for Embodied Foundation Models
Ravi Ranjan, Agoritsa Polyzou
2026
Risk-Constrained Belief-Space Optimization for Safe Control under Latent Uncertainty
Clinton Enwerem, John S. Baras, Calin Belta
2026
From Video to Control: A Survey of Learning Manipulation Interfaces from Temporal Visual Data
Linfang Zheng, Zikai Ouyang, Chen Wang +2 more
2026
Build on Priors: Vision--Language--Guided Neuro-Symbolic Imitation Learning for Data-Efficient Real-World Robot Manipulation
Pierrick Lorang, Johannes Huemer, Timothy Duggan +3 more
2026
Belief Dynamics for Detecting Behavioral Shifts in Safe Collaborative Manipulation
Devashri Naik, Divake Kumar, Nastaran Darabi +1 more
2026
CRAFT: Video Diffusion for Bimanual Robot Data Generation
Jason Chen, I-Chun Arthur Liu, Gaurav Sukhatme +1 more
2026
Drift-Based Policy Optimization: Native One-Step Policy Learning for Online Robot Control
Yuxuan Gao, Yedong Shen, Shiqi Zhang +6 more
2026
Hierarchical Planning with Latent World Models
Wancong Zhang, Basile Terver, Artem Zholus +8 more
2026
The Compression Gap: Why Discrete Tokenization Limits Vision-Language-Action Model Scaling
Takuya Shiba
2026
Multi-View Video Diffusion Policy: A 3D Spatio-Temporal-Aware Video Action Model
Peiyan Li, Yixiang Chen, Yuan Xu +13 more
2026
Redefining End-of-Life: Intelligent Automation for Electronics Remanufacturing Systems
Sibo Tian, Xiao Liang, Sara Behdad +1 more
2026
ARM: Advantage Reward Modeling for Long-Horizon Manipulation
Yiming Mao, Zixi Yu, Weixin Mao +5 more
2026
Open-Loop Planning, Closed-Loop Verification: Speculative Verification for VLA
Zihua Wang, Zhitao Lin, Ruibo Li +4 more
2026
Learning Structured Robot Policies from Vision-Language Models via Synthetic Neuro-Symbolic Supervision
Alessandro Adami, Tommaso Tubaldo, Marco Todescato +2 more
2026
OMNI-PoseX: A Fast Vision Model for 6D Object Pose Estimation in Embodied Tasks
Michael Zhang, Wei Ying, Fangwen Chen +2 more
2026
THOM: Generating Physically Plausible Hand-Object Meshes From Text
Uyoung Jeong, Yihalem Yimolal Tiruneh, Hyung Jin Chang +2 more
2026
Differentiable SpaTiaL: Symbolic Learning and Reasoning with Geometric Temporal Logic for Manipulation Tasks
Licheng Luo, Kaier Liang, Cristian-Ioan Vasile +1 more
2026
Tune to Learn: How Controller Gains Shape Robot Policy Learning
Antonia Bronars, Younghyo Park, Pulkit Agrawal
2026
F2F-AP: Flow-to-Future Asynchronous Policy for Real-time Dynamic Manipulation
Haoyu Wei, Xiuwei Xu, Ziyang Cheng +5 more
2026