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MANIPULATION papers(58,805)
Clear ✕Emergent Dexterity via Diverse Resets and Large-Scale Reinforcement Learning
Patrick Yin, Tyler Westenbroek, Zhengyu Zhang +9 more
2026
Simulation Distillation: Pretraining World Models in Simulation for Rapid Real-World Adaptation
Jacob Levy, Tyler Westenbroek, Kevin Huang +6 more
2026
You've Got a Golden Ticket: Improving Generative Robot Policies With A Single Noise Vector
Omkar Patil, Ondrej Biza, Thomas Weng +7 more
2026
Towards Generalizable Robotic Manipulation in Dynamic Environments
Heng Fang, Shangru Li, Shuhan Wang +3 more
2026
Look Before Acting: Enhancing Vision Foundation Representations for Vision-Language-Action Models
Yulin Luo, Hao Chen, Zhuangzhe Wu +10 more
2026
From Passive Observer to Active Critic: Reinforcement Learning Elicits Process Reasoning for Robotic Manipulation
Yibin Liu, Yaxing Lyu, Daqi Gao +5 more
2026
RoCo Challenge at AAAI 2026: Benchmarking Robotic Collaborative Manipulation for Assembly Towards Industrial Automation
Haichao Liu, Yuheng Zhou, Zhenyu Wu +14 more
2026
End-to-End Dexterous Grasp Learning from Single-View Point Clouds via a Multi-Object Scene Dataset
Tao Geng, Dapeng Yang, Ziwei Liu +6 more
2026
MoE-ACT: Scaling Multi-Task Bimanual Manipulation with Sparse Language-Conditioned Mixture-of-Experts Transformers
Kangjun Guo, Haichao Liu, Yanji Sun +3 more
2026
Coupled Particle Filters for Robust Affordance Estimation
Patrick Lowin, Vito Mengers, Oliver Brock
2026
ForceVLA2: Unleashing Hybrid Force-Position Control with Force Awareness for Contact-Rich Manipulation
Yang Li, Zhaxizhuoma, Hongru Jiang +11 more
2026
Master Micro Residual Correction with Adaptive Tactile Fusion and Force-Mixed Control for Contact-Rich Manipulation
Xingting Li, Yifan Xie, Han Liu +4 more
2026
Confusion-Aware In-Context-Learning for Vision-Language Models in Robotic Manipulation
Yayun He, Zuheng Kang, Botao Zhao +3 more
2026
AeroGrab: A Unified Framework for Aerial Grasping in Cluttered Environments
Shivansh Pratap Singh, Naveen Sudheer Nair, Samaksh Ujjawal +4 more
2026
AnoleVLA: Lightweight Vision-Language-Action Model with Deep State Space Models for Mobile Manipulation
Yusuke Takagi, Motonari Kambara, Daichi Yashima +3 more
2026
ReMAP-DP: Reprojected Multi-view Aligned PointMaps for Diffusion Policy
Xinzhang Yang, Renjun Wu, Jinyan Liu +1 more
2026
SpatialPoint: Spatial-aware Point Prediction for Embodied Localization
Qiming Zhu, Zhirui Fang, Tianming Zhang +3 more
2026
RealVLG-R1: A Large-Scale Real-World Visual-Language Grounding Benchmark for Robotic Perception and Manipulation
Linfei Li, Lin Zhang, Ying Shen
2026
GraspALL: Adaptive Structural Compensation from Illumination Variation for Robotic Garment Grasping in Any Low-Light Conditions
Haifeng Zhong, Wenshuo Han, Zhouyu Wang +10 more
2026
Tactile Modality Fusion for Vision-Language-Action Models
Charlotte Morissette, Amin Abyaneh, Wei-Di Chang +5 more
2026
SmallSatSim: A High-Fidelity Simulation and Training Toolkit for Microgravity Robotic Close Proximity Operations
David Schwartz, Alexander Hansson, Sabrina Bodmer +3 more
2026
VLA-Thinker: Boosting Vision-Language-Action Models through Thinking-with-Image Reasoning
Chaoyang Wang, Wenrui Bao, Sicheng Gao +5 more
2026
One-Policy-Fits-All: Geometry-Aware Action Latents for Cross-Embodiment Manipulation
Juncheng Mu, Sizhe Yang, Hojin Bae +5 more
2026
R3DP: Real-Time 3D-Aware Policy for Embodied Manipulation
Yuhao Zhang, Wanxi Dong, Yue Shi +13 more
2026