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MANIPULATION papers(58,805)
Clear ✕RoboClaw: An Agentic Framework for Scalable Long-Horizon Robotic Tasks
Ruiying Li, Yunlang Zhou, YuYao Zhu +15 more
2026
A Generalized Theory of Load Distribution in Redundantly-actuated Robotic Systems
Joshua Flight, Clément Gosselin
2026
Grounding Robot Generalization in Training Data via Retrieval-Augmented VLMs
Jensen Gao, Dorsa Sadigh, Sandy Huang +1 more
2026
Seeing Isn't Orienting: A Cognitively Grounded Benchmark Reveals Systematic Orientation Failures in MLLMs Supplementary
Nazia Tasnim, Keanu Nichols, Yuting Yang +4 more
2026
Deployment-Time Reliability of Learned Robot Policies
Christopher Agia
2026
PPGuide: Steering Diffusion Policies with Performance Predictive Guidance
Zixing Wang, Devesh K. Jha, Ahmed H. Qureshi +1 more
2026
Learning Adaptive Force Control for Contact-Rich Sample Scraping with Heterogeneous Materials
Cenk Cetin, Shreyas Pouli, Gabriella Pizzuto
2026
Contact Coverage-Guided Exploration for General-Purpose Dexterous Manipulation
Zixuan Liu, Ruoyi Qiao, Chenrui Tie +5 more
2026
A gripper for flap separation and opening of sealed bags
Sergi Foix, Jaume Oriol, Carme Torras +1 more
2026
FG-CLTP: Fine-Grained Contrastive Language Tactile Pretraining for Robotic Manipulation
Wenxuan Ma, Chaofan Zhang, Yinghao Cai +3 more
2026
COT-FM: Cluster-wise Optimal Transport Flow Matching
Chiensheng Chiang, Kuan-Hsun Tu, Jia-Wei Liao +2 more
2026
FutureVLA: Joint Visuomotor Prediction for Vision-Language-Action Model
Xiaoxu Xu, Hao Li, Jinhui Ye +7 more
2026
Cybo-Waiter: A Physical Agentic Framework for Humanoid Whole-Body Locomotion-Manipulation
Peng Ren, Haoyang Ge, Chuan Qi +5 more
2026
AdaClearGrasp: Learning Adaptive Clearing for Zero-Shot Robust Dexterous Grasping in Densely Cluttered Environments
Zixuan Chen, Wenquan Zhang, Jing Fang +7 more
2026
Learning Bimanual Cloth Manipulation with Vision-based Tactile Sensing via Single Robotic Arm
Dongmyoung Lee, Wei Chen, Xiaoshuai Chen +2 more
2026
RC-NF: Robot-Conditioned Normalizing Flow for Real-Time Anomaly Detection in Robotic Manipulation
Shijie Zhou, Bin Zhu, Jiarui Yang +3 more
2026
TacLoc: Global Tactile Localization on Objects from a Registration Perspective
Zirui Zhang, Boyang Zhang, Fumin Zhang +1 more
2026
BinWalker: Development and Field Evaluation of a Quadruped Manipulator Platform for Sustainable Litter Collection
Giulio Turrisi, Angelo Bratta, Giovanni Minelli +4 more
2026
DepthCache: Depth-Guided Training-Free Visual Token Merging for Vision-Language-Action Model Inference
Yuquan Li, Lianjie Ma, Han Ding +1 more
2026
FAR-Dex: Few-shot Data Augmentation and Adaptive Residual Policy Refinement for Dexterous Manipulation
Yushan Bai, Fulin Chen, Hongzheng Sun +3 more
2026
DiT4DiT: Jointly Modeling Video Dynamics and Actions for Generalizable Robot Control
Teli Ma, Jia Zheng, Zifan Wang +4 more
2026
Few-Shot Adaptation to Non-Stationary Environments via Latent Trend Embedding for Robotics
Yasuyuki Fujii, Emika Kameda, Hiroki Fukada +3 more
2026
Overcoming Visual Clutter in Vision Language Action Models via Concept-Gated Visual Distillation
Sangmim Song, Sarath Kodagoda, Marc Carmichael +1 more
2026
Update-Free On-Policy Steering via Verifiers
Maria Attarian, Ian Vyse, Claas Voelcker +6 more
2026