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MANIPULATION papers(58,805)
Clear ✕Diff-Muscle: Efficient Learning for Musculoskeletal Robotic Table Tennis
Wentao Zhao, Jun Guo, Kangyao Huang +2 more
2026
Bilevel Planning with Learned Symbolic Abstractions from Interaction Data
Fatih Dogangun, Burcu Kilic, Serdar Bahar +1 more
2026
MetaWorld-X: Hierarchical World Modeling via VLM-Orchestrated Experts for Humanoid Loco-Manipulation
Yutong Shen, Hangxu Liu, Penghui Liu +6 more
2026
CONTACT: CONtact-aware TACTile Learning for Robotic Disassembly
Yosuke Saka, Jyun-Chi Hu, Adeesh Desai +6 more
2026
EquiBim: Learning Symmetry-Equivariant Policy for Bimanual Manipulation
Zhiyuan Zhang, Aditya Mohan, Seungho Han +3 more
2026
AtomVLA: Scalable Post-Training for Robotic Manipulation via Predictive Latent World Models
Xiaoquan Sun, Zetian Xu, Chen Cao +9 more
2026
Tactile Recognition of Both Shapes and Materials with Automatic Feature Optimization-Enabled Meta Learning
Hongliang Zhao, Wenhui Yang, Yang Chen +3 more
2026
StructBiHOI: Structured Articulation Modeling for Long--Horizon Bimanual Hand--Object Interaction Generation
Zhi Wang, Liu Liu, Ruonan Liu +2 more
2026
MoMaStage: Skill-State Graph Guided Planning and Closed-Loop Execution for Long-Horizon Indoor Mobile Manipulation
Chenxu Li, Zixuan Chen, Yetao Li +5 more
2026
$Δ$VLA: Prior-Guided Vision-Language-Action Models via World Knowledge Variation
Yijie Zhu, Jie He, Rui Shao +4 more
2026
PhaForce: Phase-Scheduled Visual-Force Policy Learning with Slow Planning and Fast Correction for Contact-Rich Manipulation
Mingxin Wang, Zhirun Yue, Renhao Lu +7 more
2026
SAIL: Test-Time Scaling for In-Context Imitation Learning with VLM
Makoto Sato, Yusuke Iwasawa, Yujin Tang +1 more
2026
FlowTouch: View-Invariant Visuo-Tactile Prediction
Seongjin Bien, Carlo Kneissl, Tobias Jülg +6 more
2026
TRIAGE: Type-Routed Interventions via Aleatoric-Epistemic Gated Estimation in Robotic Manipulation and Adaptive Perception -- Don't Treat All Uncertainty the Same
Divake Kumar, Sina Tayebati, Devashri Naik +4 more
2026
See and Switch: Vision-Based Branching for Interactive Robot-Skill Programming
Petr Vanc, Jan Kristof Behrens, Václav Hlaváč +1 more
2026
AffordGrasp: Cross-Modal Diffusion for Affordance-Aware Grasp Synthesis
Xiaofei Wu, Yi Zhang, Yumeng Liu +3 more
2026
EnergyAction: Unimanual to Bimanual Composition with Energy-Based Models
Mingchen Song, Xiang Deng, Jie Wei +3 more
2026
Unified Structural-Hydrodynamic Modeling of Underwater Underactuated Mechanisms and Soft Robots
Chenrui Zhang, Yiyuan Zhang, Yunfei Ye +3 more
2026
RoboRouter: Training-Free Policy Routing for Robotic Manipulation
Yiteng Chen, Zhe Cao, Hongjia Ren +9 more
2026
Choose What to Observe: Task-Aware Semantic-Geometric Representations for Visuomotor Policy
Haoran Ding, Liang Ma, Yaxun Yang +7 more
2026
Viewpoint-Agnostic Grasp Pipeline using VLM and Partial Observations
Dilermando Almeida, Juliano Negri, Guilherme Lazzarini +4 more
2026
Physics-infused Learning for Aerial Manipulator in Winds and Near-Wall Environments
Yiming Zhang, Junyi Geng
2026
ProgAgent:A Continual RL Agent with Progress-Aware Rewards
Jinzhou Tan, Gabriel Adineera, Jinoh Kim
2026
AeroPlace-Flow: Language-Grounded Object Placement for Aerial Manipulators via Visual Foresight and Object Flow
Sarthak Mishra, Rishabh Dev Yadav, Naveen Nair +2 more
2026