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MANIPULATION papers(58,805)
Clear ✕Secure Semantic Communications via AI Defenses: Fundamentals, Solutions, and Future Directions
Lan Zhang, Chengsi Liang, Zeming Zhuang +4 more
2026
Force Policy: Learning Hybrid Force-Position Control Policy under Interaction Frame for Contact-Rich Manipulation
Hongjie Fang, Shirun Tang, Mingyu Mei +9 more
2026
FlowCorrect: Efficient Interactive Correction of Generative Flow Policies for Robotic Manipulation
Edgar Welte, Yitian Shi, Rosa Wolf +2 more
2026
World Guidance: World Modeling in Condition Space for Action Generation
Yue Su, Sijin Chen, Haixin Shi +7 more
2026
DexRepNet++: Learning Dexterous Robotic Manipulation with Geometric and Spatial Hand-Object Representations
Qingtao Liu, Zhengnan Sun, Yu Cui +5 more
2026
Learning-Based Geometric Leader-Follower Control for Cooperative Rigid-Payload Transport with Aerial Manipulators
Omayra Yago Nieto, Leonardo Colombo
2026
Joint-Aligned Latent Action: Towards Scalable VLA Pretraining in the Wild
Hao Luo, Ye Wang, Wanpeng Zhang +5 more
2026
The Port-Hamiltonian Structure of Vehicle Manipulator Systems
Ramy Rashad
2026
Primary-Fine Decoupling for Action Generation in Robotic Imitation
Xiaohan Lei, Min Wang, Wengang Zhou +2 more
2026
Multiview Progress Prediction of Robot Activities
Elena Zoppellari, Federico Becattini, Marco Fiorucci +1 more
2026
Self-Correcting VLA: Online Action Refinement via Sparse World Imagination
Chenyv Liu, Wentao Tan, Lei Zhu +4 more
2026
Tacmap: Bridging the Tactile Sim-to-Real Gap via Geometry-Consistent Penetration Depth Map
Lei Su, Zhijie Peng, Renyuan Ren +4 more
2026
ADM-DP: Adaptive Dynamic Modality Diffusion Policy through Vision-Tactile-Graph Fusion for Multi-Agent Manipulation
Enyi Wang, Wen Fan, Dandan Zhang
2026
LiLo-VLA: Compositional Long-Horizon Manipulation via Linked Object-Centric Policies
Yue Yang, Shuo Cheng, Yu Fang +4 more
2026
Vector Fields for Path Following on Lie Groups with Application in Robot Control
Felipe Bartelt, Luciano C. A. Pimenta, Weijia Yao +1 more
2026
VLA Knows Its Limits
Haoxuan Wang, Gengyu Zhang, Yan Yan +2 more
2026
Provably Safe Generative Sampling with Constricting Barrier Functions
Darshan Gadginmath, Ahmed Allibhoy, Fabio Pasqualetti
2026
Unified Complementarity-Based Contact Modeling and Planning for Soft Robots
Milad Azizkhani, Yue Chen
2026
Squint: Fast Visual Reinforcement Learning for Sim-to-Real Robotics
Abdulaziz Almuzairee, Henrik I. Christensen
2026
ActionReasoning: Robot Action Reasoning in 3D Space with LLM for Robotic Brick Stacking
Guangming Wang, Qizhen Ying, Yixiong Jing +2 more
2026
HALO: A Unified Vision-Language-Action Model for Embodied Multimodal Chain-of-Thought Reasoning
Quanxin Shou, Fangqi Zhu, Shawn Chen +9 more
2026
Surface-based Manipulation Using Tunable Compliant Porous-Elastic Soft Sensing
Gayatri Indukumar, Muhammad Awais, Diana Cafiso +2 more
2026
Notes-to-Self: Scratchpad Augmented VLAs for Memory Dependent Manipulation Tasks
Sanjay Haresh, Daniel Dijkman, Apratim Bhattacharyya +1 more
2026
Task-oriented grasping for dexterous robots using postural synergies and reinforcement learning
Dimitrios Dimou, José Santos-Victor, Plinio Moreno
2026