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MANIPULATION papers(58,805)
Clear ✕IG-RFT: An Interaction-Guided RL Framework for VLA Models in Long-Horizon Robotic Manipulation
Zhian Su, Weijie Kong, Haonan Dong +1 more
2026
Robot Local Planner: A Periodic Sampling-Based Motion Planner with Minimal Waypoints for Home Environments
Keisuke Takeshita, Takahiro Yamazaki, Tomohiro Ono +1 more
2026
Object-Scene-Camera Decomposition and Recomposition for Data-Efficient Monocular 3D Object Detection
Zhaonian Kuang, Rui Ding, Meng Yang +2 more
2026
BFA++: Hierarchical Best-Feature-Aware Token Prune for Multi-View Vision Language Action Model
Haosheng Li, Weixin Mao, Zihan Lan +6 more
2026
Inner Speech as Behavior Guides: Steerable Imitation of Diverse Behaviors for Human-AI coordination
Rakshit Trivedi, Kartik Sharma, David C Parkes
2026
Grasp to Act: Dexterous Grasping for Tool Use in Dynamic Settings
Harsh Gupta, Mohammad Amin Mirzaee, Wenzhen Yuan
2026
PhysMem: Scaling Test-Time Memory for Embodied Physical Reasoning
Haoyang Li, Yang You, Hao Su +1 more
2026
UniLACT: Depth-Aware RGB Latent Action Learning for Vision-Language-Action Models
Manish Kumar Govind, Dominick Reilly, Pu Wang +1 more
2026
NovaPlan: Zero-Shot Long-Horizon Manipulation via Closed-Loop Video Language Planning
Jiahui Fu, Junyu Nan, Lingfeng Sun +5 more
2026
AdaWorldPolicy: World-Model-Driven Diffusion Policy with Online Adaptive Learning for Robotic Manipulation
Ge Yuan, Qiyuan Qiao, Jing Zhang +1 more
2026
To Move or Not to Move: Constraint-based Planning Enables Zero-Shot Generalization for Interactive Navigation
Apoorva Vashisth, Manav Kulshrestha, Pranav Bakshi +3 more
2026
FACTO: Function-space Adaptive Constrained Trajectory Optimization for Robotic Manipulators
Yichang Feng, Xiao Liang, Minghui Zheng
2026
Athena: An Autonomous Open-Hardware Tracked Rescue Robot Platform
Stefan Fabian, Aljoscha Schmidt, Jonas Süß +3 more
2026
Towards Dexterous Embodied Manipulation via Deep Multi-Sensory Fusion and Sparse Expert Scaling
Yirui Sun, Guangyu Zhuge, Keliang Liu +5 more
2026
QuickGrasp: Responsive Video-Language Querying Service via Accelerated Tokenization and Edge-Augmented Inference
Miao Zhang, Ruixiao Zhang, Jianxin Shi +3 more
2026
Scalable Low-Density Distributed Manipulation Using an Interconnected Actuator Array
Bailey Dacre, Rodrigo Moreno, Jørn Lambertsen +2 more
2026
Sample-Efficient Learning with Online Expert Correction for Autonomous Catheter Steering in Endovascular Bifurcation Navigation
Hao Wang, Tianliang Yao, Bo Lu +4 more
2026
Seeing Farther and Smarter: Value-Guided Multi-Path Reflection for VLM Policy Optimization
Yanting Yang, Shenyuan Gao, Qingwen Bu +2 more
2026
Design and Control of Modular Magnetic Millirobots for Multimodal Locomotion and Shape Reconfiguration
Erik Garcia Oyono, Jialin Lin, Dandan Zhang
2026
3D Shape Control of Extensible Multi-Section Soft Continuum Robots via Visual Servoing
Abhinav Gandhi, Shou-Shan Chiang, Cagdas D. Onal +1 more
2026
The Price Is Not Right: Neuro-Symbolic Methods Outperform VLAs on Structured Long-Horizon Manipulation Tasks with Significantly Lower Energy Consumption
Timothy Duggan, Pierrick Lorang, Hong Lu +1 more
2026
Global Prior Meets Local Consistency: Dual-Memory Augmented Vision-Language-Action Model for Efficient Robotic Manipulation
Zaijing Li, Bing Hu, Rui Shao +5 more
2026
Visual Prompt Guided Unified Pushing Policy
Hieu Bui, Ziyan Gao, Yuya Hosoda +1 more
2026
Human-to-Robot Interaction: Learning from Video Demonstration for Robot Imitation
Thanh Nguyen Canh, Thanh-Tuan Tran, Haolan Zhang +3 more
2026