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MANIPULATION papers(58,805)
Clear ✕FruitTouch: A Perceptive Gripper for Gentle and Scalable Fruit Harvesting
Ruohan Zhang, Mohammad Amin Mirzaee, Wenzhen Yuan
2026
Bumper Drone: Elastic Morphology Design for Aerial Physical Interaction
Pongporn Supa, Alex Dunnett, Feng Xiao +3 more
2026
TactEx: An Explainable Multimodal Robotic Interaction Framework for Human-Like Touch and Hardness Estimation
Felix Verstraete, Lan Wei, Wen Fan +1 more
2026
TPRU: Advancing Temporal and Procedural Understanding in Large Multimodal Models
Zhenkun Gao, Xuhong Wang, Xin Tan +1 more
2026
Issues with Measuring Task Complexity via Random Policies in Robotic Tasks
Reabetswe M. Nkhumise, Mohamed S. Talamali, Aditya Gilra
2026
A Real-World Grasping-in-Clutter Performance Evaluation Benchmark for Robotic Food Waste Sorting
Moniesha Thilakarathna, Xing Wang, Min Wang +3 more
2026
HeRO: Hierarchical 3D Semantic Representation for Pose-aware Object Manipulation
Chongyang Xu, Shen Cheng, Haipeng Li +3 more
2026
Habilis-$β$: A Fast-Motion and Long-Lasting On-Device Vision-Language-Action Model
Tommoro Robotics, :, Jesoon Kang +17 more
2026
RoboCurate: Harnessing Diversity with Action-Verified Neural Trajectory for Robot Learning
Seungku Kim, Suhyeok Jang, Byungjun Yoon +3 more
2026
Systematic Analysis of Coupling Effects on Closed-Loop and Open-Loop Performance in Aerial Continuum Manipulators
Niloufar Amiri, Shayan Sepahvand, Iraj Mantegh +1 more
2026
Robotic Fruits with Tunable Stiffness and Sensing: Towards a Methodology for Developing Realistic Physical Twins of Fruits
Saitarun Nadipineni, Keshav Pandiyan, Kaspar Althoefer +2 more
2026
Zero-shot Interactive Perception
Venkatesh Sripada, Frank Guerin, Amir Ghalamzan
2026
SimVLA: A Simple VLA Baseline for Robotic Manipulation
Yuankai Luo, Woping Chen, Tong Liang +2 more
2026
UAOR: Uncertainty-aware Observation Reinjection for Vision-Language-Action Models
Jiabing Yang, Yixiang Chen, Yuan Xu +12 more
2026
Quasi-Periodic Gaussian Process Predictive Iterative Learning Control
Unnati Nigam, Radhendushka Srivastava, Faezeh Marzbanrad +1 more
2026
ROCKET: Residual-Oriented Multi-Layer Alignment for Spatially-Aware Vision-Language-Action Models
Guoheng Sun, Tingting Du, Kaixi Feng +6 more
2026
Latent Diffeomorphic Co-Design of End-Effectors for Deformable and Fragile Object Manipulation
Kei Ikemura, Yifei Dong, Florian T. Pokorny
2026
WHED: A Wearable Hand Exoskeleton for Natural, High-Quality Demonstration Collection
Mingzhang Zhu, Alvin Zhu, Jose Victor S. H. Ramos +9 more
2026
Lend me an Ear: Speech Enhancement Using a Robotic Arm with a Microphone Array
Zachary Turcotte, François Grondin
2026
IRIS: Learning-Driven Task-Specific Cinema Robot Arm for Visuomotor Motion Control
Qilong Cheng, Matthew Mackay, Ali Bereyhi
2026
Nonlinear Predictive Control of the Continuum and Hybrid Dynamics of a Suspended Deformable Cable for Aerial Pick and Place
Antonio Rapuano, Yaolei Shen, Federico Califano +2 more
2026
Grasp Synthesis Matching From Rigid To Soft Robot Grippers Using Conditional Flow Matching
Tanisha Parulekar, Ge Shi, Josh Pinskier +2 more
2026
Benchmarking the Effects of Object Pose Estimation and Reconstruction on Robotic Grasping Success
Varun Burde, Pavel Burget, Torsten Sattler
2026
SparTa: Sparse Graphical Task Models from a Handful of Demonstrations
Adrian Röfer, Nick Heppert, Abhinav Valada
2026