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MANIPULATION papers(58,805)
Clear ✕RadarEye: Robust Liquid Level Tracking Using mmWave Radar in Robotic Pouring
Hongyu Deng, He Chen
2026
DexImit: Learning Bimanual Dexterous Manipulation from Monocular Human Videos
Juncheng Mu, Sizhe Yang, Yiming Bao +6 more
2026
VideoWorld 2: Learning Transferable Knowledge from Real-world Videos
Zhongwei Ren, Yunchao Wei, Xiao Yu +5 more
2026
Robo3R: Enhancing Robotic Manipulation with Accurate Feed-Forward 3D Reconstruction
Sizhe Yang, Linning Xu, Hao Li +4 more
2026
VLA-JEPA: Enhancing Vision-Language-Action Model with Latent World Model
Jingwen Sun, Wenyao Zhang, Zekun Qi +6 more
2026
UniVTAC: A Unified Simulation Platform for Visuo-Tactile Manipulation Data Generation, Learning, and Benchmarking
Baijun Chen, Weijie Wan, Tianxing Chen +13 more
2026
RoboInter: A Holistic Intermediate Representation Suite Towards Robotic Manipulation
Hao Li, Ziqin Wang, Zi-han Ding +9 more
2026
Instruct2Act: From Human Instruction to Actions Sequencing and Execution via Robot Action Network for Robotic Manipulation
Archit Sharma, Dharmendra Sharma, John Rebeiro +3 more
2026
TaCo: A Benchmark for Lossless and Lossy Codecs of Heterogeneous Tactile Data
Zhengxue Cheng, Yan Zhao, Keyu Wang +2 more
2026
MVISTA-4D: View-Consistent 4D World Model with Test-Time Action Inference for Robotic Manipulation
Jiaxu Wang, Yicheng Jiang, Tianlun He +8 more
2026
BagelVLA: Enhancing Long-Horizon Manipulation via Interleaved Vision-Language-Action Generation
Yucheng Hu, Jianke Zhang, Yuanfei Luo +9 more
2026
VideoAfford: Grounding 3D Affordance from Human-Object-Interaction Videos via Multimodal Large Language Model
Hanqing Wang, Mingyu Liu, Xiaoyu Chen +9 more
2026
AnyTouch 2: General Optical Tactile Representation Learning For Dynamic Tactile Perception
Ruoxuan Feng, Yuxuan Zhou, Siyu Mei +6 more
2026
Preference Aligned Visuomotor Diffusion Policies for Deformable Object Manipulation
Marco Moletta, Michael C. Welle, Danica Kragic
2026
SERNF: Sample-Efficient Real-World Dexterous Policy Fine-Tuning via Action-Chunked Critics and Normalizing Flows
Chenyu Yang, Denis Tarasov, Davide Liconti +2 more
2026
Sci-VLA: Agentic VLA Inference Plugin for Long-Horizon Tasks in Scientific Experiments
Yiwen Pang, Bo Zhou, Changjin Li +5 more
2026
Certified Gradient-Based Contact-Rich Manipulation via Smoothing-Error Reachable Tubes
Wei-Chen Li, Glen Chou
2026
CAPER: Constrained and Procedural Reasoning for Robotic Scientific Experiments
Jinghan Yang, Jingyi Hou, Xinbo Yu +2 more
2026
SceneSmith: Agentic Generation of Simulation-Ready Indoor Scenes
Nicholas Pfaff, Thomas Cohn, Sergey Zakharov +2 more
2026
TwinRL: Digital Twin-Driven Reinforcement Learning for Real-World Robotic Manipulation
Qinwen Xu, Jiaming Liu, Rui Zhou +11 more
2026
$χ_{0}$: Resource-Aware Robust Manipulation via Taming Distributional Inconsistencies
Checheng Yu, Chonghao Sima, Gangcheng Jiang +14 more
2026
Contact-Anchored Policies: Contact Conditioning Creates Strong Robot Utility Models
Zichen Jeff Cui, Omar Rayyan, Haritheja Etukuru +16 more
2026
Mimic Intent, Not Just Trajectories
Renming Huang, Chendong Zeng, Wenjing Tang +3 more
2026
A Precise Real-Time Force-Aware Grasping System for Robust Aerial Manipulation
Kenghou Hoi, Yuze Wu, Annan Ding +4 more
2026