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MANIPULATION papers(58,805)
Clear ✕Constrained Sampling to Guide Universal Manipulation RL
Marc Toussaint, Cornelius V. Braun, Eckart Cobo-Briesewitz +3 more
2026
UniPlan: Vision-Language Task Planning for Mobile Manipulation with Unified PDDL Formulation
Haoming Ye, Yunxiao Xiao, Cewu Lu +1 more
2026
Bi-Adapt: Few-shot Bimanual Adaptation for Novel Categories of 3D Objects via Semantic Correspondence
Jinxian Zhou, Ruihai Wu, Yiwei Liu +5 more
2026
Learning Human-Like Badminton Skills for Humanoid Robots
Yeke Chen, Shihao Dong, Xiaoyu Ji +10 more
2026
ReefFlex: A Generative Design Framework for Soft Robotic Grasping of Organic and Fragile objects
Josh Pinskier, Sarah Baldwin, Stephen Rodan +1 more
2026
DexFormer: Cross-Embodied Dexterous Manipulation via History-Conditioned Transformer
Ke Zhang, Lixin Xu, Chengyi Song +4 more
2026
Informative Object-centric Next Best View for Object-aware 3D Gaussian Splatting in Cluttered Scenes
Seunghoon Jeong, Eunho Lee, Jeongyun Kim +1 more
2026
Aerial Manipulation with Contact-Aware Onboard Perception and Hybrid Control
Yuanzhu Zhan, Yufei Jiang, Muqing Cao +1 more
2026
STEP: Warm-Started Visuomotor Policies with Spatiotemporal Consistency Prediction
Jinhao Li, Yuxuan Cong, Yingqiao Wang +5 more
2026
Self-Supervised Bootstrapping of Action-Predictive Embodied Reasoning
Milan Ganai, Katie Luo, Jonas Frey +2 more
2026
From Ellipsoids to Midair Control of Dynamic Hitches
Jiawei Xu, Subhrajit Bhattacharya, David Saldaña
2026
Recurrent-Depth VLA: Implicit Test-Time Compute Scaling of Vision-Language-Action Models via Latent Iterative Reasoning
Yalcin Tur, Jalal Naghiyev, Haoquan Fang +4 more
2026
Global Symmetry and Orthogonal Transformations from Geometrical Moment $n$-tuples
Omar Tahri
2026
"Meet My Sidekick!": Effects of Separate Identities and Control of a Single Robot in HRI
Drake Moore, Arushi Aggarwal, Emily Taylor +3 more
2026
Differentiate-and-Inject: Enhancing VLAs via Functional Differentiation Induced by In-Parameter Structural Reasoning
Jingyi Hou, Leyu Zhou, Chenchen Jing +3 more
2026
Going with the Flow: Koopman Behavioral Models as Implicit Planners for Visuo-Motor Dexterity
Yunhai Han, Linhao Bai, Ziyu Xiao +6 more
2026
Trace-Focused Diffusion Policy for Multi-Modal Action Disambiguation in Long-Horizon Robotic Manipulation
Yuxuan Hu, Xiangyu Chen, Chuhao Zhou +4 more
2026
Why Look at It at All?: Vision-Free Multifingered Blind Grasping Using Uniaxial Fingertip Force Sensing
Edgar Lee, Junho Choi, Taemin Kim +2 more
2026
SURE: Safe Uncertainty-Aware Robot-Environment Interaction using Trajectory Optimization
Zhuocheng Zhang, Haizhou Zhao, Xudong Sun +2 more
2026
Perception-Control Coupled Visual Servoing for Textureless Objects Using Keypoint-Based EKF
Allen Tao, Jun Yang, Stanko Oparnica +1 more
2026
DynaRetarget: Dynamically-Feasible Retargeting using Sampling-Based Trajectory Optimization
Victor Dhedin, Ilyass Taouil, Shafeef Omar +4 more
2026
RAPID: Reconfigurable, Adaptive Platform for Iterative Design
Zi Yin, Fanhong Li, Shurui Zheng +1 more
2026
Think Proprioceptively: Embodied Visual Reasoning for VLA Manipulation
Fangyuan Wang, Peng Zhou, Jiaming Qi +3 more
2026
The Law of Task-Achieving Body Motion: Axiomatizing Success of Robot Manipulation Actions
Malte Huerkamp, Jonas Dech, Michael Beetz
2026