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MANIPULATION papers(58,805)
Clear ✕GeoLanG: Geometry-Aware Language-Guided Grasping with Unified RGB-D Multimodal Learning
Rui Tang, Guankun Wang, Long Bai +6 more
2026
Reshaping Action Error Distributions for Reliable Vision-Language-Action Models
Shuanghao Bai, Dakai Wang, Cheng Chi +8 more
2026
ALORE: Autonomous Large-Object Rearrangement with a Legged Manipulator
Zhihai Bi, Yushan Zhang, Kai Chen +3 more
2026
Shaping Expressiveness in Robotics: The Role of Design Tools in Crafting Embodied Robot Movements
Elisabetta Zibetti, Alexandra Mercader, Hélène Duval +3 more
2026
Comparative Analysis of Autonomous Robotic and Manual Techniques for Ultrasonic Sacral Osteotomy: A Preliminary Study
Daniyal Maroufi, Yash Kulkarni, Justin E. Bird +2 more
2026
DADP: Domain Adaptive Diffusion Policy
Pengcheng Wang, Qinghang Liu, Haotian Lin +4 more
2026
MVP-LAM: Learning Action-Centric Latent Action via Cross-Viewpoint Reconstruction
Jung Min Lee, Dohyeok Lee, Seokhun Ju +5 more
2026
Variance-Reduced Model Predictive Path Integral via Quadratic Model Approximation
Fabian Schramm, Franki Nguimatsia Tiofack, Nicolas Perrin-Gilbert +2 more
2026
Self-supervised Physics-Informed Manipulation of Deformable Linear Objects with Non-negligible Dynamics
Youyuan Long, Gokhan Solak, Sara Zeynalpour +2 more
2026
AffordanceGrasp-R1:Leveraging Reasoning-Based Affordance Segmentation with Reinforcement Learning for Robotic Grasping
Dingyi Zhou, Mu He, Zhuowei Fang +4 more
2026
CRL-VLA: Continual Vision-Language-Action Learning
Qixin Zeng, Shuo Zhang, Hongyin Zhang +6 more
2026
Learning-based Initialization of Trajectory Optimization for Path-following Problems of Redundant Manipulators
Minsung Yoon, Mincheul Kang, Daehyung Park +1 more
2026
Manipulation via Force Distribution at Contact
Haegu Lee, Yitaek Kim, Casper Hewson Rask +1 more
2026
RDT2: Exploring the Scaling Limit of UMI Data Towards Zero-Shot Cross-Embodiment Generalization
Songming Liu, Bangguo Li, Kai Ma +5 more
2026
RPL: Learning Robust Humanoid Perceptive Locomotion on Challenging Terrains
Yuanhang Zhang, Younggyo Seo, Juyue Chen +7 more
2026
Moving On, Even When You're Broken: Fail-Active Trajectory Generation via Diffusion Policies Conditioned on Embodiment and Task
Gilberto G. Briscoe-Martinez, Yaashia Gautam, Rahul Shetty +3 more
2026
Language Movement Primitives: Grounding Language Models in Robot Motion
Yinlong Dai, Benjamin A. Christie, Daniel J. Evans +2 more
2026
PokeNet: Learning Kinematic Models of Articulated Objects from Human Observations
Anmol Gupta, Weiwei Gu, Omkar Patil +2 more
2026
Flow Policy Gradients for Robot Control
Brent Yi, Hongsuk Choi, Himanshu Gaurav Singh +9 more
2026
World-Gymnast: Training Robots with Reinforcement Learning in a World Model
Ansh Kumar Sharma, Yixiang Sun, Ninghao Lu +3 more
2026
SoMA: A Real-to-Sim Neural Simulator for Robotic Soft-body Manipulation
Mu Huang, Hui Wang, Kerui Ren +5 more
2026
PRISM: Performer RS-IMLE for Single-pass Multisensory Imitation Learning
Amisha Bhaskar, Pratap Tokekar, Stefano Di Cairano +1 more
2026
FD-VLA: Force-Distilled Vision-Language-Action Model for Contact-Rich Manipulation
Ruiteng Zhao, Wenshuo Wang, Yicheng Ma +4 more
2026
Synchronized Online Friction Estimation and Adaptive Grasp Control for Robust Gentle Grasp
Zhenwei Niu, Xiaoyi Chen, Jiayu Hu +3 more
2026