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MANIPULATION papers(58,805)
Clear ✕A Unified Control Architecture for Macro-Micro Manipulation using a Active Remote Center of Compliance for Manufacturing Applications
Patrick Frank, Christian Friedrich
2026
Towards Exploratory and Focused Manipulation with Bimanual Active Perception: A New Problem, Benchmark and Strategy
Yuxin He, Ruihao Zhang, Tianao Shen +2 more
2026
BTGenBot-2: Efficient Behavior Tree Generation with Small Language Models
Riccardo Andrea Izzo, Gianluca Bardaro, Matteo Matteucci
2026
From Knowing to Doing Precisely: A General Self-Correction and Termination Framework for VLA models
Wentao Zhang, Aolan Sun, Wentao Mo +3 more
2026
RFS: Reinforcement Learning with Residual Flow Steering for Dexterous Manipulation
Entong Su, Tyler Westenbroek, Anusha Nagabandi +1 more
2026
DDP-WM: Disentangled Dynamics Prediction for Efficient World Models
Shicheng Yin, Kaixuan Yin, Weixing Chen +3 more
2026
Uncertainty-Aware Non-Prehensile Manipulation with Mobile Manipulators under Object-Induced Occlusion
Jiwoo Hwang, Taegeun Yang, Jeil Jeong +2 more
2026
GSR: Learning Structured Reasoning for Embodied Manipulation
Kewei Hu, Michael Zhang, Wei Ying +7 more
2026
AgenticLab: A Real-World Robot Agent Platform that Can See, Think, and Act
Pengyuan Guo, Zhonghao Mai, Zhengtong Xu +7 more
2026
Latent Reasoning VLA: Latent Thinking and Prediction for Vision-Language-Action Models
Shuanghao Bai, Jing Lyu, Wanqi Zhou +9 more
2026
Improving Robustness of Vision-Language-Action Models by Restoring Corrupted Visual Inputs
Daniel Yezid Guarnizo Orjuela, Leonardo Scappatura, Veronica Di Gennaro +3 more
2026
UniForce: A Unified Latent Force Model for Robot Manipulation with Diverse Tactile Sensors
Zhuo Chen, Fei Ni, Kaiyao Luo +7 more
2026
KAN We Flow? Advancing Robotic Manipulation with 3D Flow Matching via KAN & RWKV
Zhihao Chen, Yiyuan Ge, Ziyang Wang
2026
StreamVLA: Breaking the Reason-Act Cycle via Completion-State Gating
Tongqing Chen, Hang Wu, Jiasen Wang +2 more
2026
A Systematic Study of Data Modalities and Strategies for Co-training Large Behavior Models for Robot Manipulation
Fanqi Lin, Kushal Arora, Jean Mercat +9 more
2026
Geometry-Aware Sampling-Based Motion Planning on Riemannian Manifolds
Phone Thiha Kyaw, Jonathan Kelly
2026
CLAMP: Contrastive Learning for 3D Multi-View Action-Conditioned Robotic Manipulation Pretraining
I-Chun Arthur Liu, Krzysztof Choromanski, Sandy Huang +1 more
2026
Minimal Footprint Grasping Inspired by Ants
Mohamed Sorour, Barbara Webb
2026
Green-VLA: Staged Vision-Language-Action Model for Generalist Robots
I. Apanasevich, M. Artemyev, R. Babakyan +17 more
2026
UniMorphGrasp: Diffusion Model with Morphology-Awareness for Cross-Embodiment Dexterous Grasp Generation
Zhiyuan Wu, Xiangyu Zhang, Zhuo Chen +3 more
2026
RoDiF: Robust Direct Fine-Tuning of Diffusion Policies with Corrupted Human Feedback
Amitesh Vatsa, Zhixian Xie, Wanxin Jin
2026
Environment-Aware Adaptive Pruning with Interleaved Inference Orchestration for Vision-Language-Action Models
Yuting Huang, Leilei Ding, Zhipeng Tang +7 more
2026
SA-VLA: Spatially-Aware Flow-Matching for Vision-Language-Action Reinforcement Learning
Xu Pan, Zhenglin Wan, Xingrui Yu +6 more
2026
Learning to Accelerate Vision-Language-Action Models through Adaptive Visual Token Caching
Yujie Wei, Jiahan Fan, Jiyu Guo +5 more
2026