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MANIPULATION papers(58,805)
Clear ✕A Low-Cost Vision-Based Tactile Gripper with Pretraining Learning for Contact-Rich Manipulation
Yaohua Liu, Binkai Ou, Zicheng Qiu +2 more
2026
Parallel Stochastic Gradient-Based Planning for World Models
Michael Psenka, Michael Rabbat, Aditi Krishnapriyan +2 more
2026
CoLA-Flow Policy: Temporally Coherent Imitation Learning via Continuous Latent Action Flow Matching for Robotic Manipulation
Wu Songwei, Jiang Zhiduo, Sun Wandong +4 more
2026
Learning Geometrically-Grounded 3D Visual Representations for View-Generalizable Robotic Manipulation
Di Zhang, Weicheng Duan, Dasen Gu +5 more
2026
FlyAware: Inertia-Aware Aerial Manipulation via Vision-Based Estimation and Post-Grasp Adaptation
Biyu Ye, Na Fan, Zhengping Fan +4 more
2026
Postural Virtual Fixtures for Ergonomic Physical Interactions with Supernumerary Robotic Bodies
Theodora Kastritsi, Marta Lagomarsino, Arash Ajoudani
2026
PoSafeNet: Safe Learning with Poset-Structured Neural Nets
Kiwan Wong, Wei Xiao, Daniela Rus
2026
ReloPush-BOSS: Optimization-guided Nonmonotone Rearrangement Planning for a Car-like Robot Pusher
Jeeho Ahn, Christoforos Mavrogiannis
2026
mjlab: A Lightweight Framework for GPU-Accelerated Robot Learning
Kevin Zakka, Qiayuan Liao, Brent Yi +3 more
2026
PocketDP3: Efficient Pocket-Scale 3D Visuomotor Policy
Jinhao Zhang, Zhexuan Zhou, Huizhe Li +5 more
2026
Causal World Modeling for Robot Control
Lin Li, Qihang Zhang, Yiming Luo +9 more
2026
Information Filtering via Variational Regularization for Robot Manipulation
Jinhao Zhang, Wenlong Xia, Yaojia Wang +6 more
2026
Scalable Surface-Based Manipulation Through Modularity and Inter-Module Object Transfer
Pratik Ingle, Jørn Lambertsen, Kasper Støy +1 more
2026
Disentangling perception and reasoning for improving data efficiency in learning cloth manipulation without demonstrations
Donatien Delehelle, Fei Chen, Darwin Caldwell
2026
CoFreeVLA: Collision-Free Dual-Arm Manipulation via Vision-Language-Action Model and Risk Estimation
Xuanran Zhai, Binkai Ou, Qiaojun Yu +2 more
2026
From Instruction to Event: Sound-Triggered Mobile Manipulation
Hao Ju, Shaofei Huang, Hongyu Li +4 more
2026
AIR-VLA: Vision-Language-Action Systems for Aerial Manipulation
Jianli Sun, Bin Tian, Qiyao Zhang +5 more
2026
DexTac: Learning Contact-aware Visuotactile Policies via Hand-by-hand Teaching
Xingyu Zhang, Chaofan Zhang, Boyue Zhang +3 more
2026
Nimbus: A Unified Embodied Synthetic Data Generation Framework
Zeyu He, Yuchang Zhang, Yuanzhen Zhou +10 more
2026
Spotlighting Task-Relevant Features: Object-Centric Representations for Better Generalization in Robotic Manipulation
Alexandre Chapin, Bruno Machado, Emmanuel Dellandréa +1 more
2026
Towards Space-Based Environmentally-Adaptive Grasping
Leonidas Askianakis, Aleksandr Artemov
2026
Abstracting Robot Manipulation Skills via Mixture-of-Experts Diffusion Policies
Ce Hao, Xuanran Zhai, Yaohua Liu +1 more
2026
Deep Koopman Iterative Learning and Stability-Guaranteed Control for Unknown Nonlinear Time-Varying Systems
Hengde Zhang, Yunxiao Ren, Zhisheng Duan +2 more
2026
WheelArm-Sim: A Manipulation and Navigation Combined Multimodal Synthetic Data Generation Simulator for Unified Control in Assistive Robotics
Guangping Liu, Tipu Sultan, Vittorio Di Giorgio +3 more
2026