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MANIPULATION papers(58,805)
Clear ✕Learning From a Steady Hand: A Weakly Supervised Agent for Robot Assistance under Microscopy
Huanyu Tian, Martin Huber, Lingyun Zeng +7 more
2026
One Step Is Enough: Dispersive MeanFlow Policy Optimization
Guowei Zou, Haitao Wang, Hejun Wu +3 more
2026
Vibro-Sense: Robust Vibration-based Impulse Response Localization and Trajectory Tracking for Robotic Hands
Wadhah Zai El Amri, Nicolás Navarro-Guerrero
2026
MARVL: Multi-Stage Guidance for Robotic Manipulation via Vision-Language Models
Xunlan Zhou, Xuanlin Chen, Shaowei Zhang +4 more
2026
STORM: Slot-based Task-aware Object-centric Representation for robotic Manipulation
Alexandre Chapin, Emmanuel Dellandréa, Liming Chen
2026
Demonstration-Free Robotic Control via LLM Agents
Brian Y. Tsui, Alan Y. Fang, Tiffany J. Hwu
2026
TaF-VLA: Tactile-Force Alignment in Vision-Language-Action Models for Force-aware Manipulation
Yuzhe Huang, Pei Lin, Wanlin Li +5 more
2026
Shallow-π: Knowledge Distillation for Flow-based VLAs
Boseong Jeon, Yunho Choi, Taehan Kim
2026
TouchGuide: Inference-Time Steering of Visuomotor Policies via Touch Guidance
Zhemeng Zhang, Jiahua Ma, Xincheng Yang +13 more
2026
TRACER: Texture-Robust Affordance Chain-of-Thought for Deformable-Object Refinement
Wanjun Jia, Kang Li, Fan Yang +7 more
2026
Real-Time Robot Execution with Masked Action Chunking
Haoxuan Wang, Gengyu Zhang, Yan Yan +3 more
2026
Just in time Informed Trees: Manipulability-Aware Asymptotically Optimized Motion Planning
Kuanqi Cai, Liding Zhang, Xinwen Su +6 more
2026
E2HiL: Entropy-Guided Sample Selection for Efficient Real-World Human-in-the-Loop Reinforcement Learning
Haoyuan Deng, Yuanjiang Xue, Haoyang Du +3 more
2026
AC^2-VLA: Action-Context-Aware Adaptive Computation in Vision-Language-Action Models for Efficient Robotic Manipulation
Wenda Yu, Tianshi Wang, Fengling Li +2 more
2026
PALM: Enhanced Generalizability for Local Visuomotor Policies via Perception Alignment
Ruiyu Wang, Zheyu Zhuang, Danica Kragic +1 more
2026
ALRM: Agentic LLM for Robotic Manipulation
Vitor Gaboardi dos Santos, Ibrahim Khadraoui, Ibrahim Farhat +3 more
2026
Sim-and-Human Co-training for Data-Efficient and Generalizable Robotic Manipulation
Kaipeng Fang, Weiqing Liang, Yuyang Li +5 more
2026
Tactile Memory with Soft Robot: Robust Object Insertion via Masked Encoding and Soft Wrist
Tatsuya Kamijo, Mai Nishimura, Cristian C. Beltran-Hernandez +2 more
2026
Robust Out-of-Order Retrieval for Grid-Based Storage at Maximum Capacity
Tzvika Geft, William Zhang, Jingjin Yu +1 more
2026
SimTO: A simulation-based topology optimization framework for bespoke soft robotic grippers
Kurt Enkera, Josh Pinskier, Marcus Gallagher +1 more
2026
A Switching Nonlinear Model Predictive Control Strategy for Safe Collision Handling by an Underwater Vehicle-Manipulator System
Ioannis G. Polyzos, Konstantinos J. Kyriakopoulos
2026
DeFM: Learning Foundation Representations from Depth for Robotics
Manthan Patel, Jonas Frey, Mayank Mittal +5 more
2026
Advances and Innovations in the Multi-Agent Robotic System (MARS) Challenge
Li Kang, Heng Zhou, Xiufeng Song +17 more
2026
A Pragmatic VLA Foundation Model
Wei Wu, Fan Lu, Yunnan Wang +17 more
2026