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Robotics Research Publications
An open index of robotics research papers, refreshed daily.
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MANIPULATION papers(58,805)
Clear ✕MemoryVLA++: Temporal Modeling via Memory and Imagination in Vision-Language-Action Models
Hao Shi, Weiye Li, Bin Xie +6 more
2026
iMaC: Translating Actions into Motion and Contact Images for Embodied World Models
Zhenyu Wu, Xiuwei Xu, Yukun Zhou +8 more
2026
AHA-WAM:Asynchronous Horizon-Adaptive World-Action Modeling with Observation-Guided Context Routing
Jisong Cai, Long Ling, Shiwei Chu +10 more
2026
SynManDex: Synthesizing Human-like Dexterous Grasps from Synthetic Human Pre-Grasps
Yanming Shao, Zanxin Chen, Wenwei Lin +5 more
2026
AetheRock: An Arm-Worn Robot Teaching System for Force-Guided Vision-Tactile Learning
Hong Li, Yue Xu, Yihan Tang +8 more
2026
Difference-Aware Retrieval Policies for Imitation Learning
Quinn Pfeifer, Ethan Pronovost, Paarth Shah +3 more
2026
Your Model Already Knows: Attention-Guided Safety Filter for Vision-Language-Action Models
Seongbin Park, Fan Zhang, Baharan Mirzasoleiman +2 more
2026
ProbeAct: Probe-Guided Training-Free Failure Recovery in Vision-Language-Action Models
Fan Zhang, Seongbin Park, Baharan Mirzasoleiman +2 more
2026
Physics-Aware Sparse Learning and Selective Online Adaptation for Euler-Lagrange Robot Dynamics
Rishabh Dev Yadav, Samaksh Ujjawal, Sihao Sun +2 more
2026
ReCoVLA: VLM-Guided Reward Compilation for Failure Recovery in Vision-Language-Action Policies
Haodi Hu, Chung-Ta Huang, Jing Liu +4 more
2026
DexPIE: Stable Dexterous Policy Improvement from Real-World Experience
Ruizhe Liao, Wenrui Chen, Liangji Zeng +4 more
2026
CT-VAM: A Cerebello-Thalamic-Inspired Vision-Action Model for Efficient Visuomotor Control
Jiacheng Li, Yize Guo, Jiabin Guo +2 more
2026
Dense Force Estimation with an Event-based Optical Tactile Sensor
Agis Politis, René Zurbrügg, Valentina Cavinato
2026
ReGIL: Retrieval-Guided Imitation Learning from a Single Demonstration
Yuying Zhang, Francesco Verdoja, Wenyan Yang +1 more
2026
TORL-VLA: Tactile Guided Online Reinforcement Learning for Contact-Rich Manipulation
Huaihang Zheng, Yi Yang, Kai Ma +8 more
2026
KPGrasp: Scalable Keypoint Flow Matching for Dexterous Grasp Generation
Yuansen Huang, Jiayi Chen, Haoran Liu +6 more
2026
Back to the Familiar Future: Failure Recovery for VLA Policies via Pre-Imagined Milestone Selection
Suyeon Shin, Juwon Kim, Hyeonbin Park +4 more
2026
EgoTactile: Learning Grasp Pressure for Everyday Objects from Egocentric Video
Yuan Zeng, Yujia Shi, Tiao Tan +6 more
2026
MotionWAM: Towards Foundation World Action Models for Real-Time Humanoid Loco-Manipulation
Jia Zheng, Teli Ma, Yudong Fan +3 more
2026
EPS3D: End-to-End Feed-Forward 3D Panoptic Segmentation
Runsong Zhu, Jiaxin Guo, Xiaoyang Guo +9 more
2026
Benchmarking Vision-Language-Action Models on SO-101: Failure and Recovery Analysis
Yi Yu, Xinchuan Qiu
2026
Video2Sim2Real: Full-Stack Autonomous Dexterous Skill Acquisition from a Single Human Video
Yunhai Han, Jianuo Qiu, Linhao Bai +14 more
2026
Unifying Object-Centric World Models and Diffusion Policy: A Hierarchical Framework for Multi-Stage Robotic Tasks
Raktim Gautam Goswami, Prashanth Krishnamurthy, Yann LeCun +1 more
2026
RGB-S: Image-Aligned Tactile Saliency for Robust Dexterous Manipulation
Shengcheng Luo, Kefei Wu, Xiaoying Zhou +3 more
2026