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MANIPULATION papers(58,805)
Clear ✕Active Semantic Mapping of Horticultural Environments Using Gaussian Splatting
Jose Cuaran, Naveen K. Upalapati, Girish Chowdhary
2026
BiKC+: Bimanual Hierarchical Imitation with Keypose-Conditioned Coordination-Aware Consistency Policies
Hang Xu, Yizhou Chen, Dongjie Yu +2 more
2026
Learning Semantic-Geometric Task Graph-Representations from Human Demonstrations
Franziska Herbert, Vignesh Prasad, Han Liu +2 more
2026
ACoT-VLA: Action Chain-of-Thought for Vision-Language-Action Models
Linqing Zhong, Yi Liu, Yifei Wei +4 more
2026
X-Distill: Cross-Architecture Vision Distillation for Visuomotor Learning
Maanping Shao, Feihong Zhang, Gu Zhang +3 more
2026
Skill-Aware Diffusion for Generalizable Robotic Manipulation
Aoshen Huang, Jiaming Chen, Jiyu Cheng +3 more
2026
A3D: Adaptive Affordance Assembly with Dual-Arm Manipulation
Jiaqi Liang, Yue Chen, Qize Yu +4 more
2026
Where to Touch, How to Contact: Hierarchical RL-MPC Framework for Geometry-Aware Long-Horizon Dexterous Manipulation
Zhixian Xie, Yu Xiang, Michael Posa +1 more
2026
Approximately Optimal Global Planning for Contact-Rich SE(2) Manipulation on a Graph of Reachable Sets
Simin Liu, Tong Zhao, Bernhard Paus Graesdal +5 more
2026
Future Optical Flow Prediction Improves Robot Control & Video Generation
Kanchana Ranasinghe, Honglu Zhou, Yu Fang +7 more
2026
The impact of tactile sensor configurations on grasp learning efficiency -- a comparative evaluation in simulation
Eszter Birtalan, Miklós Koller
2026
Terrain-Adaptive Mobile 3D Printing with Hierarchical Control
Shuangshan Nors Li, J. Nathan Kutz
2026
In-the-Wild Compliant Manipulation with UMI-FT
Hojung Choi, Yifan Hou, Chuer Pan +5 more
2026
SyncTwin: Fast Digital Twin Construction and Synchronization for Safe Robotic Manipulation
Ruopeng Huang, Boyu Yang, Wenlong Gui +3 more
2026
Fast-ThinkAct: Efficient Vision-Language-Action Reasoning via Verbalizable Latent Planning
Chi-Pin Huang, Yunze Man, Zhiding Yu +4 more
2026
Sim2real Image Translation Enables Viewpoint-Robust Policies from Fixed-Camera Datasets
Jeremiah Coholich, Justin Wit, Robert Azarcon +1 more
2026
CLARE: Continual Learning for Vision-Language-Action Models via Autonomous Adapter Routing and Expansion
Ralf Römer, Yi Zhang, Yuming Li +1 more
2026
CEI: A Unified Interface for Cross-Embodiment Visuomotor Policy Learning in 3D Space
Tong Wu, Shoujie Li, Junhao Gong +4 more
2026
Design Methodology of Hydraulically-driven Soft Robotic Gripper for a Large and Heavy Object
Ko Yamamoto, Kyosuke Ishibashi, Hiroki Ishikawa +1 more
2026
Generalizable Geometric Prior and Recurrent Spiking Feature Learning for Humanoid Robot Manipulation
Xuetao Li, Wenke Huang, Mang Ye +4 more
2026
QP-Based Control of an Underactuated Aerial Manipulator under Constraints
Nesserine Laribi, Mohammed Rida Mokhtari, Abdelaziz Benallegue +2 more
2026
Simplifying ROS2 controllers with a modular architecture for robot-agnostic reference generation
Davide Risi, Vincenzo Petrone, Antonio Langella +3 more
2026
ActiveVLA: Injecting Active Perception into Vision-Language-Action Models for Precise 3D Robotic Manipulation
Zhenyang Liu, Yongchong Gu, Yikai Wang +2 more
2026
FSAG: Enhancing Human-to-Dexterous-Hand Finger-Specific Affordance Grounding via Diffusion Models
Yifan Han, Yichuan Peng, Pengfei Yi +5 more
2026