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MANIPULATION papers(58,805)
Clear ✕Wow, wo, val! A Comprehensive Embodied World Model Evaluation Turing Test
Chun-Kai Fan, Xiaowei Chi, Xiaozhu Ju +17 more
2026
CLAP: Contrastive Latent Action Pretraining for Learning Vision-Language-Action Models from Human Videos
Chubin Zhang, Jianan Wang, Zifeng Gao +5 more
2026
Stable Language Guidance for Vision-Language-Action Models
Zhihao Zhan, Yuhao Chen, Jiaying Zhou +5 more
2026
PointWorld: Scaling 3D World Models for In-The-Wild Robotic Manipulation
Wenlong Huang, Yu-Wei Chao, Arsalan Mousavian +4 more
2026
Can LLMs See Without Pixels? Benchmarking Spatial Intelligence from Textual Descriptions
Zhongbin Guo, Zhen Yang, Yushan Li +6 more
2026
A High-Fidelity Digital Twin for Robotic Manipulation Based on 3D Gaussian Splatting
Ziyang Sun, Lingfan Bao, Tianhu Peng +2 more
2026
SOP: A Scalable Online Post-Training System for Vision-Language-Action Models
Mingjie Pan, Siyuan Feng, Qinglin Zhang +9 more
2026
Validating Generalist Robots with Situation Calculus and STL Falsification
Changwen Li, Rongjie Yan, Chih-Hong Cheng +1 more
2026
Closing the Reality Gap: Zero-Shot Sim-to-Real Deployment for Dexterous Force-Based Grasping and Manipulation
Zhe Zhao, Haoyu Dong, Zhengmao He +3 more
2026
Analysis of Various Manipulator Configurations Based on Multi-Objective Black-Box Optimization
Kento Kawaharazuka, Keita Yoneda, Takahiro Hattori +2 more
2026
Learning to Nudge: A Scalable Barrier Function Framework for Safe Robot Interaction in Dense Clutter
Haixin Jin, Nikhil Uday Shinde, Soofiyan Atar +5 more
2026
InternVLA-A1: Unifying Understanding, Generation and Action for Robotic Manipulation
Junhao Cai, Zetao Cai, Jiafei Cao +17 more
2026
Vision-Based Early Fault Diagnosis and Self-Recovery for Strawberry Harvesting Robots
Meili Sun, Chunjiang Zhao, Lichao Yang +3 more
2026
Genie Sim 3.0 : A High-Fidelity Comprehensive Simulation Platform for Humanoid Robot
Chenghao Yin, Da Huang, Di Yang +16 more
2026
Deep Robust Koopman Learning from Noisy Data
Aditya Singh, Rajpal Singh, Jishnu Keshavan
2026
Learning Diffusion Policy from Primitive Skills for Robot Manipulation
Zhihao Gu, Ming Yang, Difan Zou +1 more
2026
VisuoTactile 6D Pose Estimation of an In-Hand Object using Vision and Tactile Sensor Data
Snehal s. Dikhale, Karankumar Patel, Daksh Dhingra +4 more
2026
DemoBot: Efficient Learning of Bimanual Manipulation with Dexterous Hands From Third-Person Human Videos
Yucheng Xu, Xiaofeng Mao, Elle Miller +4 more
2026
Action-Sketcher: From Reasoning to Action via Visual Sketches for Long-Horizon Robotic Manipulation
Huajie Tan, Peterson Co, Yijie Xu +9 more
2026
HanoiWorld : A Joint Embedding Predictive Architecture BasedWorld Model for Autonomous Vehicle Controller
Tran Tien Dat, Nguyen Hai An, Nguyen Khanh Viet Dung +1 more
2026
Online Estimation and Manipulation of Articulated Objects
Russell Buchanan, Adrian Röfer, João Moura +2 more
2026
Towards reliable subsea object recovery: a simulation study of an auv with a suction-actuated end effector
Michele Grimaldi, Yosaku Maeda, Hitoshi Kakami +3 more
2026
V-VLAPS: Value-Guided Planning for Vision-Language-Action Models
Ke Ren, Ali Salamatian, Kieran Pattison +1 more
2026
LLM-Based Agentic Exploration for Robot Navigation & Manipulation with Skill Orchestration
Abu Hanif Muhammad Syarubany, Farhan Zaki Rahmani, Trio Widianto
2026