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MANIPULATION papers(58,805)
Clear ✕Safe Bayesian optimization across noise models via scenario programming
Abdullah Tokmak, Thomas B. Schön, Dominik Baumann
2025
Cross-Entropy Optimization of Physically Grounded Task and Motion Plans
Andreu Matoses Gimenez, Nils Wilde, Chris Pek +1 more
2025
Towards Logic-Aware Manipulation: A Knowledge Primitive for VLM-Based Assistants in Smart Manufacturing
Suchang Chen, Daqiang Guo
2025
Optimal Control and Structurally-Informed Gradient Optimization of a Custom 4-DOF Rigid-Body Manipulator
Brock Marcinczyk, Logan E. Beaver
2025
Learning Category-level Last-meter Navigation from RGB Demonstrations of a Single-instance
Tzu-Hsien Lee, Fidan Mahmudova, Karthik Desingh
2025
Taxonomy and Modular Tool System for Versatile and Effective Non-Prehensile Manipulations
Cedric-Pascal Sommer, Robert J. Wood, Justin Werfel
2025
ImplicitRDP: An End-to-End Visual-Force Diffusion Policy with Structural Slow-Fast Learning
Wendi Chen, Han Xue, Yi Wang +6 more
2025
Towards Accessible Physical AI: LoRA-Based Fine-Tuning of VLA Models for Real-World Robot Control
Abdullah Yahya Abdullah Omaisan, Ibrahim Sheikh Mohamed
2025
AERMANI-Diffusion: Regime-Conditioned Diffusion for Dynamics Learning in Aerial Manipulators
Samaksh Ujjawal, Shivansh Pratap Singh, Naveen Sudheer Nair +3 more
2025
Evaluating Gemini Robotics Policies in a Veo World Simulator
Gemini Robotics Team, Krzysztof Choromanski, Coline Devin +17 more
2025
XDen-1K: A Density Field Dataset of Real-World Objects
Jingxuan Zhang, Tianqi Yu, Yatu Zhang +6 more
2025
Contact SLAM: An Active Tactile Exploration Policy Based on Physical Reasoning Utilized in Robotic Fine Blind Manipulation Tasks
Gaozhao Wang, Xing Liu, Zhenduo Ye +2 more
2025
RoboNeuron: A Middle-Layer Infrastructure for Agent-Driven Orchestration in Embodied AI
Weifan Guan, Qinghao Hu, Huasen Xi +3 more
2025
Design and Validation of an Under-actuated Robotic Finger with Synchronous Tendon Routing
Quan Yuan, Zhenting Du, Daqian Cao +1 more
2025
Task-Oriented Grasping Using Reinforcement Learning with a Contextual Reward Machine
Hui Li, Akhlak Uz Zaman, Fujian Yan +1 more
2025
Fast Functionally Redundant Inverse Kinematics for Robotic Toolpath Optimisation in Manufacturing Tasks
Andrew Razjigaev, Hans Lohr, Alejandro Vargas-Uscategui +2 more
2025
Push Smarter, Not Harder: Hierarchical RL-Diffusion Policy for Efficient Nonprehensile Manipulation
Steven Caro, Stephen L. Smith
2025
Safe Learning for Contact-Rich Robot Tasks: A Survey from Classical Learning-Based Methods to Safe Foundation Models
Heng Zhang, Rui Dai, Gokhan Solak +3 more
2025
Openpi Comet: Competition Solution For 2025 BEHAVIOR Challenge
Junjie Bai, Yu-Wei Chao, Qizhi Chen +13 more
2025
Closing the Train-Test Gap in World Models for Gradient-Based Planning
Arjun Parthasarathy, Nimit Kalra, Rohun Agrawal +4 more
2025
HiF-VLA: Hindsight, Insight and Foresight through Motion Representation for Vision-Language-Action Models
Minghui Lin, Pengxiang Ding, Shu Wang +7 more
2025
Simultaneous Tactile-Visual Perception for Learning Multimodal Robot Manipulation
Yuyang Li, Yinghan Chen, Zihang Zhao +4 more
2025
ReMoSPLAT: Reactive Mobile Manipulation Control on a Gaussian Splat
Nicolas Marticorena, Tobias Fischer, Niko Suenderhauf
2025
GLaD: Geometric Latent Distillation for Vision-Language-Action Models
Minghao Guo, Meng Cao, Jiachen Tao +5 more
2025