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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 ✕Guided Discovery of New Behaviors using Diffusion Policies
Dian Yu, Sebastian Sanokowski, Majid Khadiv
2026
Dream-Tac: A Unified Tactile World Action Model for Contact-Rich Robot Manipulation
Yunfan Lou, Yifan Ye, Yankai Fu +7 more
2026
Latent Diffusion Policy: Shaping Latent Spaces for Diffusion-Based Robotic Manipulation
Zhexuan Zhou, Yichen Lai, Jinhao Zhang +3 more
2026
HARBOR: A Harness Framework for Agentic Robot Reinforcement Learning
Zechu Li, Yufeng Jin, Xiaoyang Liu +4 more
2026
Reinforcement Learning for Flow-Matching Policies with Density Transport
Boshu Lei, Kostas Daniilidis, Antonio Loquercio
2026
Real-IKEA: Physical Fidelity is the Prerequisite for Robust Manipulation
Kunqi Xu, Zhenhao Huang, Siyuan Luo +2 more
2026
FAWAM: Force-Aware World Action Models for Closed-Loop Contact-Rich Manipulation
Haotian He, Zeyu Yan, Qipeng Liu +2 more
2026
When Video Misreads: Closed-Loop Distillation of Reading Heuristics for Exploratory Manipulation Trace QA
Haizhou Ge, Yufei Jia, Yue Li +5 more
2026
Autonomous Aerial Manipulation via Contextual Contrastive Meta Reinforcement Learning
Lixuan Jin, Bingxuan Lan, Xinyi Bao +9 more
2026
GEAR-VLA: Learning Geometry-Aware Action Representations for Generalizable Robotic Manipulation
Yuan Zhang, Shiqi Zhang, Yedong Shen +11 more
2026
GraspFoM: Towards Reconstruction-Driven Robotic Grasping with 3D Foundation Priors
Dongli Wu, Xiaobao Wei, Hao Wang +5 more
2026
PACT: Self-Evolving Physical Safety Alignment for Diffusion Policies in Embodied Manipulation
Lingxuan Wu, Zijian Zhu, Lizhong Wang +5 more
2026
A staged vision-force collaborative framework for precision robotic insertion of metallic valve components.
Wu T, Zhang D, Liu B +2 more
Scientific reports · 2026
A novel hybrid intelligent optimization strategy for multi-objective trajectory planning of robotic arms in precision assembly scenarios.
Changtian Z, Jiaxuan H, Xinyang L +1 more
Scientific reports · 2026
MotionVLA: Injecting Geometric Motion into Vision-Language-Action Model
Shanglin Yuan, Weiheng Zhao, Xianda Guo +4 more
2026
Mind Your Steps: A General Learning Framework for Accurate Humanoid Foothold Tracking
Alessandro Montenegro, Shihao Li, Puze Liu +2 more
2026
Light-WAM: Efficient World Action Models with State-Fusion Action Decoding
Ziang Li, Dongzhou Cheng, Yibin Wang +5 more
2026
CLASP: Language-Driven Robot Skill Selection and Composition using Task-Parameterized Learning
Markus Knauer, Valentin Gieraths, Tai Mai +4 more
2026
SynthICL: Scalable In-context Imitation Learning with Synthetic Data
Cheng Qian, Ruomeng Fan, Yifei Ren +2 more
2026
Vision-Guided Dual-Arm Humanoid Robotic Disassembly of End-of-Life 18650 Lithium-ion Battery Packs
Yile Chen, Zhihao Liu, Xi Vincent Wang +1 more
2026
Ego-Pi: VLA Fine-Tuning for Ego-Centric Human and Robot Data
Ji Woong Kim, Ke Wang, Zipeng Fu +4 more
2026
Revisiting Articulated Parts Perception in Robot Manipulation
Xiaoqian Wu, Yejie Guo, Xiaoyang Chen +3 more
2026
Continual Quadruped Robots Coordination via Semantic Skill Discovery
Daoqing Wang, Yuchen Xiao, Weixuan Huang +5 more
2026
Cooperative Long Rope Skipping via Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
Zihao Wang, Shijie Peng, Kerui Wu +6 more
2026