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  1. FORM: Robot Manipulation through Direct Material Law Identification

    Sep 29, 2026Stepan Tretiakov, Ruihan Zhao, Cheng-Hsi Hsiao +6Deformable Linear ObjectsRobotic Manipulation

    Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA. · Chandra Family Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering · Maseeh Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering +2

  2. Manipulation of Deformable Linear Objects Using Model Predictive Path Integral Control with Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory Learning

    Sep 22, 2026Lukas Zeh, Johannes Meiwaldt, Zexu Zhou +2Deformable Linear ObjectsModel Predictive Path Integral

    Institute for Control Engineering of Machine Tools and Manufacturing Units, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany

  3. Manipulation with Stability Guarantees: Linear Deformable Objects with Non-negligible Physical Response Grasped at Multiple Location

    Sep 22, 2026Daniel Feliu-Talegon, Cosimo Della SantinaDeformable Linear ObjectsRobotic Manipulator

    Department of Cognitive Robotics, Delft University of Technology, 2628 CN Delft, The Netherlands · Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics, German Aerospace Center (DLR), 82234 Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany

  4. Contact-Stable Deformable Tissue Simulation Using Implicit Integration and Live-Pose Grasp Constraints for Laparoscopic Surgery Robot Policy Evaluation

    Sep 22, 2026Juahn Oh, Dongho Yee, Jinseok Lee +9Surgical RobotsRobotic Grasping

    Department of Transdisciplinary Medicine, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Republic of Korea. · Rosota Inc., Seoul, Republic of Korea. · Eulji University College of Medicine, Daejeon, Republic of Korea. +6

  5. WorldContact: A Contact-Centric World Model for Scalable Robot Learning

    Sep 17, 2026Caoliwen Wang, Mengdi Wang, Heng Zhang +7Tactile World ModelScalable Robot Learning

    University of British Columbia · Westlake University · Style3D Research

  6. ForwardDLO: Model-Based Bimanual Shape Matching of Unconstrained Deformable Linear Objects

    Sep 16, 2026Tim Missal, Berk Guler, Lucas Domingues +3Deformable Linear ObjectsDynamic Rope Manipulation

    Technical University of Darmstadt · Honda Research Institute Europe GmbH · School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil +4

  7. Function-Preserving Data Generation for Zero-Shot Real-to-Sim-to-Real Manipulation

    Sep 16, 2026Tianyi Xiang, Xupeng Xie, Jiahang Cao +3Sim-To-Real Reinforcement LearningDeformable Linear Objects

    Robotics and Autonomous Systems Thrust, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), Guangzhou 511453, China · Institute of Data Science, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China

  8. Online Material Estimation for Conditioned Diffusion Policy in Shaping Deformable Linear Objects

    Sep 14, 2026Ryunosuke Yamada, Tomohiro Motoda, Yukiyasu Domae +1Deformable Linear ObjectsDiffusion Policies

    Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa 920-1192, Japan · National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tokyo 135-0064, Japan · Faculty of Frontier Engineering, Institute of Science and Engineering, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa 920-1192, Japan

  9. Primitive-Informed Sampling-Based MPC for Multi-Fingered Dexterous Manipulation

    Sep 14, 2026Emek Barış Küçüktabak, Karankumar Patel, Jinda Cui +3Model Predictive ControlDeformable Linear Objects

    Honda Research Institute USA, San Jose, CA, USA · Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA (Work done during an internship at HRI)

  10. Deformable Object Manipulation under Partial Observability via Real-Time Full-Shape Estimation

    Sep 9, 2026Kosar Behnia, Ville Kyrki, Gokhan AlcanDeformable Linear ObjectsStatistical Shape Model

    Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Tampere Univ., Finland. · Electrical Engineering and Automation Department, Aalto Univ., Finland.

  11. FolDeX: A Physical-World Benchmark for Long-Horizon Robotic Manipulation of Deformable Objects

    Sep 9, 2026Chenhuan Liu, Yi Xu, Feng Wu +7Deformable Linear ObjectsRobotic Manipulation

    Fudan University · AI Research Center, Midea Group (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. · Carnegie Mellon University

  12. RealSimLoop: Online Real-to-Sim Adaptation via Differentiable Reduced-Order Simulation with Vision Feedback

    Sep 9, 2026Zhihao Cen, Chuhua Xian, Hailin Sun +6Sim-To-Real GapDeformable Linear Objects

    South China University of Technology, China · The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China · The Chinese University of Hong Kong / Multi-scale Medical Robotics Centre, Hong Kong SAR, China +1

  13. PhysReal: Learning Real-World Deformable Object Physics via Hybrid Constitutive Modeling

    Sep 7, 2026Yinan Deng, Jianqiao Song, Yisi Zhang +3Deformable Linear ObjectsPhysics Simulation

  14. WireSeg-32K: A Physics-Grounded Synthetic Dataset for Wire Instance Segmentation

    Sep 2, 2026Zilin Dai, Lehong Wang, Yi Yang +1Synthetic-To-Real Domain GapWiring

    Harvard University · Carnegie Mellon University

  15. TCAM for Autonomous Deformable Manipulation: The RMC2 Champion System for WBCD 2026 Track 4

    Aug 11, 2026Guangrui Shen, Zhili He, Shigang Wang +2Deformable Linear ObjectsGripper

    TermiTech, Shenzhen, China

  16. BendTwin: Robust Dense-to-Sparse Physical Reconstruction with Bending-Aware Differentiable Spring-Mass Models

    Aug 6, 2026Yixiong Jing, Qi Wang, Lin Chen +6Deformable Linear ObjectsTwins

    University of Cambridge · Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences · Northwestern Polytechnical University +1

  17. Sparse Meets Dense: Correspondence Guided Robotic Manipulation with Rigid-Deformable Interactions

    Aug 2, 2026Ziyu Zhu, Yue Chen, Xirui Liang +5Deformable Linear ObjectsRobotic Manipulation

    School of EECS, PKU · CFCS, School of Computer Science, PKU

  18. Convex Collision-Free Regions

    Jul 29, 2026Tomoyo Kikuchi, Takashi KanaiDeformable Linear ObjectsRegion

    Kyoto University, Japan · The University of Tokyo, Japan

  19. PhysCoRe: Physics-Corrected Residual World Models for Material-Aware Deformable Dynamics

    Jul 22, 2026Haocheng Yin, Shuohan Tao, Yongsheng Chen +1Deformable Linear ObjectsWorld Models

    Georgia Institute of Technology

  20. BoxTwin: Learning Elastoplastic Articulated Object Dynamics from Videos

    Jul 19, 2026Heng Zhang, Gehan Zheng, Kaifeng Zhang +6Deformable Linear ObjectsDigital Twins

    Heng Zhang, Gehan Zheng, Kaifeng Zhang, Jay Song, Shivansh Patel, Sonny Hu, Yunzhu Li and Changxi Zheng are with SceniX, Inc. · Peter Yichen Chen is with the University of British Columbia.

  21. Deformable State Estimation for Autonomous Surgical Tissue Retraction Under Partial Observability

    Jul 15, 2026Everest Yang, Skye Thompson, George D. KonidarisState EstimationDeformable Linear Objects

    Brown University, Providence, RI, USA

  22. Learning Physics-Guided Residual Dynamics for Deformable Object Simulation

    Jul 15, 2026Shivansh Patel, Kaifeng Zhang, Sanjay Pokkali +2Deformable Linear ObjectsPhysics Simulation

    UIUC · Columbia University

  23. UR-VC: Unsupervised Robotic Value Correction for Time-Derived Progress Proxies

    Jul 14, 2026Lirui Zhao, Modi Shi, Li Chen +3Goal-Conditioned Value FunctionDeformable Linear Objects

    The University of Hong Kong

  24. Context-Aware Force Estimation for Deformable Tool Manipulation in Robotic Environmental Swabbing via Few-Shot Continual Adaptation

    Jul 8, 2026Siavash Mahmoudi, Chaitainya Kuppar Reddy, Yang Tian +1Ground Reaction ForcesDeformable Linear Objects

    Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR 72701, USA · Department of Food Science, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR 72701, USA

  25. Deform360: A Massive Multi-view Visuotactile Dataset for Deformable World Models

    Jul 6, 2026Hongyu Li, Wanjia Fu, Xiaoyan Cong +11Deformable Linear ObjectsVideo World Models

    Brown University, Providence, RI · Columbia University, New York, NY · Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA

  26. SILO: Simulation-in-the-Loop Sim-to-Real Transfer for Multi-Stage Cable Routing

    Jul 6, 2026Stone Tao, Jie Xu, Hesam Rabeti +3Sim-To-Real Reinforcement LearningWiring

    1NVIDIA Corporation · University of California, San Diego

  27. SoftVTBench: A Safety-Aware Visuo-Tactile Benchmark for Physically Constrained Robotic Manipulation of Deformable Objects

    Jul 5, 2026Bowen Jing, Mingxin Wang, Ruiyang Hao +15Deformable Linear ObjectsTactile

    Tuojing Intelligence · Tsinghua University · King’s College London +10

  28. Occlusion-Robust Multi-Object Decoupling for Physics-Based Robotic Interaction

    Jun 28, 2026Xin Dong, Lihan Zhang, Tianru Dai +23D ReconstructionDeformable Linear Objects

    1Pengcheng Laboratory · 2Shenzhen International Graduate School, Tsinghua University

  29. WARP-RM: A Warp-Augmented Relative Progress Reward Model for Data Curation

    Jun 26, 2026Justin Yu, Andrew Goldberg, Kavish Kondap +7Scalable Robot LearningTeleoperation

    University of California, Berkeley · Stanford University · XDOF

  30. DeformGen: Dynamics-Based Topology Augmentation for Deformable Manipulation Policy Learning

    Jun 24, 2026Zili Lin, Wenyao Zhang, Yuyang Zhang +9Deformable Linear ObjectsDeformable

    Shanghai Jiao Tong University · Eastern Institute of Technology, Ningbo · Tsinghua University +3

  31. DeformX: A Versatile Co-Simulation Framework for Deformable Linear Objects

    Jun 20, 2026Yi Yang, Xiang Fei, Lehong Wang +5Deformable Linear ObjectsDeformable

    The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 USA. · School of Ocean and Civil Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 800 Dongchuan Rd, Minhang District, Shanghai, China. · Zhiyuan College, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 800 Dongchuan Rd, Minhang District, Shanghai, China. +2

  32. PIAvatar: Physically Interactive Avatars via Deformation Gradient Decoupling

    Jun 19, 2026Sang-Hun Han, Min-Gyu Park, Jisu Shin +3AvatarsDeformable Linear Objects

    1GIST · 2KETI · 3Polygom +2

  33. Adaptive Volumetric Mechanical Property Fields Invariant to Resolution

    Jun 16, 2026Rishit Dagli, Donglai Xiang, Vismay Modi +4VolumeVoxel

    NVIDIA · University of Toronto

  34. WireCraft: A Simulation Benchmark for Industrial DLO Manipulation

    Jun 16, 2026Chongyu Zhu, Ramy ElMallah, Hyegang Kim +5Deformable Linear ObjectsImitation Learning

    Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto, Canada · Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, Canada · CREFLE Inc., Seongnam, Republic of Korea

  35. EgoPhys: Learning Generalizable Physics Models of Deformable Objects from Egocentric Video

    Jun 15, 2026Hyunjin Kim, Ri-Zhao Qiu, Guangqi Jiang +1Deformable Linear ObjectsEgocentric Video

    UC San Diego

  36. SimWeaver: Zero-Shot RGB Sim-to-Real for Deformable Manipulation

    Jun 13, 2026Wenkang Hu, Haoran Wang, Yitong Li +10Sim-To-Real Reinforcement LearningSim-To-Real Gap

    1Shanghai Jiao Tong University · 2Horizon Robotics · 3Style3D Research

  37. Robustness without Wrinkles: Parallel Simulation and Robust MPC for Certified Deformable Manipulation

    Jun 12, 2026Wei-Chen Li, Jeffrey Fang, Sasanka Polisetti +2Deformable Linear ObjectsRobotic Manipulator

    Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30308

  38. EMG-Based Adaptation of Anisotropic Virtual Fixtures for Robot-Assisted Surgical Resection and Dissection

    Jun 11, 2026Dario Onfiani, Michael Dyck, Luigi Biagiotti +1Surgical RobotsSurgery

    Department of Engineering ”Enzo Ferrari”, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy · Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Munich, Germany

  39. Instant-Fold: In-Context Imitation Learning for Deformable Object Manipulation

    Jun 2, 2026Yilong Wang, Cheng Qian, Edward JohnsDeformable Linear ObjectsImitation Learning

    The Robot Learning Lab · Imperial College London

  40. DLO-Lab: Benchmarking Deformable Linear Object Manipulations with Differentiable Physics

    Jun 2, 2026Junyi Cao, Yian Wang, Ziyan Xiong +3Deformable Linear ObjectsRobot Systems

    University of Massachusetts Amherst

  41. DeMaVLA: A Vision-Language-Action Foundation Model for Generalizable Deformable Manipulation

    May 29, 2026Taiyi Su, Jian Zhu, Tianjian Wang +9Vision-Language-Action FrameworkDeformable Linear Objects

    1AIRC, Midea Group · 2Tongji University

  42. Phase-Conditioned Imitation Learning with Autonomous Failure Recovery for Robust Deformable Object Manipulation

    May 28, 2026Dayuan Chen, Kai Tang, Yukuan Zhang +2Deformable Linear ObjectsTeleoperation

  43. FreeForm: Reduced-Order Deformable Simulation from Particle-Based Skinning Eigenmodes

    May 28, 2026Donglai Xiang, Vismay Modi, Rishit Dagli +5Finite Element MethodReduced-Order Models

    NVIDIA · 1NVIDIA · University of Toronto

  44. Manipulating Tangible Virtual Object Dynamics to Promote Learning of Precision Force Generation

    May 26, 2026Alberto Garzás-Villar, Alba Riera-Cardona, Alexis Derumigny +3RehabilitationDeformable Linear Objects

    Department of Cognitive Robotics, Delft University of Technology, Delft, 2628 CD, The Netherlands · Department of Socio-medical Sciences, Erasmus School of Health Policy & Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, 3062PA, The Netherlands. · Department of Applied Mathematics, Delft University of Technology, Delft, 2628 CD, The Netherlands +1

  45. RoboHitch: Learning Visual Affordance from Disordered Keypoints for Hitch Knots Tying

    May 23, 2026Jiahui Zuo, Boyang Zhang, Fumin ZhangDeformable Linear ObjectsRobotic Manipulation

    Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong

  46. MatPhys: Learning Material-Aware Physics Parameters for Deformable Object Simulation from Videos

    May 19, 2026Yang Yang, Yiyan Wang, Zheming Liu +1Deformable Linear ObjectsFeed-Forward

    1The University of Osaka · 3Huawei Technologies Japan K.K. · 2The University of Tokyo

  47. Learning-Based Adaptive Control for Surgical Robotic Exposure Task on Deformable Tissues

    May 18, 2026Jiayi Liu, Kaiqi Wei, Yiwei Wang +2Surgical RobotsAdaptive Control

    Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

  48. Visual Sculpting: Visually-Aligned Planning Representations for Long-Horizon Robot Clay Sculpting

    May 17, 2026Peter Schaldenbrand, Jean OhDeformable Linear ObjectsLong-Horizon Planning

    1The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University · 2Lavoro AI Research

  49. Learning Sim-Grounded Policies for Bimanual Rope Manipulation from Human Teleoperation Data

    May 15, 2026Gina Wigginghaus, Tim Missal, Berk Guler +2Robotic Manipulation PoliciesBimanual Manipulation

    Technical University of Darmstadt · Honda Research Institute Europe GmbH · German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) +2

  50. EndoGSim: Physics-Aware 4D Dynamic Endoscopic Scene Simulations via MLLM-Guided Gaussian Splatting

    May 15, 2026Changjing Liu, Yiming Huang, Long Bai +2Physics SimulationScene Reconstruction

    Department of Electronic Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), Hong Kong SAR, China

  51. DeformMaster: An Interactive Physics-Neural World Model for Deformable Objects from Videos

    May 10, 2026Can Li, Zhoujian Li, Ren Li +4Deformable Linear ObjectsDeformable

    Nankai University · Rightly Robotics, A4X · Zhejiang University +2

  52. PhysHanDI: Physics-Based Reconstruction of Hand-Deformable Object Interactions

    May 10, 2026Jihyun Lee, Changmin Lee, Donghwan Kim +13D HandDeformable Linear Objects

    School of Computing, KAIST, Daejeon, South Korea.

  53. AssistDLO: Assistive Teleoperation for Deformable Linear Object Manipulation

    May 7, 2026Berk Guler, Simon Manschitz, Kay Pompetzki +1TeleoperationDeformable Linear Objects

    TU Darmstadt, Institute for Intelligent Autonomous Systems, Computer Science Department, 64289 Darmstadt, Germany · Honda Research Institute Europe GmbH, Carl-Legien-Straße 30, 63073 Offenbach/Main, Germany · German Research Center for AI (DFKI), Research Department: Systems AI for Robot Learning; Hessian.AI; Robotics Institute Germany (RIG); Centre for Cognitive Science, Hochschulstr. 10, 64293 Darmstadt, Germany

  54. Reduced-order Neural Modeling with Differentiable Simulation for High-Detail Tactile Perception

    May 6, 2026Yuhu Guo, Zhikai Shen, Jiasheng Qu +4TactileDeformable Linear Objects

    The University of Manchester, UK · The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China · University of Leeds, UK +1

  55. Neural Control: Adjoint Learning Through Equilibrium Constraints

    May 5, 2026Dezhong Tong, Jiawen Wang, Hengyi Zhou +3Learning-Based ControlDeformable Linear Objects

    The Robotics Department, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, US · The Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, US

  56. Online Safety Filter for Deformable Object Manipulation with Horizon Agnostic Neural Operators

    May 1, 2026Jiaxing Li, Hanjiang Hu, Zhuoyuan Wang +2Safety FiltersSafety Constraints

    Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

  57. RopeDreamer: A Kinematic Recurrent State Space Model for Dynamics of Flexible Deformable Linear Objects

    Apr 30, 2026Tim Missal, Lucas Domingues, Berk Guler +3Deformable Linear ObjectsLatent Dynamics

    Technical University of Darmstadt · School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil · Instituto de Pesquisas Eldorado, Brazil +5

  58. DOT-Sim: Differentiable Optical Tactile Simulation with Precise Real-to-Sim Physical Calibration

    Apr 30, 2026Yang You, Won Kyung Do, Aiden Swann +3TactileSim-To-Real Gap

    Stanford University, United States · University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

  59. LeHome: A Simulation Environment for Deformable Object Manipulation in Household Scenarios

    Apr 24, 2026Zeyi Li, Yushi Yang, Shawn Xie +15Deformable Linear ObjectsHouse

    Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences. · Peking University. · Lightwheel. +1

  60. FLASH: Fast Learning via GPU-Accelerated Simulation for High-Fidelity Deformable Manipulation in Minutes

    Apr 19, 2026Siyuan Luo, Bingyang Zhou, Chong Zhang +9Deformable Linear ObjectsSim-To-Real Reinforcement Learning

    NUS Human-Centered Robotic Lab · ETH · ShanghaiTech University +2