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  1. An Unexpected Robot Policy: Early Evaluations of GPT-6 Astra on RoboDojo and Beyond

    Sep 21, 2026Wenbo Zhang, Kaixuan Wang, Yutao Ouyang +9Language-Conditioned Robot ManipulationGeneralization in Robotic Manipulation

    RoboProbe · RoboDojo · The University of Hong Kong +5

  2. ActiveArena: Benchmarking and Understanding Active Perception in Robotic Manipulation

    Sep 21, 2026Yibo Li, Enshen Zhou, Rui Chen +7Memory-Augmented VLMsActive Perception

    Beihang University · Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence · Peking University +1

  3. Grounded Action Model: 3D Grounding as a Foundation for Robotics

    Sep 20, 2026Gehao Zhang, Weikai Huang, Shailesh Shailesh +3Long-Horizon Robotic ManipulationLanguage-Conditioned Robot Manipulation

    Northwestern University · University of Washington · National University of Singapore +1

  4. BiRoAD: Learning Shared and Role-Adaptive Representations for Bimanual Manipulation

    Sep 20, 2026Yan Shen, Yuchen Liu, Feng Jiang +5Representation LearningBimanual Robotic Manipulation

    CFCS, School of Computer Science, Peking University

  5. V2-STRep: VLM-Grounded Structured Task Representations for Reusable Robot Skills Acquired from Generated Videos

    Sep 17, 2026Yexin Hu, Dongheui LeeZero-Shot Robotic ManipulationGeneralization in Robotic Manipulation

    Autonomous Systems Lab, Technische Universität Wien (TU Wien), Austria · Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany

  6. Visual Sim-to-Real Learning for Robotic Insertion under Geometric Variations: Application to Rebar Installation

    Sep 17, 2026Tao Sun, Beining Han, Patrick Yin +5RL for RoboticsRobotic Construction

    McGill University · Princeton University · University of Washington

  7. Graph-Based Design of Soft Grippers with Multi-Objective Quality-Diversity Optimisation

    Sep 17, 2026Andre Farinha, Ge Shi, Harry Bowman +3Robotic GraspingMulti-Objective Evolutionary Optimization

    CSIRO Robotics, Australia

  8. Grasping by interconnection: robust closing motions from coarse object templates

    Sep 16, 2026Julien Vanderheyden, Guillaume Drion, Fulvio Forni +1Robotic GraspingContact-Rich Robotic Manipulation

    Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Liège, Belgium · Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

  9. WeaveRL: Weaving Reconstruction into Scene-Aware Fabrics for Perceptive Reinforcement Learning

    Sep 16, 2026Remo Steiner, Vikram Ramasamy, David Tingdahl +73D ReconstructionGeneralization in Robotic Manipulation

    NVIDIA Corporation. Zurich, Seattle and Santa Clara.

  10. DetAug: Obstacle-Blind Trajectory Augmentation for Zero-shot Obstacle Avoidance

    Sep 16, 2026Reece O'Mahoney, Moritz Zoellner, Ioannis HavoutisRobot Policy LearningTrajectory Generation

    Oxford Robotics Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK · Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA

  11. GraphPoint: Semantic Entity Graphs and Point Trajectories for Compositional Robot Manipulation

    Sep 16, 2026Kang Luo, Hesheng WangLong-Horizon Robotic ManipulationLanguage-Conditioned Robot Manipulation

    IRMV Lab, the Department of Automation, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

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

    Sep 16, 2026Tianyi Xiang, Xupeng Xie, Jiahang Cao +3Synthetic-to-Real Domain AdaptationLong-Horizon Robotic Manipulation

    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

  13. Acting in Meters: Learning Metric Interactions for Precise Robotic Manipulation

    Sep 16, 2026Lijie Wang, Zheng Lu, Yiming Wang +12Language-Conditioned Robot ManipulationGeneralization in Robotic Manipulation

    Sun Yat-sen University

  14. Vision-Language Grounded Task-Context-Aware Imitation Learning for Robotic Disassembly

    Sep 15, 2026Jeon Ho Kang, Igal Tamarkin, Ethan Niu +2Long-Horizon Robotic ManipulationLanguage-Conditioned Robot Manipulation

    Viterbi School of Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA

  15. Rethinking Visual Embodiment Dependence in Visuomotor Policies

    Sep 15, 2026Hongjie Fang, Yuxuan Lu, Chenxi Wang +8Generalization in Robotic ManipulationVisuomotor Policy Learning

    1Shanghai Jiao Tong University · 2FORTE Lab. · 3Noematrix. +2

  16. ManiSkillFormer: Demonstration-Free Compositional Manipulation via Task-Conditioned Geometric Contracts

    Sep 14, 2026Peiqi Yu, Mosam Dabhi, Shangtao Li +3Robot Skill LearningLanguage-Conditioned Robot Manipulation

    Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA

  17. StereoPatch: Patch-Aligned RGB-Depth Fusion for Spatial Perception in Robot Manipulation

    Sep 14, 2026Yanan Zhou, Zhaoyan Qian, James Zhao +1Generalization in Robotic ManipulationVisuomotor Policy Learning

    School of Computer Science, The University of Sydney, Australia. · Australian Centre for Robotics, The University of Sydney, Australia.

  18. FoldNet++: a Large-Scale Synthetic Dataset for Robotic T-Shirt Folding and Unfolding

    Sep 14, 2026Yuxing Chen, Zhiyuan Wei, Bowen Xiao +2Generalization in Robotic ManipulationSynthetic Data Generation for Robotics

    CFCS, Peking University, China · Galbot, China

  19. ArtManip: Category-Level Articulated In-Hand Manipulation

    Sep 14, 2026Yang Yang, Tengyu Liu, Puhao Li +6RL for RoboticsDexterous Manipulation

    State Key Lab of CAD&CG, Zhejiang University · State Key Lab of General Artificial Intelligence, BIGAI · Tsinghua University +1

  20. Agent as Policy for Robotic Manipulation

    Sep 11, 2026Mengzhao Jia, Yang Lin, Xixin Zhang +3Robotic ControlRobot Policy Learning

    University of Notre Dame · University of California San Diego · San Diego State University

  21. ObstaDiff: Generalizable Diffusion Policy Learning via Obstacle-aware Representations

    Sep 10, 2026Jiawen Wang, Kevin Yao, Khalid JawedDiffusion-Based PlanningGeneralization in Robotic Manipulation

    Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles · Department of Computer Science, University of California, Los Angeles

  22. FOCI Policy: Focus on Object-Centric Interactions for Relational Manipulation Policies

    Sep 8, 2026Ze Fu, Pinhao Song, Yutong Hu +1Generalization in Robotic ManipulationRobotic Manipulation

    KU Leuven, Dept. Mechanical Engineering, Research unit Robotics, Automation and Mechatronics · KU Leuven, Dept. Electrical Engineering, Research unit Processing Speech and Images

  23. RoboCousin: Build Your Own Simulation Playground for Robust Bimanual Robotic Manipulation

    Sep 8, 2026Jingxuan Zhu, Jingyi Li, LiangLiang Chen +3Bimanual Robotic ManipulationRobotics Simulation

    E-surfing Digital Life Technology Co., Ltd., China Telecom

  24. 3DWay: Generalizing Robot Manipulation via 3D Consistent Waypoints

    Sep 8, 2026Ziqin Huang, Yingyue Li, Chenyangguang Zhang +6Generalization in Robotic ManipulationTrajectory Representation Learning

    Tsinghua University · ETH Zürich · University of California, Berkeley

  25. State-of-the-Art in Learning-by-Demonstration with Passive Observation for Industrial Assembly Automation

    Sep 7, 2026David Koetter, Oliver Petrovic, Christian BrecherGeneralization in Robotic ManipulationImitation Learning

    RWTH Aachen University, Laboratory for Machine Tools and Production Engineering, Steinbachstraße 19, 52074 Aachen, Germany · Fraunhofer Intitute for Production Technology IPT, Steinbachstraße 17, 52074 Aachen, Germany

  26. GIFT: Guided Intermediate Feature Training via Action-Oriented Structural Supervision for Robotic Manipulation

    Sep 3, 2026Yupeng Zheng, Xiang Li, Songen Gu +11Visual Representation LearningWorld Models for Robotics

    Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences · Tsinghua University · Fudan University +2

  27. Adaptive Vision-Language Grasping via Composable Foundation Priors and Generalizable Grasp Synthesis

    Sep 3, 2026Sixu Yan, Shikang Wang, Binhua Huang +11Robotic GraspingGeneralization in Robotic Manipulation

    School of Electronic Information and Communications, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China · Hubei Automation Institute, Wuhan 430071, China · KEENON Robotics Co., Ltd., Shanghai 201206, China +7

  28. One Demonstration, Many Objects: Generalizing Manipulation via Local Contact Geometry

    Sep 1, 2026Satvik Sharma, Samrat Sahoo, Huang Huang +4Contact-Rich Robotic ManipulationSim-to-Real Transfer

    Stanford University

  29. Peg-in-Bench: A Modular Benchmark for High-Precision Robotic Insertion

    Sep 1, 2026Yosel Delgado, José G. Buenaventura-Carreón, Floris Erich +4Contact-Rich Robotic ManipulationGeneralization in Robotic Manipulation

    National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan

  30. ZimaBlue: Evolving Generalizable World Action Models through Scalable Video Pre-training

    Aug 31, 2026Xionghao Wu, Yijun Yang, Shiyang Zhou +17World Models for RoboticsGeneralization in Robotic Manipulation

    Joy Future Academy