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  1. RMMBench: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Robotic Mobile Manipulation

    Oct 4, 2026Huapeng Li, Fuxiang Feng, Jinqiu Fan +5VLM EvaluationLong-Horizon Robotic Manipulation

    School of Control Science and Engineering, Shandong University · Meituan Group

  2. NarrativeFlow: Flow-Based Vision-Language-Action Model Using Robot Velocity Fields

    Oct 1, 2026Shota Kobayashi, Koki Seno, Daichi Yashima +1Language-Conditioned Robot ManipulationCross-Embodiment Robot Learning

    Keio University, Japan

  3. MIKASA-Robo-VLA: Benchmarking Memory in VLA Models for Long-Horizon Manipulation

    Sep 30, 2026Egor Cherepanov, Nikita Kachaev, Aleksandr I. Panov +1Memory-Augmented VLMsLong-Horizon Robotic Manipulation

    AXXX, Moscow, Russia · MIRIAI, Moscow, Russia · HSE University, Moscow, Russia

  4. DynaHarness: A Dynamic Physical Harness for Self-Evolving Robot Agents

    Sep 30, 2026Haoyuan Deng, Jiebin Liu, Tengxiao Zhang +3Long-Horizon Robotic ManipulationContinual Robot Learning

    Nanyang Technological University · Nanjing University

  5. From Local Whole-Body VLA Behaviors to Scene-Scale Aerial Manipulation

    Sep 30, 2026Weixiang Guo, Rui Jin, Haotian Jin +7Robotic ControlLanguage-Conditioned Robot Manipulation

    School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 639798 · College of Electronics and Information Engineering, Shanghai Institute of Intelligent Science and Technology, Tongji University, Shanghai 201804, China · School of Aeronautic Science and Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China +1

  6. Text-to-3D Policy: Fine-Grained Language-Behavior Alignment for Unseen Specification Generalization

    Sep 30, 2026Xinhao Yang, Wenhao Wu, Ning Lv +5Language-Conditioned Robot ManipulationGeneralization in Robotic Manipulation

    Nanjing University · Australian National University · University of Technology Sydney

  7. Beyond the Current Scene: Event-Referential Grasping with Active View Selection

    Sep 30, 2026Hyunjoon Lee, Haebeom Jung, Eunsung Cha +4Robotic GraspingLanguage-Conditioned Robot Manipulation

    Seoul National University · NVIDIA

  8. HiWE: Hierarchical World Knowledge Model with Visual Keypoint Enhancement for Zero-Shot 3D Path Planning

    Sep 30, 2026Guoqing Ma, Mingqi Yuan, Chen Gao +2Zero-Shot Robotic ManipulationLanguage-Conditioned Robot Manipulation

    Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China · School of Future Technology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · State Key Laboratory of Brain Cognition and Brain-inspired Intelligence Technology, CAS +2

  9. Cue the Flow: Steering Flow-Matching Policies for Open-World Delivery Manipulation

    Sep 30, 2026Haoxuan Wang, Griffin Galimi, Junhua Huang +4Language-Conditioned Robot ManipulationGeneralization in Robotic Manipulation

    University of Illinois Chicago · University of California, Los Angeles

  10. CogWAM: Aligning Semantic Cognition with World Action Modeling via Event-Driven Interfaces

    Sep 29, 2026Sen Wang, Liu Liu, Xinjiang Wang +7World Models for RoboticsLanguage-Conditioned Robot Manipulation

    Xi'an Jiaotong University · Horizon Robotics · Huazhong University of Science and Technology +1

  11. Encore: Few-Shot Agentic Discovery of Manipulation Strategies

    Sep 29, 2026Yifan Kang, Zihan Wang, Zhiwen Fan +1Robot Policy LearningLanguage-Conditioned Robot Manipulation

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology · AI Open Source Foundation · Texas A&M University +1

  12. DROM: A Language-Guided Diffusion Framework for Multi-Skill Robotic Manipulation

    Sep 29, 2026Vincenzo Pomponi, Rocco Felici, Paolo Franceschi +5Long-Horizon Robotic ManipulationRobot Skill Learning

    Institute of Systems and Technologies for Sustainable Production (ISTePS), Department of Innovative Technologies, University of Applied Science and Arts of Southern Switzerland (SUPSI), Via la Santa 1, Lugano, CH-6900, Ticino, Switzerland. · Istituto Dalle Molle di studi sull’intelligenza artificiale (IDSIA), Department of Innovative Technologies, University of Applied Science and Arts of Southern Switzerland (SUPSI), Via la Santa 1, Lugano, CH-6900, Ticino, Switzerland. · Mechanical Department, Politecnico di Milano (PoliMi), Via Giuseppe Candiani, Milan, 20155, Italy. +1

  13. Multi-Granularity Language-Guided Imitation Learning via Instruction Decomposition

    Sep 29, 2026Yi-Pei Chiu, Wei-Ta ChuLanguage-Conditioned Robot ManipulationImitation Learning

    National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan

  14. FineART: Fine-Grained Annotated Robotic Trajectory Dataset and Vision-Language-Action Model for Bimanual Manipulation

    Sep 29, 2026Jade Choghari, Pepijn Kooijmans, Mansi Agarwal +8Long-Horizon Robotic ManipulationLanguage-Conditioned Robot Manipulation

    Scale AI · Hugging Face · University of Southern California +1

  15. ReCAT: Remember, Count, and Time: Structured Recurrent Memory for Robot Manipulation

    Sep 28, 2026Pankhuri Vanjani, Mostafa Hatab, Can Mizrakli +4Language-Conditioned Robot ManipulationRecurrent Neural Networks

    Intuitive Robots Lab, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany · University of Edinburgh, UK · NVIDIA +1

  16. From Language to Task Maps: Compiling Semantic Relations While Preserving Task-Relevant Freedom

    Sep 28, 2026Jaegyun Park, Jingwang Lee, Jungsoo Lee +2Robotic ControlLanguage-Conditioned Robot Manipulation

    Department of Robotics, Hanyang University, Seoul, Republic of Korea. · Department of Robotics, Hanyang University ERICA, Ansan, Republic of Korea.

  17. RoboIRGBench: Benchmarking Implicit Referential Grounding in Vision-Language-Action Models

    Sep 28, 2026Aernaer Akelijiang, Jiannan Li, Zhineng Chen +2Language-Conditioned Robot ManipulationVision-Language-Action Models

    Singapore Management University · Fudan University

  18. TLC-DiT: Task-Aligned Local Visual Conditioning for Robust Multitask Robot Manipulation

    Sep 28, 2026Xianbo Cai, Hideyuki Ichiwara, Zihang Wang +2Language-Conditioned Robot ManipulationMulti-Task Robotic Manipulation

    Department of Intermedia Art and Science, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan · SB Intuitions Corp., Tokyo, Japan · Department of Electronic and Physical Systems, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan +2

  19. DualManip: Agentic Dynamic Manipulation via Dual-Path Semantic Reasoning and Geometric Adaptation

    Sep 25, 2026Chengxi Li, Yan Di, Yingyue Li +3Robotic GraspingLanguage-Conditioned Robot Manipulation

    Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, China · School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen), China · Beijing Institute of Control Engineering, China

  20. FRAM: Trajectory-Guided Visual Feature Selection for Compact Language-Conditioned Robot Manipulation

    Sep 25, 2026Hiroshi Ito, Hyogo Hiruma, Yoshiki Kanai +3Language-Conditioned Robot ManipulationEfficient VLA Models

    Research & Development Group, Hitachi, Ltd., Ibaraki, 312-0034, Japan.

  21. Robo-Harness K1: Harnessing Robot-Use Agents via Perception Augmentation

    Sep 24, 2026Zexi Li, Yehang Zhang, Wenqian Li +12Language-Conditioned Robot ManipulationTool-Using Agents

    The Chinese University of Hong Kong · Knowin AI · The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)

  22. RoboFollow: Unveiling the Instruction Following Mirage in Embodied Agents

    Sep 22, 2026Chang Guo, Yukun Xie, Bohan Tan +6Language-Conditioned Robot ManipulationRobotic Policy Evaluation

    AutoLab, School of Artificial Intelligence, Shanghai Jiao Tong University · Research Lab, Anyverse Dynamics

  23. Bridge3D: Enabling Vision-Language-Action Models to See and Act in 3D

    Sep 21, 2026Haoxuan Li, Sixu Yan, Lianghui Zhu +3Language-Conditioned Robot ManipulationRobotic Manipulation

    Huazhong University of Science and Technology · KEENON Robotics

  24. vla.simd: Efficient CPU Inference for Language-Conditioned Manipulation

    Sep 21, 2026Khanh D. Nguyen, Hoang M. Truong, An T. LeLanguage-Conditioned Robot ManipulationEfficient VLA Model Inference

    VinRobotics, Vietnam. · Center for AI Research, VinUniversity, Vietnam. · Intelligent Autonomous Systems, TU Darmstadt, Germany.

  25. 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

  26. RoboTalk: Learning Multi-Robot Communication and Coordination from Multimodal Demonstrations

    Sep 21, 2026Dorian Benhamou Goldfajn, Mason Nakamura, Saaduddin Mahmud +3Multi-Robot SystemsLanguage-Conditioned Robot Manipulation

    University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA. · University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA. · Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA.

  27. Topology-Informed Visual Prompting For Vision Language Action Policies

    Sep 20, 2026Haoyang Wu, Abhinav Kumar, Dmitry BerensonLanguage-Conditioned Robot ManipulationVision-Language-Action Models

    Robotics Department, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.

  28. 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

  29. HEARTH: An Object-Centric RGB-Thermal-3D Dataset for Temperature-Aware Robot Manipulation

    Sep 20, 2026Yuning Su, Borui Li, Yonghao Shi +2Language-Conditioned Robot ManipulationRobotic Manipulation

    Simon Fraser University

  30. KINO: A Keyframe Interface for VLM Planning and Whole-Body Control in Humanoid Loco-Manipulation

    Sep 16, 2026Sitong Chen, Fatemeh Zargarbashi, Jin Cheng +2Robotic ControlRL for Robotics

    ETH Zürich, Switzerland

  31. 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

  32. 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

  33. OpenDexGrasp: Open-vocabulary Task-Oriented Dexterous Grasping

    Sep 16, 2026Jiyao Zhang, Junhan Wang, Tianyu Wang +4Robotic GraspingDexterous Manipulation

    CFCS, School of CS, PKU, China · National Key Laboratory for Multimedia Information Processing, School of CS, PKU, China · PrimeBot +1

  34. 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

  35. SWIM: Vision-Language-Grounded Soft Whole-Body Interactive Manipulation

    Sep 15, 2026Tingcong Liu, Aye Phyu Phyu Aung, Junjie Xiong +4Language-Conditioned Robot ManipulationWhole-Body Robotic Manipulation

    Nanyang Technological University, Singapore · Institute of Advanced Intelligence and Computing, A*STAR, Singapore · Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates +1

  36. SAVLA: Symmetry-Aware Vision-Language-Action Models for Robotic Manipulation

    Sep 15, 2026Junle Li, Weixian Waylon Li, Fuxiang Wu +2Language-Conditioned Robot ManipulationVision-Language-Action Models

    School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Scotland. · Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China.

  37. 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

  38. Atomic Motion Coordinate for Language-Steerable and Force-Responsive Manipulation

    Sep 14, 2026Jiaqi Zhai, Jingkai Zhao, Chen Yang +10Language-Conditioned Robot ManipulationForce-Controlled Robotic Manipulation

    Hangzhou DEEP Robotics Technology Co., Ltd. (DEEP Robotics), Hangzhou, China · Tsinghua University, Beijing, China · Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China +7

  39. Dynin-Robotics: Omnimodal Unified Diffusion Vision-Language-Action Model

    Sep 14, 2026Hoeun Lee, Jaeik Kim, Jusang Oh +4Robotic ControlAction-Conditioned Video Generation

    AIDAS Lab Seoul National University

  40. UniPart: Towards Zero-shot Language-Grounded 3D Part Segmentation for Embodied Interaction

    Sep 14, 2026Xinqiang Yu, Zekun qi, Jiawei He +63D ViTsOpen-Vocabulary 3D Segmentation

    NLPR, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China · Galbot Inc., China · Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence, China +3

  41. 2AM: Grounding Agent-Side Memory as Guidance for Steerable Action Models in Long-Horizon Manipulation

    Sep 12, 2026Yutong Hu, Fengjiao Chen, Xuezhi Cao +1Long-Horizon Robotic ManipulationLanguage-Conditioned Robot Manipulation

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

  42. GTA-2: A Multi-VLM Framework for Synthesizing Robot Manipulation Skills via Grounded Task Axes

    Sep 9, 2026M. Yunus Seker, Shobhit Aggarwal, Ruwan Wickramarachchi +2Zero-Shot Robotic ManipulationRobot Skill Learning

    The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA · Bosch Research, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

  43. CASD: Chunk-Aligned Semantic Distillation for Multi-StageRobot Manipulation

    Sep 8, 2026Tinghe Ding, Jiahao Li, He WangCross-Modal Knowledge DistillationLanguage-Conditioned Robot Manipulation

    Ant Group, China

  44. Potential-Guided Particle Steering for Negation-Constrained Dexterous Grasping

    Sep 1, 2026Geonho Kim, SooGon Kim, Jongmin LeeRobotic GraspingLanguage-Conditioned Robot Manipulation

    Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Chung-Ang University

  45. SUN: Persistent Programs For Language-Grounded Control-to-Learning-to-Real Policies

    Aug 31, 2026Weiqi Wang, Zhi Li, Yudong Lei +7Robot Policy LearningLong-Horizon Robotic Manipulation

    University of California, Los Angeles · University of California, Santa Barbara · Amazon +1

  46. CometVLA: Co-Training on an Embodied Data Pyramid towards Physical Understanding

    Aug 31, 2026Hanwen Wan, Dafeng Chi, Linbo Zhai +6Language-Conditioned Robot ManipulationEmbodied QA

    1JD Explore Academy, China. · 5South China University of Technology, China. · School of Science and Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China. +3

  47. Embodied Multimodal Grounding for Open-Vocabulary Mobile Manipulation via Semantic 3D Gaussian Splatting

    Aug 11, 2026Huosen Ou, Dongni Song, Yuncong Wang +2Multimodal Grounding3D Gaussian Splatting

    The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) · Midea Group · The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

  48. SLIM-0.5B: Learning Action-Grounded Predictive Latents for Robot Manipulation

    Aug 10, 2026Jingkai Wang, Zihan Tang, Gu Zhang +7Latent Dynamics ModelingLanguage-Conditioned Robot Manipulation

    1Fudan University · 2Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence · 3Tsinghua University +1

  49. SG-WAM: Text-Grounded and Spatial-aware Semantic Guidance for World-Action Models

    Aug 9, 2026Junjie He, Junfeng Li, Zhide Zhong +9World Models for RoboticsLanguage-Conditioned Robot Manipulation

    The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), Guangzhou, China · Ola Dimensions, Shenzhen, China

  50. Multi-modal Interactive Control of Robotic Arm based on Offline Large Language Models

    Aug 8, 2026Hanxiao ChenLong-Horizon Robotic ManipulationLanguage-Conditioned Robot Manipulation

    Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Systems, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

  51. Representation Handoffs for OpenArm-Based Laboratory Mobile Manipulation

    Aug 7, 2026Yang Shen, Chonghao Cheng, Ziyi Zhao +6Language-Conditioned Robot ManipulationMobile Manipulation

    University of Technology Sydney · Southern University of Science and Technology

  52. ωω-0: A Latent Predictive World Action Model for Concurrent Humanoid Loco-Manipulation

    Aug 6, 2026Zhe Li, Zhenzhe Zhang, Yangyang Wei +8Humanoid Loco-ManipulationLanguage-Conditioned Robot Manipulation

    MARS Lab, NTU · BAAI · PKU +1

  53. World-to-Wrist: Task-Conditioned Future Wrist Modeling for Fine-Grained Robot Manipulation

    Aug 5, 2026Yuhao Pan, Haosong Peng, Zhengshen Zhang +8Language-Conditioned Robot ManipulationContact-Rich Robotic Manipulation

    1The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology · 2National University of Singapore · 3Nanyang Technological University +4

  54. VLAff: Vision-Language-Affordance Model for Unified Actionable Affordances

    Aug 5, 2026Jihoon Oh, Kento Kawaharazuka, Kei OkadaRobot Skill LearningLanguage-Conditioned Robot Manipulation

    University of Tokyo, Japan

  55. Structure-Aware Robust Fine-Tuning: Defending Vision-Language-Action Robots Against Physical Attention Hijacking

    Aug 4, 2026Jinquan Zhang, Dongfu Yin, Run Yang +3Fine-TuningLanguage-Conditioned Robot Manipulation

    Guangdong Laboratory of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Economy (SZ), Shenzhen, China · Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China · Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada

  56. Diagnosing Compositional Generalization in Sequential Robot Tasks

    Jul 31, 2026Yixiao Wang, Cheng-En Wu, Lingfeng Sun +5Language-Conditioned Robot ManipulationRobotic Data Collection

    University of California, Berkeley · Tsinghua University

  57. Speech2Grasp: Data-Efficient Transfer of Text-Conditioned Grasp Detection to Speech in Humanoid Robots

    Jul 29, 2026Hung Nguyen, Kim Nhat Minh Nguyen, Van Duc Vu +6Robotic GraspingLanguage-Conditioned Robot Manipulation

    University of California San Diego · VinMotion · Hanoi University of Science and Technology +2

  58. Real2Sim2Real for Vision-Language-Action Manipulation: An AMD ROCm-Based Pipeline

    Jul 25, 2026Qing Yang, Xun Wang, Ziguan Wang +3Language-Conditioned Robot ManipulationRobotics Simulation

    AMD AIG Team · Beijing Institute of Technology

  59. Scale Up Strategically: Learning Compositional Generalization via Bias-Aware Evaluation and Data Collection for Robotic Manipulation

    Jul 23, 2026Yu Qi, Zhang Ye, Xinyi Xu +6Robot Skill LearningLanguage-Conditioned Robot Manipulation

    Northeastern University · NVIDIA

  60. SeededGrasp: Language-Guided Grasping in Complex Scenes with Multiple Embodiments

    Jul 22, 2026Yang Xu, Gurpreet Singh Mukker, Raymond Wang +3Robotic GraspingLanguage-Conditioned Robot Manipulation

    University of Toronto · Vector Institute · University of British Columbia +1