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  1. EgoReveal: Learning Active Vision and Object Manipulation under Partial Occlusions from Egocentric Demonstrations

    Oct 9, 2026Hiromu Kurihara, Kazutoshi Tanaka, Masashi Hatano +3Active Vision for Robot ManipulationRobotic Manipulation

    Keio University, Yokohama, Kanagawa 223-8522, Japan · OMRON SINIC X Corporation, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan

  2. VioLA: Learning Generalist Humanoid Control Policies from Human Data

    Oct 8, 2026Mert Albaba, Jens Beißwenger, Anna Manasyan +6Humanoid Robot ControlRobot Imitation Learning

    Vesoma · ETH Zürich · MPI-IS +2

  3. Residual Modeling Closes the Regression and Generative Policy Gap in Robot Learning

    Oct 8, 2026Yuchen Zhou, Jiacheng You, Weikang Wan +3Robot Policy LearningRobot Imitation Learning

    University of Pennsylvania · Tsinghua University · UC San Diego

  4. Unifying Policy Learning and State Prediction through Spatial Language Modeling

    Oct 8, 2026Minye Wu, Zehao Wang, Tinne TuytelaarsRobotic ManipulationVisuomotor Policy Learning

    KU Leuven

  5. Leveraging Human-In-The-Loop Demonstrations in Reinforcement Learning for Digital Twin-Driven Robot Flexibility

    Oct 8, 2026Yuzhu Sun, Mien Van, Nguyen Minh Nhat +2Robotic RLHuman-in-the-Loop AI

    School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK

  6. SkillWeave: Weaving Heterogeneous Demonstrations into Long-Horizon Manipulation Skills

    Oct 8, 2026Ryosei Tamura, Xiaoxiang Dong, Uksang Yoo +4Robotic ManipulationLong-Horizon Robotic Manipulation

    Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, USA. · Department of Computer Science, Keio University, Japan. · College of Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, USA. +1

  7. Self-Supervised Keyframe Discovery for Horizon-Invariant Behavior Cloning

    Oct 7, 2026Prabin Kumar Rath, Omkar Patil, Nakul GopalanBehavior CloningRobot Imitation Learning

    Arizona State University

  8. HuMBLE: Human Motion-Driven Behavior Learning for Embodied Locomotion

    Oct 7, 2026Mike Zhang, Dongho Kang, Kevin Bergamin +19Humanoid Robot LocomotionRL for Legged Locomotion

    RAI Institute, USA · Boston Dynamics, USA · Carnegie Mellon University, USA

  9. Towards Accurate End-Effector Localization for UMI-Style Robotic Manipulation Teaching

    Oct 7, 2026Junjie Zhang, Deteng Zhang, Zhisong Xu +4Robot LocalizationRobot Manipulation Benchmarks

    Chongqing University · Northwestern Polytechnical University · The University of Tokyo +4

  10. Targeted Modality Dropout for Real-Robot Manipulation Robust to Intermittent Vision Loss

    Oct 7, 2026Genki Shikada, Kazuki Osamura, Masaru Ide +2Missing-Modality LearningMultimodal Robustness

    Fujitsu Limited, Kanagawa 211-8588, Japan. · Faculty of Science and Engineering, Waseda University, Tokyo 169-8050, Japan. · National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tokyo 100-8921, Japan.

  11. Immiscible Diffusion Policy: Preserving Multimodal Robot Actions through Label-Free Noise Assignment

    Oct 7, 2026Xiao Zhang, Yuxin Chen, Zhixuan Liang +5Diffusion PolicyMode Collapse

    University of California, Berkeley · Princeton University · The University of Texas at Austin

  12. Co-Evolving Robot Orchestrators and Policies through Deployment

    Oct 6, 2026Xilun Zhang, Maggie Wang, Erik Bauer +4Robot LearningRobot Policy Adaptation

    Stanford University · NVIDIA Research

  13. Workhorse: Learning Robust Whole-Body Humanoid Loco-Manipulation from Human Data

    Oct 6, 2026Songbo Hu, Qiayuan Liao, Yufeng Chi +4Humanoid Loco-ManipulationWhole-Body Robotic Manipulation

    University of California, Berkeley

  14. MimicX: Policy-in-the-Loop Supervision Refinement for Video-Driven Humanoid Motion Tracking

    Oct 6, 2026Shuaijun Liu, Chenglong Zhang, Xuhao Liu +7Humanoid Motion TrackingHumanoid Robot Control

    The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)

  15. Fast Non-Parametric Heteroscedastic Imitation Learning With Geometric Priors

    Oct 6, 2026Maximilian Mühlbauer, Arne Sachtler, Markus Knauer +4Robotic ManipulationData-Efficient Robot Learning

    Department of Computer Engineering, Technical University of Munich, Friedrich-Ludwig-Bauer-Str. 3, Garching, Germany. · German Aerospace Center (DLR), Robotics and Mechatronics Center (RMC), Münchener Str. 20, 82234 Weßling, Germany. · School of Computer Science, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.

  16. VOMMI: Collecting and Leveraging Portable Demonstrations for Mobile Manipulation

    Oct 6, 2026Yutian Zhang, Xingrui Xiong, Siyuan Ma +12Mobile ManipulationRobotic Data Collection

    ZJU · Yale · THU +5

  17. PACE: Stage-Consistent Long-Horizon Robot Manipulation via Progress-Aligned Context for Execution

    Oct 6, 2026Yenan Chen, Junjie Shi, Lu Chen +2Long-Horizon Robotic ManipulationRobotic Manipulation

    College of Control Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China

  18. CoRE: Learning Collaboration-Role Experts for Decentralized Collaborative Manipulation with One Policy

    Oct 6, 2026Yanan Zhou, Zhaoyan Qian, Zihao Li +3Multi-Robot SystemsMulti-Task Robotic Manipulation

    School of Computer Science, The University of Sydney, Australia. · College of Computer Science and Technology, Zhejiang University of Technology, China.

  19. Seeing Through the Displaced Frame: Privileged Noise Distillation for Vision-Force Precision Assembly

    Oct 6, 2026Ching-Hsiang Chang, Tzu-Yu Chuang, Yi-Hsiu Lee +3Robotic ManipulationForce-Controlled Robotic Manipulation

    National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan. · National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan.

  20. ExoBridge: Learning a Bare Hand to Hand-Worn Exoskeleton Mapping through Human Limb Coupling

    Oct 6, 2026Ruitong Tian, Xianyao Li, Noah B. Wilson +2Cross-Embodiment Robot LearningRobotic Manipulation

    Department of Civil and Coastal Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA · Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA

  21. From Wearable Interfaces to Dexterous Policies: Contact Shifts and Tactile Representations

    Oct 6, 2026Ruitong Tian, Fang Xu, Noah B. Wilson +2Robotic Data CollectionRobot Teleoperation

    Department of Civil and Coastal Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA. · Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA.

  22. Learning Grasp Targeting from Point Clouds for Log Pile Clearing on a Hydraulic Crane

    Oct 6, 2026George Sideris, Lucas Bessai, Heshan Fernando +3Robotic GraspingSim-to-Real Transfer

    McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada. · FPInnovations, Pointe-Claire, QC, Canada.

  23. BiGym 2.0: Benchmarking Learned and Agent-Developed Policies for Humanoid Household Manipulation

    Oct 6, 2026Zexi Zhang, Zecheng Zhu, Zidong Chen +2Whole-Body Robotic ManipulationVision-Language-Action Models

    Department of Computing, Imperial College London, UK

  24. InterMimicGen: Scaling Humanoid Loco-Manipulation through Self-Evolving Motion Imitation

    Oct 5, 2026Yucheng Zhang, Sirui Xu, Jinhong Li +8Humanoid Loco-ManipulationSynthetic Data Generation for Robotics

    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign · NVIDIA

  25. DexForge: High-Fidelity Physics-Informed Dexterous Retargeting

    Oct 5, 2026Meizhong Wang, Kun Cao, Ruiqi Ni +2Contact-Rich Robotic ManipulationMotion Retargeting

    Tongji University · Shanghai Research Institute for Intelligent Autonomous Systems · Purdue University +1

  26. Robotizing Human Videos with Physically Consistent Interactions

    Oct 5, 2026Ching-Lam Cheng, Shengfeng He, Bin ZhuRobotic GraspingData Augmentation

    Singapore Management University

  27. Adaptive Mean Flow for Responsive Closed-Loop Robot Control

    Oct 5, 2026Aksel Vaaler, Marco Job, Christian Holden +1Robotic ControlFlow Matching

    Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)

  28. FreeSpeed: Training-Free Speed Control for Generative Robot Policies

    Oct 5, 2026Yuxuan Hu, Shilin Shan, Qiheng Wang +4Robot Policy AdaptationRobotic Manipulation

    MARS Lab, Nanyang Technological University · ROKAE Robotics

  29. Learning Coordinated Visuomotor Box-Pushing from Solo Demonstrations

    Oct 5, 2026Ryusei Matsumoto, Mei Kinjo, Yoko Sasaki +1Visuomotor Policy LearningMulti-Robot Coordination

    National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan · Institute of Science Tokyo, Japan · The University of Tokyo, Japan

  30. TUCO: Curating Simulation Demonstrations for Sim-to-Real Robot Policy Co-Training

    Oct 4, 2026Ning Zhu, Mengfei Zhao, Yikai Tang +5Robot Policy LearningSim-to-Real Transfer

    Stanford University · Nanyang Technological University · AXIS Robotics +4