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  1. Praxis: Distilling Physical Interaction Priors from Egocentric Videos for Generalizable Whole-Body Manipulation

    Sep 25, 2026Shuliang He, Ruiyan Xu, Bo Yue +5Whole-Body Robotic ManipulationLong-Horizon Robotic Manipulation

    School of Data Science, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen. · JD Technology. · Sun Yat-sen University.

  2. Can a Robot Read Braille? - Learning to Adapt Contact via Imitation Learning for Tactile Braille Recognition

    Sep 25, 2026Xi Chen, Yunlong Shan, Sihan Chen +7Assistive RoboticsContact-Rich Robotic Manipulation

    College of Mechatronics and Control Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China · School of Advanced Engineering, Great Bay University, Dongguan, Guangdong, China · Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Drug Metabolism and Pharmacokinetics, China Pharmaceutical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China +4

  3. Policy-Calibrated DAgger: Offline Calibrated Noise Injection for Imitation Learning

    Sep 24, 2026Jenny Wang, George KantorRobot Imitation LearningCovariate Shift

    Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh PA, USA

  4. POIL: Point-based One-Shot Imitation Learning with Stable Dynamical Systems

    Sep 24, 2026Sang Min Kim, Jinwoo Seo, Hyeongjun Heo +3Robot Imitation LearningImitation Learning

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea. · Department of Artificial Intelligence, Yonsei University, Seoul, Republic of Korea.

  5. Res-HIL: Human-Guided Residual Reinforcement Learning for Sample-Efficient Dexterous Manipulation

    Sep 24, 2026Mariia Iavorskaia, Christian Dietz, Sebastian Albrecht +1Contact-Rich Robotic ManipulationHuman-in-the-Loop AI

    Siemens AG, Research and Predevelopment, Germany. · Technical University of Munich, Germany.

  6. World Action Agent: Harnessing VLMs for Robot Manipulation via World Action Rehearsal

    Sep 24, 2026Yehang Zhang, Haojian Huang, Yifan Chang +13Tool-Using Vision-Language AgentsRobotic Manipulation

    HKUST(GZ) · Knowin AI · CUHK

  7. Self-Supervised Anchoring of Fingertip Sensing to Proprioception and Proactive Actions for Robot Imitation Learning

    Sep 24, 2026Tomohiro Motoda, Masaki Murooka, Keisuke Shirai +6Robot Imitation LearningTactile Sensing for Robotic Manipulation

    Embodied AI Research Team, AIRC and National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) · CNRS-AIST JRL (Joint Robotics Laboratory), IRL and National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)

  8. PolyUMI: Accessible Visual-Tactile-Audio Data Collection for Object Inference and Manipulation

    Sep 24, 2026Conor W. Hayes, Rickmer Krohn, Aravind Ramaswami +6Contact-Rich Robotic ManipulationRobotic Data Collection

    Center for Robotics and Biosystems, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL, USA · Interactive Robot Perception & Learning (PEARL) Lab, TU Darmstadt, Germany · Robotics Institute Germany (RIG)

  9. EgoSpeedUp: Transferring Human Manipulation Tempo to Robot Policies

    Sep 24, 2026Hanbit Oh, Yukiyasu Domae, Takuma YagiRobot Policy LearningRobotic Manipulation

    Artificial Intelligence Research Center, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan

  10. Outcome-Sensitive Motion Search for Impact-Aware Dexterous Catching

    Sep 24, 2026Guorui Pei, Jinsong Wu, Songyuan Su +5Robotic GraspingRobotic Manipulation

    College of Robotics Science and Engineering, Taiyuan University of Technology, Taiyuan, China · Department of Mechanical Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR, China · Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China +4

  11. CALM: Current Aligned Link Manipulation for Single Arm Oversized Object Lifting

    Sep 24, 2026Jun Hu, Sihan Chen, Kosta Jovanovic +4Long-Horizon Robotic ManipulationContact-Rich Robotic Manipulation

    School of Advanced Engineering, Great Bay University, Dongguan, Guangdong, China · Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School, Tsinghua University, Shenzhen, China · School of Computing and Data Science, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China +2

  12. KeyGen: Unsupervised Keypoint based Object-Centric Representations for Category-Level Policy Generalization

    Sep 23, 2026Shuxin Cao, Liquan Wang, Masoud Moghani +2Point Cloud LearningGeneralization in Robotic Manipulation

    Georgia Institute of Technology · University of Toronto

  13. Morphometric Imitation: From Morphology and Contact Aware Hand Retargeting to Sim-to-Real Visuomotor Policy

    Sep 23, 2026Tara Sadjadpour, Siming He, C. K. Wolfe +5Zero-Shot Robotic ManipulationContact-Rich Robotic Manipulation

    Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA

  14. Watch, Recall, Act: Always-On Robots in Concurrent Embodied Streams

    Sep 23, 2026Ding Yi, Peiwen Sun, Chenchu Rong +4Robotic ControlLong-Horizon Robotic Manipulation

    Shanghai Jiaotong University · The Chinese University of Hong Kong · Nanjing University +2

  15. Distillation for Efficient Multitask Manipulation Policies via Conditional Flow Matching

    Sep 23, 2026Shreya Deshmukh, Imen Mahdi, Nick Heppert +1Conditional Flow MatchingMulti-Task Robotic Manipulation

    Department of Computer Science, University of Freiburg, Germany.

  16. The Gaussian Is Enough: Flow-Matching Priors Do Not Help When Fine-Tuning Large Behavior Models

    Sep 22, 2026Chen Xu, Rishi Shah, Hadas Kress-Gazit +2Robot Imitation LearningDiffusion Model Fine-Tuning

    Toyota Research Institute · Woven by Toyota · Cornell University

  17. Learning Expressive Humanoid Locomotion from Monocular Runway Videos for Robot Fashion Shows

    Sep 22, 2026Kyrylo Kolesnichenko, Irvin Steve Cardenas, Jong-Hoon KimHumanoid Robot LocomotionRobot Locomotion

    Advanced Telerobotics Research Lab - Computer Science Department, Kent State University, Kent, OH 44242, USA

  18. MSK-Bench: Benchmarking Full-Body Musculoskeletal Motor Control Across Tasks, Control Paradigms, and Physiological Metrics

    Sep 22, 2026Mengtao Ou, Zongzheng Zhang, Zhenghao Xiao +7Robotic ControlHumanoid Robot Control

    Institute for AI Industry Research (AIR), Tsinghua University · The University of Hong Kong (HKU) · Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences (IIIS), Tsinghua University +2

  19. MATE: Multi-Agent Virtual Teleoperation Platform for Humanoid Collaboration Data Collection

    Sep 22, 2026Yichuan Yu, Youzhuo Wang, Yiming Ren +6Robotic Data CollectionRobot Teleoperation

    ShanghaiTech University · Nanyang Technological University

  20. What is the Better Curriculum: Controller-Shaped Grasping Behavior for Contact Force-Sensitive Manipulation

    Sep 22, 2026Ziyan Feng, Zizhao Yuan, Yulong Fu +6Robotic GraspingForce-Controlled Robotic Manipulation

    The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)

  21. PLAT: Sparse Timed Keyframe Motion Tracking for Humanoid Control via Privileged Latent Transition Learning

    Sep 22, 2026Zepeng Wang, Jiangxing Wang, Chao Ma +2Robot Imitation LearningHumanoid Motion Tracking

    Wuhan University. · BeingBeyond. · Peking University.

  22. From Instrument-Mounted Demonstrations to In-Vivo Execution: Learning Bimanual Laparoscopic Appendectomy Without Robot-Collected Demonstrations

    Sep 22, 2026Dongho Yee, Juahn Oh, Jinseok Lee +10Bimanual Robotic ManipulationLearning from Demonstration

    Department of Transdisciplinary Medicine, Seoul National University Hospital · Rosota Inc., Seoul, Republic of Korea · Department of Mechanical Engineering, Seoul National University +8

  23. Learning Beyond What Humans Can Demonstrate

    Sep 21, 2026Yuchen Song, Aditya Mittal, Unnat JainRobotic Data CollectionRobotic Manipulation

    University of California, Irvine

  24. H2RBench: A Real-to-Sim Benchmark for Evaluating Human-to-Robot Transfer

    Sep 21, 2026Chuyang Xiao, Haotian Zhan, Sriram Krishna +4Cross-Embodiment Robot LearningRobotic Manipulation

    Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University · University of Michigan · Toyota Research Institute

  25. Touch2Robot: Robot Touch in the Human Demonstration Loop

    Sep 21, 2026Shengcheng Luo, Xiaoyang Cheng, Hong Ying +6Robotic Data CollectionMotion Retargeting

    ShanghaiTech University · Beijing Institute for General Artificial Intelligence (BIGAI) · Shanghai Jiao Tong University +1

  26. TACIT: Tactile Contact Supervision for Spatial Attention in Dexterous Manipulation

    Sep 21, 2026Yanhou Lai, Fucai Zhu, Ruiqiang Wang +1Contact-Rich Robotic ManipulationRobot Imitation Learning

    Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8579, Japan

  27. Dexterous Robot Manipulation from Human Demonstrations via Contact-Anchored Retargeting and Residual Policy Learning

    Sep 21, 2026Zihao Yang, Chengyuan Liu, Yu Zhou +6Dexterous ManipulationBimanual Robotic Manipulation

    DexGEM Lab · Shanghai Jiao Tong University · Tongji University +1

  28. 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.

  29. EgoWild2Dex: Learning Dexterous Robotic Manipulation from In-the-Wild Human Experience

    Sep 20, 2026Kunyang Lin, Xutao Wen, Jingxi Lin +8Long-Horizon Robotic ManipulationBimanual Robotic Manipulation

    The University of Hong Kong · Kinetix AI

  30. STRIDER: Stepping-Enabled Multi-Gait Hierarchical 3D Loco-Manipulation Framework for Humanoid Robots

    Sep 20, 2026Yuanzhuo Li, Wen Zhao, Zhe Yong +6Humanoid Loco-ManipulationHumanoid Robot Locomotion

    X-Humanoid, Humanoid Innovation Department