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  1. SkeleWAM: Skeleton World-Action Modeling for Efficient Robotic Manipulation

    Oct 1, 2026Juyi Sheng, Hua Wang, Mengyuan LiuEfficient World-Action ModelSkeleton-Based Action Recognition

    Peking University

  2. GenCOPE: Syn2Real Generalized Category-Level Object Pose Estimation for Robotic Picking

    Oct 1, 2026Jian Liu, Wei Sun, Zhenqi Dai +4Category-Level Object Pose EstimationSynthetic-To-Real Domain Gap

    IMPL Lab, SUTD · NERC-RVC, Hunan University · University of Trento

  3. 3DROID: A Renderable 3D Gaussian Dataset with Measured Per-Scene Reliability

    Oct 1, 2026Wonguen Cho, Junhoo Lee, Nojun KwakLarge-Scale 3D Editing DatasetLarge-Scale Robot Demonstration Datasets

    Seoul National University · KAIST

  4. Is Success All You Need? Investigating the Impact of Input Perturbations on VLA Behaviour in Tabletop Manipulation Tasks

    Oct 1, 2026Sophie Higham, Riccardo Andrea Izzo, Matteo Matteucci +1Libero Manipulation BenchmarkVision-Language-Action Framework

    School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, UK · Department of Electronics, Informatics and Bioengineering, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

  5. WBAG: A Whole-Body and Attached-Geometry Safety Framework for Vision-Language-Action Manipulation

    Oct 1, 2026Samuel Zhen, Siwon Jo, Yanze Zhang +1Robotic ManipulationAction Space

    Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA. · GRASP Laboratory, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA. · Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, IL 60607, USA.

  6. DITTO-X: Forward and Reverse Teleoperation for Dexterous Manipulation and Human Intervention

    Sep 30, 2026Zhanpeng He, Joaquin Palacios, Zhangyu Wang +5TeleoperationDexterous Manipulation

    Department of Computer Science, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA. · Department of Mechanical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA.

  7. Token-World: World Modeling in Vision-Language Model Token Space for Robot Manipulation

    Sep 30, 2026Chuyao Fu, Xiaowei Chi, Yuhan Rui +14Efficient World-Action ModelWorld Models

    Southern University of Science and Technology · MUKA Robotics · Hong Kong University of Science and Technology +3

  8. Learning from Runtime Feedback through Failure-Bank Self-Evolution for Vision-Language-Action Models

    Sep 30, 2026Mingyue Cui, Zheyuan Liu, Yihan Zhu +2Boltzmann PoliciesRobotic Manipulation

    University of Notre Dame

  9. GroundingPI: A Grounding Foundation Model towards Physical Intelligence with Visual Primitives

    Sep 30, 2026Qize Yu, Lianrui Fan, Boyu Chen +23Diffusion-Based Vision-Language-ActionsGrounding

    XPeng Inc. · Peking University · The University of Hong Kong +4

  10. Benchmarking and Enhancing Skill-Level Memory for Partially Observable Robotic Manipulation

    Sep 30, 2026Yansong Shi, Jiange Yang, Xijie Yang +4Robotic ManipulationPartial Observability

    School of Information Science And Technology, University of Science and Technology of China · Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory · State Key Lab of Novel Software Technology, Nanjing University +2

  11. CADeT: Causal-Aware Deformation Transmission for Indirect Robotic Manipulation of Soft Tissue

    Sep 29, 2026Junlei Hu, Dominic Jones, Pietro ValdastriDeformationRobotic Manipulation

    STORM Lab, Institute of Autonomous Systems and Sensing (IRASS), School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK

  12. 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

  13. MotorMind: Scaffolding General Vision Language Models for Zero-Shot Robot Manipulation

    Sep 29, 2026Bingxuan Li, Siqi Song, Yizhuo Wu +3Robotic ManipulationRecent Vision-Language Models

    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  14. WorldLine: Action-Driven Visual Simulation for Robotic Manipulation

    Sep 29, 2026Shenghe Zheng, Wenbo Li, Jiyao Zhang +4Robotic Manipulation

    The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology · Joy Future Academy · Peking University +1

  15. MVG-WAM: Multiple View Geometry-Aware World-Action Modeling for Robotic Manipulation

    Sep 29, 2026Wenbo Chen, Tianfu Li, Haoxuan Xu +9Efficient World-Action ModelRobotic Manipulation

    The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) · The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology · ETH Zurich +4

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

    Sep 29, 2026Vincenzo Pomponi, Rocco Felici, Paolo Franceschi +5Robotic ManipulationRobotic Manipulation Policies

    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

  17. Recovering the View: Benchmarking Physical Active Vision for Occlusion Recovery in Robotic Manipulation

    Sep 29, 2026Kaijun Luo, Yudi Huang, Qijun Zhong +3Viewpoint-Dependent Active PerceptionRobotic Manipulation

    Sun Yat-sen University · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China · X-Era AI Lab +1

  18. T2^2Mem: Learning Test-Time Memory for Robotics

    Sep 29, 2026Yize Liu, Huang Huang, Yining Hong +4Robotic ManipulationTest Time

    Stanford University · NVIDIA · University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

  19. RoboChrono: A Real Robot Benchmark for Streaming Task Understanding

    Sep 29, 2026Yuzhou Wu, Longteng Fan, Zimeng Li +22Robotic ManipulationRobot Systems

    Tianji Tec. · Shenzhen University · General Intelligence Machine +7

  20. Simple Agentic Memory for Generalist Robot Policies

    Sep 29, 2026Yuyou Zhang, Yunbei Zhang, Miao Li +4Agentic MemoryRobot Policies

    Carnegie Mellon University · Tulane University · New York University +2

  21. From Pixel to Poses: Object-centric Tool Manipulation Learning from Human Demonstrations

    Sep 28, 2026Bangjun Wang, Longyan Wu, Yukun Wei +8Robotic ManipulationObject-Centric Representations

    The University of Hong Kong · Shanghai Innovation Institute · Xiaomi EV

  22. DexAgent: An Agentic Human2Sim2Robot Framework for Dexterous Manipulation with Self-Evolving Tool Library

    Sep 28, 2026Youhui Wang, Yunzhu Li, Li Fei-Fei +2Human-To-Robot TransferHumanoid Robotics

    Stanford University · Columbia University

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

    Sep 28, 2026Pankhuri Vanjani, Mostafa Hatab, Can Mizrakli +4Robotic ManipulationRecurrent Model

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

  24. Do Not Cut When Uncertain: Rejectable and Calibrated Decision Heads for VLA Policies in Robotic Harvesting

    Sep 28, 2026Heng ZhangAgricultural RoboticsRobotic Manipulation

  25. On the Numerical Reliability of Differentiable Physics-Based Optimization for Robotic Material Manipulation

    Sep 28, 2026Xintong Yang, Minglun Wei, Yu-Kun Lai +1Differentiable PhysicsDifferentiable Optimization

    School of Engineering, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom · School of Computer Science and Informatics, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom · College of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Hohai University, China

  26. Where Memory Belongs: Ledger, an Object Ledger for Memory-Augmented VLAs

    Sep 28, 2026Tanguy Dieudonné, Jack B. Jedlicki, Heng YangRobotic ManipulationPersistent State

    Harvard University · ETH Zürich

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

    Sep 28, 2026Xianbo Cai, Hideyuki Ichiwara, Zihang Wang +2Robotic ManipulationDiffusion Transformers

    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

  28. WAM-OPD: Sharpening World Action Models via On-Policy Distillation

    Sep 28, 2026Panjun Liu, Xiaohan Lei, Shiqi Zhang +8Efficient World-Action ModelRobotic Manipulation

    University of Science and Technology of China

  29. RAVEL: Asynchronous Rolling Inference for Flow-Based Vision-Language-Action Models

    Sep 28, 2026Yuhan Chen, Ke Yu, Pengfei Liu +3Flow-Matching Vision-Language-ActionInference Latency

    Zhejiang University · Nanyang Technological University

  30. Test-Time Spatial Reasoning for Robot Manipulation Using Generative Real-to-Sim

    Sep 27, 2026Ivan Kapelyukh, Yafei Hu, Ran Gong +6Spatial ReasoningRobotic Systems

    Robotics and AI Institute · Imperial College London

  31. Recursive Harness Distillation across Agents for Robot Manipulation

    Sep 27, 2026Seungyeon Kim, Junhoo Lee, Minkyu Kim +2Robotic ManipulationSymbolic Distillation

    Seoul National University · Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

  32. DRAM: Delta-rule Recurrent Associative Memory for Robot Manipulation Policies

    Sep 26, 2026Xinyu Zhao, Yixiang Shan, Tao Yang +5Robot PoliciesRobotic Manipulation Policies

    Simplexity Robotics

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

    Sep 25, 2026Chengxi Li, Yan Di, Yingyue Li +3Robotic ManipulationRobotic Grasping

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

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

    Sep 25, 2026Hiroshi Ito, Hyogo Hiruma, Yoshiki Kanai +3Robotic ManipulationAction Prediction

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

  35. Faster Visuomotor Policy Learning on Action Manifolds via Riemannian MeanFlow

    Sep 24, 2026S. Talha Bukhari, Austin Garrett, Yi Wei +3Flow PoliciesMultimodal Action Distributions

    Department of Computer Science, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA

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

    Sep 24, 2026Yehang Zhang, Haojian Huang, Yifan Chang +13Robotic ManipulationEfficient World-Action Model

    HKUST(GZ) · Knowin AI · CUHK

  37. ActGaze: Learning Action-Grounded Gaze through Counterfactual Visual Interventions for High-Precision Manipulation

    Sep 24, 2026Jinxuan Zhu, Jiaheng Wang, Chao Tang +7Robotic ManipulationGaze Behavior

    Samsung Robotics eXperience · National University of Singapore

  38. Streaming-WAM: Action-Conditioned World-Action Model for Asynchronous Robot Manipulation

    Sep 24, 2026Xuyao Huang, Yixuan Wang, Zengyao Ye +4Action ChunksRobotic Manipulation

    SJTU · SDU · ECUST +1

  39. TAPESIM: Efficient Simulation of Adhesive Tape Dispensing for Robotic Manipulation

    Sep 23, 2026Zhaofeng Luo, Xinyu Lu, Jaehoon Choi +10Robot AutonomyRobotic Manipulation

    Carnegie Mellon University · Genesis AI

  40. Generalizable Robotic Insertion with World Models

    Sep 23, 2026Nicklas Hansen, Iretiayo Akinola, Yijie Guo +7Robotic ManipulationWorld Models

    NVIDIA · University of California San Diego · Work completed during an internship at NVIDIA +1

  41. VLMs Can Describe, But Not Measure: Object-Centric Scene Understanding for Robotic Manipulation

    Sep 23, 2026Enrico Saccon, Tommaso Faraci, Iñigo De La Ossa Zarzuelo +3Scene ReasoningRobotic Perception

    Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science, the University of Trento, Trento, Italy · Polytechnic School, Mondragón University, Mondragón, Spain · Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Trento, Trento, Italy

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

    Sep 23, 2026Shreya Deshmukh, Imen Mahdi, Nick Heppert +1Robotic Manipulation PoliciesConditional Flow Matching

    Department of Computer Science, University of Freiburg, Germany.

  43. BladeMaster: Real-Time Robotic Cutting Simulation with Online-Generated Persistent Discontinuities

    Sep 23, 2026Zhanyu Yang, Yunuo Chen, Yanjia Huang +3Robotic ManipulationDouble-Edged Sword

    Purdue University, USA · UCLA, USA · Envora Inc., USA +2

  44. Imperfection for Precision: Upcycling Imperfect Data for High-Precision Robotic Manipulation

    Sep 22, 2026Hao Wei, Yang Liu, Chao Tang +7Robotic ManipulationReal-World Manipulation Tasks

    Samsung Robotics eXperience · National University of Singapore · University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  45. SafeLoop: Risk-Aware Rollback for Vision-Language-Action Manipulation

    Sep 22, 2026Zeyu Lou, Tianran Zhang, Xinquan Yue +2Vision-Language-Action FrameworkRobotic Manipulation

    Nanjing University, Nanjing, China · The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), Guangdong, China · Beijing University of Technology, Beijing, China

  46. MedVLA: A Hierarchical Vision-Language-Action Framework for Closed-Loop Precision Medical Robot Manipulation

    Sep 22, 2026Junjie Xie, Chuxuan He, Angen Ye +2Medical Vision-Language ModelsRobotic Manipulation

    Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China · School of Artificial Intelligence, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China · Zhejiang Gongshang University, Hangzhou 310018, China

  47. The Cartesian Hand: In-Hand Manipulation with All-Linear Fingers

    Sep 22, 2026Boxi Xia, Bokuan Li, Ryan Shin +3Robotic HandsDexterous Manipulation

    Duke University

  48. PhyVisGen: Physically and Visually High-Fidelity Robotic Manipulation Data Generation

    Sep 22, 2026Yu Zheng, Qiyu Feng, Yixin Wu +6Robotic ManipulationVisuomotor Policy

    School of Automation and Intelligent Sensing, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China. · Global College, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China. · Shenzhen Dizhou Technology Co., Ltd., Shenzhen, China +1

  49. MachEmbodied-U0: Unified Understanding and Generation Model for Embodied Intelligence

    Sep 22, 2026Haoran Wen, Wenfu Wang, Kunsong Shi +15Robotic ManipulationEmbodied Artificial Intelligence

    Foundation Model, Li Auto Inc.

  50. Learning tactile perception from high-bandwidth single-point sensing

    Sep 21, 2026Joseph Rigal, Emmanuel Virot, Caroline PascalTactileRobotic Manipulation

    Wormsensing, 1Wormsensing, 2 Rue des Murailles, 38170 Seyssinet-Pariset, France. · Hugging Face, 2 Hugging Face, 9 rue des Colonnes, 75002 Paris, France.

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

    Sep 21, 2026Haoxuan Li, Sixu Yan, Lianghui Zhu +3Diffusion-Based Vision-Language-ActionsRobotic Manipulation

    Huazhong University of Science and Technology · KEENON Robotics

  52. Zeva-Ego: Egocentric Mid-Training with In-Context Causal Learning for Robot Manipulation

    Sep 21, 2026Bingjia Huang, Xin Ding, Fu Chen +5Robotic ManipulationEmbodied Artificial Intelligence

    Institute for AI Industry Research (AIR), Tsinghua University; Z-Trans AI

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

    Sep 21, 2026Yibo Li, Enshen Zhou, Rui Chen +7Viewpoint-Dependent Active PerceptionRobotic Manipulation

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

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

    Sep 21, 2026Zihao Yang, Chengyuan Liu, Yu Zhou +6Cross-Embodiment RetargetingBimanual Manipulation

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

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

    Sep 20, 2026Kunyang Lin, Xutao Wen, Jingxi Lin +8Contact-Rich Dexterous ManipulationEgocentric Dataset

    The University of Hong Kong · Kinetix AI

  56. AR-WAM: A Visual-Conditioned Agent-Ready World Action Model for Robotic Manipulation

    Sep 20, 2026Yicheng Jiang, Zesen Gan, Xiaobo Wang +8Efficient World-Action ModelRobotic Manipulation

    The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology · Shenzhen University of Advanced Technology · Sangfor Technologies Inc. +4

  57. G6D: Geometric Learning-Free RGB-D 6D Pose Solver for Robotic Manipulation

    Sep 20, 2026Yixuan Liang, William Chen, Yunan Wang +4Category-Level Object Pose EstimationRobotic Manipulation

    Tsinghua University · Sapient Intelligence

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

    Sep 20, 2026Yuning Su, Borui Li, Yonghao Shi +2Large-Scale Robot Demonstration DatasetsRobotic Manipulation

    Simon Fraser University

  59. SeeQ: Training Generalist Value Functions for Long-Horizon Robotic Manipulation

    Sep 18, 2026Saksham Singh, Zheyuan Hu, Max Sobol Mark +3Robot PoliciesRobotic Manipulation

    Carnegie Mellon University

  60. Coding Agents with an Obstacle-Aware Harness for Safe Robot Manipulation

    Sep 17, 2026Bingxin Xu, Yuzhang Shang, Zhen Dong +1Robotic ManipulationObstacle Avoidance

    USC · UCF · UCSB