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  1. Veo-Act: Enhancing VLA Policies with Frontier Video Models

    Apr 6, 2026Zhongru Zhang, Chenghan Yang, Qingzhou Lu +4Robotic ManipulationReactive

    Tsinghua University

  2. Grounding Sim-to-Real Generalization in Robotic Manipulation: An Empirical Study with Vision-Language-Action Models

    Mar 24, 2026Ruixing Jin, Zicheng Zhu, Ruixiang Ouyang +4Robotic Manipulation PoliciesRobotic Manipulation

    School of Data Science, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen · Shenzhen Loop Area Institute

  3. CaP-X: A Framework for Benchmarking and Improving Coding Agents for Robot Manipulation

    Mar 23, 2026Letian Fu, Justin Yu, Karim El-Refai +13Robotic ManipulationEmbodied Agents

    1NVIDIA · 2UC Berkeley · 3Stanford University +1

  4. CABTO: Context-Aware Behavior Tree Grounding for Robot Manipulation

    Mar 17, 2026Yishuai Cai, Xinglin Chen, Yunxin Mao +6Behavior TreeRobot Planning

    National University of Defense Technology · PsiBot · PKU-Psibot Lab +1

  5. Towards Generalizable Robotic Manipulation in Dynamic Environments

    Mar 16, 2026Heng Fang, Shangru Li, Shuhan Wang +3Robotic ManipulationDynamic Environments

    Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China · Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd, China

  6. From Passive Observer to Active Critic: Reinforcement Learning Elicits Process Reasoning for Robotic Manipulation

    Mar 16, 2026Yibin Liu, Yaxing Lyu, Daqi Gao +5Robotic ManipulationVideo Multimodal Large Language Models

    Shanghai Jiao Tong University · Northeastern University · The University of Hong Kong +2

  7. MoE-ACT: Scaling Multi-Task Bimanual Manipulation with Sparse Task-Conditioned Mixture-of-Experts Transformers

    Mar 16, 2026Kangjun Guo, Haichao Liu, Yanji Sun +3Bimanual ManipulationRobotic Manipulation

    The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), Guangzhou 511453, China · The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong SAR, China

  8. Ada3Drift: Adaptive Training-Time Drifting for One-Step 3D Visuomotor Robotic Manipulation

    Mar 12, 2026Chongyang Xu, Yixian Zou, Tianyu Yang +4Visuomotor PolicyRobotic Manipulation

    College of Computer Science, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China · School of Information and Communication Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China

  9. RoboRouter: Training-Free Policy Routing for Robotic Manipulation

    Mar 9, 2026Yiteng Chen, Zhe Cao, Hongjia Ren +9Robotic ManipulationRobocasa

    South China University of Technology · Nanjing University · University of New South Wales +5

  10. EmboAlign: Aligning Video Generation with Compositional Constraints for Zero-Shot Manipulation

    Mar 5, 2026Gehao Zhang, Zhenyang Ni, Payal Mohapatra +3Robotic ManipulationBrain Alignment

    Northwestern University · Stanford University

  11. Safe-Night VLA: Seeing the Unseen via Thermal-Perceptive Vision-Language-Action Models for Safety-Critical Manipulation

    Mar 5, 2026Dian Yu, Qingchuan Zhou, Bingkun Huang +2Robotic ManipulationRecent Vision-Language Models

    Munich Institute of Robotics and Machine Intelligence (MIRMI), Technical University of Munich (TUM), 80992 Munich, Germany

  12. RoboLight: A Dataset with Linearly Composable Illumination for Robotic Manipulation

    Mar 4, 2026Shutong Jin, Jin Yang, Muhammad Zahid +1Large-Scale Robot Demonstration DatasetsRobotic Manipulation

    School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, KTH Royal Institute of Technology

  13. Replanning Human-Robot Collaborative Tasks with Vision-Language Models via Semantic and Physical Dual-Correction

    Feb 16, 2026Taichi Kato, Takuya Kiyokawa, Namiko Saito +1Human-Robot CollaborationRobotic Manipulation

    aDepartment of Systems Science, School of Engineering Science, The University of Osaka, 1-3 Machikaneyama, Toyonaka, Osaka, Japan · bDepartment of Systems Innovation, Graduate School of Engineering Science, The University of Osaka, 1-3 Machikaneyama, Toyonaka, Osaka, Japan · cMicrosoft Research Asia, Shinagawa, Tokyo, Japan +1

  14. Combined Constrained Sampling and Reinforcement Learning for Robotic Manipulation

    Feb 9, 2026Marc Toussaint, Cornelius V. Braun, Armand Jordana +5Robotic Manipulation PoliciesRobotic Manipulation

    Technische Universität Berlin · Robotics Institute Germany · LAAS-CNRS +1

  15. PACT-WAM: Predicting Actions and Visual Foresight with Compact Temporal Encoding for Robot Manipulation

    Feb 5, 2026Yushan Liu, Jingjing Fan, Shoujie Li +3Robotic ManipulationForesight

    Tsinghua University · Nanyang Technological University · Xspark AI

  16. MobileManiBench: Simplifying Model Verification for Mobile Manipulation

    Feb 5, 2026Wenbo Wang, Fangyun Wei, QiXiu Li +5Robotic ManipulationTeleoperation

    University of Sydney · 1Microsoft Research Asia · 3Tsinghua University

  17. CoLA-Flow Policy: Temporally Coherent Imitation Learning via Continuous Latent Action Flow Matching for Robotic Manipulation

    Jan 30, 2026Wu Songwei, Jiang Zhiduo, Sun Wandong +4Temporally Coherent Imitation LearningFlow Policies

    Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, China · Honor Device Co., Ltd., Shenzhen, China

  18. Spotlighting Task-Relevant Features: Object-Centric Representations for Better Generalization in Robotic Manipulation

    Jan 29, 2026Alexandre Chapin, Bruno Machado, Emmanuel Dellandréa +1Robotic Manipulation PoliciesRobotic Manipulation

    LIRIS, imagine

  19. STORM: Slot-based Task-aware Object-centric Representation for robotic Manipulation

    Jan 28, 2026Alexandre Chapin, Emmanuel Dellandréa, Liming ChenRobotic ManipulationObject-Centric Representations

    LIRIS · Ecole Centrale de Lyon, LIRIS, 69130, Ecully, France

  20. Demonstration-Free Robotic Control via LLM Agents

    Jan 28, 2026Brian Y. Tsui, Alan Y. Fang, Tiffany J. HwuRobotic ManipulationEmbodied Agents

    All authors are independent researchers.

  21. Eval-Actions: Fine-Grained Execution Quality Evaluation for Robotic Manipulation

    Jan 26, 2026Mengyuan Liu, Juyi Sheng, Peiming Li +4Robotic ManipulationMultimodal Evaluation

  22. World In Your Hands: A Large-Scale and Open-Source Ecosystem for Learning Human-Centric Manipulation in the Wild

    Dec 30, 2025Yupeng Zheng, Jichao Peng, Weize Li +22Robotic ManipulationHand

    TARS Robotics

  23. Learning Semantic Atomic Skills for Multi-Task Robotic Manipulation

    Dec 20, 2025Yihang Zhu, Weiqing Wang, Shijie Wu +2Robotic ManipulationStrong Imitation Learning

    ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai, China · InstAdapt

  24. UniBYD: A Unified Framework for Learning Robotic Manipulation Across Embodiments Beyond Imitation of Human Demonstrations

    Dec 12, 2025Tingyu Yuan, Biaoliang Guan, Wen Ye +8Robotic Manipulation PoliciesRobotic Manipulation

    CASIA · UCAS · XJTU +3

  25. VLSA: Vision-Language-Action Models with Plug-and-Play Safety Constraint Layer

    Dec 9, 2025Songqiao Hu, Zeyi Liu, Shuang Liu +5Diffusion-Based Vision-Language-ActionsRobotic Manipulation

    Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China. · Institute for Embodied Intelligence and Robotics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China. · 3TetraBOT. +1

  26. AnyBox: Efficient Zero-Shot 9DoF Pose Estimation of Boxes for Robotic Manipulation

    Nov 19, 2025Yintao Ma, Sajjad Pakdamansavoji, Charles Eret +5Category-Level Object Pose EstimationBounding Box

    1Huawei Technologies Canada · University of Waterloo

  27. SlotVLA: Towards Modeling of Object-Relation Representations in Robotic Manipulation

    Nov 10, 2025Taisei Hanyu, Nhat Chung, Huy Le +10Robotic ManipulationVisuomotor Control

    University of Arkansas, USA · FPT Software AI Center, Vietnam · University of Stuttgart, Germany +5

  28. 3D Cal: An Open-Source Software Library for Depth Reconstruction on Vision-Based Tactile Sensors

    Nov 4, 2025Rohan Kota, Kaival Shah, J. Edward Colgate +1TactileRobotic Perception

    McCormick School of Engineering, Center for Robotics and Biosystems, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL USA

  29. RoDyn: Taming Interactive Robot-Dynamic 2.5D World Model for Robotic Manipulation

    Oct 10, 2025Chuanrui Zhang, Zhengxian Wu, Guanxing Lu +2Robotic ManipulationImitation Learning

    Nanyang Technological University, Singapore · Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

  30. RTFF: Random-to-Target Fabric Flattening Policy using Dual-Arm Manipulator

    Oct 1, 2025Kai Tang, Dipankar Bhattacharya, Hang Xu +3Robotic ManipulationTeleoperation

    Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China · Dyson School of Design Engineering, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom · JD.COM, Shenzhen, China +2

  31. Learning Contact Dynamics through Touching: Action-conditional Graph Neural Networks for Robotic Peg Insertion

    Sep 15, 2025Zongyao Yi, Joachim Hertzberg, Martin AtzmuellerRigid-Body DynamicsContact-Rich Manipulation

    German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, DFKI Niedersachsen, Osnabrück, Germany · Osnabrück University, Institute of Computer Science, Osnabrück, Germany

  32. VOTE: Vision-Language-Action Optimization with Trajectory Ensemble Voting

    Jul 7, 2025Juyi Lin, Amir Taherin, Arash Akbari +11Diffusion-Based Vision-Language-ActionsRobotic Manipulation

    Northeastern University, Boston, USA · EmbodyX,San Mateo,USA

  33. AntiGrounding: Executable Robot Trajectories as Visual Prompts for VLM-Guided Manipulation

    Jun 14, 2025Wenbo Li, Yiteng Chen, Wenhao Li +1Robot TrajectoriesRobotic Manipulation

    School of Software Engineering, South China University of Technology

  34. Gondola: Grounded Vision Language Planning for Robotic Manipulation

    Jun 12, 2025Shizhe Chen, Ricardo Garcia, Paul Pacaud +1Robotic ManipulationRobotic Systems

    Inria, École normale supérieure, CNRS, PSL Research University

  35. CONTHER: Context-Aware Reinforcement Learning for Robotic Manipulation with Sparse Rewards

    Mar 20, 2025Maria Makarova, Qian Liu, Dzmitry TsetserukouGoal-Conditioned Reinforcement LearningRobotic Manipulation

    Intelligent Space Robotics Laboratory, Center for Digital Engineering, Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech), 121205 Moscow, Russia · Department of Computer Science and Technology, Dalian University of Technology, China

  36. Reward-Centered ReST-MCTS: A Robust Decision-Making Framework for Robotic Manipulation in High Uncertainty Environments

    Mar 7, 2025Xibai WangRobotic ManipulationAction Selection

    NeuroQuant Labs Limited Hong Kong SAR, China

  37. Data Scaling Laws in Imitation Learning for Robotic Manipulation

    Oct 24, 2024Fanqi Lin, Yingdong Hu, Pingyue Sheng +3Imitation LearningRobot Policies

    Tsinghua University · Shanghai Qi Zhi Institute · Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory

  38. Bridging Language and Action: A Survey of Language-Conditioned Robot Manipulation

    Dec 17, 2023Xiangtong Yao, Hongkuan Zhou, Oier Mees +12Robotic ManipulationGoal-Conditioned Dynamic Manipulation

    Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany · Corporate Research, Robert Bosch GmbH, Renningen, Germany · Institute for Artificial Intelligence, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany +10

  39. RoMu4o: A Robotic Manipulation Unit For Orchard Operations Automating Proximal Hyperspectral Leaf Sensing

    Date pendingMehrad Mortazavi, David J. Cappelleri, Reza EhsaniAgricultural RoboticsRobotic Perception

    Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Merced, CA, 95343, USA · School of Mechanical Engineering and Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering (By Courtesy), Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN USA 47907