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  1. Route-Guided CBF-QP Repair for Safe Vision-Language-Action Models

    Nov 1, 2026Chan Park, Sunwoo Hong, Kirak Kim +3Safe Robot ManipulationControl Barrier Functions

    Sungkyunkwan University · University of Toronto · KAIST +1

  2. Trading Transparency for Stability: Friction-Cone-Constrained Bilateral Teleoperation for Opening Doors of Unsecured Furniture

    Oct 31, 2026Cheng Zhou, Jing LiRobotic ManipulationSafe Robot Manipulation

    Tencent Robotics X, Shenzhen, China

  3. OmniPiano: Diverse Dexterous Piano-Playing Challenges for Standard, Robust, Safe, and Multi-Agent RL

    Oct 30, 2026Fan Xu, Fan Yang, Yifan Xu +7Robot Manipulation BenchmarksRobotic Manipulation

    University of California, Berkeley · Shanghai Jiao Tong University · The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen +4

  4. Learning Safe Flow Matching Robot Policies from Binary Feasibility Oracles

    Oct 29, 2026Jianming Ma, Rongjun Jin, Yizhi Chen +1Robot Policy LearningSafe Robot Manipulation

    Shanghai Jiao Tong University · Tongji University

  5. ScheduleGen: Demonstration Generation via Skill Scheduling for Multi-Arm Imitation Learning

    Oct 29, 2026Neel Jawale, Stephan Pleines, Soha Pouya +3Robot Demonstration GenerationRobot Imitation Learning

    NVIDIA · The University of Texas at Austin

  6. Active Constraints for Simultaneous Guidance and Safety in Handheld Micromanipulation

    Oct 27, 2026Roger Ho, Robert A. MacLachlan, Cameron N. RiviereRobotic ManipulationSafe Robot Manipulation

    Department of Mechanical Engineering and Robotics Institute, CMU, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 USA

  7. Dexterous In-Hand Object Pose Reaching with Learned Safety Filters

    Oct 27, 2026Ian Chuang, Hiya Shah, Vamsi Chilamkur +2Dexterous ManipulationSafe Robot Manipulation

    University of California, Berkeley · University of California, Davis

  8. MDPO: Multi-constraint Dexterous Policy Optimization with Reinforcement Learning

    Oct 24, 2026Ao Zhou, Zongyou Yu, Ke Wu +5Safe Robot ManipulationRobotic Manipulation

    Tongji University, Shanghai, China · Shanghai Innovation Institute, Shanghai, China · Fudan University, Shanghai, China +2

  9. SEVI: Safe Evidential Real-World Reinforcement Learning

    Oct 22, 2026Shaekh Mohammad Shithil, Lantao LiuSafe RLRobotic RL

    Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47408 USA

  10. Live Thread Reconstruction for Autonomous Manipulation

    Oct 22, 2026Emma Huang, Omar Hernandez, Zih-Yun Chiu +1Robotic ManipulationSurgical Robotics

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093 USA. · Department of Computer Science, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218 USA.

  11. Large Multimodal Models for Direct Robot Control: GPT-6 as a Beginning

    Oct 20, 2026Youwei Zhou, Bohan Hou, Yankai Fu +10Robotic ManipulationZero-Shot Robotic Manipulation

    Nanjing University · Nanyang Technological University · Peking University +2

  12. Coding Agents with Harness for Safe Robot Control

    Sep 17, 2026Bingxin Xu, Yuzhang Shang, Zhen Dong +1Robot SafetyRobotic Manipulation

    USC · UCF · UCSB

  13. Runtime Safety Filtering for Two-Terminal Hazards in Robotic Battery Recycling

    Sep 17, 2026Yuxin Cao, Wei Song, Xianglin Yang +4Robot SafetySafety Filtering

    National University of Singapore, Singapore · Griffith University, Australia · UNSW Canberra, Australia +2

  14. Bridging Semantics and Physics with Constrained LLMs for Safe and Trustworthy Robotic Manipulation

    Aug 29, 2026Wenhao Hong, Lan Wei, Dandan ZhangSafe Robot ManipulationLanguage-Conditioned Robot Manipulation

    Imperial College London, London, UK

  15. SoftVTBench: A Safety-Aware Visuo-Tactile Benchmark for Physically Constrained Robotic Manipulation of Deformable Objects

    Jul 5, 2026Bowen Jing, Mingxin Wang, Ruiyang Hao +15Tactile SensingRobotics Simulation

    Tuojing Intelligence · Tsinghua University · King’s College London +10

  16. OopsieVerse: A Safety Benchmark with Damage-Aware Simulation for Robot Manipulation

    Jun 30, 2026Arnav Balaji, Arpit Bahety, Sriniket Ambatipudi +3Robotics SimulationRobot Safety

    The University of Texas at Austin

  17. SafeVLA-Bench: A Benchmark for the Success-Safety Gap in Vision-Language-Action Models

    May 30, 2026Jialiang Fan, Weizhe Xu, Zijun Wang +3Robot SafetyRobotic Manipulation

    University of Notre Dame · University of Pennsylvania

  18. GSAM: A Generalizable and Safe Robotic Framework for Articulated Object Manipulation

    May 29, 2026Beichen Shao, Mengying Xie, Heng Su +5Generalization in Robotic ManipulationRobotic Manipulation

    College of Computer Science, Chongqing University, Chongqing, China · Lumos Robotics, China · Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China +2

  19. Safe and Steerable Geometric Motion Policies for Robotic Dexterous Manipulation

    May 20, 2026Albert Wu, Riccardo Bonalli, Thomas Lew +1Robotic ControlConstrained Motion Planning

    Computer Science Department, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA. · Laboratory of Signals and Systems, University of Paris-Saclay, CNRS, CentraleSup´elec, France. · Toyota Research Institute, Los Altos, CA 94022, USA.

  20. SafeManip: A Property-Driven Benchmark for Temporal Safety Evaluation in Robotic Manipulation

    May 12, 2026Chengyue Huang, Khang Vo Huynh, Mellon M. Zhang +3Robot SafetyRobotic Manipulation

    Department of Machine Learning, Georgia Institute of Technology · Department of Computer Science, University of Virginia

  21. ToMPC: Task-oriented Model Predictive Control via ADMM for Safe Robotic Manipulation

    Mar 14, 2026Xinyu Jia, Wenxin Wang, Jun Yang +2Safe Robot ManipulationRobotic Manipulation

    Department of Biomedical Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117583 · Peng Cheng Laboratory, Shenzhen 518057, China · School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 639798

  22. Stein Variational Ergodic Surface Coverage with SE(3) Constraints

    Mar 10, 2026Jiayun Li, Yufeng Jin, Sangli Teng +2Safe Robot ManipulationTrajectory Optimization

    Department of Computer Science, TU Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany. · Hessian.AI, Darmstadt, Germany. · Honda Research Institute Europe GmbH, Offenbach, Germany. +1

  23. 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 ManipulationVision-Language-Action Models

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

  24. Multimodal Adversarial Quality Policy for Safe Grasping

    Mar 2, 2026Kunlin Xie, Chenghao Li, Haolan Zhang +1Safe Robot ManipulationRobotic Grasping

    The authors are with the School of Information Science, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Nomi, Ishikawa 923-1292, Japan

  25. Safe Learning for Contact-Rich Robot Tasks: A Survey from Classical Learning-Based Methods to Safe Foundation Models

    Dec 10, 2025Heng Zhang, Rui Dai, Gokhan Solak +4Safe Robot ManipulationContact-Rich Robotic Manipulation

    Human-Robot Interfaces and Interaction Lab, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genova, Italy. · Ph.D. program of national interest in Robotics and Intelligent Machines (DRIM), Universit`a di Genova, Genoa, Italy. · Edwardson School of Industrial Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA. +3

  26. ResponsibleRobotBench: Benchmarking Risk-Aware Task-Level Decision Making for Robotic Manipulation with Large Multimodal Models

    Dec 3, 2025Lei Zhang, Ju Dong, Kaixin Bai +5Safe Robot ManipulationRobot Manipulation Benchmarks

    University of Hamburg · Agile Robots SE · Technical University of Munich +1

  27. OmniVIC: A Self-Improving Variable Impedance Controller with Vision-Language In-Context Learning for Safe Robotic Manipulation

    Oct 20, 2025Heng Zhang, Wei-Hsing Huang, Gokhan Solak +1Safe Robot ManipulationContact-Rich Robotic Manipulation

    Human-Robot Interfaces and Interaction Lab, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genoa, Italy. · Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA.

  28. Haptic bilateral teleoperation system for free-hand dental procedures

    Mar 27, 2025Lorenzo Pagliara, Vincenzo Petrone, Enrico Ferrentino +2Healthcare RoboticsRobot Teleoperation

    Department of Information Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Applied Mathematics (DIEM), University of Salerno, 84084 Fisciano, Italy · Specialization School in Oral Surgery, University of Naples Federico II, 80138 Napoli, Italy