Zero-Shot Robotic Manipulation

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  1. Video Prediction Policy 2: Predict Better, Act Better

    Oct 7, 2026Yanjiang Guo, Haodong Yan, Zhide Zhong +15Visuomotor Policy LearningWorld Action Models

    Robotera · Tsinghua University · HKUST (GZ) +2

  2. RoboRender: Robot-Oriented Video Generation for Visual Sim-to-Real Transfer

    Oct 7, 2026Huang Huang, Wensi Ai, Ziyu Chen +6Sim-to-Real TransferSynthetic Data Generation for Robotics

    Stanford University · Nvidia · Microsoft Research

  3. TacZero: Training-Free Peg Insertion Using a General-Purpose Vision-Language Model with Tactile Feedback

    Oct 6, 2026Kazutoshi TanakaZero-Shot Robotic ManipulationContact-Rich Robotic Manipulation

    OMRON SINIC X Corporation, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan

  4. HiWE: Hierarchical World Knowledge Model with Visual Keypoint Enhancement for Zero-Shot 3D Path Planning

    Sep 30, 2026Guoqing Ma, Mingqi Yuan, Chen Gao +2Zero-Shot Robotic ManipulationLanguage-Conditioned Robot Manipulation

    Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China · School of Future Technology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · State Key Laboratory of Brain Cognition and Brain-inspired Intelligence Technology, CAS +2

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

    Sep 29, 2026Bingxuan Li, Siqi Song, Yizhuo Wu +3Zero-Shot Robotic ManipulationGeneralization in Robotic Manipulation

    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  6. UMR: Universal Manipulation Representation

    Sep 28, 2026Song Liu, Linyi Li, Yanshun Zhao +11Zero-Shot Robotic ManipulationGeneralization in Robotic Manipulation

    University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China. · Suzhou Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Suzhou, China.

  7. 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

  8. Generalizable Robotic Insertion with World Models

    Sep 23, 2026Nicklas Hansen, Iretiayo Akinola, Yijie Guo +7Zero-Shot Robotic ManipulationWorld Models for Robotics

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

  9. V2-STRep: VLM-Grounded Structured Task Representations for Reusable Robot Skills Acquired from Generated Videos

    Sep 17, 2026Yexin Hu, Dongheui LeeZero-Shot Robotic ManipulationGeneralization in Robotic Manipulation

    Autonomous Systems Lab, Technische Universität Wien (TU Wien), Austria · Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany

  10. AnyViewDex: View-Invariant Dexterous Manipulation from RGB Observations

    Sep 17, 2026Soham Patil, Om Sanjay Gunjal, Sourabh Bhosale +3Robotic GraspingZero-Shot Robotic Manipulation

    Robotics Research Center, IIIT-H, India · Department of Electronics Engineering, Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute Mumbai, India · Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Bhopal, India

  11. GTA-2: A Multi-VLM Framework for Synthesizing Robot Manipulation Skills via Grounded Task Axes

    Sep 9, 2026M. Yunus Seker, Shobhit Aggarwal, Ruwan Wickramarachchi +2Zero-Shot Robotic ManipulationRobot Skill Learning

    The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA · Bosch Research, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

  12. SemAnCorr: Semantic Anchored Correspondence for Zero-Shot Manipulation Skill Transfer

    Jul 30, 2026Xiaoxiang Dong, William Baron, Hongyi Chen +3Semantic CorrespondenceZero-Shot Robotic Manipulation

    Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, USA. · College of Connected Computing, Vanderbilt University, USA. · College of Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, USA. +1

  13. VIA: Visual Interface Agent for Robot Control

    Jul 13, 2026Hengyuan Hu, Jensen Gao, Priya Sundaresan +3Robotic ControlZero-Shot Robotic Manipulation

    Stanford University

  14. ACE: Agentic Control for Embodied Manipulation via Zero-shot Workflow Reasoning

    Jul 5, 2026Iok Tong Lei, QianZhi Li, Ying Jie Yap +5Zero-Shot Robotic ManipulationLanguage-Conditioned Robot Manipulation

    Department of Computer Science, Tsinghua University, China · National College for Excellent Engineers, Beihang University, China · Independent Researcher +1

  15. RelAfford6D: Relational 6D Affordance Graphs for Constraint-Driven Robotic Manipulation

    Jun 25, 2026Guodong Zhang, Qichen He, Wenyuan Xie +6Constrained Motion PlanningZero-Shot Robotic Manipulation

    School of Computer Science, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, P. R. China

  16. GRAFT: Graph-Based Affordance Transfer via Part Correspondence

    Jun 23, 2026Mengying Lin, Utkarsh Mishra, Ajay Mandlekar +1Zero-Shot Robotic ManipulationGeneralization in Robotic Manipulation

    Georgia Institute of Technology · NVIDIA

  17. Bridging Semantics and Kinematics: A Modular Framework for Zero-Shot Robotic Manipulation

    Jun 22, 2026Ali Alabbas, Dipshikha Das, Camillo Murgia +3Zero-Shot Robotic ManipulationLanguage-Conditioned Robot Manipulation

    Department of Electronic, Software and Advanced Manufacturing Engineering, Atlantic Technological University, Galway, Ireland · Atlantic Technological University, Galway, Ireland

  18. Cloak: Zero-Shot Cross-Embodiment Manipulation by Masking the End-Effector from the VLA

    Jun 22, 2026Michael Piseno, Guy Tevet, C. Karen LiuZero-Shot Robotic ManipulationLanguage-Conditioned Robot Manipulation

    Stanford University

  19. KITE: Decoupling Kinematics and Interaction for Zero-Shot Cross-Embodiment Manipulation

    Jun 20, 2026Qianxu Wang, Kuan FangZero-Shot Robotic ManipulationGeneralization in Robotic Manipulation

    Cornell University

  20. ZeroDex: Zero-Shot Long-Horizon Dexterous Manipulation via Multi-View 3D-Grounded VLM Reasoning

    Jun 17, 2026Jisoo Kim, Sangwon Baik, Taeksoo Kim +4Dexterous ManipulationZero-Shot Robotic Manipulation

    Seoul National University · RLWRLD

  21. Object-Centric Residual RL for Zero-Shot Sim-to-Real VLA Enhancement

    Jun 17, 2026Kinam Kim, Namiko Saito, Heecheol Kim +3Reinforcement LearningZero-Shot Robotic Manipulation

    KAIST, South Korea · Microsoft Research Asia - Tokyo, Japan · The University of Tokyo, Japan

  22. SimWeaver: Zero-Shot RGB Sim-to-Real for Deformable Manipulation

    Jun 13, 2026Wenkang Hu, Haoran Wang, Yitong Li +10Zero-Shot Robotic ManipulationRobot Skill Learning

    1Shanghai Jiao Tong University · 2Horizon Robotics · 3Style3D Research

  23. Bounding Boxes as Goals: Language-Conditioned Grasping via Neuro-Symbolic Planning

    Jun 11, 2026Allison Andreyev, Landon Eum, Nestor Tiglao +1Robotic GraspingZero-Shot Robotic Manipulation

    University of Maryland, Cyber-Physical Systems Engineering

  24. EgoEngine: From Egocentric Human Videos to High-Fidelity Dexterous Robot Demonstrations

    Jun 10, 2026Yangcen Liu, Shuo Cheng, Xinchen Yin +6Zero-Shot Robotic ManipulationRobot Skill Learning

    Georgia Institute of Technology · Tsinghua University

  25. World Pilot: Steering Vision-Language-Action Models with World-Action Priors

    Jun 10, 2026Zefu Lin, Rongxu Cui, Junjia Xu +4Zero-Shot Robotic ManipulationWorld Models for Robotics

    Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CASIA) · Nanjing University · Beihang University

  26. Wall-OSS-0.5 Technical Report

    May 29, 2026Ryan Yu, Pushi Zhang, Starrick Liu +24Zero-Shot Robotic ManipulationCross-Embodiment Robot Learning

    X Square Robot Team

  27. HumanEgo: Zero-Shot Robot Learning from Minutes of Human Egocentric Videos

    May 24, 2026Zhi Wang, Botao He, Kelin Yu +4Zero-Shot LearningZero-Shot Robotic Manipulation

    University of Maryland

  28. Decompose and Recompose: Reasoning New Skills from Existing Abilities for Cross-Task Robotic Manipulation

    May 2, 2026Xitie Zhang, Aming Wu, Yahong HanICL for RoboticsZero-Shot Robotic Manipulation

    School of Artificial Intelligence, College of Intelligence and Computing, Tianjin University, China · School of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Hefei University of Technology, China

  29. Grounded World Model: Latent Planning with Language Goals

    Apr 13, 2026Quanyi Li, Lan Feng, Haonan Zhang +4Zero-Shot Robotic ManipulationWorld Models for Robotics

    EPFL · NUS

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

    Mar 5, 2026Gehao Zhang, Zhenyang Ni, Payal Mohapatra +3Trajectory OptimizationPhysical Consistency in Video Generation

    Northwestern University · Stanford University