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Robot Manipulation
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PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIJUN 20, 2026
HITTER: A HumanoId Table TEnnis Robot via Hierarchical Planning and Learning
ZHI SU, S. SASTRY, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIJUN 18, 2026
ENPIRE: Agentic Robot Policy Self-Improvement in the Real World
WENLI XIAO, GUANYA SHI, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIJUN 18, 2026
Generating Robot Hands from Human Demonstrations
SHA YI, XIAOLONG WANG, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIJUN 17, 2026
Do as I Do: Dexterous Manipulation Data from Everyday Human Videos
BHAWNA PALIWAL, JITENDRA MALIK, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIJUN 17, 2026
Object-Centric Residual RL for Zero-Shot Sim-to-Real VLA Enhancement
KINAM KIM, YASUYUKI MATSUSHITA, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIJUN 17, 2026
TactSpace: Learning a Physics-enriched Shared Latent Space for Tactile Sim-to-Real Transfer
ARUNIM JOARDER, MARCO HUTTER, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIJUN 15, 2026
T-Rex: Tactile-Reactive Dexterous Manipulation
DANTONG NIU, TREVOR DARRELL, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIJUN 11, 2026
Mana: Dexterous Manipulation of Articulated Tools
ZHAO-HENG YIN, C. KAREN LIU, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIJUN 11, 2026
WT-UMI: Tactile-based Whole-Body Manipulation via Force-Supervised Contact-Aware Planning
JAEHWI JANG, YE ZHAO, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIJUN 10, 2026
FACTR 2: Learning External Force Sensing for Commodity Robot Arms Improves Policy Learning
STEVEN OH, DEEPAK PATHAK, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIJUN 9, 2026
IMPACT: Learning Internal-Model Predictive Control for Forceful Robotic Manipulation
JIAWEI GAO, YILUN DU, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIJUN 9, 2026
TacForeSight: Force-Guided Tactile World Model for Contact-Rich Manipulation
YUJIE ZANG, WENCHAO DING, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIJUN 3, 2026
FlowPRO: Reward-Free Reinforced Fine-Tuning of Flow-Matching VLAs via Proximalized Preference Optimization
YIHAO WU, ZHENGYOU ZHANG, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIJUN 1, 2026
VLA-Pro: Cross-Task Procedural Memory Transfer for Vision-Language-Action Models
SHENGYUN SI, YU-GANG JIANG, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIMAY 28, 2026
BORA: Bridging Offline Reinforcement Learning and Online Residual Adaptation for Real-World Dexterous VLA Models
ZHONGXI CHEN, WENZHAO LIAN, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIMAY 28, 2026
Qwen-VLA: Unifying Vision-Language-Action Modeling across Tasks, Environments, and Robot Embodiments
QIUYUE WANG, XIONGHUI CHEN, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIMAY 27, 2026
Beyond Binary: Sim-to-Real Dexterous Manipulation with Physics-Grounded Contact Representation
JIAHE PAN, TORU LIN, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIMAY 27, 2026
Cybo-Waiter: A Physical Agentic Framework for Humanoid Whole-Body Locomotion-Manipulation
PENGHUA REN, KAIYANG CHEN, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
PAPRUNIVERSITY OF TOKYO, NABLAS RESEARCHMAY 26, 2026
When Absolute State Fails: Evaluating Proprioceptive Encodings for Robust Manipulation
MAXIME ALVAREZ, GENKI SANO, ET AL. (UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO, NABLAS)
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIMAY 21, 2026
Factored Diffusion Policies:Compositionally Generalized Robot Control with a Single Score Network
SAYAN MITRA, ABHISHEK PAI, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIMAY 18, 2026
MolmoAct2: Action Reasoning Models for Real-world Deployment
HAOQUAN FANG, RANJAY KRISHNA, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIMAY 18, 2026
TacSE3: Equivariant SE(3) Motion Estimation from Low-Texture Visuotactile Images for In-Gripper Tracking and Compensation
ZHONGYUAN LIAO, MICHAEL YU WANG, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIMAY 17, 2026
Do World Action Models Generalize Better than VLAs? A Robustness Study
ZHANGUANG ZHANG, YINGXUE ZHANG, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIMAY 15, 2026
Offline Semantic Guidance for Efficient Vision-Language-Action Policy Distillation
JIN SHI, BRADY ZHANG, YISHUN LU
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIMAY 5, 2026
TiPToP: A Modular Open-Vocabulary Planning System for Robotic Manipulation
WILLIAM SHEN, TOM'AS LOZANO-P'EREZ, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIMAY 4, 2026
$\Delta$VLA: Prior-Guided Vision-Language-Action Models via World Knowledge Variation
YIJIE ZHU, ZITONG YU, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIMAY 1, 2026
Learning while Deploying: Fleet-Scale Reinforcement Learning for Generalist Robot Policies
YI WANG, JIANLAN LUO, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIAPR 30, 2026
DOT-Sim: Differentiable Optical Tactile Simulation with Precise Real-to-Sim Physical Calibration
YANG YOU, LEONIDAS GUIBAS, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIAPR 30, 2026
FlexiTac: A Low-Cost, Open-Source, Scalable Tactile Sensing Solution for Robotic Systems
BINGHAO HUANG, YUNZHU LI
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIAPR 30, 2026
LaST-R1: Reinforcing Action via Adaptive Physical Latent Reasoning for VLA Models
HAO CHEN, PHENG-ANN HENG, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIAPR 30, 2026
RopeDreamer: A Kinematic Recurrent State Space Model for Dynamics of Flexible Deformable Linear Objects
TIM MISSAL, PAULA DORNHOFER PARO COSTA, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIAPR 29, 2026
Unified 4D World Action Modeling from Video Priors with Asynchronous Denoising
JUN GUO, HUAPING LIU, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIAPR 22, 2026
Cortex 2.0: Grounding World Models in Real-World Industrial Deployment
ADRIANA AIDA, PAVAN UPPUTURI, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIAPR 21, 2026
EmbodiedMidtrain: Bridging the Gap between Vision-Language Models and Vision-Language-Action Models via Mid-training
YIYANG DU, CHENYAN XIONG, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIAPR 20, 2026
AnoleVLA: Lightweight Vision-Language-Action Model with Deep State Space Models for Mobile Manipulation
YUSUKE TAKAGI, KOMEI SUGIURA, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIAPR 19, 2026
Novel Algorithms for Smoothly Differentiable and Efficiently Vectorizable Contact Manifold Construction
ONUR BEKER, GEORG MARTIUS, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIAPR 17, 2026
VADF: Vision-Adaptive Diffusion Policy Framework for Efficient Robotic Manipulation
XINGLEI YU, YANWEI FU, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIAPR 16, 2026
DEX-Mouse: A Low-cost Portable and Universal Interface with Force Feedback for Data Collection of Dexterous Robotic Hands
JOONHO KOH, CHANGJOO NAM, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIAPR 16, 2026
R3D: Revisiting 3D Policy Learning
ZHENGDONG HONG, JIAYUAN GU, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIAPR 16, 2026
Switch: Learning Agile Skills Switching for Humanoid Robots
YUEN-FUI LAU, PING TAN, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIAPR 15, 2026
A Mechanistic Analysis of Sim-and-Real Co-Training in Generative Robot Policies
YU LEI, YUKE ZHU, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIAPR 14, 2026
Learning Versatile Humanoid Manipulation with Touch Dreaming
YARU NIU, DING ZHAO, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIAPR 13, 2026
ViserDex: Visual Sim-to-Real for Robust Dexterous In-hand Reorientation
ARJUN BHARDWAJ, MARCO HUTTER, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIAPR 9, 2026
A-SLIP: Acoustic Sensing for Continuous In-hand Slip Estimation
UKSANG YOO, JEFFREY ICHNOWSKI, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIAPR 9, 2026
HEX: Humanoid-Aligned Experts for Cross-Embodiment Whole-Body Manipulation
SHUANGHAO BAI, BADONG CHEN, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIAPR 9, 2026
LAMP: Lift Image-Editing as General 3D Priors for Open-world Manipulation
JINGJING WANG, GUOFENG ZHANG, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIAPR 9, 2026
SIM1: Physics-Aligned Simulator as Zero-Shot Data Scaler in Deformable Worlds
YUNSONG ZHOU, JIANGMIAO PANG, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIAPR 9, 2026
Sumo: Dynamic and Generalizable Whole-Body Loco-Manipulation
JOHN Z. ZHANG, SIMON LE CLÉAC'H, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIAPR 8, 2026
CMP: Robust Whole-Body Tracking for Loco-Manipulation via Competence Manifold Projection
ZIYANG CHENG, JIWEN LU, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIAPR 7, 2026
SnapFlow: One-Step Action Generation for Flow-Matching VLAs via Progressive Self-Distillation
WUYANG LUAN, RUI MA, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIAPR 6, 2026
DySL-VLA: Efficient Vision-Language-Action Model Inference via Dynamic-Static Layer-Skipping for Robot Manipulation
ZEBIN YANG, MENG LI, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIAPR 5, 2026
MobileManiBench: Simplifying Model Verification for Mobile Manipulation
WENBO WANG, BAINING GUO, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIAPR 4, 2026
ABot-M0: VLA Foundation Model for Robotic Manipulation with Action Manifold Learning
YANDAN YANG, MU XU, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIAPR 2, 2026
ForeAct: Steering Your VLA with Efficient Visual Foresight Planning
ZHUOYANG ZHANG, SONG HAN, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
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PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIAPR 1, 2026
Functional Force-Aware Retargeting from Virtual Human Demos to Soft Robot Policies
UKSANG YOO, HARSHA PRAHLAD, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIAPR 1, 2026
SMASH: Mastering Scalable Whole-Body Skills for Humanoid Ping-Pong with Egocentric Vision
JUNLI REN, PING LUO, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIMAR 31, 2026
Coordinated Humanoid Manipulation with Choice Policies
HAOZHI QI, JITENDRA MALIK, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIMAR 30, 2026
FocusVLA: Focused Visual Utilization for Vision-Language-Action Models
YICHI ZHANG, JIA WAN, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIMAR 30, 2026
SOLE-R1: Video-Language Reasoning as the Sole Reward for On-Robot Reinforcement Learning
PHILIP SCHROEDER, ONDREJ BIZA, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIMAR 30, 2026
Scaling World Model for Hierarchical Manipulation Policies
QIAN LONG, XINGHANG LI, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIMAR 28, 2026
VLAW: Iterative Co-Improvement of Vision-Language-Action Policy and World Model
YANJIANG GUO, CHELSEA FINN, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIMAR 26, 2026
OmniRetarget: Interaction-Preserving Data Generation for Humanoid Whole-Body Loco-Manipulation and Scene Interaction
LUJIE YANG, GUANYA SHI, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
PAPRMIT RESEARCHMAR 25, 2026
Open-World Task and Motion Planning via Vision-Language Model Generated Constraints
NISHANTH KUMAR, CAELAN REED GARRETT, ET AL. (MIT)
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIMAR 25, 2026
Steerable Vision-Language-Action Policies for Embodied Reasoning and Hierarchical Control
WILLIAM CHEN, SERGEY LEVINE, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIMAR 23, 2026
UniDex: A Robot Foundation Suite for Universal Dexterous Hand Control from Egocentric Human Videos
GU ZHANG, HUAZHE XU, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIMAR 23, 2026
WholeBodyVLA: Towards Unified Latent VLA for Whole-Body Loco-Manipulation Control
HAORAN JIANG, HONGYANG LI, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIMAR 19, 2026
OmniVTA: Visuo-Tactile World Modeling for Contact-Rich Robotic Manipulation
YUHANG ZHENG, WENCHAO DING, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
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