Robot Manipulation

Demystifying When and Why VLAs Fail in Contact-Rich Tasks and How to Fix Them

Rapid Embodiment Adaptation for Quadrupedal Locomotion

FA-RDP: A Frequency-Adaptive Reactive Diffusion Policy for Contact-Rich Manipulation

ContactFlow: A video action conditioning that transfers across embodiments

Reeling It In: Flexible Needle Pick Up via Thread Manipulation for Autonomous Suturing

πR2: Reactive Real-time Flow Policies

Data Pyramid for Embodied Manipulation

DeMaVLA: A Vision-Language-Action Foundation Model for Generalizable Deformable Manipulation

N0-VTLA: Scaling Vision-Tactile-Language-Action Model with Latent Tactile Tokens

Xiaomi-Robotics-1: Scaling Vision-Language-Action Models with over 100K Hours of Real-World Trajectories

DSWAM: A Dual-System World Action Foundation Model for Fine-Grained Robot Manipulation

Patch Policy: Efficient Embodied Control via Dense Visual Representations

Handroid: Bridging Dexterous Hand and Humanoid

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Worlds in One Demo: A Synthetic Data Engine for Learning Open-World Mobile Manipulation

Towards Human-level Dexterous Teleoperation

VIA: Visual Interface Agent for Robot Control

B-spline Policy: Accelerating Manipulation Policies via B-spline Action Representations

DemoBridge: A Simulation-in-the-Loop Toolkit for Single-View Human Demonstration Retargeting

AnyDexRT: Calibration-Free Dexterous Hand Retargeting with Few-Shot Human Guidance

ContactMimic: Humanoid Object Interaction via Contact Control

DexVerse: A Modular Benchmark for Multi-Task, Multi-Embodiment Dexterous Manipulation

Qwen-RobotManip Technical Report: Alignment Unlocks Scale for Robotic Manipulation Foundation Models

TouchWorld: A Predictive and Reactive Tactile Foundation Model for Dexterous Manipulation

Calf-Integrated Arms for Bimanual Quadruped Loco-Manipulation

LAMP: Latent Motion Prior-Guided Real-World Learning for Dexterous Hand Manipulation

Closing the Reality Gap: Zero-Shot Sim-to-Real Deployment for Dexterous Force-Based Grasping and Manipulation

S2-VLA: State-Space Guided Vision-Language-Action Models for Long-Horizon Manipulation

SILO: Simulation-in-the-Loop Sim-to-Real Transfer for Multi-Stage Cable Routing

ThinkingVLA: Interleaved Vision and Language Reasoning for Robotic Manipulation

CoDex: Learning Compositional Dexterous Functional Manipulation without Demonstrations

Z-1: Efficient Reinforcement Learning for Vision-Language-Action Models

VT-WAM: Visual-Tactile World Action Model for Contact-Rich Manipulation

FurnitureVLA: Learning Long-Horizon Bimanual Furniture Assembly with Vision-Language-Action Model

SPACE: Enabling Learning from Cross-Robot Data Toward Generalist Policies

TactX: Learning Shared Tactile Representations Across Diverse Sensors

DexCompose: Reusing Dexterous Policies for Multi-Task Manipulation with a Single Hand

SimFoundry: Modular and Automated Scene Generation for Policy Learning and Evaluation

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Humanoid-DART: Humanoid Loco-Manipulation using Diffusion-guided Augmentation through Relabeling and Tracking

Scalable Behavior Cloning with Open Data, Training, and Evaluation

VibeAct: Vibration to Actions for Contact-Rich Reactive Robot Dexterity

CoStream: Composing Simple Behaviors for Generalizable Complex Manipulation

ForceBand: Learning Forceful Manipulation with sEMG

Play2Perfect: What Matters in Dexterous Play Pretraining for Precise Assembly?

CoorDex: Coordinating Body and Hand Priors for Continuous Dexterous Humanoid Loco-Manipulation

HITTER: A HumanoId Table TEnnis Robot via Hierarchical Planning and Learning

Co-VLA: Coordination-Aware Structured Action Modeling for Dual-Arm Vision-Language-Action Systems

ENPIRE: Agentic Robot Policy Self-Improvement in the Real World

Generating Robot Hands from Human Demonstrations

Pose6DAug: Physically Plausible Multi-view Object Swapping for Robot Data Augmentation

Do as I Do: Dexterous Manipulation Data from Everyday Human Videos

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

TactSpace: Learning a Physics-enriched Shared Latent Space for Tactile Sim-to-Real Transfer

T-Rex: Tactile-Reactive Dexterous Manipulation

Mana: Dexterous Manipulation of Articulated Tools

WT-UMI: Tactile-based Whole-Body Manipulation via Force-Supervised Contact-Aware Planning

FACTR 2: Learning External Force Sensing for Commodity Robot Arms Improves Policy Learning

IMPACT: Learning Internal-Model Predictive Control for Forceful Robotic Manipulation

TacForeSight: Force-Guided Tactile World Model for Contact-Rich Manipulation

FlowPRO: Reward-Free Reinforced Fine-Tuning of Flow-Matching VLAs via Proximalized Preference Optimization

VLA-Pro: Cross-Task Procedural Memory Transfer for Vision-Language-Action Models

BORA: Bridging Offline Reinforcement Learning and Online Residual Adaptation for Real-World Dexterous VLA Models

Qwen-VLA: Unifying Vision-Language-Action Modeling across Tasks, Environments, and Robot Embodiments

Beyond Binary: Sim-to-Real Dexterous Manipulation with Physics-Grounded Contact Representation

Cybo-Waiter: A Physical Agentic Framework for Humanoid Whole-Body Locomotion-Manipulation

When Absolute State Fails: Evaluating Proprioceptive Encodings for Robust Manipulation

Factored Diffusion Policies:Compositionally Generalized Robot Control with a Single Score Network

MolmoAct2: Action Reasoning Models for Real-world Deployment

TacSE3: Equivariant SE(3) Motion Estimation from Low-Texture Visuotactile Images for In-Gripper Tracking and Compensation

Do World Action Models Generalize Better than VLAs? A Robustness Study

Offline Semantic Guidance for Efficient Vision-Language-Action Policy Distillation

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TiPToP: A Modular Open-Vocabulary Planning System for Robotic Manipulation

$\Delta$VLA: Prior-Guided Vision-Language-Action Models via World Knowledge Variation

Learning while Deploying: Fleet-Scale Reinforcement Learning for Generalist Robot Policies

DOT-Sim: Differentiable Optical Tactile Simulation with Precise Real-to-Sim Physical Calibration

FlexiTac: A Low-Cost, Open-Source, Scalable Tactile Sensing Solution for Robotic Systems

LaST-R1: Reinforcing Action via Adaptive Physical Latent Reasoning for VLA Models

RopeDreamer: A Kinematic Recurrent State Space Model for Dynamics of Flexible Deformable Linear Objects

Unified 4D World Action Modeling from Video Priors with Asynchronous Denoising

Cortex 2.0: Grounding World Models in Real-World Industrial Deployment

EmbodiedMidtrain: Bridging the Gap between Vision-Language Models and Vision-Language-Action Models via Mid-training

AnoleVLA: Lightweight Vision-Language-Action Model with Deep State Space Models for Mobile Manipulation

Novel Algorithms for Smoothly Differentiable and Efficiently Vectorizable Contact Manifold Construction

VADF: Vision-Adaptive Diffusion Policy Framework for Efficient Robotic Manipulation

DEX-Mouse: A Low-cost Portable and Universal Interface with Force Feedback for Data Collection of Dexterous Robotic Hands

R3D: Revisiting 3D Policy Learning

Switch: Learning Agile Skills Switching for Humanoid Robots

A Mechanistic Analysis of Sim-and-Real Co-Training in Generative Robot Policies

Learning Versatile Humanoid Manipulation with Touch Dreaming

ViserDex: Visual Sim-to-Real for Robust Dexterous In-hand Reorientation

A-SLIP: Acoustic Sensing for Continuous In-hand Slip Estimation

HEX: Humanoid-Aligned Experts for Cross-Embodiment Whole-Body Manipulation

LAMP: Lift Image-Editing as General 3D Priors for Open-world Manipulation

SIM1: Physics-Aligned Simulator as Zero-Shot Data Scaler in Deformable Worlds

Sumo: Dynamic and Generalizable Whole-Body Loco-Manipulation

CMP: Robust Whole-Body Tracking for Loco-Manipulation via Competence Manifold Projection

SnapFlow: One-Step Action Generation for Flow-Matching VLAs via Progressive Self-Distillation

DySL-VLA: Efficient Vision-Language-Action Model Inference via Dynamic-Static Layer-Skipping for Robot Manipulation

MobileManiBench: Simplifying Model Verification for Mobile Manipulation

ABot-M0: VLA Foundation Model for Robotic Manipulation with Action Manifold Learning

ForeAct: Steering Your VLA with Efficient Visual Foresight Planning

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Functional Force-Aware Retargeting from Virtual Human Demos to Soft Robot Policies

SMASH: Mastering Scalable Whole-Body Skills for Humanoid Ping-Pong with Egocentric Vision

Coordinated Humanoid Manipulation with Choice Policies

FocusVLA: Focused Visual Utilization for Vision-Language-Action Models

SOLE-R1: Video-Language Reasoning as the Sole Reward for On-Robot Reinforcement Learning

Scaling World Model for Hierarchical Manipulation Policies

VLAW: Iterative Co-Improvement of Vision-Language-Action Policy and World Model

OmniRetarget: Interaction-Preserving Data Generation for Humanoid Whole-Body Loco-Manipulation and Scene Interaction

Open-World Task and Motion Planning via Vision-Language Model Generated Constraints

Steerable Vision-Language-Action Policies for Embodied Reasoning and Hierarchical Control

UniDex: A Robot Foundation Suite for Universal Dexterous Hand Control from Egocentric Human Videos

WholeBodyVLA: Towards Unified Latent VLA for Whole-Body Loco-Manipulation Control

OmniVTA: Visuo-Tactile World Modeling for Contact-Rich Robotic Manipulation

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