Applications · robotics papers, 2023–2026

Key findings

• Applications · robotics went from 7 papers in 2023 to 252 in 2026, roughly 36x in three years.
• ICML publishes the most Applications · robotics work: 194 papers from 2023 to 2026, 49% of the four-venue total.
• The fastest-growing overlap is with Multimodal LLMs: papers tagged with both rose from 0 in 2023 to 111 in 2026.
• Among the 10 topics under Application Domains, it ranks #6 by 2026 paper count; the fastest grower in the group, Applications · health medicine, is up 61x versus 36x here.

Representative papers

Spread across years and venues so every edition shows up

• NeurIPS 2026AVI-HT: Adaptive Vision-IMU Fusion for 3D Hand Tracking
• ICML 2026Cross-Tactile Sensor Representation Learning
• ICLR 2026DexMove: Learning Tactile-Guided Non-Prehensile Manipulation with Dexterous Hands
• CVPR 2026DeDelayed Deleting Remote Inference Delay via On-Device Correction
• NeurIPS 2025$\textit{HiMaCon:}$ Discovering Hierarchical Manipulation Concepts from Unlabeled Multi-Modal Data
• ICML 2025DexScale: Automating Data Scaling for Sim2Real Generalizable Robot Control
• ICLR 2025Contractive Dynamical Imitation Policies for Efficient Out-of-Sample Recovery
• CVPR 2025Tartan IMU: A Light Foundation Model for Inertial Positioning in Robotics
• NeurIPS 2024BAKU: An Efficient Transformer for Multi-Task Policy Learning
• ICLR 2024Course Correcting Koopman Representations
• CVPR 2024PaSCo: Urban 3D Panoptic Scene Completion with Uncertainty Awareness
• ICML 2023Quantum Ridgelet Transform: Winning Lottery Ticket of Neural Networks with Quantum Computation
• ICLR 2023PD-MORL: Preference-Driven Multi-Objective Reinforcement Learning Algorithm
• CVPR 2023FLEX: Full-Body Grasping Without Full-Body Grasps
• NeurIPS 2026Compositional Training-Free Diffusion Planning for Long-Horizon Multiple Reach-Avoid Tasks
• ICML 2026DECO: Decoupled Multimodal Diffusion Transformer for Bimanual Dexterous Manipulation with a Plugin Tactile Adapter
• ICLR 2026Difference-Aware Retrieval Polices for Imitation Learning
• NeurIPS 2025Enhancing LLM Planning for Robotics Manipulation through Hierarchical Procedural Knowledge Graphs
• ICML 2025Hierarchical Equivariant Policy via Frame Transfer
• ICLR 2025EqNIO: Subequivariant Neural Inertial Odometry

All Applications · robotics papers

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51. ICML 2026Discrete Diffusion VLA: Bringing Discrete Diffusion to Action Decoding in Vision-Language-Action Policies
52. ICML 2026Dismantling the Illusion of Vision-Language-Action Models Competence via Explicit Distributional Shifts
53. ICML 2026Distinguishing Imitation Error from Intrinsic Motion Learning Difficulty
54. ICML 2026DLO-Lab: Benchmarking Deformable Linear Object Manipulations with Differentiable Physics
55. ICML 2026DreamDojo: A Generalist Robot World Model from Large-Scale Human Videos
56. ICML 2026DriveWorld-VLA: Unified Latent-Space World Modeling with Vision–Language–Action for Autonomous Driving
57. ICML 2026Dual-Stream Diffusion for World-Model Augmented Vision-Language-Action Model
58. ICML 2026DyGRO-VLA: Cross-Task Scaling of Vision–Language–Action Models via Dynamic Grouped Residual Optimization
59. ICML 2026Dyn-VPP: Video Prediction Policy Optimization for Improved Visual Dynamics
60. ICML 2026Dynamics Are Learned, Not Told: Semi-Supervised Discovery of Latent Dynamics Geometries For Zero-Shot Policy Adaptation
61. ICML 2026DynVLA: Learning World Dynamics for Action Reasoning in Autonomous Driving
62. ICML 2026ECo-MoE: Embodiment-Conditioned Mixture of Experts Increases the Evolvability of Robots
63. ICML 2026EcoVLA: Environment-Aware Adaptive Pruning with Interleaved Inference Orchestration for Vision-Language-Action Models
64. ICML 2026Efficient Skill Grounding via Code Refactoring with Small Language Models
65. ICML 2026Embodied Interpretability: Linking Causal Understanding to Generalization in Vision-Language-Action Models
66. ICML 2026Embodied-DETR: End-to-End Temporal 3D Object Detection in Egocentric Views
67. ICML 2026EnerGS: Energy-Based Gaussian Splatting under Partial Geometric Priors
68. ICML 2026Energy-based Compositional Diffusion Planning
69. ICML 2026EnsembleVLA: Ensemble Learning for Vision-Language Action Models
70. ICML 2026ERGeoBench: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Embodied Reasoning and Geo-localization in Multimodal Large Language Models
71. ICML 2026EvoCF: Multi-Agent Collaboration via Agentic Memory-Driven Evolutionary Counterfactual Planning
72. ICML 2026EvoMAS: Heuristics in the Loop—Evolving Smarter Agentic Workflows
73. ICML 2026FastSESR: Fast Scene-level Explicit Surface Reconstruction
74. ICML 2026Fisher-Preserving Guidance: Training-Free Manifold Constraints for Safe Diffusion Control
75. ICML 2026FlatLab: A Unified Methodology Framework and Simulation-Based Benchmark for Robotic Manipulation of Flat Objects
76. ICML 2026FocalPolicy: Frequency-Optimized Chunking and Locally Anchored Flow Matching for Coherent Visuomotor Policy
77. ICML 2026Focus-Then-Contact: Speeding Up Robotic Contact-Rich Task Learning with Affordance-Guided Real-World Residual Reinforcement Learning
78. ICML 2026FoundObj: Self-supervised Foundation Models as Rewards for Label-free 3D Object Segmentation
79. ICML 2026Fourier Features Let Agents Learn High Precision Policies with Imitation Learning
80. ICML 2026From Abstraction to Instantiation: Learning Behavioral Representation for Vision-Language-Action Model
81. ICML 2026From Imagined Futures to Executable Actions: Mixture of Latent Actions for Robot Manipulation
82. ICML 2026From Noise to Control: Parameterized Diffusion Policies
83. ICML 2026From Pixels to Tokens: A Systematic Study of Latent Action Supervision for Vision-Language-Action Models
84. ICML 2026Functional Cache Grafting: Robust and Rapid Code-Policy Synthesis for Embodied Agents
85. ICML 2026GAE: Unleashing Physical Potential of VLM with Generalizable Action Expert
86. ICML 2026General Covariant Action Modeling: Constructing Generalized Manifolds via Spatio-Temporal Decoupling
87. ICML 2026Generalizable and Actionable Parts Pose Estimation with Symmetry Annotation-Free Learning Strategy
88. ICML 2026GeoMoLa: Geometry-Aware Motion Latents for Learning Robust Manipulation Policies
89. ICML 2026GeoSense: Internalizing Geometric Necessity Perception for Multimodal Reasoning
90. ICML 2026HALO: A Unified Vision-Language-Action Model for Embodied Multimodal Chain-of-Thought Reasoning
91. ICML 2026HDFlow: Hierarchical Diffusion-Flow Planning for Long-horizon Tasks
92. ICML 2026Hierarchical Policy Learning via Spectral Decomposition
93. ICML 2026HiMe: Hierarchical Embodied Memory for Long-Horizon Vision-Language-Action Control
94. ICML 2026Hydra-Nav: Object Navigation via Adaptive Dual-Process Reasoning
95. ICML 2026Instruction Decomposition and Action Alignment for Vision-Language Navigation
96. ICML 2026Joint Navigation and Manipulation Planning with 3D Interaction Chains
97. ICML 2026LAGEA: Language Guided Embodied Agents for Robotic Manipulation
98. ICML 2026LARA: Latent Action Representation Alignment for Vision-Language-Action Models
99. ICML 2026LAST: Bridging Vision-Language and Action Manifolds via Gromov-Wasserstein Alignment
100. ICML 2026LaST$_{0}$: Latent Spatio-Temporal Chain-of-Thought for Robotic Vision-Language-Action Model

FAQ

How many Applications · robotics papers were published at NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR from 2023 to 2026?

393 in total: 7 in 2023, 65 in 2024, 69 in 2025, 252 in 2026.

How many Applications · robotics papers are at NeurIPS 2026?

NeurIPS 2026 has 69 Applications · robotics papers, versus 6 the year before.

How many Applications · robotics papers are at ICLR 2026?

ICLR 2026 has 26 Applications · robotics papers, versus 23 the year before.

How many Applications · robotics papers are at ICML 2026?

ICML 2026 has 156 Applications · robotics papers, versus 36 the year before.

How many Applications · robotics papers are at CVPR 2026?

CVPR 2026 has 1 Applications · robotics papers, versus 4 the year before.

Which conference publishes the most Applications · robotics papers?

ICML, with 194 papers from 2023 to 2026.