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 2026FoundObj: Self-supervised Foundation Models as Rewards for Label-free 3D Object Segmentation
52. ICML 2026Fourier Features Let Agents Learn High Precision Policies with Imitation Learning
53. ICML 2026From Abstraction to Instantiation: Learning Behavioral Representation for Vision-Language-Action Model
54. ICML 2026From Imagined Futures to Executable Actions: Mixture of Latent Actions for Robot Manipulation
55. ICML 2026From Noise to Control: Parameterized Diffusion Policies
56. ICML 2026From Pixels to Tokens: A Systematic Study of Latent Action Supervision for Vision-Language-Action Models
57. ICML 2026Functional Cache Grafting: Robust and Rapid Code-Policy Synthesis for Embodied Agents
58. ICML 2026GAE: Unleashing Physical Potential of VLM with Generalizable Action Expert
59. ICML 2026General Covariant Action Modeling: Constructing Generalized Manifolds via Spatio-Temporal Decoupling
60. ICML 2026Generalizable and Actionable Parts Pose Estimation with Symmetry Annotation-Free Learning Strategy
61. ICML 2026GeoMoLa: Geometry-Aware Motion Latents for Learning Robust Manipulation Policies
62. ICML 2026GeoSense: Internalizing Geometric Necessity Perception for Multimodal Reasoning
63. ICML 2026HALO: A Unified Vision-Language-Action Model for Embodied Multimodal Chain-of-Thought Reasoning
64. ICML 2026HDFlow: Hierarchical Diffusion-Flow Planning for Long-horizon Tasks
65. ICML 2026Hierarchical Policy Learning via Spectral Decomposition
66. ICML 2026HiMe: Hierarchical Embodied Memory for Long-Horizon Vision-Language-Action Control
67. ICML 2026Hydra-Nav: Object Navigation via Adaptive Dual-Process Reasoning
68. ICML 2026Instruction Decomposition and Action Alignment for Vision-Language Navigation
69. ICML 2026Joint Navigation and Manipulation Planning with 3D Interaction Chains
70. ICML 2026LAGEA: Language Guided Embodied Agents for Robotic Manipulation
71. ICML 2026LARA: Latent Action Representation Alignment for Vision-Language-Action Models
72. ICML 2026LAST: Bridging Vision-Language and Action Manifolds via Gromov-Wasserstein Alignment
73. ICML 2026LaST$_{0}$: Latent Spatio-Temporal Chain-of-Thought for Robotic Vision-Language-Action Model
74. ICML 2026Latent Reasoning VLA: Latent Thinking and Prediction for Vision-Language-Action Models
75. ICML 2026Learning High-Frequency Continuous Action Chunks in Latent Space
76. ICML 2026Learning Human-Robot Collaboration via Heterogeneous-Agent Lyapunov Policy Optimization
77. ICML 2026Learning to Move Before Learning to Do: Task-Agnostic pretraining for VLAs
78. ICML 2026Learning to Reconfigure: Configuration-Control Co-optimization of Reconfigurable Robots for Heterogeneous Locomotion
79. ICML 2026LIMMT: Less Is More for Motion Tracking
80. ICML 2026Making Learner Weakness Actionable for Learning from Demonstration with Novice Teachers
81. ICML 2026MapDream: Task-Driven Map Learning for Vision-Language Navigation
82. ICML 2026Mixture of Horizons in Action Chunking
83. ICML 2026Model-Based Diffusion Sampling for Predictive Control in Offline Decision Making
84. ICML 2026Moment Matching Q-Learning
85. ICML 2026MoSA: Motion-constrained Stress Adaptation for Mitigating Real-to-Sim Gap in Continuum Dynamics via Learning Residual Anisotropy
86. ICML 2026Mosaic: Runtime-Efficient Multi-Agent Embodied Planning
87. ICML 2026Motion Planning in Compressed Representation Spaces
88. ICML 2026Move-Then-Operate: Behavioral Phasing for Human-Like Robotic Manipulation
89. ICML 2026MSP: Probabilistically Consistent Multi-Scale Action Generation
90. ICML 2026MVISTA-4D: View-Consistent 4D World Model with Test-Time Action Inference for Robotic Manipulation
91. ICML 2026MVP-LAM: Learning Action-Centric Latent Action via Cross-Viewpoint Reconstruction
92. ICML 2026N2M: Bridging Navigation and Manipulation by Learning Pose Preference from Rollout
93. ICML 2026NavOL: Navigation Policy with Online Imitation Learning
94. ICML 2026Neural Control: Adjoint Learning Through Equilibrium Constraints
95. ICML 2026Neural Implicit Action Fields: From Discrete Waypoints to Continuous Functions for Vision-Language-Action Models
96. ICML 2026NeurVLA: Unleashing Failure-Handling Capability of Vision-Language-Action Models via Neural-Symbolic Reasoning
97. ICML 2026NOMAD: Lifelong Trajectory Planning via Non-Parametric Bayesian Memory-Adaptive Diffusion Experts
98. ICML 2026One Model to Translate Them All: Universal Any-to-Any Translation for Heterogeneous Collaborative Perception
99. ICML 2026OXE-AugE: A Large-Scale Robot Augmentation of OXE for Scaling Cross-Embodiment Policy Learning
100. ICML 2026PACT: Self-Evolving Physical Safety Alignment for Diffusion Policies in Embodied Manipulation

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.