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. NeurIPS 2026One Scan is Enough: Demonstration-Free Adaptation for Language-Guided Navigation
52. NeurIPS 2026OxyGen: Unified KV Cache Management for VLA Inference under Multi-Task Parallelism
53. NeurIPS 2026PAPO-VLA: Planning-Aware Policy Optimization for Vision-Language-Action Models
54. NeurIPS 2026PO-PDDL: Learning Symbolic POMDPs from Visual Demonstrations for Robot Planning Under Uncertainty
55. NeurIPS 2026PoSafeNet: Structured Safety Learning via Compositional Projection
56. NeurIPS 2026Preference-Guided Adversarial Policy Optimization for Long-Tail Robust Driving
57. NeurIPS 2026Realtime-VLA FLASH: Speculative Inference Framework for Diffusion-based VLAs
58. NeurIPS 2026Remember with Confidence: Uncertainty Quantification for Spatio-temporal Memory with Probabilistic Guarantees
59. NeurIPS 2026RoboWits: Unexpected Challenges for Robotic Creative Problem Solving
60. NeurIPS 2026SAGAS: Semantic-Aware Graph-Assisted Stitching for Offline Temporal Logic Planning
61. NeurIPS 2026SatNav: A Scalable Benchmark for Long-Horizon UAV Vision-Language Navigation from Satellite Imagery
62. NeurIPS 2026Teaching VLMs What to Say, Not How to Reason: Rethinking Counterfactual Reasoning in Autonomous Driving
63. NeurIPS 2026UNIVERSE: Unified Video Action Models for Autonomous Driving with Flexible Mask-Modulated Modality Generation
64. NeurIPS 2026When and What to Prune? Stage-Aware Visual Token Pruning for Efficient VLA
65. NeurIPS 2026When Does Interaction Help? Representational Tradeoffs in Value-Based Imitation Learning
66. NeurIPS 2026Why Cross-Skeleton Retargeting Is Non-Identifiable: Structural Limits of Generative Motion Models
67. NeurIPS 2026World Models as Adversaries: Multi-Agent Self-Play Fine-Tuning for Robust Motion Planning
68. NeurIPS 2026World–Value–Action Model: Implicit Planning for Vision–Language–Action Systems
69. NeurIPS 2026WorldComposer: Generative High-Fidelity Simulation with Digital Cousins for Generalizable Robot Learning and Evaluation

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.