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

252 papers, page 3 of 6

101. ICML 2026Latent Reasoning VLA: Latent Thinking and Prediction for Vision-Language-Action Models
102. ICML 2026Learning High-Frequency Continuous Action Chunks in Latent Space
103. ICML 2026Learning Human-Robot Collaboration via Heterogeneous-Agent Lyapunov Policy Optimization
104. ICML 2026Learning to Move Before Learning to Do: Task-Agnostic pretraining for VLAs
105. ICML 2026Learning to Reconfigure: Configuration-Control Co-optimization of Reconfigurable Robots for Heterogeneous Locomotion
106. ICML 2026LIMMT: Less Is More for Motion Tracking
107. ICML 2026Making Learner Weakness Actionable for Learning from Demonstration with Novice Teachers
108. ICML 2026MapDream: Task-Driven Map Learning for Vision-Language Navigation
109. ICML 2026Mixture of Horizons in Action Chunking
110. ICML 2026Model-Based Diffusion Sampling for Predictive Control in Offline Decision Making
111. ICML 2026Moment Matching Q-Learning
112. ICML 2026MoSA: Motion-constrained Stress Adaptation for Mitigating Real-to-Sim Gap in Continuum Dynamics via Learning Residual Anisotropy
113. ICML 2026Mosaic: Runtime-Efficient Multi-Agent Embodied Planning
114. ICML 2026Motion Planning in Compressed Representation Spaces
115. ICML 2026Move-Then-Operate: Behavioral Phasing for Human-Like Robotic Manipulation
116. ICML 2026MSP: Probabilistically Consistent Multi-Scale Action Generation
117. ICML 2026MVISTA-4D: View-Consistent 4D World Model with Test-Time Action Inference for Robotic Manipulation
118. ICML 2026MVP-LAM: Learning Action-Centric Latent Action via Cross-Viewpoint Reconstruction
119. ICML 2026N2M: Bridging Navigation and Manipulation by Learning Pose Preference from Rollout
120. ICML 2026NavOL: Navigation Policy with Online Imitation Learning
121. ICML 2026Neural Control: Adjoint Learning Through Equilibrium Constraints
122. ICML 2026Neural Implicit Action Fields: From Discrete Waypoints to Continuous Functions for Vision-Language-Action Models
123. ICML 2026NeurVLA: Unleashing Failure-Handling Capability of Vision-Language-Action Models via Neural-Symbolic Reasoning
124. ICML 2026NOMAD: Lifelong Trajectory Planning via Non-Parametric Bayesian Memory-Adaptive Diffusion Experts
125. ICML 2026One Model to Translate Them All: Universal Any-to-Any Translation for Heterogeneous Collaborative Perception
126. ICML 2026OXE-AugE: A Large-Scale Robot Augmentation of OXE for Scaling Cross-Embodiment Policy Learning
127. ICML 2026PACT: Self-Evolving Physical Safety Alignment for Diffusion Policies in Embodied Manipulation
128. ICML 2026PhyScene3D: Physically Consistent 3D Interactive Tabletop Scene Generation
129. ICML 2026Plan in Sandbox, Navigate in Open Worlds: Learning Physics-Grounded Abstracted Experience for Embodied Navigation
130. ICML 2026Plug-and-Play Label Map Diffusion for Universal Goal-Oriented Navigation
131. ICML 2026Predicting What Matters: Robust Generalist Robot Policy Learning via Future Semantic Mask
132. ICML 2026Pretrained Vision-Language-Action Models are Surprisingly Resistant to Forgetting in Continual Learning
133. ICML 2026ProAct: A Benchmark and Multimodal Framework for Structure-Aware Proactive Response
134. ICML 2026PSG-Nav: Probabilistic Scene Graph Navigation via Multiverse Decision Making
135. ICML 2026RA-VLA: Retrieval-Augmented VLA for Test-Time Adaptation
136. ICML 2026RDT2: Exploring the Scaling Limit of UMI Data Towards Zero-Shot Cross-Embodiment Generalization
137. ICML 2026Recovering Hidden Reward in Diffusion-Based Policies
138. ICML 2026Reflex: Real-Time Vision-Language-Action Control through Streaming Inference
139. ICML 2026ReLAM: Learning Anticipation Model for Rewarding Visual Robotic Manipulation
140. ICML 2026Rethinking Instruction Drift as a Sampling Error: SNR-Aware Power Distributions for Long-Horizon Robotic Planning
141. ICML 2026RoboFlow4D: A Lightweight Flow World Model Toward Real-Time Flow-Guided Robotic Manipulation
142. ICML 2026RoboMME: Benchmarking and Understanding Memory for Robotic Generalist Policies
143. ICML 2026RoboOmni: Actions Are Just Another Modality for Vision-Language Models
144. ICML 2026RoboTwin 2.0: A Scalable Data Generator and Benchmark with Strong Domain Randomization for Robust Bimanual Robotic Manipulation
145. ICML 2026SAD-Flower: Flow Matching for Safe, Admissible, and Dynamically Consistent Planning
146. ICML 2026SafeDec: Constrained Decoding for Safe Autoregressive Generalist Robot Navigation Policies
147. ICML 2026SafeLab: An Interactive High-Fidelity Benchmark for Embodied Safety in Scientific Robotics
148. ICML 2026Sample from What You See: Visuomotor Policy Learning via Diffusion Bridge with Observation-Embedded Stochastic Differential Equation
149. ICML 2026Scalable and General Whole-Body Control for Cross-Humanoid Locomotion
150. ICML 2026SCALE: Self-uncertainty Conditioned Adaptive Looking and Execution for Vision-Language-Action Models

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.