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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151. ICML 2026VLAW: Iterative Co-Improvement of Vision-Language-Action Policy and World Model
152. ICML 2026WestWorld: A Knowledge-Encoded Scalable Trajectory World Model for Diverse Robotic Systems
153. ICML 2026When Replanning Becomes the Bottleneck: Budgeted Replanning for Embodied Agents
154. ICML 2026World Guidance: World Modeling in Condition Space for Action Generation
155. ICML 2026XR-1: Towards Versatile Vision-Language-Action Models via Learning Unified Vision-Motion Representations
156. ICML 2026Zero-Shot 3D Question Answering via Hierarchical View-to-Token Transportation
157. ICML 2025A Physics-Informed Machine Learning Framework for Safe and Optimal Control of Autonomous Systems
158. ICML 2025ABNet: Adaptive explicit-Barrier Net for Safe and Scalable Robot Learning
159. ICML 2025BiAssemble: Learning Collaborative Affordance for Bimanual Geometric Assembly
160. ICML 2025Closed-Loop Long-Horizon Robotic Planning via Equilibrium Sequence Modeling
161. ICML 2025DexScale: Automating Data Scaling for Sim2Real Generalizable Robot Control
162. ICML 2025DiffusionVLA: Scaling Robot Foundation Models via Unified Diffusion and Autoregression
163. ICML 2025DINO-WM: World Models on Pre-trained Visual Features enable Zero-shot Planning
164. ICML 2025DriveGPT: Scaling Autoregressive Behavior Models for Driving
165. ICML 2025DynaMind: Reasoning over Abstract Video Dynamics for Embodied Decision-Making
166. ICML 2025Efficient Robotic Policy Learning via Latent Space Backward Planning
167. ICML 2025ELEMENTAL: Interactive Learning from Demonstrations and Vision-Language Models for Reward Design in Robotics
168. ICML 2025Empowering World Models with Reflection for Embodied Video Prediction
169. ICML 2025Falcon: Fast Visuomotor Policies via Partial Denoising
170. ICML 2025Hi Robot: Open-Ended Instruction Following with Hierarchical Vision-Language-Action Models
171. ICML 2025Hierarchical Equivariant Policy via Frame Transfer
172. ICML 2025Hierarchical Planning for Complex Tasks with Knowledge Graph-RAG and Symbolic Verification
173. ICML 2025Latent Diffusion Planning for Imitation Learning
174. ICML 2025Learning Efficient Robotic Garment Manipulation with Standardization
175. ICML 2025Learning Safe Control via On-the-Fly Bandit Exploration
176. ICML 2025One-Step Diffusion Policy: Fast Visuomotor Policies via Diffusion Distillation
177. ICML 2025OTTER: A Vision-Language-Action Model with Text-Aware Visual Feature Extraction
178. ICML 2025Pre-training Auto-regressive Robotic Models with 4D Representations
179. ICML 2025ReinboT: Amplifying Robot Visual-Language Manipulation with Reinforcement Learning
180. ICML 2025Reinforcement Learning Control of a Physical Robot Device for Assisted Human Walking without a Simulator
181. ICML 2025Rethinking Latent Redundancy in Behavior Cloning: An Information Bottleneck Approach for Robot Manipulation
182. ICML 2025SAH-Drive: A Scenario-Aware Hybrid Planner for Closed-Loop Vehicle Trajectory Generation
183. ICML 2025SAM2Act: Integrating Visual Foundation Model with A Memory Architecture for Robotic Manipulation
184. ICML 2025SE(3)-Equivariant Diffusion Policy in Spherical Fourier Space
185. ICML 2025TeLoGraF: Temporal Logic Planning via Graph-encoded Flow Matching
186. ICML 2025Test-Time Adaptation for Online Vision-Language Navigation with Feedback-based Reinforcement Learning
187. ICML 2025Three-Dimensional Trajectory Prediction with 3DMoTraj Dataset
188. ICML 2025Towards Learning to Complete Anything in Lidar
189. ICML 2025UP-VLA: A Unified Understanding and Prediction Model for Embodied Agent
190. ICML 2025Video Prediction Policy: A Generalist Robot Policy with Predictive Visual Representations
191. ICML 2025VIP: Vision Instructed Pre-training for Robotic Manipulation
192. ICML 2025WOMD-Reasoning: A Large-Scale Dataset for Interaction Reasoning in Driving
193. ICML 2023Learning in POMDPs is Sample-Efficient with Hindsight Observability
194. ICML 2023Quantum Ridgelet Transform: Winning Lottery Ticket of Neural Networks with Quantum Computation

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.