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 4 of 6

151. ICML 2026Scaling by Diversified Experience for Vision-Language-Action Models
152. ICML 2026Scaling Real-World Robot Policy Evaluation via Discrete Diffusion World Model
153. ICML 2026See What Matters: Differentiable Grid Sample Pruning for Generalizable Vision-Language-Action Model
154. ICML 2026Seeing Realism from Simulation: Efficient Video Transfer for Vision-Language-Action Data Augmentation
155. ICML 2026Self-CriTeach: LLM Self-Teaching and Self-Critiquing for Improving Robotic Planning via Automated Domain Generation
156. ICML 2026Sentinel-VLA: A Metacognitive VLA Model with Active Status Monitoring for Dynamic Reasoning and Error Recovery
157. ICML 2026SkillNet: Hierarchical Skill Modeling for Compositional Generalization in Vision-Language Action Models
158. ICML 2026SoMA: A Real-to-Sim Neural Simulator for Robotic Soft-Body Manipulation
159. ICML 2026Sparse ActionGen: Accelerating Diffusion Policy with Real-time Pruning
160. ICML 2026Spatial Memory for Out-of-Vision Manipulation in Vision-Language-Action
161. ICML 2026SpecPrune-VLA: Accelerating Vision-Language-Action Models via Action-Aware Self-Speculative Pruning
162. ICML 2026Speedup Patch: Learning a Plug-and-Play Policy to Accelerate Embodied Manipulation
163. ICML 2026SpikeVLA: Vision-Language-Action Models with Spiking Neural Networks
164. ICML 2026SPUR: Scale-Partitioned Uncertainty Rectification for Robust UAV-on-UAV Interception
165. ICML 2026STEP: Warm-Started Visuomotor Policies with Spatiotemporal Consistency Prediction
166. ICML 2026Structured 4D Latent Predictive Model for Robot Planning
167. ICML 2026Tabero: Learning Gentle Manipulation with Closed-Loop Force Feedback from Vision, Touch, and Language
168. ICML 2026TapSampling: Inference-Time Sampling with a Task-Progress-Understanding Verifier for Robotic Manipulation
169. ICML 2026The Lie We Tell: Correcting the Euclidean Fallacy in Vision Language Action Policies via Score Matching on Tangent Space
170. ICML 2026TIC-VLA: A Think-in-Control Vision-Language-Action Model for Robot Navigation in Dynamic Environments
171. ICML 2026Turning Adaptation into Assets: Cross-Domain Bridging for Online Vision-Language Navigation
172. ICML 2026UAV$^2$: A Unified and Adaptive Scheduling Framework for UAV Autopilot System with Reinforcement Learning
173. ICML 2026UniJEPA: Enhancing Robot Policy via Unified Continuous and Discrete Representation Learning
174. ICML 2026UniMapping: Unified SLAM Framework for Map-Centric Embodied Perception
175. ICML 2026Vision-Language-Action Pretraining from Large-Scale Human Videos
176. ICML 2026VLA-ATTC: Adaptive Test-Time Compute for VLA Models with Relative Action Critic Model
177. ICML 2026VLANeXt: Recipes for Building Strong VLA Models
178. ICML 2026VLAW: Iterative Co-Improvement of Vision-Language-Action Policy and World Model
179. ICML 2026WestWorld: A Knowledge-Encoded Scalable Trajectory World Model for Diverse Robotic Systems
180. ICML 2026When Replanning Becomes the Bottleneck: Budgeted Replanning for Embodied Agents
181. ICML 2026World Guidance: World Modeling in Condition Space for Action Generation
182. ICML 2026XR-1: Towards Versatile Vision-Language-Action Models via Learning Unified Vision-Motion Representations
183. ICML 2026Zero-Shot 3D Question Answering via Hierarchical View-to-Token Transportation
184. NeurIPS 2026ActQuant: Sub-4-bit Action-Guided Quantization for Vision-Language-Action Models
185. NeurIPS 2026AffordSim: A Scalable Data Generator and Benchmark for Affordance-Aware Robotic Manipulation
186. NeurIPS 2026ALAM: Algebraically Consistent Latent Transitions for Vision-Language-Action Models
187. NeurIPS 2026All Roads Lead to Rome: Flow-driven Multi-Anchor Exploration for Open-Environment Active 3D Mapping
188. NeurIPS 2026AVI-HT: Adaptive Vision-IMU Fusion for 3D Hand Tracking
189. NeurIPS 2026Beyond Appearance Shifts: Task-Semantic Action Calibration for VLA Models
190. NeurIPS 2026Beyond Data Scaling: Representation-Centric Pre-training for Vision-Language-Action Models
191. NeurIPS 2026CausalDriveBench: Evaluating Causal Reasoning in Vision-Language-Action Models for Autonomous Driving
192. NeurIPS 2026Chain-of-Correction: Progress-Aware Policy Steering via Anchor-Grounded Predictive Reasoning
193. NeurIPS 2026Compositional Training-Free Diffusion Planning for Long-Horizon Multiple Reach-Avoid Tasks
194. NeurIPS 2026CondenseVLA: Learnable History Condensation for Efficient Multi-Frame VLA
195. NeurIPS 2026Continually Evolving Skill Knowledge in Vision Language Action Model
196. NeurIPS 2026Controllable Road Marking Generation
197. NeurIPS 2026Counterfactual Instruction Grounding for Vision-Language-Action Models
198. NeurIPS 2026DriveDreamer-Policy: A Geometry-Grounded World-Action Model for Unified Generation and Planning
199. NeurIPS 2026DynamicVLA: A Vision-Language-Action Model for Dynamic Object Manipulation
200. NeurIPS 2026E0: Expressive Fine-Grained Discrete Action Prediction for Vision-Language-Action Models via Tweedie Discrete Diffusion

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.