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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201. NeurIPS 2026Efficient Test-Time Adaptation For Robot Policies
202. NeurIPS 2026Event-Grounded Sparse Autoencoders for Vision-Language-Action Policies
203. NeurIPS 2026FineVLA: Fine-Grained Instruction Alignment for Steerable Vision-Language-Action Policies
204. NeurIPS 2026FocusVLA: Hijacking Attention to Break Visual Token Pruning in Vision-Language-Action Models
205. NeurIPS 2026ForceFlow: Learning to Feel and Act via Contact-Driven Flow Matching
206. NeurIPS 2026FreeAct: Demonstration-Free Robot Adaptation via Action-Grounded Generated Videos
207. NeurIPS 2026GenCOPE: Syn2Real Generalized Category-Level Object Pose Estimation for Robotic Picking
208. NeurIPS 2026Generative Control as Optimization: Time Unconditional Flow Matching for Adaptive and Robust Robotic Control
209. NeurIPS 2026GeoPano: Towards Geometrically Accurate Panoramic 3D Reconstruction from a Single Panorama
210. NeurIPS 2026GIVLA: Deep Geometry Internalization for A Lightweight VLA via Geometry Instruction and Gradient-Informed Training
211. NeurIPS 2026Grasp-Then-Plan with Failure Attribution: A Closed Two-Stage Framework for Precise and Generalizable Robotic Manipulation
212. NeurIPS 2026Humanoid Horizon: Extending Task Horizon in Whole-Body Loco-Manipulation via Parallel Training, Dynamic Starting, and Reward Gating
213. NeurIPS 2026Interaction-Aligned Robot Learning from Human Videos with Structured Graph Modeling
214. NeurIPS 2026JODA: Composable Joint Dynamics for Articulated Objects
215. NeurIPS 2026K-PWM: Control-Oriented Structured World Models under Partial Observation
216. NeurIPS 2026Large Discrete Policy: Advancing Explicit Behavior Modeling with Stochastic Iterative Scoring
217. NeurIPS 2026Learning Collision‑Free Dispatch Policies for Route‑Wise Decision‑Dependent Anomaly Detection
218. NeurIPS 2026Learning From Failures: Efficient Reinforcement Learning Control with Episodic Memory
219. NeurIPS 2026Learning Human-Intention Priors from Large-Scale Human Demonstrations for Robotic Manipulation
220. NeurIPS 2026Less Language, More Latents: Annotation-Efficient VLAs for Driving
221. NeurIPS 2026Lift, See, Act: Hierarchical Robot Policy Pretraining with 3D Foundation Models
222. NeurIPS 2026LiFT: Likelihood-Free Tree-Structured Policy Optimization for Flow-Based VLAs
223. NeurIPS 2026LLMs as MDP Designers: A Dependency-Aware Agentic Framework for Automated Robot Policy Generation
224. NeurIPS 2026MAPS: Margin-Aware Priors and Verifier-Guided Search for Embodied Planning
225. NeurIPS 2026MapShift: Controlled Post-Intervention Evaluation for Embodied World Models
226. NeurIPS 2026Markovian Dynamics Enforcer: Feasibility Preserving Correction on Learned Dyanmics Manifolds
227. NeurIPS 2026MoCAR: Motion-code Coordinate-aware AutoRegression for Continuous Trajectory Forecasting
228. NeurIPS 2026Model-Based Online Decision Making via Generative Trajectory Planning
229. NeurIPS 2026NDPP-Grasp: Non-Differentiable Physical Plausibility Constraint-Guided Task-Oriented Dexterous Grasp Generation
230. NeurIPS 2026Next Forcing: Causal World Modeling with Multi-Chunk Prediction
231. NeurIPS 2026Normalizing Flows are Capable Trajectory Planners
232. NeurIPS 2026nuReasoning: A Reasoning-Centric Dataset and Benchmark for Long-Tail Autonomous Driving
233. NeurIPS 2026OmniDex: Scaling Dexterous Hand Grasping to Diverse Cluttered Scenes
234. NeurIPS 2026One Scan is Enough: Demonstration-Free Adaptation for Language-Guided Navigation
235. NeurIPS 2026OxyGen: Unified KV Cache Management for VLA Inference under Multi-Task Parallelism
236. NeurIPS 2026PAPO-VLA: Planning-Aware Policy Optimization for Vision-Language-Action Models
237. NeurIPS 2026PO-PDDL: Learning Symbolic POMDPs from Visual Demonstrations for Robot Planning Under Uncertainty
238. NeurIPS 2026PoSafeNet: Structured Safety Learning via Compositional Projection
239. NeurIPS 2026Preference-Guided Adversarial Policy Optimization for Long-Tail Robust Driving
240. NeurIPS 2026Realtime-VLA FLASH: Speculative Inference Framework for Diffusion-based VLAs
241. NeurIPS 2026Remember with Confidence: Uncertainty Quantification for Spatio-temporal Memory with Probabilistic Guarantees
242. NeurIPS 2026RoboWits: Unexpected Challenges for Robotic Creative Problem Solving
243. NeurIPS 2026SAGAS: Semantic-Aware Graph-Assisted Stitching for Offline Temporal Logic Planning
244. NeurIPS 2026SatNav: A Scalable Benchmark for Long-Horizon UAV Vision-Language Navigation from Satellite Imagery
245. NeurIPS 2026Teaching VLMs What to Say, Not How to Reason: Rethinking Counterfactual Reasoning in Autonomous Driving
246. NeurIPS 2026UNIVERSE: Unified Video Action Models for Autonomous Driving with Flexible Mask-Modulated Modality Generation
247. NeurIPS 2026When and What to Prune? Stage-Aware Visual Token Pruning for Efficient VLA
248. NeurIPS 2026When Does Interaction Help? Representational Tradeoffs in Value-Based Imitation Learning
249. NeurIPS 2026Why Cross-Skeleton Retargeting Is Non-Identifiable: Structural Limits of Generative Motion Models
250. NeurIPS 2026World Models as Adversaries: Multi-Agent Self-Play Fine-Tuning for Robust Motion Planning

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.