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

69 papers, page 1 of 2

1. ICLR 2026A Schrödinger Eigenfunction Method for Long-Horizon Stochastic Optimal Control
2. ICLR 2026Accelerated co-design of robots through morphological pretraining
3. ICLR 2026ARFlow: Auto-regressive Optical Flow Estimation for Arbitrary-Length Videos via Progressive Next-Frame Forecasting
4. ICLR 2026ARINBEV: Bird's-Eye View Layout Estimation with Conditional Autoregressive Model
5. ICLR 2026Autonomous Play with Correspondence-Driven Trajectory Warping
6. ICLR 2026Compositional Visual Planning via Inference-Time Diffusion Scaling
7. ICLR 2026DexMove: Learning Tactile-Guided Non-Prehensile Manipulation with Dexterous Hands
8. ICLR 2026Difference-Aware Retrieval Polices for Imitation Learning
9. ICLR 2026Differentiable Model Predictive Control on the GPU
10. ICLR 2026Dual-Scale World Models for LLM Agents towards Hard-Exploration Problems
11. ICLR 2026FastVGGT: Fast Visual Geometry Transformer
12. ICLR 2026Generalizable Coarse-to-Fine Robot Manipulation via Language-Aligned 3D Keypoints
13. ICLR 2026Hierarchical Value-Decomposed Offline Reinforcement Learning for Whole-Body Control
14. ICLR 2026HWC-Loco: A Hierarchical Whole-Body Control Approach to Robust Humanoid Locomotion
15. ICLR 2026Instance-wise Adaptive Scheduling via Derivative-Free Meta-Learning
16. ICLR 2026Lifelong Embodied Navigation Learning
17. ICLR 2026Memory, Benchmark & Robots: A Benchmark for Solving Complex Tasks with Reinforcement Learning
18. ICLR 2026Partially Equivariant Reinforcement Learning in Symmetry-Breaking Environments
19. ICLR 2026ProRe: A Proactive Reward System for GUI Agents via Reasoner–Actor Collaboration
20. ICLR 2026RAVEN: End-to-end Equivariant Robot Learning with RGB Cameras
21. ICLR 2026Remotely Detectable Robot Policy Watermarking
22. ICLR 2026Rodrigues Network for Learning Robot Actions
23. ICLR 2026SpikePingpong: Spike Vision-based Fast-Slow Pingpong Robot System
24. ICLR 2026Translating Flow to Policy via Hindsight Online Imitation
25. ICLR 2026Uncertainty-Aware 3D Reconstruction for Dynamic Underwater Scenes
26. ICLR 2026UnLoc: Leveraging Depth Uncertainties for Floorplan Localization
27. ICLR 2025A deep inverse-mapping model for a flapping robotic wing
28. ICLR 2025Contractive Dynamical Imitation Policies for Efficient Out-of-Sample Recovery
29. ICLR 2025Cross-Embodiment Dexterous Grasping with Reinforcement Learning
30. ICLR 2025DenseMatcher: Learning 3D Semantic Correspondence for Category-Level Manipulation from a Single Demo
31. ICLR 2025Efficient Diffusion Transformer Policies with Mixture of Expert Denoisers for Multitask Learning
32. ICLR 2025Efficient Residual Learning with Mixture-of-Experts for Universal Dexterous Grasping
33. ICLR 2025EqNIO: Subequivariant Neural Inertial Odometry
34. ICLR 2025ET-SEED: EFFICIENT TRAJECTORY-LEVEL SE(3) EQUIVARIANT DIFFUSION POLICY
35. ICLR 2025Generating Freeform Endoskeletal Robots
36. ICLR 2025Grounding Video Models to Actions through Goal Conditioned Exploration
37. ICLR 2025ImagineNav: Prompting Vision-Language Models as Embodied Navigator through Scene Imagination
38. ICLR 2025LaMPlace: Learning to Optimize Cross-Stage Metrics in Macro Placement
39. ICLR 2025Learning Shape-Independent Transformation via Spherical Representations for Category-Level Object Pose Estimation
40. ICLR 2025NextBestPath: Efficient 3D Mapping of Unseen Environments
41. ICLR 2025OccProphet: Pushing the Efficiency Frontier of Camera-Only 4D Occupancy Forecasting with an Observer-Forecaster-Refiner Framework
42. ICLR 2025OmniRe: Omni Urban Scene Reconstruction
43. ICLR 2025Overcoming Slow Decision Frequencies in Continuous Control: Model-Based Sequence Reinforcement Learning for Model-Free Control
44. ICLR 2025Simulating Human-like Daily Activities with Desire-driven Autonomy
45. ICLR 2025Stem-OB: Generalizable Visual Imitation Learning with Stem-Like Convergent Observation through Diffusion Inversion
46. ICLR 2025STORM: Spatio-TempOral Reconstruction Model For Large-Scale Outdoor Scenes
47. ICLR 2025ThinkBot: Embodied Instruction Following with Thought Chain Reasoning
48. ICLR 2025UniDrive: Towards Universal Driving Perception Across Camera Configurations
49. ICLR 2025What's the Move? Hybrid Imitation Learning via Salient Points
50. ICLR 2024CORN: Contact-based Object Representation for Nonprehensile Manipulation of General Unseen Objects

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.