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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1. ICML 2026A Generalist Pair-wise Progress Critic Model for Vision-Language-Action Robots
2. ICML 2026A Mechanistic Analysis of Sim-and-Real Co-Training in Generative Robot Policies
3. ICML 2026AdaNav: Adaptive Reasoning with Uncertainty for Vision-Language Navigation
4. ICML 2026AIR-VLA: Vision-Language-Action Systems for Aerial Manipulation
5. ICML 2026Any3D-VLA: Enhancing VLA Robustness via Diverse Point Clouds
6. ICML 2026Ask Less, See More: Communication-Conditioned Token Pruning for Vehicle-to-Vehicle Cooperative Autonomous Driving with Multimodal Large Language Models
7. ICML 2026AutoMoT: A Unified Vision-Language-Action Model with Asynchronous Mixture -of-Transformers for End-to-End Autonomous Driving
8. ICML 2026Bring My Cup! Personalizing Vision-Language-Action Models with Visual Attentive Prompting
9. ICML 2026CaP-X: A Framework for Benchmarking and Improving Coding Agents for Robot Manipulation
10. ICML 2026Cerebellar-Inspired Residual Control for Fault Recovery: From Inference-Time Adaptation to Structural Consolidation
11. ICML 2026Characterizing Vision-Language-Action Models across XPUs: Constraints and Acceleration for On-Robot Deployment
12. ICML 2026CoIRL-AD: Collaborative-Competitive Imitation-Reinforcement Learning in Latent World Models for Autonomous Driving
13. ICML 2026Contrastive Representation Regularization for Vision-Language-Action Models
14. ICML 2026CorrectionPlanner: Self-Correction Planner with Reinforcement Learning in Autonomous Driving
15. ICML 2026Cross-Embodiment Robot Foundation World Models with Latent Actions
16. ICML 2026Cross-Tactile Sensor Representation Learning
17. ICML 2026Debate2Create: Robot Co-design via Multi-Agent LLM Debate
18. ICML 2026DECO: Decoupled Multimodal Diffusion Transformer for Bimanual Dexterous Manipulation with a Plugin Tactile Adapter
19. ICML 2026DecoVer: A Decompose-and-Verify Neuro-Symbolic Framework for Embodied Task Planning with BC+
20. ICML 2026DeepSight: Long-Horizon World Modeling via Latent States Prediction for End-to-End Autonomous Driving
21. ICML 2026Demystifying Action Space Design for Robotic Manipulation Policies
22. ICML 2026DexMachina: Functional Retargeting for Bimanual Dexterous Manipulation
23. ICML 2026DiLA: Disentangled Latent Action World Models
24. ICML 2026Discrete Diffusion VLA: Bringing Discrete Diffusion to Action Decoding in Vision-Language-Action Policies
25. ICML 2026Dismantling the Illusion of Vision-Language-Action Models Competence via Explicit Distributional Shifts
26. ICML 2026Distinguishing Imitation Error from Intrinsic Motion Learning Difficulty
27. ICML 2026DLO-Lab: Benchmarking Deformable Linear Object Manipulations with Differentiable Physics
28. ICML 2026DreamDojo: A Generalist Robot World Model from Large-Scale Human Videos
29. ICML 2026DriveWorld-VLA: Unified Latent-Space World Modeling with Vision–Language–Action for Autonomous Driving
30. ICML 2026Dual-Stream Diffusion for World-Model Augmented Vision-Language-Action Model
31. ICML 2026DyGRO-VLA: Cross-Task Scaling of Vision–Language–Action Models via Dynamic Grouped Residual Optimization
32. ICML 2026Dyn-VPP: Video Prediction Policy Optimization for Improved Visual Dynamics
33. ICML 2026Dynamics Are Learned, Not Told: Semi-Supervised Discovery of Latent Dynamics Geometries For Zero-Shot Policy Adaptation
34. ICML 2026DynVLA: Learning World Dynamics for Action Reasoning in Autonomous Driving
35. ICML 2026ECo-MoE: Embodiment-Conditioned Mixture of Experts Increases the Evolvability of Robots
36. ICML 2026EcoVLA: Environment-Aware Adaptive Pruning with Interleaved Inference Orchestration for Vision-Language-Action Models
37. ICML 2026Efficient Skill Grounding via Code Refactoring with Small Language Models
38. ICML 2026Embodied Interpretability: Linking Causal Understanding to Generalization in Vision-Language-Action Models
39. ICML 2026Embodied-DETR: End-to-End Temporal 3D Object Detection in Egocentric Views
40. ICML 2026EnerGS: Energy-Based Gaussian Splatting under Partial Geometric Priors
41. ICML 2026Energy-based Compositional Diffusion Planning
42. ICML 2026EnsembleVLA: Ensemble Learning for Vision-Language Action Models
43. ICML 2026ERGeoBench: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Embodied Reasoning and Geo-localization in Multimodal Large Language Models
44. ICML 2026EvoCF: Multi-Agent Collaboration via Agentic Memory-Driven Evolutionary Counterfactual Planning
45. ICML 2026EvoMAS: Heuristics in the Loop—Evolving Smarter Agentic Workflows
46. ICML 2026FastSESR: Fast Scene-level Explicit Surface Reconstruction
47. ICML 2026Fisher-Preserving Guidance: Training-Free Manifold Constraints for Safe Diffusion Control
48. ICML 2026FlatLab: A Unified Methodology Framework and Simulation-Based Benchmark for Robotic Manipulation of Flat Objects
49. ICML 2026FocalPolicy: Frequency-Optimized Chunking and Locally Anchored Flow Matching for Coherent Visuomotor Policy
50. ICML 2026Focus-Then-Contact: Speeding Up Robotic Contact-Rich Task Learning with Affordance-Guided Real-World Residual Reinforcement Learning

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.