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

120 papers, page 1 of 3

1. NeurIPS 2026ActQuant: Sub-4-bit Action-Guided Quantization for Vision-Language-Action Models
2. NeurIPS 2026AffordSim: A Scalable Data Generator and Benchmark for Affordance-Aware Robotic Manipulation
3. NeurIPS 2026ALAM: Algebraically Consistent Latent Transitions for Vision-Language-Action Models
4. NeurIPS 2026All Roads Lead to Rome: Flow-driven Multi-Anchor Exploration for Open-Environment Active 3D Mapping
5. NeurIPS 2026AVI-HT: Adaptive Vision-IMU Fusion for 3D Hand Tracking
6. NeurIPS 2026Beyond Appearance Shifts: Task-Semantic Action Calibration for VLA Models
7. NeurIPS 2026Beyond Data Scaling: Representation-Centric Pre-training for Vision-Language-Action Models
8. NeurIPS 2026CausalDriveBench: Evaluating Causal Reasoning in Vision-Language-Action Models for Autonomous Driving
9. NeurIPS 2026Chain-of-Correction: Progress-Aware Policy Steering via Anchor-Grounded Predictive Reasoning
10. NeurIPS 2026Compositional Training-Free Diffusion Planning for Long-Horizon Multiple Reach-Avoid Tasks
11. NeurIPS 2026CondenseVLA: Learnable History Condensation for Efficient Multi-Frame VLA
12. NeurIPS 2026Continually Evolving Skill Knowledge in Vision Language Action Model
13. NeurIPS 2026Controllable Road Marking Generation
14. NeurIPS 2026Counterfactual Instruction Grounding for Vision-Language-Action Models
15. NeurIPS 2026DriveDreamer-Policy: A Geometry-Grounded World-Action Model for Unified Generation and Planning
16. NeurIPS 2026DynamicVLA: A Vision-Language-Action Model for Dynamic Object Manipulation
17. NeurIPS 2026E0: Expressive Fine-Grained Discrete Action Prediction for Vision-Language-Action Models via Tweedie Discrete Diffusion
18. NeurIPS 2026Efficient Test-Time Adaptation For Robot Policies
19. NeurIPS 2026Event-Grounded Sparse Autoencoders for Vision-Language-Action Policies
20. NeurIPS 2026FineVLA: Fine-Grained Instruction Alignment for Steerable Vision-Language-Action Policies
21. NeurIPS 2026FocusVLA: Hijacking Attention to Break Visual Token Pruning in Vision-Language-Action Models
22. NeurIPS 2026ForceFlow: Learning to Feel and Act via Contact-Driven Flow Matching
23. NeurIPS 2026FreeAct: Demonstration-Free Robot Adaptation via Action-Grounded Generated Videos
24. NeurIPS 2026GenCOPE: Syn2Real Generalized Category-Level Object Pose Estimation for Robotic Picking
25. NeurIPS 2026Generative Control as Optimization: Time Unconditional Flow Matching for Adaptive and Robust Robotic Control
26. NeurIPS 2026GeoPano: Towards Geometrically Accurate Panoramic 3D Reconstruction from a Single Panorama
27. NeurIPS 2026GIVLA: Deep Geometry Internalization for A Lightweight VLA via Geometry Instruction and Gradient-Informed Training
28. NeurIPS 2026Grasp-Then-Plan with Failure Attribution: A Closed Two-Stage Framework for Precise and Generalizable Robotic Manipulation
29. NeurIPS 2026Humanoid Horizon: Extending Task Horizon in Whole-Body Loco-Manipulation via Parallel Training, Dynamic Starting, and Reward Gating
30. NeurIPS 2026Interaction-Aligned Robot Learning from Human Videos with Structured Graph Modeling
31. NeurIPS 2026JODA: Composable Joint Dynamics for Articulated Objects
32. NeurIPS 2026K-PWM: Control-Oriented Structured World Models under Partial Observation
33. NeurIPS 2026Large Discrete Policy: Advancing Explicit Behavior Modeling with Stochastic Iterative Scoring
34. NeurIPS 2026Learning Collision‑Free Dispatch Policies for Route‑Wise Decision‑Dependent Anomaly Detection
35. NeurIPS 2026Learning From Failures: Efficient Reinforcement Learning Control with Episodic Memory
36. NeurIPS 2026Learning Human-Intention Priors from Large-Scale Human Demonstrations for Robotic Manipulation
37. NeurIPS 2026Less Language, More Latents: Annotation-Efficient VLAs for Driving
38. NeurIPS 2026Lift, See, Act: Hierarchical Robot Policy Pretraining with 3D Foundation Models
39. NeurIPS 2026LiFT: Likelihood-Free Tree-Structured Policy Optimization for Flow-Based VLAs
40. NeurIPS 2026LLMs as MDP Designers: A Dependency-Aware Agentic Framework for Automated Robot Policy Generation
41. NeurIPS 2026MAPS: Margin-Aware Priors and Verifier-Guided Search for Embodied Planning
42. NeurIPS 2026MapShift: Controlled Post-Intervention Evaluation for Embodied World Models
43. NeurIPS 2026Markovian Dynamics Enforcer: Feasibility Preserving Correction on Learned Dyanmics Manifolds
44. NeurIPS 2026MoCAR: Motion-code Coordinate-aware AutoRegression for Continuous Trajectory Forecasting
45. NeurIPS 2026Model-Based Online Decision Making via Generative Trajectory Planning
46. NeurIPS 2026NDPP-Grasp: Non-Differentiable Physical Plausibility Constraint-Guided Task-Oriented Dexterous Grasp Generation
47. NeurIPS 2026Next Forcing: Causal World Modeling with Multi-Chunk Prediction
48. NeurIPS 2026Normalizing Flows are Capable Trajectory Planners
49. NeurIPS 2026nuReasoning: A Reasoning-Centric Dataset and Benchmark for Long-Tail Autonomous Driving
50. NeurIPS 2026OmniDex: Scaling Dexterous Hand Grasping to Diverse Cluttered Scenes

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.