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. CVPR 2025AirRoom: Objects Matter in Room Reidentification
2. CVPR 2025GigaHands: A Massive Annotated Dataset of Bimanual Hand Activities
3. CVPR 2025Stereo4D: Learning How Things Move in 3D from Internet Stereo Videos
4. CVPR 2025Tartan IMU: A Light Foundation Model for Inertial Positioning in Robotics
5. ICLR 2025A deep inverse-mapping model for a flapping robotic wing
6. ICLR 2025Contractive Dynamical Imitation Policies for Efficient Out-of-Sample Recovery
7. ICLR 2025Cross-Embodiment Dexterous Grasping with Reinforcement Learning
8. ICLR 2025DenseMatcher: Learning 3D Semantic Correspondence for Category-Level Manipulation from a Single Demo
9. ICLR 2025Efficient Diffusion Transformer Policies with Mixture of Expert Denoisers for Multitask Learning
10. ICLR 2025Efficient Residual Learning with Mixture-of-Experts for Universal Dexterous Grasping
11. ICLR 2025EqNIO: Subequivariant Neural Inertial Odometry
12. ICLR 2025ET-SEED: EFFICIENT TRAJECTORY-LEVEL SE(3) EQUIVARIANT DIFFUSION POLICY
13. ICLR 2025Generating Freeform Endoskeletal Robots
14. ICLR 2025Grounding Video Models to Actions through Goal Conditioned Exploration
15. ICLR 2025ImagineNav: Prompting Vision-Language Models as Embodied Navigator through Scene Imagination
16. ICLR 2025LaMPlace: Learning to Optimize Cross-Stage Metrics in Macro Placement
17. ICLR 2025Learning Shape-Independent Transformation via Spherical Representations for Category-Level Object Pose Estimation
18. ICLR 2025NextBestPath: Efficient 3D Mapping of Unseen Environments
19. ICLR 2025OccProphet: Pushing the Efficiency Frontier of Camera-Only 4D Occupancy Forecasting with an Observer-Forecaster-Refiner Framework
20. ICLR 2025OmniRe: Omni Urban Scene Reconstruction
21. ICLR 2025Overcoming Slow Decision Frequencies in Continuous Control: Model-Based Sequence Reinforcement Learning for Model-Free Control
22. ICLR 2025Simulating Human-like Daily Activities with Desire-driven Autonomy
23. ICLR 2025Stem-OB: Generalizable Visual Imitation Learning with Stem-Like Convergent Observation through Diffusion Inversion
24. ICLR 2025STORM: Spatio-TempOral Reconstruction Model For Large-Scale Outdoor Scenes
25. ICLR 2025ThinkBot: Embodied Instruction Following with Thought Chain Reasoning
26. ICLR 2025UniDrive: Towards Universal Driving Perception Across Camera Configurations
27. ICLR 2025What's the Move? Hybrid Imitation Learning via Salient Points
28. ICML 2025A Physics-Informed Machine Learning Framework for Safe and Optimal Control of Autonomous Systems
29. ICML 2025ABNet: Adaptive explicit-Barrier Net for Safe and Scalable Robot Learning
30. ICML 2025BiAssemble: Learning Collaborative Affordance for Bimanual Geometric Assembly
31. ICML 2025Closed-Loop Long-Horizon Robotic Planning via Equilibrium Sequence Modeling
32. ICML 2025DexScale: Automating Data Scaling for Sim2Real Generalizable Robot Control
33. ICML 2025DiffusionVLA: Scaling Robot Foundation Models via Unified Diffusion and Autoregression
34. ICML 2025DINO-WM: World Models on Pre-trained Visual Features enable Zero-shot Planning
35. ICML 2025DriveGPT: Scaling Autoregressive Behavior Models for Driving
36. ICML 2025DynaMind: Reasoning over Abstract Video Dynamics for Embodied Decision-Making
37. ICML 2025Efficient Robotic Policy Learning via Latent Space Backward Planning
38. ICML 2025ELEMENTAL: Interactive Learning from Demonstrations and Vision-Language Models for Reward Design in Robotics
39. ICML 2025Empowering World Models with Reflection for Embodied Video Prediction
40. ICML 2025Falcon: Fast Visuomotor Policies via Partial Denoising
41. ICML 2025Hi Robot: Open-Ended Instruction Following with Hierarchical Vision-Language-Action Models
42. ICML 2025Hierarchical Equivariant Policy via Frame Transfer
43. ICML 2025Hierarchical Planning for Complex Tasks with Knowledge Graph-RAG and Symbolic Verification
44. ICML 2025Latent Diffusion Planning for Imitation Learning
45. ICML 2025Learning Efficient Robotic Garment Manipulation with Standardization
46. ICML 2025Learning Safe Control via On-the-Fly Bandit Exploration
47. ICML 2025One-Step Diffusion Policy: Fast Visuomotor Policies via Diffusion Distillation
48. ICML 2025OTTER: A Vision-Language-Action Model with Text-Aware Visual Feature Extraction
49. ICML 2025Pre-training Auto-regressive Robotic Models with 4D Representations
50. ICML 2025ReinboT: Amplifying Robot Visual-Language Manipulation with 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.