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 2026DeDelayed Deleting Remote Inference Delay via On-Device Correction
2. ICLR 2026A Schrödinger Eigenfunction Method for Long-Horizon Stochastic Optimal Control
3. ICLR 2026Accelerated co-design of robots through morphological pretraining
4. ICLR 2026ARFlow: Auto-regressive Optical Flow Estimation for Arbitrary-Length Videos via Progressive Next-Frame Forecasting
5. ICLR 2026ARINBEV: Bird's-Eye View Layout Estimation with Conditional Autoregressive Model
6. ICLR 2026Autonomous Play with Correspondence-Driven Trajectory Warping
7. ICLR 2026Compositional Visual Planning via Inference-Time Diffusion Scaling
8. ICLR 2026DexMove: Learning Tactile-Guided Non-Prehensile Manipulation with Dexterous Hands
9. ICLR 2026Difference-Aware Retrieval Polices for Imitation Learning
10. ICLR 2026Differentiable Model Predictive Control on the GPU
11. ICLR 2026Dual-Scale World Models for LLM Agents towards Hard-Exploration Problems
12. ICLR 2026FastVGGT: Fast Visual Geometry Transformer
13. ICLR 2026Generalizable Coarse-to-Fine Robot Manipulation via Language-Aligned 3D Keypoints
14. ICLR 2026Hierarchical Value-Decomposed Offline Reinforcement Learning for Whole-Body Control
15. ICLR 2026HWC-Loco: A Hierarchical Whole-Body Control Approach to Robust Humanoid Locomotion
16. ICLR 2026Instance-wise Adaptive Scheduling via Derivative-Free Meta-Learning
17. ICLR 2026Lifelong Embodied Navigation Learning
18. ICLR 2026Memory, Benchmark & Robots: A Benchmark for Solving Complex Tasks with Reinforcement Learning
19. ICLR 2026Partially Equivariant Reinforcement Learning in Symmetry-Breaking Environments
20. ICLR 2026ProRe: A Proactive Reward System for GUI Agents via Reasoner–Actor Collaboration
21. ICLR 2026RAVEN: End-to-end Equivariant Robot Learning with RGB Cameras
22. ICLR 2026Remotely Detectable Robot Policy Watermarking
23. ICLR 2026Rodrigues Network for Learning Robot Actions
24. ICLR 2026SpikePingpong: Spike Vision-based Fast-Slow Pingpong Robot System
25. ICLR 2026Translating Flow to Policy via Hindsight Online Imitation
26. ICLR 2026Uncertainty-Aware 3D Reconstruction for Dynamic Underwater Scenes
27. ICLR 2026UnLoc: Leveraging Depth Uncertainties for Floorplan Localization
28. ICML 2026A Generalist Pair-wise Progress Critic Model for Vision-Language-Action Robots
29. ICML 2026A Mechanistic Analysis of Sim-and-Real Co-Training in Generative Robot Policies
30. ICML 2026AdaNav: Adaptive Reasoning with Uncertainty for Vision-Language Navigation
31. ICML 2026AIR-VLA: Vision-Language-Action Systems for Aerial Manipulation
32. ICML 2026Any3D-VLA: Enhancing VLA Robustness via Diverse Point Clouds
33. ICML 2026Ask Less, See More: Communication-Conditioned Token Pruning for Vehicle-to-Vehicle Cooperative Autonomous Driving with Multimodal Large Language Models
34. ICML 2026AutoMoT: A Unified Vision-Language-Action Model with Asynchronous Mixture -of-Transformers for End-to-End Autonomous Driving
35. ICML 2026Bring My Cup! Personalizing Vision-Language-Action Models with Visual Attentive Prompting
36. ICML 2026CaP-X: A Framework for Benchmarking and Improving Coding Agents for Robot Manipulation
37. ICML 2026Cerebellar-Inspired Residual Control for Fault Recovery: From Inference-Time Adaptation to Structural Consolidation
38. ICML 2026Characterizing Vision-Language-Action Models across XPUs: Constraints and Acceleration for On-Robot Deployment
39. ICML 2026CoIRL-AD: Collaborative-Competitive Imitation-Reinforcement Learning in Latent World Models for Autonomous Driving
40. ICML 2026Contrastive Representation Regularization for Vision-Language-Action Models
41. ICML 2026CorrectionPlanner: Self-Correction Planner with Reinforcement Learning in Autonomous Driving
42. ICML 2026Cross-Embodiment Robot Foundation World Models with Latent Actions
43. ICML 2026Cross-Tactile Sensor Representation Learning
44. ICML 2026Debate2Create: Robot Co-design via Multi-Agent LLM Debate
45. ICML 2026DECO: Decoupled Multimodal Diffusion Transformer for Bimanual Dexterous Manipulation with a Plugin Tactile Adapter
46. ICML 2026DecoVer: A Decompose-and-Verify Neuro-Symbolic Framework for Embodied Task Planning with BC+
47. ICML 2026DeepSight: Long-Horizon World Modeling via Latent States Prediction for End-to-End Autonomous Driving
48. ICML 2026Demystifying Action Space Design for Robotic Manipulation Policies
49. ICML 2026DexMachina: Functional Retargeting for Bimanual Dexterous Manipulation
50. ICML 2026DiLA: Disentangled Latent Action World Models

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.