Robot Manipulation papers, 2023–2026

Key findings

• Robot Manipulation went from 44 papers in 2023 to 135 in 2026, roughly 3.1x in three years.
• CVPR publishes the most Robot Manipulation work: 97 papers from 2023 to 2026, 30% of the four-venue total.
• The fastest-growing overlap is with Applications · robotics: papers tagged with both rose from 1 in 2023 to 29 in 2026.
• Among the 5 topics under Robotics and Embodied AI, it ranks #4 by 2026 paper count; the fastest grower in the group, Humanoid Control, is up 3.8x versus 3.1x here.

Representative papers

Spread across years and venues so every edition shows up

• NeurIPS 2026Can We Model the Artifacts Explicitly? Disentangle Artifacts via Pairwise Edit Relations for Image Manipulation Localization
• ICML 2026Geometry-Guided Modeling of Foundation Features Enables Generalizable Object Shape Deformation Learning
• ICLR 2026DataMIL: Selecting Data for Robot Imitation Learning with Datamodels
• CVPR 2026AdaDexTrack Dynamic Modulation for Adaptive and Generalizable Dexterous Manipulation Tracking
• NeurIPS 2025$\textit{Hyper-GoalNet}$: Goal-Conditioned Manipulation Policy Learning with HyperNetworks
• ICML 2025STAR: Learning Diverse Robot Skill Abstractions through Rotation-Augmented Vector Quantization
• ICLR 2025Learning Geometric Reasoning Networks For Robot Task And Motion Planning
• CVPR 20253D-MVP: 3D Multiview Pretraining for Manipulation
• NeurIPS 2024SpreadsheetBench: Towards Challenging Real World Spreadsheet Manipulation
• ICML 2024Mastering Robot Manipulation with Multimodal Prompts through Pretraining and Multi-task Fine-tuning
• ICLR 2024Fourier Transporter: Bi-Equivariant Robotic Manipulation in 3D
• CVPR 2024GenH2R: Learning Generalizable Human-to-Robot Handover via Scalable Simulation Demonstration and Imitation
• NeurIPS 2023LIBERO: Benchmarking Knowledge Transfer for Lifelong Robot Learning
• ICML 2023MyoDex: A Generalizable Prior for Dexterous Manipulation
• ICLR 2023DualAfford: Learning Collaborative Visual Affordance for Dual-gripper Manipulation
• CVPR 2023Autonomous Manipulation Learning for Similar Deformable Objects via Only One Demonstration
• NeurIPS 2026DeformGen: Dynamics-Based Topology Augmentation for Deformable Manipulation Policy Learning
• ICML 2026Gaming Consensus: Coordinated Manipulation in Crowdsourced Fact-Checking
• ICLR 2026Geometry-aware 4D Video Generation for Robot Manipulation
• CVPR 2026BiPreManip Learning Affordance-Based Bimanual Preparatory Manipulation through Anticipatory Collaboration

All Robot Manipulation papers

321 papers, page 1 of 7

1. CVPR 2026A Unified Perspective on Adversarial Membership Manipulation in Vision Models
2. CVPR 2026Action-Geometry Prediction with 3D Geometric Prior for Bimanual Manipulation
3. CVPR 2026AdaDexTrack Dynamic Modulation for Adaptive and Generalizable Dexterous Manipulation Tracking
4. CVPR 2026AffordGen Generating Diverse Demonstrations for Generalizable Object Manipulation with Affordance
5. CVPR 2026AGiLe Learning Robust Long-Horizon Manipulation via Affordance-Grounded Bidirectional Latent Planning
6. CVPR 2026All-in-One Slider for Attribute Manipulation in Diffusion Models
7. CVPR 2026Beyond Success Refining Elegant Robot Manipulation from Mixed-Quality Data via
8. CVPR 2026BiPreManip Learning Affordance-Based Bimanual Preparatory Manipulation through Anticipatory Collaboration
9. CVPR 2026Bootstrap Dynamic-Aware 3D Visual Representation for Scalable Robot Learning
10. CVPR 2026Clay-to-Stone Phase-wise 3D Gaussian Splatting for Monocular Articulated Hand-Object Manipulation
11. CVPR 2026CraftMesh High-Fidelity Generative Mesh Manipulation via Poisson Seamless Fusion
12. CVPR 2026CycleManip Enabling Cycle-based Manipulation via Effective History Perception and Understanding
13. CVPR 2026Diagnose Correct and Learn from Manipulation Failures via Visual Symbols
14. CVPR 2026DynBridge Bridging Imagination and Control through Interaction Dynamics for Robot
15. CVPR 2026FM-Steer Enhance Generalist Policies with Value-Guided Cascaded Denoising
16. CVPR 2026Frequency-domain Manipulation for Face Obfuscation
17. CVPR 2026GraspGen-X Cross-Embodiment 6-DOF Diffusion-based Grasping
18. CVPR 2026GraspLDP Towards Generalizable Grasping Policy via Latent Diffusion
19. CVPR 2026Hoi - A Multimodal Dataset for Force-Grounded Cross-View Articulated Manipulation
20. CVPR 2026IGen Scalable Data Generation for Robot Learning from Open-World Images
21. CVPR 2026INSIGHT Bench Towards Grounded IN-SItu Guidance for Robotic ManipulaTion
22. CVPR 2026Language-Grounded Decoupled Action Representation for Robotic Manipulation
23. CVPR 2026Learning Surgical Robotic Manipulation with 3D Spatial Priors
24. CVPR 2026ORV 4D Occupancy-centric Robot Video Generation
25. CVPR 2026Physically Ground Commonsense Knowledge for Articulated Object Manipulation with Analytic
26. CVPR 2026Pixel Motion Diffusion is What We Need for Robot Control
27. CVPR 2026PointWorld Scaling 3D World Models for In-The-Wild Robotic Manipulation
28. CVPR 2026PvP Data-Efficient Humanoid Robot Learning with Proprioceptive-Privileged Contrastive Representations
29. CVPR 2026Rethinking Intermediate Representation for VLM-based Robot Manipulation
30. CVPR 2026RoboTAG End-to-end Robot Pose Estimation via Topological Alignment Graph
31. CVPR 2026SaPaVe Towards Active Perception and Manipulation in Vision-Language Action Models
32. CVPR 2026Scalable Trajectory Generation for Whole-Body Mobile Manipulation
33. CVPR 2026SIR Structured Image Representations for Explainable Robot Learning
34. CVPR 2026SPEAR-1 Scaling Beyond Robot Demonstrations via 3D Understanding
35. CVPR 2026StaMo Unsupervised Learning of Generalizable Robot Motion from Compact State
36. CVPR 2026Structural Action Transformer for 3D Dexterous Manipulation
37. CVPR 2026UniDex A Robot Foundation Suite for Universal Dexterous Hand Control
38. CVPR 2026VIRAL Visual Sim-to-Real at Scale for Humanoid Loco-Manipulation
39. ICLR 2026Abstracting Robot Manipulation Skills via Mixture-of-Experts Diffusion Policies
40. ICLR 2026ArtVIP: Articulated Digital Assets of Visual Realism, Modular Interaction, and Physical Fidelity for Robot Learning
41. ICLR 2026Autonomous Play with Correspondence-Driven Trajectory Warping
42. ICLR 2026Compose Your Policies! Improving Diffusion-based or Flow-based Robot Policies via Test-time Distribution-level Composition
43. ICLR 2026Cortical Policy: A Dual-Stream View Transformer for Robotic Manipulation
44. ICLR 2026Cross-Embodied Co-Design for Dexterous Hands
45. ICLR 2026Ctrl-World: A Controllable Generative World Model for Robot Manipulation
46. ICLR 2026DataMIL: Selecting Data for Robot Imitation Learning with Datamodels
47. ICLR 2026DemoGrasp: Universal Dexterous Grasping from a Single Demonstration
48. ICLR 2026DexMove: Learning Tactile-Guided Non-Prehensile Manipulation with Dexterous Hands
49. ICLR 2026EgoDex: Learning Dexterous Manipulation from Large-Scale Egocentric Video
50. ICLR 2026ExoPredicator: Learning Abstract Models of Dynamic Worlds for Robot Planning

FAQ

How many Robot Manipulation papers were published at NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR from 2023 to 2026?

321 in total: 44 in 2023, 46 in 2024, 96 in 2025, 135 in 2026.

How many Robot Manipulation papers are at NeurIPS 2026?

NeurIPS 2026 has 30 Robot Manipulation papers, versus 32 the year before.

How many Robot Manipulation papers are at ICLR 2026?

ICLR 2026 has 42 Robot Manipulation papers, versus 23 the year before.

How many Robot Manipulation papers are at ICML 2026?

ICML 2026 has 25 Robot Manipulation papers, versus 14 the year before.

How many Robot Manipulation papers are at CVPR 2026?

CVPR 2026 has 38 Robot Manipulation papers, versus 27 the year before.

Which conference publishes the most Robot Manipulation papers?

CVPR, with 97 papers from 2023 to 2026.