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

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51. ICLR 2025LASeR: Towards Diversified and Generalizable Robot Design with Large Language Models
52. ICLR 2025Learning Geometric Reasoning Networks For Robot Task And Motion Planning
53. ICLR 2025Physics of Language Models: Part 3.2, Knowledge Manipulation
54. ICLR 2025Predictive Inverse Dynamics Models are Scalable Learners for Robotic Manipulation
55. ICLR 2025RDT-1B: a Diffusion Foundation Model for Bimanual Manipulation
56. ICLR 2025ReGen: Generative Robot Simulation via Inverse Design
57. ICLR 2025Revisit Micro-batch Clipping: Adaptive Data Pruning via Gradient Manipulation
58. ICLR 2025Robots Pre-train Robots: Manipulation-Centric Robotic Representation from Large-Scale Robot Datasets
59. ICLR 2025SPA: 3D Spatial-Awareness Enables Effective Embodied Representation
60. ICLR 2025Subtask-Aware Visual Reward Learning from Segmented Demonstrations
61. ICLR 2025TOP-ERL: Transformer-based Off-Policy Episodic Reinforcement Learning
62. ICLR 2025TraceVLA: Visual Trace Prompting Enhances Spatial-Temporal Awareness for Generalist Robotic Policies
63. ICLR 2025Vision Language Models are In-Context Value Learners
64. ICLR 2025What Matters in Learning from Large-Scale Datasets for Robot Manipulation
65. ICLR 2025What's the Move? Hybrid Imitation Learning via Salient Points
66. ICLR 2024ASID: Active Exploration for System Identification in Robotic Manipulation
67. ICLR 2024CORN: Contact-based Object Representation for Nonprehensile Manipulation of General Unseen Objects
68. ICLR 2024Fourier Transporter: Bi-Equivariant Robotic Manipulation in 3D
69. ICLR 2024Grounding Language Plans in Demonstrations Through Counterfactual Perturbations
70. ICLR 2024Hybrid Internal Model: Learning Agile Legged Locomotion with Simulated Robot Response
71. ICLR 2024Leveraging Hyperbolic Embeddings for Coarse-to-Fine Robot Design
72. ICLR 2024Meta-Evolve: Continuous Robot Evolution for One-to-many Policy Transfer
73. ICLR 2024Open the Black Box: Step-based Policy Updates for Temporally-Correlated Episodic Reinforcement Learning
74. ICLR 2024Reverse Forward Curriculum Learning for Extreme Sample and Demo Efficiency
75. ICLR 2024Robot Fleet Learning via Policy Merging
76. ICLR 2024RT-Trajectory: Robotic Task Generalization via Hindsight Trajectory Sketches
77. ICLR 2024Score Models for Offline Goal-Conditioned Reinforcement Learning
78. ICLR 2024SparseDFF: Sparse-View Feature Distillation for One-Shot Dexterous Manipulation
79. ICLR 2024Unleashing Large-Scale Video Generative Pre-training for Visual Robot Manipulation
80. ICLR 2024Vision-Language Foundation Models as Effective Robot Imitators
81. ICLR 2024What Matters to You? Towards Visual Representation Alignment for Robot Learning
82. ICLR 2023Adversarial Imitation Learning with Preferences
83. ICLR 2023Benchmarking Offline Reinforcement Learning on Real-Robot Hardware
84. ICLR 2023DM-NeRF: 3D Scene Geometry Decomposition and Manipulation from 2D Images
85. ICLR 2023DualAfford: Learning Collaborative Visual Affordance for Dual-gripper Manipulation
86. ICLR 2023Equivariant Descriptor Fields: SE(3)-Equivariant Energy-Based Models for End-to-End Visual Robotic Manipulation Learning
87. ICLR 2023FluidLab: A Differentiable Environment for Benchmarking Complex Fluid Manipulation
88. ICLR 2023From Play to Policy: Conditional Behavior Generation from Uncurated Robot Data
89. ICLR 2023Learning Input-agnostic Manipulation Directions in StyleGAN with Text Guidance
90. ICLR 2023Meta-Evolve: Continuous Robot Evolution for One-to-many Policy Transfer
91. ICLR 2023SoftZoo: A Soft Robot Co-design Benchmark For Locomotion In Diverse Environments
92. ICLR 2023Using Both Demonstrations and Language Instructions to Efficiently Learn Robotic Tasks
93. ICLR 2023VIP: Towards Universal Visual Reward and Representation via Value-Implicit Pre-Training

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.