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. NeurIPS 2025Object-centric 3D Motion Field for Robot Learning from Human Videos
52. NeurIPS 2025PAC Bench: Do Foundation Models Understand Prerequisites for Executing Manipulation Policies?
53. NeurIPS 2025PointMapPolicy: Structured Point Cloud Processing for Multi-Modal Imitation Learning
54. NeurIPS 2025PRIMT: Preference-based Reinforcement Learning with Multimodal Feedback and Trajectory Synthesis from Foundation Models
55. NeurIPS 2025Provable Ordering and Continuity in Vision-Language Pretraining for Generalizable Embodied Agents
56. NeurIPS 2025RAPID Hand: Robust, Affordable, Perception-Integrated, Dexterous Manipulation Platfrom for Embodied Intelligence
57. NeurIPS 2025Robo2VLM: Improving Visual Question Answering using Large-Scale Robot Manipulation Data
58. NeurIPS 2025Scaffolding Dexterous Manipulation with Vision-Language Models
59. NeurIPS 2025Temporal Representation Alignment: Successor Features Enable Emergent Compositionality in Robot Instruction Following
60. NeurIPS 2025Touch in the Wild: Learning Fine-Grained Manipulation with a Portable Visuo-Tactile Gripper
61. NeurIPS 2025Two-Steps Diffusion Policy for Robotic Manipulation via Genetic Denoising
62. NeurIPS 2025VideoVLA: Video Generators Can Be Generalizable Robot Manipulators
63. NeurIPS 2024DeeR-VLA: Dynamic Inference of Multimodal Large Language Models for Efficient Robot Execution
64. NeurIPS 2024Diffusion Policy Attacker: Crafting Adversarial Attacks for Diffusion-based Policies
65. NeurIPS 2024Enhancing Efficiency of Safe Reinforcement Learning via Sample Manipulation
66. NeurIPS 2024General Articulated Objects Manipulation in Real Images via Part-Aware Diffusion Process
67. NeurIPS 2024PIVOT-R: Primitive-Driven Waypoint-Aware World Model for Robotic Manipulation
68. NeurIPS 2024Point Cloud Matters: Rethinking the Impact of Different Observation Spaces on Robot Learning
69. NeurIPS 2024Reconstruction of Manipulated Garment with Guided Deformation Prior
70. NeurIPS 2024Robot Policy Learning with Temporal Optimal Transport Reward
71. NeurIPS 2024SCaR: Refining Skill Chaining for Long-Horizon Robotic Manipulation via Dual Regularization
72. NeurIPS 2024SpreadsheetBench: Towards Challenging Real World Spreadsheet Manipulation
73. NeurIPS 2024UniBias: Unveiling and Mitigating LLM Bias through Internal Attention and FFN Manipulation
74. NeurIPS 2023CycleNet: Rethinking Cycle Consistency in Text-Guided Diffusion for Image Manipulation
75. NeurIPS 2023Enhancing Robot Program Synthesis Through Environmental Context
76. NeurIPS 2023H-InDex: Visual Reinforcement Learning with Hand-Informed Representations for Dexterous Manipulation
77. NeurIPS 2023LIBERO: Benchmarking Knowledge Transfer for Lifelong Robot Learning
78. NeurIPS 2023RoboHive: A Unified Framework for Robot Learning
79. NeurIPS 2023Strategic Classification under Unknown Personalized Manipulation

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.