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 3 of 7

101. ICML 2026Structured 4D Latent Predictive Model for Robot Planning
102. ICML 2026TapSampling: Inference-Time Sampling with a Task-Progress-Understanding Verifier for Robotic Manipulation
103. ICML 2026TimeRewarder: Learning Dense Reward from Passive Videos via Frame-wise Temporal Distance
104. ICML 2026Uncertainty-Guided Exploration and Stable Planning for Sparse-Reward Manipulation from Limited Demonstrations
105. ICML 2026UniJEPA: Enhancing Robot Policy via Unified Continuous and Discrete Representation Learning
106. NeurIPS 2026$\text{A}^3$-VLA: Automatic Perception-Guided Attention Alignment for Robot Manipulation
107. NeurIPS 2026Boost Reasoning Evolution via Responsive Rollout Difficulty Manipulation
108. NeurIPS 2026Can We Model the Artifacts Explicitly? Disentangle Artifacts via Pairwise Edit Relations for Image Manipulation Localization
109. NeurIPS 2026DeformGen: Dynamics-Based Topology Augmentation for Deformable Manipulation Policy Learning
110. NeurIPS 2026DexOPE: 6D Object Pose Estimation in Dexterous Manipulation
111. NeurIPS 2026Dodge-It: Learning Collision-Aware VLA Models for Robotic Manipulation
112. NeurIPS 2026Exploring the Limits of Compositional Generalization in Vision-Language-Action Manipulation
113. NeurIPS 2026FAVLA: A Force-Adaptive Multi-Rate VLA model for Contact-Rich Robotic Manipulation
114. NeurIPS 2026FlowHOI: Flow-based Semantics-Grounded Generation of Hand-Object Interactions for Dexterous Robot Manipulation
115. NeurIPS 2026ForceLDM: A Force-aware Latent Dynamics Model for Contact-Rich Manipulation
116. NeurIPS 2026From Sample to Subset Construction: Coverage-Aware Curation of Robot Demonstrations
117. NeurIPS 2026Grasp-Then-Plan with Failure Attribution: A Closed Two-Stage Framework for Precise and Generalizable Robotic Manipulation
118. NeurIPS 2026HandEdit: A Unified Benchmark for Egocentric Human-to-Robot Dexterous Hand Image Editing
119. NeurIPS 2026How to Instruct Your Robot: Dense Language Annotations Power Robot Policy Learning
120. NeurIPS 2026Interaction-Aligned Robot Learning from Human Videos with Structured Graph Modeling
121. NeurIPS 2026Leaderboard Hacking: Preference-Based Model Evaluations are Vulnerable to Manipulation
122. NeurIPS 2026LIBERO-PeRM: Benchmarking Personalized Robotic Manipulation
123. NeurIPS 2026Lift, See, Act: Hierarchical Robot Policy Pretraining with 3D Foundation Models
124. NeurIPS 2026MapPolicy: Structure-Aware Imitation Learning for Robot Manipulation via Physically Constrained Scene Map
125. NeurIPS 2026Nautilus: From One Prompt to Plug-and-Play Robot Learning
126. NeurIPS 2026OntoPlan: An Ontology-Grounded Scene Representation and Agentic Framework for Scalable Robot Task Planning
127. NeurIPS 2026PACE: Progress Actively-internalized Conditioning Execution for Long-horizon Manipulation
128. NeurIPS 2026PointZero: 3D Point Track Completion for Learning Transferable 3D Dynamics
129. NeurIPS 2026Pose6DAug: Physically Plausible Multi-View Object Swapping for Robot Data Augmentation
130. NeurIPS 2026Reconfiguring Procedural Knowledge for Compositional Robot Skill Adaptation
131. NeurIPS 2026RecoverBench: A Systematic Benchmark for Error Recovery in Robotic Manipulation
132. NeurIPS 2026SCION: Scene Composition via Instanced Neural Primitives
133. NeurIPS 2026Stealthy World Model Manipulation via Data Poisoning
134. NeurIPS 2026ToS: Tree-of-Skill Reinforcement Learning driven by Behavior Tree for Long-Horizon Manipulation
135. NeurIPS 2026VersaCamVLA: Camera-Configurable VLA Policies for Robotic Manipulation
136. CVPR 20253D-MVP: 3D Multiview Pretraining for Manipulation
137. CVPR 2025A Data-Centric Revisit of Pre-Trained Vision Models for Robot Learning
138. CVPR 2025ASAP: Advancing Semantic Alignment Promotes Multi-Modal Manipulation Detecting and Grounding
139. CVPR 2025AutoURDF: Unsupervised Robot Modeling from Point Cloud Frames Using Cluster Registration
140. CVPR 2025CheckManual: A New Challenge and Benchmark for Manual-based Appliance Manipulation
141. CVPR 2025DynScene: Scalable Generation of Dynamic Robotic Manipulation Scenes for Embodied AI
142. CVPR 2025EmoEdit: Evoking Emotions through Image Manipulation
143. CVPR 2025FlowRAM: Grounding Flow Matching Policy with Region-Aware Mamba Framework for Robotic Manipulation
144. CVPR 2025Mani-GS: Gaussian Splatting Manipulation with Triangular Mesh
145. CVPR 2025ManipTrans: Efficient Dexterous Bimanual Manipulation Transfer via Residual Learning
146. CVPR 2025ManiVideo: Generating Hand-Object Manipulation Video with Dexterous and Generalizable Grasping
147. CVPR 2025Mitigating the Human-Robot Domain Discrepancy in Visual Pre-training for Robotic Manipulation
148. CVPR 2025MobileH2R: Learning Generalizable Human to Mobile Robot Handover Exclusively from Scalable and Diverse Synthetic Data
149. CVPR 2025MoManipVLA: Transferring Vision-language-action Models for General Mobile Manipulation
150. CVPR 2025Pixel-aligned RGB-NIR Stereo Imaging and Dataset for Robot Vision

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.