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 4 of 7

151. CVPR 2025Prof. Robot: Differentiable Robot Rendering Without Static and Self-Collisions
152. CVPR 2025RoboBrain: A Unified Brain Model for Robotic Manipulation from Abstract to Concrete
153. CVPR 2025RoboGround: Robotic Manipulation with Grounded Vision-Language Priors
154. CVPR 2025RoboPEPP: Vision-Based Robot Pose and Joint Angle Estimation through Embedding Predictive Pre-Training
155. CVPR 2025RoboSense: Large-scale Dataset and Benchmark for Egocentric Robot Perception and Navigation in Crowded and Unstructured Environments
156. CVPR 2025RoboTwin: Dual-Arm Robot Benchmark with Generative Digital Twins
157. CVPR 2025Sharp-It: A Multi-view to Multi-view Diffusion Model for 3D Synthesis and Manipulation
158. CVPR 2025Spatial-Temporal Graph Diffusion Policy with Kinematic Modeling for Bimanual Robotic Manipulation
159. CVPR 2025Think Small, Act Big: Primitive Prompt Learning for Lifelong Robot Manipulation
160. CVPR 2025Two by Two: Learning Multi-Task Pairwise Objects Assembly for Generalizable Robot Manipulation
161. CVPR 2025Unleashing the Potential of Consistency Learning for Detecting and Grounding Multi-Modal Media Manipulation
162. CVPR 2025VidBot: Learning Generalizable 3D Actions from In-the-Wild 2D Human Videos for Zero-Shot Robotic Manipulation
163. ICLR 2025Can a Large Language Model be a Gaslighter?
164. ICLR 2025Data Scaling Laws in Imitation Learning for Robotic Manipulation
165. ICLR 2025ET-SEED: EFFICIENT TRAJECTORY-LEVEL SE(3) EQUIVARIANT DIFFUSION POLICY
166. ICLR 2025FLIP: Flow-Centric Generative Planning as General-Purpose Manipulation World Model
167. ICLR 2025GEVRM: Goal-Expressive Video Generation Model For Robust Visual Manipulation
168. ICLR 2025GravMAD: Grounded Spatial Value Maps Guided Action Diffusion for Generalized 3D Manipulation
169. ICLR 2025HAMSTER: Hierarchical Action Models for Open-World Robot Manipulation
170. ICLR 2025Instant Policy: In-Context Imitation Learning via Graph Diffusion
171. ICLR 2025LASeR: Towards Diversified and Generalizable Robot Design with Large Language Models
172. ICLR 2025Learning Geometric Reasoning Networks For Robot Task And Motion Planning
173. ICLR 2025Physics of Language Models: Part 3.2, Knowledge Manipulation
174. ICLR 2025Predictive Inverse Dynamics Models are Scalable Learners for Robotic Manipulation
175. ICLR 2025RDT-1B: a Diffusion Foundation Model for Bimanual Manipulation
176. ICLR 2025ReGen: Generative Robot Simulation via Inverse Design
177. ICLR 2025Revisit Micro-batch Clipping: Adaptive Data Pruning via Gradient Manipulation
178. ICLR 2025Robots Pre-train Robots: Manipulation-Centric Robotic Representation from Large-Scale Robot Datasets
179. ICLR 2025SPA: 3D Spatial-Awareness Enables Effective Embodied Representation
180. ICLR 2025Subtask-Aware Visual Reward Learning from Segmented Demonstrations
181. ICLR 2025TOP-ERL: Transformer-based Off-Policy Episodic Reinforcement Learning
182. ICLR 2025TraceVLA: Visual Trace Prompting Enhances Spatial-Temporal Awareness for Generalist Robotic Policies
183. ICLR 2025Vision Language Models are In-Context Value Learners
184. ICLR 2025What Matters in Learning from Large-Scale Datasets for Robot Manipulation
185. ICLR 2025What's the Move? Hybrid Imitation Learning via Salient Points
186. ICML 2025ABNet: Adaptive explicit-Barrier Net for Safe and Scalable Robot Learning
187. ICML 2025BiAssemble: Learning Collaborative Affordance for Bimanual Geometric Assembly
188. ICML 2025DexScale: Automating Data Scaling for Sim2Real Generalizable Robot Control
189. ICML 2025Diversifying Robot Locomotion Behaviors with Extrinsic Behavioral Curiosity
190. ICML 2025Hierarchical Equivariant Policy via Frame Transfer
191. ICML 2025Improving Your Model Ranking on Chatbot Arena by Vote Rigging
192. ICML 2025Learning Efficient Robotic Garment Manipulation with Standardization
193. ICML 2025Maximum Total Correlation Reinforcement Learning
194. ICML 2025Multi-Stage Manipulation with Demonstration-Augmented Reward, Policy, and World Model Learning
195. ICML 2025Rethinking Latent Redundancy in Behavior Cloning: An Information Bottleneck Approach for Robot Manipulation
196. ICML 2025Robot-Gated Interactive Imitation Learning with Adaptive Intervention Mechanism
197. ICML 2025SAM2Act: Integrating Visual Foundation Model with A Memory Architecture for Robotic Manipulation
198. ICML 2025SE(3)-Equivariant Diffusion Policy in Spherical Fourier Space
199. ICML 2025STAR: Learning Diverse Robot Skill Abstractions through Rotation-Augmented Vector Quantization
200. NeurIPS 2025$\textit{HiMaCon:}$ Discovering Hierarchical Manipulation Concepts from Unlabeled Multi-Modal Data

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.