Robot Manipulation papers, 2023–2026
Grasping and manipulation
Scope: NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR, 2023–2026. 321 papers are tagged with this topic.
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.
Papers per venue
Counts by year and venue
| Year | NeurIPS | ICLR | ICML | CVPR | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 6 | 12 | 7 | 19 | 44 |
| 2024 | 11 | 16 | 6 | 13 | 46 |
| 2025 | 32 | 23 | 14 | 27 | 96 |
| 2026 | 30 | 42 | 25 | 38 | 135 |
Representative papers
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- 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 5 of 7
- NeurIPS 2025$\textit{Hyper-GoalNet}$: Goal-Conditioned Manipulation Policy Learning with HyperNetworks
- NeurIPS 2025AC-DiT: Adaptive Coordination Diffusion Transformer for Mobile Manipulation
- NeurIPS 2025Adversarial Locomotion and Motion Imitation for Humanoid Policy Learning
- NeurIPS 2025BAM-ICL: Causal Hijacking In-Context Learning with Budgeted Adversarial Manipulation
- NeurIPS 2025Blindfolded Experts Generalize Better: Insights from Robotic Manipulation and Videogames
- NeurIPS 2025Compliant Residual DAgger: Improving Real-World Contact-Rich Manipulation with Human Corrections
- NeurIPS 2025COOPERA: Continual Open-Ended Human-Robot Assistance
- NeurIPS 2025DexFlyWheel: A Scalable and Self-improving Data Generation Framework for Dexterous Manipulation
- NeurIPS 2025Diffusion-Driven Progressive Target Manipulation for Source-Free Domain Adaptation
- NeurIPS 2025DynaRend: Learning 3D Dynamics via Masked Future Rendering for Robotic Manipulation
- NeurIPS 2025EgoBridge: Domain Adaptation for Generalizable Imitation from Egocentric Human Data
- NeurIPS 2025Enhancing Tactile-based Reinforcement Learning for Robotic Control
- NeurIPS 2025FALCON: Fine-grained Activation Manipulation by Contrastive Orthogonal Unalignment for Large Language Model
- NeurIPS 2025ForceVLA: Enhancing VLA Models with a Force-aware MoE for Contact-rich Manipulation
- NeurIPS 2025Grasp2Grasp: Vision-Based Dexterous Grasp Translation via Schrödinger Bridges
- NeurIPS 2025HumanoidGen: Data Generation for Bimanual Dexterous Manipulation via LLM Reasoning
- NeurIPS 2025Learning Spatial-Aware Manipulation Ordering
- NeurIPS 2025MonoLift: Learning 3D Manipulation Policies from Monocular RGB via Distillation
- NeurIPS 2025MyoChallenge 2024: A New Benchmark for Physiological Dexterity and Agility in Bionic Humans
- NeurIPS 2025Object-centric 3D Motion Field for Robot Learning from Human Videos
- NeurIPS 2025PAC Bench: Do Foundation Models Understand Prerequisites for Executing Manipulation Policies?
- NeurIPS 2025PointMapPolicy: Structured Point Cloud Processing for Multi-Modal Imitation Learning
- NeurIPS 2025PRIMT: Preference-based Reinforcement Learning with Multimodal Feedback and Trajectory Synthesis from Foundation Models
- NeurIPS 2025Provable Ordering and Continuity in Vision-Language Pretraining for Generalizable Embodied Agents
- NeurIPS 2025RAPID Hand: Robust, Affordable, Perception-Integrated, Dexterous Manipulation Platfrom for Embodied Intelligence
- NeurIPS 2025Robo2VLM: Improving Visual Question Answering using Large-Scale Robot Manipulation Data
- NeurIPS 2025Scaffolding Dexterous Manipulation with Vision-Language Models
- NeurIPS 2025Temporal Representation Alignment: Successor Features Enable Emergent Compositionality in Robot Instruction Following
- NeurIPS 2025Touch in the Wild: Learning Fine-Grained Manipulation with a Portable Visuo-Tactile Gripper
- NeurIPS 2025Two-Steps Diffusion Policy for Robotic Manipulation via Genetic Denoising
- NeurIPS 2025VideoVLA: Video Generators Can Be Generalizable Robot Manipulators
- CVPR 2024AUEditNet: Dual-Branch Facial Action Unit Intensity Manipulation with Implicit Disentanglement
- CVPR 2024Binding Touch to Everything: Learning Unified Multimodal Tactile Representations
- CVPR 2024CyberDemo: Augmenting Simulated Human Demonstration for Real-World Dexterous Manipulation
- CVPR 2024EasyDrag: Efficient Point-based Manipulation on Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2024GenH2R: Learning Generalizable Human-to-Robot Handover via Scalable Simulation Demonstration and Imitation
- CVPR 2024Hierarchical Diffusion Policy for Kinematics-Aware Multi-Task Robotic Manipulation
- CVPR 2024Learning Adaptive Spatial Coherent Correlations for Speech-Preserving Facial Expression Manipulation
- CVPR 2024ManipLLM: Embodied Multimodal Large Language Model for Object-Centric Robotic Manipulation
- CVPR 2024Named Entity Driven Zero-Shot Image Manipulation
- CVPR 2024Smart Help: Strategic Opponent Modeling for Proactive and Adaptive Robot Assistance in Households
- CVPR 2024SPOC: Imitating Shortest Paths in Simulation Enables Effective Navigation and Manipulation in the Real World
- CVPR 2024Towards Modern Image Manipulation Localization: A Large-Scale Dataset and Novel Methods
- CVPR 2024UniGarmentManip: A Unified Framework for Category-Level Garment Manipulation via Dense Visual Correspondence
- ICLR 2024ASID: Active Exploration for System Identification in Robotic Manipulation
- ICLR 2024CORN: Contact-based Object Representation for Nonprehensile Manipulation of General Unseen Objects
- ICLR 2024Fourier Transporter: Bi-Equivariant Robotic Manipulation in 3D
- ICLR 2024Grounding Language Plans in Demonstrations Through Counterfactual Perturbations
- ICLR 2024Hybrid Internal Model: Learning Agile Legged Locomotion with Simulated Robot Response
- ICLR 2024Leveraging Hyperbolic Embeddings for Coarse-to-Fine Robot Design
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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.