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 6 of 7
- ICLR 2024Meta-Evolve: Continuous Robot Evolution for One-to-many Policy Transfer
- ICLR 2024Open the Black Box: Step-based Policy Updates for Temporally-Correlated Episodic Reinforcement Learning
- ICLR 2024Reverse Forward Curriculum Learning for Extreme Sample and Demo Efficiency
- ICLR 2024Robot Fleet Learning via Policy Merging
- ICLR 2024RT-Trajectory: Robotic Task Generalization via Hindsight Trajectory Sketches
- ICLR 2024Score Models for Offline Goal-Conditioned Reinforcement Learning
- ICLR 2024SparseDFF: Sparse-View Feature Distillation for One-Shot Dexterous Manipulation
- ICLR 2024Unleashing Large-Scale Video Generative Pre-training for Visual Robot Manipulation
- ICLR 2024Vision-Language Foundation Models as Effective Robot Imitators
- ICLR 2024What Matters to You? Towards Visual Representation Alignment for Robot Learning
- ICML 2024Diffusion Model-Augmented Behavioral Cloning
- ICML 2024Learning Reward for Robot Skills Using Large Language Models via Self-Alignment
- ICML 2024Mastering Robot Manipulation with Multimodal Prompts through Pretraining and Multi-task Fine-tuning
- ICML 2024Position: Scaling Simulation is Neither Necessary Nor Sufficient for In-the-Wild Robot Manipulation
- ICML 2024RoboDreamer: Learning Compositional World Models for Robot Imagination
- ICML 2024SAM-E: Leveraging Visual Foundation Model with Sequence Imitation for Embodied Manipulation
- NeurIPS 2024DeeR-VLA: Dynamic Inference of Multimodal Large Language Models for Efficient Robot Execution
- NeurIPS 2024Diffusion Policy Attacker: Crafting Adversarial Attacks for Diffusion-based Policies
- NeurIPS 2024Enhancing Efficiency of Safe Reinforcement Learning via Sample Manipulation
- NeurIPS 2024General Articulated Objects Manipulation in Real Images via Part-Aware Diffusion Process
- NeurIPS 2024PIVOT-R: Primitive-Driven Waypoint-Aware World Model for Robotic Manipulation
- NeurIPS 2024Point Cloud Matters: Rethinking the Impact of Different Observation Spaces on Robot Learning
- NeurIPS 2024Reconstruction of Manipulated Garment with Guided Deformation Prior
- NeurIPS 2024Robot Policy Learning with Temporal Optimal Transport Reward
- NeurIPS 2024SCaR: Refining Skill Chaining for Long-Horizon Robotic Manipulation via Dual Regularization
- NeurIPS 2024SpreadsheetBench: Towards Challenging Real World Spreadsheet Manipulation
- NeurIPS 2024UniBias: Unveiling and Mitigating LLM Bias through Internal Attention and FFN Manipulation
- CVPR 2023ARCTIC: A Dataset for Dexterous Bimanual Hand-Object Manipulation
- CVPR 2023Autonomous Manipulation Learning for Similar Deformable Objects via Only One Demonstration
- CVPR 2023CAMS: CAnonicalized Manipulation Spaces for Category-Level Functional Hand-Object Manipulation Synthesis
- CVPR 2023Command-Driven Articulated Object Understanding and Manipulation
- CVPR 2023Curricular Object Manipulation in LiDAR-Based Object Detection
- CVPR 2023DeltaEdit: Exploring Text-Free Training for Text-Driven Image Manipulation
- CVPR 2023Detecting and Grounding Multi-Modal Media Manipulation
- CVPR 2023DexArt: Benchmarking Generalizable Dexterous Manipulation With Articulated Objects
- CVPR 2023FLEX: Full-Body Grasping Without Full-Body Grasps
- CVPR 2023GAPartNet: Cross-Category Domain-Generalizable Object Perception and Manipulation via Generalizable and Actionable Parts
- CVPR 2023Learning Human-to-Robot Handovers From Point Clouds
- CVPR 2023MaLP: Manipulation Localization Using a Proactive Scheme
- CVPR 2023Markerless Camera-to-Robot Pose Estimation via Self-Supervised Sim-to-Real Transfer
- CVPR 2023Multi-Object Manipulation via Object-Centric Neural Scattering Functions
- CVPR 2023PartManip: Learning Cross-Category Generalizable Part Manipulation Policy From Point Cloud Observations
- CVPR 2023PyPose: A Library for Robot Learning With Physics-Based Optimization
- CVPR 2023Quantitative Manipulation of Custom Attributes on 3D-Aware Image Synthesis
- CVPR 2023Robot Structure Prior Guided Temporal Attention for Camera-to-Robot Pose Estimation From Image Sequence
- CVPR 2023Target-Referenced Reactive Grasping for Dynamic Objects
- ICLR 2023Adversarial Imitation Learning with Preferences
- ICLR 2023Benchmarking Offline Reinforcement Learning on Real-Robot Hardware
- ICLR 2023DM-NeRF: 3D Scene Geometry Decomposition and Manipulation from 2D Images
- ICLR 2023DualAfford: Learning Collaborative Visual Affordance for Dual-gripper Manipulation
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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.