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
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
12 papers, page 1 of 1
- 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
- ICLR 2023Equivariant Descriptor Fields: SE(3)-Equivariant Energy-Based Models for End-to-End Visual Robotic Manipulation Learning
- ICLR 2023FluidLab: A Differentiable Environment for Benchmarking Complex Fluid Manipulation
- ICLR 2023From Play to Policy: Conditional Behavior Generation from Uncurated Robot Data
- ICLR 2023Learning Input-agnostic Manipulation Directions in StyleGAN with Text Guidance
- ICLR 2023Meta-Evolve: Continuous Robot Evolution for One-to-many Policy Transfer
- ICLR 2023SoftZoo: A Soft Robot Co-design Benchmark For Locomotion In Diverse Environments
- ICLR 2023Using Both Demonstrations and Language Instructions to Efficiently Learn Robotic Tasks
- ICLR 2023VIP: Towards Universal Visual Reward and Representation via Value-Implicit Pre-Training
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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.