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

23 papers, page 1 of 1

1. ICLR 2025Can a Large Language Model be a Gaslighter?
2. ICLR 2025Data Scaling Laws in Imitation Learning for Robotic Manipulation
3. ICLR 2025ET-SEED: EFFICIENT TRAJECTORY-LEVEL SE(3) EQUIVARIANT DIFFUSION POLICY
4. ICLR 2025FLIP: Flow-Centric Generative Planning as General-Purpose Manipulation World Model
5. ICLR 2025GEVRM: Goal-Expressive Video Generation Model For Robust Visual Manipulation
6. ICLR 2025GravMAD: Grounded Spatial Value Maps Guided Action Diffusion for Generalized 3D Manipulation
7. ICLR 2025HAMSTER: Hierarchical Action Models for Open-World Robot Manipulation
8. ICLR 2025Instant Policy: In-Context Imitation Learning via Graph Diffusion
9. ICLR 2025LASeR: Towards Diversified and Generalizable Robot Design with Large Language Models
10. ICLR 2025Learning Geometric Reasoning Networks For Robot Task And Motion Planning
11. ICLR 2025Physics of Language Models: Part 3.2, Knowledge Manipulation
12. ICLR 2025Predictive Inverse Dynamics Models are Scalable Learners for Robotic Manipulation
13. ICLR 2025RDT-1B: a Diffusion Foundation Model for Bimanual Manipulation
14. ICLR 2025ReGen: Generative Robot Simulation via Inverse Design
15. ICLR 2025Revisit Micro-batch Clipping: Adaptive Data Pruning via Gradient Manipulation
16. ICLR 2025Robots Pre-train Robots: Manipulation-Centric Robotic Representation from Large-Scale Robot Datasets
17. ICLR 2025SPA: 3D Spatial-Awareness Enables Effective Embodied Representation
18. ICLR 2025Subtask-Aware Visual Reward Learning from Segmented Demonstrations
19. ICLR 2025TOP-ERL: Transformer-based Off-Policy Episodic Reinforcement Learning
20. ICLR 2025TraceVLA: Visual Trace Prompting Enhances Spatial-Temporal Awareness for Generalist Robotic Policies
21. ICLR 2025Vision Language Models are In-Context Value Learners
22. ICLR 2025What Matters in Learning from Large-Scale Datasets for Robot Manipulation
23. ICLR 2025What's the Move? Hybrid Imitation Learning via Salient Points

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.