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

42 papers, page 1 of 1

1. ICLR 2026Abstracting Robot Manipulation Skills via Mixture-of-Experts Diffusion Policies
2. ICLR 2026ArtVIP: Articulated Digital Assets of Visual Realism, Modular Interaction, and Physical Fidelity for Robot Learning
3. ICLR 2026Autonomous Play with Correspondence-Driven Trajectory Warping
4. ICLR 2026Compose Your Policies! Improving Diffusion-based or Flow-based Robot Policies via Test-time Distribution-level Composition
5. ICLR 2026Cortical Policy: A Dual-Stream View Transformer for Robotic Manipulation
6. ICLR 2026Cross-Embodied Co-Design for Dexterous Hands
7. ICLR 2026Ctrl-World: A Controllable Generative World Model for Robot Manipulation
8. ICLR 2026DataMIL: Selecting Data for Robot Imitation Learning with Datamodels
9. ICLR 2026DemoGrasp: Universal Dexterous Grasping from a Single Demonstration
10. ICLR 2026DexMove: Learning Tactile-Guided Non-Prehensile Manipulation with Dexterous Hands
11. ICLR 2026EgoDex: Learning Dexterous Manipulation from Large-Scale Egocentric Video
12. ICLR 2026ExoPredicator: Learning Abstract Models of Dynamic Worlds for Robot Planning
13. ICLR 2026Generalizable Coarse-to-Fine Robot Manipulation via Language-Aligned 3D Keypoints
14. ICLR 2026Geometry-aware 4D Video Generation for Robot Manipulation
15. ICLR 2026HAMLET: Switch Your Vision-Language-Action Model into a History-Aware Policy
16. ICLR 2026Improving Diffusion Models for Class-imbalanced Training Data via Capacity Manipulation
17. ICLR 2026Interleave-VLA: Enhancing Robot Manipulation with Image-Text Interleaved Instructions
18. ICLR 2026Learning to Grasp Anything By Playing with Random Toys
19. ICLR 2026LeRobot: An Open-Source Library for End-to-End Robot Learning
20. ICLR 2026Manipulation as in Simulation: Enabling Accurate Geometry Perception in Robots
21. ICLR 2026Master Skill Learning with Policy-Grounded Synergy of LLM-based Reward Shaping and Exploring
22. ICLR 2026MoMaGen: Generating Demonstrations under Soft and Hard Constraints for Multi-Step Bimanual Mobile Manipulation
23. ICLR 2026Primary-Fine Decoupling for Action Generation in Robotic Imitation
24. ICLR 2026RAVEN: End-to-end Equivariant Robot Learning with RGB Cameras
25. ICLR 2026Real-Time Robot Execution with Masked Action Chunking
26. ICLR 2026ReFORM: Reflected Flows for On-support Offline RL via Noise Manipulation
27. ICLR 2026Remotely Detectable Robot Policy Watermarking
28. ICLR 2026RoboInter: A Holistic Intermediate Representation Suite Towards Robotic Manipulation
29. ICLR 2026RoboOmni: Proactive Robot Manipulation in Omni-modal Context
30. ICLR 2026Robotic Manipulation by Imitating Generated Videos Without Physical Demonstrations
31. ICLR 2026Robust Deep Reinforcement Learning against Adversarial Behavior Manipulation
32. ICLR 2026Rodrigues Network for Learning Robot Actions
33. ICLR 2026SARM: Stage-Aware Reward Modeling for Long Horizon Robot Manipulation
34. ICLR 2026SimpleVLA-RL: Scaling VLA Training via Reinforcement Learning
35. ICLR 2026Spatially Guided Training for Vision-Language-Action Model
36. ICLR 2026SpikePingpong: Spike Vision-based Fast-Slow Pingpong Robot System
37. ICLR 2026Streaming Drag-Oriented Interactive Video Manipulation: Drag Anything, Anytime!
38. ICLR 2026Translating Flow to Policy via Hindsight Online Imitation
39. ICLR 2026ViPRA: Video Prediction for Robot Actions
40. ICLR 2026VITA: Vision-to-Action Flow Matching Policy
41. ICLR 2026VLBiMan: Vision-Language Anchored One-Shot Demonstration Enables Generalizable Bimanual Robotic Manipulation
42. ICLR 2026When would Vision-Proprioception Policies Fail in Robotic Manipulation?

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.