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

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1. ICML 2026Cross-Embodiment Robot Foundation World Models with Latent Actions
2. ICML 2026DECO: Decoupled Multimodal Diffusion Transformer for Bimanual Dexterous Manipulation with a Plugin Tactile Adapter
3. ICML 2026Demystifying Action Space Design for Robotic Manipulation Policies
4. ICML 2026DreamDojo: A Generalist Robot World Model from Large-Scale Human Videos
5. ICML 2026Escaping the Diversity Trap in Robotic Manipulation via Anchor-Centric Adaptation
6. ICML 2026FlatLab: A Unified Methodology Framework and Simulation-Based Benchmark for Robotic Manipulation of Flat Objects
7. ICML 2026From Imagined Futures to Executable Actions: Mixture of Latent Actions for Robot Manipulation
8. ICML 2026From Prior to Pro: Efficient Skill Mastery via Distribution Contractive RL Finetuning
9. ICML 2026Gaming Consensus: Coordinated Manipulation in Crowdsourced Fact-Checking
10. ICML 2026Geometry-Guided Modeling of Foundation Features Enables Generalizable Object Shape Deformation Learning
11. ICML 2026Hierarchical Policy Learning via Spectral Decomposition
12. ICML 2026Joint Navigation and Manipulation Planning with 3D Interaction Chains
13. ICML 2026Last-iterate Convergence of ADMM on Multi-affine Quadratic Equality Constrained Problem
14. ICML 2026MVISTA-4D: View-Consistent 4D World Model with Test-Time Action Inference for Robotic Manipulation
15. ICML 2026Neural Control: Adjoint Learning Through Equilibrium Constraints
16. ICML 2026OXE-AugE: A Large-Scale Robot Augmentation of OXE for Scaling Cross-Embodiment Policy Learning
17. ICML 2026Predicting What Matters: Robust Generalist Robot Policy Learning via Future Semantic Mask
18. ICML 2026ReLAM: Learning Anticipation Model for Rewarding Visual Robotic Manipulation
19. ICML 2026SafeDec: Constrained Decoding for Safe Autoregressive Generalist Robot Navigation Policies
20. ICML 2026Scaling Real-World Robot Policy Evaluation via Discrete Diffusion World Model
21. ICML 2026Structured 4D Latent Predictive Model for Robot Planning
22. ICML 2026TapSampling: Inference-Time Sampling with a Task-Progress-Understanding Verifier for Robotic Manipulation
23. ICML 2026TimeRewarder: Learning Dense Reward from Passive Videos via Frame-wise Temporal Distance
24. ICML 2026Uncertainty-Guided Exploration and Stable Planning for Sparse-Reward Manipulation from Limited Demonstrations
25. ICML 2026UniJEPA: Enhancing Robot Policy via Unified Continuous and Discrete Representation Learning
26. ICML 2025ABNet: Adaptive explicit-Barrier Net for Safe and Scalable Robot Learning
27. ICML 2025BiAssemble: Learning Collaborative Affordance for Bimanual Geometric Assembly
28. ICML 2025DexScale: Automating Data Scaling for Sim2Real Generalizable Robot Control
29. ICML 2025Diversifying Robot Locomotion Behaviors with Extrinsic Behavioral Curiosity
30. ICML 2025Hierarchical Equivariant Policy via Frame Transfer
31. ICML 2025Improving Your Model Ranking on Chatbot Arena by Vote Rigging
32. ICML 2025Learning Efficient Robotic Garment Manipulation with Standardization
33. ICML 2025Maximum Total Correlation Reinforcement Learning
34. ICML 2025Multi-Stage Manipulation with Demonstration-Augmented Reward, Policy, and World Model Learning
35. ICML 2025Rethinking Latent Redundancy in Behavior Cloning: An Information Bottleneck Approach for Robot Manipulation
36. ICML 2025Robot-Gated Interactive Imitation Learning with Adaptive Intervention Mechanism
37. ICML 2025SAM2Act: Integrating Visual Foundation Model with A Memory Architecture for Robotic Manipulation
38. ICML 2025SE(3)-Equivariant Diffusion Policy in Spherical Fourier Space
39. ICML 2025STAR: Learning Diverse Robot Skill Abstractions through Rotation-Augmented Vector Quantization
40. ICML 2024Diffusion Model-Augmented Behavioral Cloning
41. ICML 2024Learning Reward for Robot Skills Using Large Language Models via Self-Alignment
42. ICML 2024Mastering Robot Manipulation with Multimodal Prompts through Pretraining and Multi-task Fine-tuning
43. ICML 2024Position: Scaling Simulation is Neither Necessary Nor Sufficient for In-the-Wild Robot Manipulation
44. ICML 2024RoboDreamer: Learning Compositional World Models for Robot Imagination
45. ICML 2024SAM-E: Leveraging Visual Foundation Model with Sequence Imitation for Embodied Manipulation
46. ICML 2023Meta-learning Parameterized Skills
47. ICML 2023Multi-View Masked World Models for Visual Robotic Manipulation
48. ICML 2023MyoDex: A Generalizable Prior for Dexterous Manipulation
49. ICML 2023On the Forward Invariance of Neural ODEs
50. ICML 2023Reliable Measures of Spread in High Dimensional Latent Spaces

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.