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. NeurIPS 2026$\text{A}^3$-VLA: Automatic Perception-Guided Attention Alignment for Robot Manipulation
2. NeurIPS 2026Boost Reasoning Evolution via Responsive Rollout Difficulty Manipulation
3. NeurIPS 2026Can We Model the Artifacts Explicitly? Disentangle Artifacts via Pairwise Edit Relations for Image Manipulation Localization
4. NeurIPS 2026DeformGen: Dynamics-Based Topology Augmentation for Deformable Manipulation Policy Learning
5. NeurIPS 2026DexOPE: 6D Object Pose Estimation in Dexterous Manipulation
6. NeurIPS 2026Dodge-It: Learning Collision-Aware VLA Models for Robotic Manipulation
7. NeurIPS 2026Exploring the Limits of Compositional Generalization in Vision-Language-Action Manipulation
8. NeurIPS 2026FAVLA: A Force-Adaptive Multi-Rate VLA model for Contact-Rich Robotic Manipulation
9. NeurIPS 2026FlowHOI: Flow-based Semantics-Grounded Generation of Hand-Object Interactions for Dexterous Robot Manipulation
10. NeurIPS 2026ForceLDM: A Force-aware Latent Dynamics Model for Contact-Rich Manipulation
11. NeurIPS 2026From Sample to Subset Construction: Coverage-Aware Curation of Robot Demonstrations
12. NeurIPS 2026Grasp-Then-Plan with Failure Attribution: A Closed Two-Stage Framework for Precise and Generalizable Robotic Manipulation
13. NeurIPS 2026HandEdit: A Unified Benchmark for Egocentric Human-to-Robot Dexterous Hand Image Editing
14. NeurIPS 2026How to Instruct Your Robot: Dense Language Annotations Power Robot Policy Learning
15. NeurIPS 2026Interaction-Aligned Robot Learning from Human Videos with Structured Graph Modeling
16. NeurIPS 2026Leaderboard Hacking: Preference-Based Model Evaluations are Vulnerable to Manipulation
17. NeurIPS 2026LIBERO-PeRM: Benchmarking Personalized Robotic Manipulation
18. NeurIPS 2026Lift, See, Act: Hierarchical Robot Policy Pretraining with 3D Foundation Models
19. NeurIPS 2026MapPolicy: Structure-Aware Imitation Learning for Robot Manipulation via Physically Constrained Scene Map
20. NeurIPS 2026Nautilus: From One Prompt to Plug-and-Play Robot Learning
21. NeurIPS 2026OntoPlan: An Ontology-Grounded Scene Representation and Agentic Framework for Scalable Robot Task Planning
22. NeurIPS 2026PACE: Progress Actively-internalized Conditioning Execution for Long-horizon Manipulation
23. NeurIPS 2026PointZero: 3D Point Track Completion for Learning Transferable 3D Dynamics
24. NeurIPS 2026Pose6DAug: Physically Plausible Multi-View Object Swapping for Robot Data Augmentation
25. NeurIPS 2026Reconfiguring Procedural Knowledge for Compositional Robot Skill Adaptation
26. NeurIPS 2026RecoverBench: A Systematic Benchmark for Error Recovery in Robotic Manipulation
27. NeurIPS 2026SCION: Scene Composition via Instanced Neural Primitives
28. NeurIPS 2026Stealthy World Model Manipulation via Data Poisoning
29. NeurIPS 2026ToS: Tree-of-Skill Reinforcement Learning driven by Behavior Tree for Long-Horizon Manipulation
30. NeurIPS 2026VersaCamVLA: Camera-Configurable VLA Policies for Robotic Manipulation
31. NeurIPS 2025$\textit{HiMaCon:}$ Discovering Hierarchical Manipulation Concepts from Unlabeled Multi-Modal Data
32. NeurIPS 2025$\textit{Hyper-GoalNet}$: Goal-Conditioned Manipulation Policy Learning with HyperNetworks
33. NeurIPS 2025AC-DiT: Adaptive Coordination Diffusion Transformer for Mobile Manipulation
34. NeurIPS 2025Adversarial Locomotion and Motion Imitation for Humanoid Policy Learning
35. NeurIPS 2025BAM-ICL: Causal Hijacking In-Context Learning with Budgeted Adversarial Manipulation
36. NeurIPS 2025Blindfolded Experts Generalize Better: Insights from Robotic Manipulation and Videogames
37. NeurIPS 2025Compliant Residual DAgger: Improving Real-World Contact-Rich Manipulation with Human Corrections
38. NeurIPS 2025COOPERA: Continual Open-Ended Human-Robot Assistance
39. NeurIPS 2025DexFlyWheel: A Scalable and Self-improving Data Generation Framework for Dexterous Manipulation
40. NeurIPS 2025Diffusion-Driven Progressive Target Manipulation for Source-Free Domain Adaptation
41. NeurIPS 2025DynaRend: Learning 3D Dynamics via Masked Future Rendering for Robotic Manipulation
42. NeurIPS 2025EgoBridge: Domain Adaptation for Generalizable Imitation from Egocentric Human Data
43. NeurIPS 2025Enhancing Tactile-based Reinforcement Learning for Robotic Control
44. NeurIPS 2025FALCON: Fine-grained Activation Manipulation by Contrastive Orthogonal Unalignment for Large Language Model
45. NeurIPS 2025ForceVLA: Enhancing VLA Models with a Force-aware MoE for Contact-rich Manipulation
46. NeurIPS 2025Grasp2Grasp: Vision-Based Dexterous Grasp Translation via Schrödinger Bridges
47. NeurIPS 2025HumanoidGen: Data Generation for Bimanual Dexterous Manipulation via LLM Reasoning
48. NeurIPS 2025Learning Spatial-Aware Manipulation Ordering
49. NeurIPS 2025MonoLift: Learning 3D Manipulation Policies from Monocular RGB via Distillation
50. NeurIPS 2025MyoChallenge 2024: A New Benchmark for Physiological Dexterity and Agility in Bionic Humans

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.