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

46 papers, page 1 of 1

1. CVPR 2024AUEditNet: Dual-Branch Facial Action Unit Intensity Manipulation with Implicit Disentanglement
2. CVPR 2024Binding Touch to Everything: Learning Unified Multimodal Tactile Representations
3. CVPR 2024CyberDemo: Augmenting Simulated Human Demonstration for Real-World Dexterous Manipulation
4. CVPR 2024EasyDrag: Efficient Point-based Manipulation on Diffusion Models
5. CVPR 2024GenH2R: Learning Generalizable Human-to-Robot Handover via Scalable Simulation Demonstration and Imitation
6. CVPR 2024Hierarchical Diffusion Policy for Kinematics-Aware Multi-Task Robotic Manipulation
7. CVPR 2024Learning Adaptive Spatial Coherent Correlations for Speech-Preserving Facial Expression Manipulation
8. CVPR 2024ManipLLM: Embodied Multimodal Large Language Model for Object-Centric Robotic Manipulation
9. CVPR 2024Named Entity Driven Zero-Shot Image Manipulation
10. CVPR 2024Smart Help: Strategic Opponent Modeling for Proactive and Adaptive Robot Assistance in Households
11. CVPR 2024SPOC: Imitating Shortest Paths in Simulation Enables Effective Navigation and Manipulation in the Real World
12. CVPR 2024Towards Modern Image Manipulation Localization: A Large-Scale Dataset and Novel Methods
13. CVPR 2024UniGarmentManip: A Unified Framework for Category-Level Garment Manipulation via Dense Visual Correspondence
14. ICLR 2024ASID: Active Exploration for System Identification in Robotic Manipulation
15. ICLR 2024CORN: Contact-based Object Representation for Nonprehensile Manipulation of General Unseen Objects
16. ICLR 2024Fourier Transporter: Bi-Equivariant Robotic Manipulation in 3D
17. ICLR 2024Grounding Language Plans in Demonstrations Through Counterfactual Perturbations
18. ICLR 2024Hybrid Internal Model: Learning Agile Legged Locomotion with Simulated Robot Response
19. ICLR 2024Leveraging Hyperbolic Embeddings for Coarse-to-Fine Robot Design
20. ICLR 2024Meta-Evolve: Continuous Robot Evolution for One-to-many Policy Transfer
21. ICLR 2024Open the Black Box: Step-based Policy Updates for Temporally-Correlated Episodic Reinforcement Learning
22. ICLR 2024Reverse Forward Curriculum Learning for Extreme Sample and Demo Efficiency
23. ICLR 2024Robot Fleet Learning via Policy Merging
24. ICLR 2024RT-Trajectory: Robotic Task Generalization via Hindsight Trajectory Sketches
25. ICLR 2024Score Models for Offline Goal-Conditioned Reinforcement Learning
26. ICLR 2024SparseDFF: Sparse-View Feature Distillation for One-Shot Dexterous Manipulation
27. ICLR 2024Unleashing Large-Scale Video Generative Pre-training for Visual Robot Manipulation
28. ICLR 2024Vision-Language Foundation Models as Effective Robot Imitators
29. ICLR 2024What Matters to You? Towards Visual Representation Alignment for Robot Learning
30. ICML 2024Diffusion Model-Augmented Behavioral Cloning
31. ICML 2024Learning Reward for Robot Skills Using Large Language Models via Self-Alignment
32. ICML 2024Mastering Robot Manipulation with Multimodal Prompts through Pretraining and Multi-task Fine-tuning
33. ICML 2024Position: Scaling Simulation is Neither Necessary Nor Sufficient for In-the-Wild Robot Manipulation
34. ICML 2024RoboDreamer: Learning Compositional World Models for Robot Imagination
35. ICML 2024SAM-E: Leveraging Visual Foundation Model with Sequence Imitation for Embodied Manipulation
36. NeurIPS 2024DeeR-VLA: Dynamic Inference of Multimodal Large Language Models for Efficient Robot Execution
37. NeurIPS 2024Diffusion Policy Attacker: Crafting Adversarial Attacks for Diffusion-based Policies
38. NeurIPS 2024Enhancing Efficiency of Safe Reinforcement Learning via Sample Manipulation
39. NeurIPS 2024General Articulated Objects Manipulation in Real Images via Part-Aware Diffusion Process
40. NeurIPS 2024PIVOT-R: Primitive-Driven Waypoint-Aware World Model for Robotic Manipulation
41. NeurIPS 2024Point Cloud Matters: Rethinking the Impact of Different Observation Spaces on Robot Learning
42. NeurIPS 2024Reconstruction of Manipulated Garment with Guided Deformation Prior
43. NeurIPS 2024Robot Policy Learning with Temporal Optimal Transport Reward
44. NeurIPS 2024SCaR: Refining Skill Chaining for Long-Horizon Robotic Manipulation via Dual Regularization
45. NeurIPS 2024SpreadsheetBench: Towards Challenging Real World Spreadsheet Manipulation
46. NeurIPS 2024UniBias: Unveiling and Mitigating LLM Bias through Internal Attention and FFN 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.