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. CVPR 20253D-MVP: 3D Multiview Pretraining for Manipulation
2. CVPR 2025A Data-Centric Revisit of Pre-Trained Vision Models for Robot Learning
3. CVPR 2025ASAP: Advancing Semantic Alignment Promotes Multi-Modal Manipulation Detecting and Grounding
4. CVPR 2025AutoURDF: Unsupervised Robot Modeling from Point Cloud Frames Using Cluster Registration
5. CVPR 2025CheckManual: A New Challenge and Benchmark for Manual-based Appliance Manipulation
6. CVPR 2025DynScene: Scalable Generation of Dynamic Robotic Manipulation Scenes for Embodied AI
7. CVPR 2025EmoEdit: Evoking Emotions through Image Manipulation
8. CVPR 2025FlowRAM: Grounding Flow Matching Policy with Region-Aware Mamba Framework for Robotic Manipulation
9. CVPR 2025Mani-GS: Gaussian Splatting Manipulation with Triangular Mesh
10. CVPR 2025ManipTrans: Efficient Dexterous Bimanual Manipulation Transfer via Residual Learning
11. CVPR 2025ManiVideo: Generating Hand-Object Manipulation Video with Dexterous and Generalizable Grasping
12. CVPR 2025Mitigating the Human-Robot Domain Discrepancy in Visual Pre-training for Robotic Manipulation
13. CVPR 2025MobileH2R: Learning Generalizable Human to Mobile Robot Handover Exclusively from Scalable and Diverse Synthetic Data
14. CVPR 2025MoManipVLA: Transferring Vision-language-action Models for General Mobile Manipulation
15. CVPR 2025Pixel-aligned RGB-NIR Stereo Imaging and Dataset for Robot Vision
16. CVPR 2025Prof. Robot: Differentiable Robot Rendering Without Static and Self-Collisions
17. CVPR 2025RoboBrain: A Unified Brain Model for Robotic Manipulation from Abstract to Concrete
18. CVPR 2025RoboGround: Robotic Manipulation with Grounded Vision-Language Priors
19. CVPR 2025RoboPEPP: Vision-Based Robot Pose and Joint Angle Estimation through Embedding Predictive Pre-Training
20. CVPR 2025RoboSense: Large-scale Dataset and Benchmark for Egocentric Robot Perception and Navigation in Crowded and Unstructured Environments
21. CVPR 2025RoboTwin: Dual-Arm Robot Benchmark with Generative Digital Twins
22. CVPR 2025Sharp-It: A Multi-view to Multi-view Diffusion Model for 3D Synthesis and Manipulation
23. CVPR 2025Spatial-Temporal Graph Diffusion Policy with Kinematic Modeling for Bimanual Robotic Manipulation
24. CVPR 2025Think Small, Act Big: Primitive Prompt Learning for Lifelong Robot Manipulation
25. CVPR 2025Two by Two: Learning Multi-Task Pairwise Objects Assembly for Generalizable Robot Manipulation
26. CVPR 2025Unleashing the Potential of Consistency Learning for Detecting and Grounding Multi-Modal Media Manipulation
27. CVPR 2025VidBot: Learning Generalizable 3D Actions from In-the-Wild 2D Human Videos for Zero-Shot Robotic Manipulation
28. ICLR 2025Can a Large Language Model be a Gaslighter?
29. ICLR 2025Data Scaling Laws in Imitation Learning for Robotic Manipulation
30. ICLR 2025ET-SEED: EFFICIENT TRAJECTORY-LEVEL SE(3) EQUIVARIANT DIFFUSION POLICY
31. ICLR 2025FLIP: Flow-Centric Generative Planning as General-Purpose Manipulation World Model
32. ICLR 2025GEVRM: Goal-Expressive Video Generation Model For Robust Visual Manipulation
33. ICLR 2025GravMAD: Grounded Spatial Value Maps Guided Action Diffusion for Generalized 3D Manipulation
34. ICLR 2025HAMSTER: Hierarchical Action Models for Open-World Robot Manipulation
35. ICLR 2025Instant Policy: In-Context Imitation Learning via Graph Diffusion
36. ICLR 2025LASeR: Towards Diversified and Generalizable Robot Design with Large Language Models
37. ICLR 2025Learning Geometric Reasoning Networks For Robot Task And Motion Planning
38. ICLR 2025Physics of Language Models: Part 3.2, Knowledge Manipulation
39. ICLR 2025Predictive Inverse Dynamics Models are Scalable Learners for Robotic Manipulation
40. ICLR 2025RDT-1B: a Diffusion Foundation Model for Bimanual Manipulation
41. ICLR 2025ReGen: Generative Robot Simulation via Inverse Design
42. ICLR 2025Revisit Micro-batch Clipping: Adaptive Data Pruning via Gradient Manipulation
43. ICLR 2025Robots Pre-train Robots: Manipulation-Centric Robotic Representation from Large-Scale Robot Datasets
44. ICLR 2025SPA: 3D Spatial-Awareness Enables Effective Embodied Representation
45. ICLR 2025Subtask-Aware Visual Reward Learning from Segmented Demonstrations
46. ICLR 2025TOP-ERL: Transformer-based Off-Policy Episodic Reinforcement Learning
47. ICLR 2025TraceVLA: Visual Trace Prompting Enhances Spatial-Temporal Awareness for Generalist Robotic Policies
48. ICLR 2025Vision Language Models are In-Context Value Learners
49. ICLR 2025What Matters in Learning from Large-Scale Datasets for Robot Manipulation
50. 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.