Latest Research in Robotics

689 research papers · 2026 median publication year

Top Research Topics in Robotics

Highest-Cited Papers

  1. Civil: causal and intuitive visual imitation learning
  2. Explicit Language Memory for Long-Horizon Planning in Vision-Language-Action Models
  3. Teach and Grow: An Agent-Centered Architecture for General Robot Learning
  4. PonderPounce: A Pretrained MLLM as an Episode Context Engine for Robot Control
  5. M2Tok: Multi-head Multi-codebook Discrete Action Tokenization for Vision-Language-Action Models
  6. MAGMA-GEN: Validated Recovery Supervision from Ambiguous Failures via Counterfactual Re-Execution
  7. Runtime Safety Filtering for Two-Terminal Hazards in Robotic Battery Recycling
  8. TraceFlow: Guiding Frozen Flow-Matching Robot Policies with Success and Failure Traces
  9. Robotic Video World Models: A Survey of Applications, Research Challenges, Future Directions
  10. CoRef-GS: Cooperative Referring Gaussian Splatting for Multi-Agent Scene Understanding
  11. Coding Agents with an Obstacle-Aware Harness for Safe Robot Manipulation
  12. HEROIC: Heterogeneous Evidential Reasoning for Open-Vocabulary Identification and Cross-Robot Collaboration
  13. Recovering Aggressively Pruned Vision-Language-Action Models with Offline Hidden-State Distillation
  14. SceneTeract: Probing and Improving Agent-Aware Activity Reasoning in 3D Indoor Scenes
  15. HIL-UMI: Bringing Human-in-the-Loop Post-Training of Vision-Language-Action Models to Universal Manipulation Interface
  16. Imagine-TAMP: Imagination-Guided Task and Motion Planning in Partial Observability
  17. Agile-WAM: An Agile Tactile World Action Model for Contact-Rich Robot Control
  18. ANCHOR: A Physically Grounded Closed-Loop Framework for Robust Home-Service Mobile Manipulation
  19. Hybrid Residual Reinforcement Learning for Contact-Rich Robotic Book Insertion
  20. VABench: Measuring Embodied Spatial Intelligence through Visual Demonstrations, Active Perception, and Metric Control
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Robotics

689 papers

Top Topics (10)

Robotics487
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition91
Artificial Intelligence34
Machine Learning21
Robot Manipulation and Learning15
Multimodal Machine Learning Applications9
Reinforcement Learning in Robotics7
Systems and Control3
Human Pose and Action Recognition3
Computation and Language3

Top Publications (20)

1.Civil: causal and intuitive visual imitation learning2.Explicit Language Memory for Long-Horizon Planning in Vision-Language-Action Models3.Teach and Grow: An Agent-Centered Architecture for General Robot Learning4.PonderPounce: A Pretrained MLLM as an Episode Context Engine for Robot Control5.M2Tok: Multi-head Multi-codebook Discrete Action Tokenization for Vision-Language-Action Models6.MAGMA-GEN: Validated Recovery Supervision from Ambiguous Failures via Counterfactual Re-Execution7.Runtime Safety Filtering for Two-Terminal Hazards in Robotic Battery Recycling8.TraceFlow: Guiding Frozen Flow-Matching Robot Policies with Success and Failure Traces9.Robotic Video World Models: A Survey of Applications, Research Challenges, Future Directions10.CoRef-GS: Cooperative Referring Gaussian Splatting for Multi-Agent Scene Understanding11.Coding Agents with an Obstacle-Aware Harness for Safe Robot Manipulation12.HEROIC: Heterogeneous Evidential Reasoning for Open-Vocabulary Identification and Cross-Robot Collaboration13.Recovering Aggressively Pruned Vision-Language-Action Models with Offline Hidden-State Distillation14.SceneTeract: Probing and Improving Agent-Aware Activity Reasoning in 3D Indoor Scenes15.HIL-UMI: Bringing Human-in-the-Loop Post-Training of Vision-Language-Action Models to Universal Manipulation Interface16.Imagine-TAMP: Imagination-Guided Task and Motion Planning in Partial Observability17.Agile-WAM: An Agile Tactile World Action Model for Contact-Rich Robot Control18.ANCHOR: A Physically Grounded Closed-Loop Framework for Robust Home-Service Mobile Manipulation19.Hybrid Residual Reinforcement Learning for Contact-Rich Robotic Book Insertion20.VABench: Measuring Embodied Spatial Intelligence through Visual Demonstrations, Active Perception, and Metric Control
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