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cs.RO2026

CARD: Contact-Anchored Retargeting for Dexterous Manipulation

Cunxi Dai, Botao He, Francois R Hogan +7

Humans are dexterous, but traditional data collection paradigms such as teleoperation, kinesthetic teaching, and wearable exoskeletons force humans to act through the robot embodim…

cs.RO2026

EmbodyHOI: Embodiment-Aware Generation of Hand-Object Interactions for Humanoid Dexterous Manipulation

Chaitanya Chawla, Kartik Sharma, Ananya Bal +2

Humanoid dexterous manipulation needs reference motions that are both semantically rich and kinematically feasible for the target robot. Text-conditioned hand-object interaction (H…

cs.RO2026

Memory Without Curation: Learning Multi-Stream Latent Memory for Robot Policies

Yilin Wu, Rutav Shah, Shuaiyi Huang +5

It is widely appreciated that robotic policies require long-term memory to perform complex tasks. However, directly conditioning policies on all past observations leaves policy lea…

cs.RO2026

PanTact: Teaching Whole-Body Dexterity with a Wearable Contact Interface

Xiaomeng Xu, Han Zhang, Zhian Ruan +6

Humanoid robots have many degrees of freedom and contact surfaces, yet most loco-manipulation research restricts manipulation to the hands and avoids other body contacts with the e…

cs.RO2026

Fly-by-Code: Embodied Coding Agents for Aerial Manipulation with Active Visual and Physical Feedback

Jaewoo Lee, Jeongyeon Seo, Sihyun Cho +10

Embodied coding agents construct robot policies from natural-language instructions by generating executable programs and refining them from execution feedback. This refinement assu…

cs.CV2026

InstanceBench: Diagnosing Referential Reasoning and Target Identity in Referring Expression Segmentation

Yuchen Li, Shaoyang Zhou, Yiran Wang +5

Referring Expression Segmentation (RES) links natural-language descriptions to pixel-level object masks. Yet standard evaluation provides limited insight into instance-level refere…

cs.RO2026

Trajectory Planning without Trajectory Data: A Manifold-Guided Approach

Silong Yong, Anji Liu, Cunxi Dai +5

A common way for trajectory planning is to leverage generative models trained on large collections of expert trajectories. At inference time, the model generates executable traject…

cs.RO2026

SimEX: Simulation-Integrated Robotics AutoResearch

Jiaheng Hu, Roberto Martin-Martin, Peter Stone +3

Coding agents powered by large language models (LLMs) have shown remarkable abilities to autonomously reason about and achieve goals in the digital world. However, bringing this su…

cs.RO2026

Counterfactual Video Generation Enables Scalable Humanoid Loco-Manipulation

Zihan Wang, Zhen Wu, Pieter Abbeel +6

Teaching humanoids loco-manipulation skills, such as carrying diverse objects, via visual imitation is a promising path toward generalist robots. However, collecting diverse, high-…

cs.RO2026

Humanoid Safe Stop via Learned Stoppability Value

Junfeng Long, Pieter Abbeel, Koushil Sreenath +3

Humanoid robots responding to emergency stop commands typically execute a fixed maneuver, without reasoning about whether a safe stop is actually feasible from the current state. W…

cs.RO2026

Worlds in One Demo: A Synthetic Data Engine for Learning Open-World Mobile Manipulation

Lingxiao Guo, Huanyu Li, Guanya Shi

Learning open-world mobile manipulation policies requires vast data to achieve spatial generalization, long-horizon robustness, and scene generalization. Current prevailing data co…

cs.RO2026

ASPIRE: Agentic /Skills Discovery for Robotics

Runyu Lu, Yubo Wu, Ethan Kou +13

Traditional robot programming is notoriously challenging: it requires orchestrating multimodal perception, managing physical contact dynamics, and handling diverse environment conf…

cs.RO2026

VLK: Learning Humanoid Loco-Manipulation from Synthetic Interactions in Reconstructed Scenes

Yen-Jen Wang, Jiaman Li, Sirui Chen +9

Perception-based humanoid loco-manipulation requires connecting egocentric observations and task instructions to whole-body motion. Learning this mapping requires synchronized egoc…

cs.RO2026

FADA: Few-Shot Domain Adaptation via Dynamics Alignment for Humanoid Control

Angchen Xie, Nikhil Sobanbabu, Ishayu Shikhare +3

High-precision humanoid control is limited by target-domain dynamics mismatch, where the same control objective can induce different realized motions under changes in terrain, payl…

cs.RO2026

SceneBot: Contact-Prompted General Humanoid Whole Body Tracking with Scene-Interaction

Sirui Chen, Shibo Zhao, Zhen Wu +3

Current humanoid reinforcement-learning policies excel at free-space motions but struggle with contact-rich tasks, as pure kinematic tracking cannot resolve the physical ambiguitie…

cs.RO2026

Scalable Behavior Cloning with Open Data, Training, and Evaluation

Arthur Allshire, Himanshu Gaurav Singh, Ritvik Singh +15

We introduce ABC, a fully open-source stack for manipulation with behavior cloning. At its core is ABC-130K: the largest open-source teleoperation dataset to date, featuring 3,500…

cs.AI2026

ENPIRE: Agentic Robot Policy Self-Improvement in the Real World

Wenli Xiao, Jia Xie, Tonghe Zhang +14

Achieving dexterous robotic manipulation in the real world heavily relies on human supervision and algorithm engineering, which becomes a central bottleneck in the pursuit of gener…

cs.RO2026

Mana: Dexterous Manipulation of Articulated Tools

Zhao-Heng Yin, Guanya Shi, Pieter Abbeel +1

Articulated tool manipulation remains a major challenge in dexterous robotics due to the need to coordinate internal degrees of freedom and contact-rich interactions. While prior w…

cs.RO2026

LUCID: Learning Embodiment-Agnostic Intent Models from Unstructured Human Videos for Scalable Dexterous Robot Skill Acquisition

Harsh Gupta, Guanya Shi, Wenzhen Yuan

The most widely-adopted robot learning pipelines today learn skills from robot demonstrations or structured human data, which are expensive to collect and tied to specific embodime…

cs.RO2026

LadderMan: Learning Humanoid Perceptive Ladder Climbing

Siheng Zhao, Yuanhang Zhang, Ziqi Lu +6

Humanoid robots hold great promise for operating in human-centered environments, yet ladder climbing remains one of the most challenging tasks due to sparse footholds and handholds…

cs.RO2026

RIO: Flexible Real-Time Robot I/O for Cross-Embodiment Robot Learning

Pablo Ortega-Kral, Eliot Xing, Arthur Bucker +13

Despite recent efforts to collect multi-task, multi-embodiment datasets, to design recipes for training Vision-Language-Action models (VLAs), and to showcase these models on differ…

cs.RO2026

Autonomous Integration and Improvement of Robotic Assembly using Skill Graph Representations

Peiqi Yu, Philip Huang, Chaitanya Chawla +3

Robotic assembly systems traditionally require substantial manual engineering effort to integrate new tasks, adapt to new environments, and improve performance over time. This pape…

cs.RO2026

CaP-X: A Framework for Benchmarking and Improving Coding Agents for Robot Manipulation

Letian Fu, Justin Yu, Karim El-Refai +13

"Code-as-Policy" considers how executable code can complement data-intensive Vision-Language-Action (VLA) methods, yet their effectiveness as autonomous controllers for embodied ma…

cs.CV2026

pySpatial: Generating 3D Visual Programs for Zero-Shot Spatial Reasoning

Zhanpeng Luo, Ce Zhang, Silong Yong +6

Multi-modal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have demonstrated strong capabilities in general-purpose perception and reasoning, but they still struggle with tasks that require spatial…