Awesome Manipulation
Manipulation is one of the most active areas in Awesome Robotics β 11,647 papers in this collection, evaluated on datasets like LIBERO, RLBench, Meta-World. A strong starting point is "Learning Hand-eye Coordination For Robotic Grasping With Deep Learning And Large-scale Data Collection".
Datasets & benchmarks
Key papers
- Learning Hand-eye Coordination For Robotic Grasping With Deep Learning And Large-scale Data Collection (2016)Sergey Levine, Peter Pastor, Alex Krizhevsky, et al.23.20
- Learning Dexterous In-hand Manipulation (2018)Openai, Marcin Andrychowicz, Bowen Baker, et al.22.57
- Graspness Discovery In Clutters For Fast And Accurate Grasp Detection (2024)Chenxi Wang, Hao-Shu Fang, Minghao Gou, et al.21.63
- Closing The Loop For Robotic Grasping: A Real-time, Generative Grasp Synthesis Approach (2018)Douglas Morrison, Peter Corke, JΓΌrgen Leitner20.12
- Learning Complex Dexterous Manipulation With Deep Reinforcement Learning And Demonstrations (2017)Aravind Rajeswaran, Vikash Kumar, Abhishek Gupta, et al.19.85
- Diffusion Policy: Visuomotor Policy Learning Via Action Diffusion (2023)Cheng Chi, Zhenjia Xu, Siyuan Feng, et al.19.76
- Learning Joint Reconstruction Of Hands And Manipulated Objects (2019)Yana Hasson, GΓΌl Varol, Dimitrios Tzionas, et al.19.73
- Antipodal Robotic Grasping Using Generative Residual Convolutional Neural Network (2019)Sulabh Kumra, Shirin Joshi, Ferat Sahin19.27
- Deep Visual Foresight For Planning Robot Motion (2016)Chelsea Finn, Sergey Levine19.03
- Pointnetgpd: Detecting Grasp Configurations From Point Sets (2018)Hongzhuo Liang, Xiaojian Ma, Shuang Li, et al.18.90
- Contact-graspnet: Efficient 6-dof Grasp Generation In Cluttered Scenes (2021)Martin Sundermeyer, Arsalan Mousavian, Rudolph Triebel, et al.18.71
- More Than A Feeling: Learning To Grasp And Regrasp Using Vision And Touch (2018)Roberto Calandra, Andrew Owens, Dinesh Jayaraman, et al.18.49
- SimpleVLA-RL: Scaling VLA Training via Reinforcement Learning (2025)Haozhan Li et al.18.40
- Efficient Learning Of Goal-oriented Push-grasping Synergy In Clutter (2021)Kechun Xu, Hongxiang Yu, Qianen Lai, et al.18.32
- Gendexgrasp: Generalizable Dexterous Grasping (2022)Puhao Li, Tengyu Liu, Yuyang Li, et al.18.02
- Regnet: Region-based Grasp Network For End-to-end Grasp Detection In Point Clouds (2020)Binglei Zhao, Hanbo Zhang, Xuguang Lan, et al.17.99
- Kernelized Movement Primitives (2017)Yanlong Huang, Leonel Rozo, JoΓ£o SilvΓ©rio, et al.17.74
- A Unified MPC Framework For Whole-body Dynamic Locomotion And Manipulation (2021)Jean-Pierre Sleiman, Farbod Farshidian, Maria Vittoria Minniti, et al.17.66
- High Precision Grasp Pose Detection In Dense Clutter (2016)Marcus Gualtieri, Andreas Ten Pas, Kate Saenko, et al.17.55
- Fully Convolutional Grasp Detection Network With Oriented Anchor Box (2018)Xinwen Zhou, Xuguang Lan, Hanbo Zhang, et al.17.24
- Making Sense Of Vision And Touch: Learning Multimodal Representations For Contact-rich Tasks (2019)Michelle A. Lee, Yuke Zhu, Peter Zachares, et al.17.21
- Diffusion-based Generation, Optimization, And Planning In 3D Scenes (2023)Siyuan Huang, Zan Wang, Puhao Li, et al.16.93
- Automated Rendezvous & Docking Using 3D Vision (2022)Farhad Aghili16.91
- Text2motion: From Natural Language Instructions To Feasible Plans (2023)Kevin Lin, Christopher Agia, Toki Migimatsu, et al.16.90
- Deep Learning A Grasp Function For Grasping Under Gripper Pose Uncertainty (2016)Edward Johns, Stefan Leutenegger, Andrew J. Davison16.77
- 6-DOF Grasping For Target-driven Object Manipulation In Clutter (2019)Adithyavairavan Murali, Arsalan Mousavian, Clemens Eppner, et al.16.67
- Efficient Heatmap-guided 6-dof Grasp Detection In Cluttered Scenes (2024)Siang Chen, Wei Tang, Pengwei Xie, et al.16.59
- Deep Reinforcement Learning For The Control Of Robotic Manipulation: A Focussed Mini-review (2021)Rongrong Liu, Florent Nageotte, Philippe Zanne, et al.16.55
- ARCTIC: A Dataset For Dexterous Bimanual Hand-object Manipulation (2022)Zicong Fan, Omid Taheri, Dimitrios Tzionas, et al.16.49
- Pddlstream: Integrating Symbolic Planners And Blackbox Samplers Via Optimistic Adaptive Planning (2018)Caelan Reed Garrett, TomΓ‘s Lozano-PΓ©rez, Leslie Pack Kaelbling16.47
- 3D Diffusion Policy: Generalizable Visuomotor Policy Learning Via Simple 3D Representations (2024)Yanjie Ze, Gu Zhang, Kangning Zhang, et al.16.45
- Grasping In The Wild:learning 6dof Closed-loop Grasping From Low-cost Demonstrations (2019)Shuran Song, Andy Zeng, Johnny Lee, et al.16.41
- Hand-object Contact Consistency Reasoning For Human Grasps Generation (2021)Hanwen Jiang, Shaowei Liu, Jiashun Wang, et al.16.39
- Robot Hand-eye Calibration Using Structure-from-motion (2023)Nicolas Andreff, Radu Horaud, Bernard Espiau16.36
- Universal Manipulation Interface: In-the-wild Robot Teaching Without In-the-wild Robots (2024)Cheng Chi, Zhenjia Xu, Chuer Pan, et al.16.12
- Actor-critic Reinforcement Learning For Control With Stability Guarantee (2020)Minghao Han, Lixian Zhang, Jun Wang, et al.16.10
- Self-supervised Learning Of State Estimation For Manipulating Deformable Linear Objects (2019)Mengyuan Yan, Yilin Zhu, Ning Jin, et al.16.05
- Learning Force Control For Contact-rich Manipulation Tasks With Rigid Position-controlled Robots (2020)Cristian Camilo Beltran-Hernandez, Damien Petit, Ixchel G. Ramirez-Alpizar, et al.16.03
- Vision-based Multi-task Manipulation For Inexpensive Robots Using End-to-end Learning From Demonstration (2017)Rouhollah Rahmatizadeh, Pooya Abolghasemi, Ladislau BΓΆlΓΆni, et al.15.98
- DIPN: Deep Interaction Prediction Network With Application To Clutter Removal (2020)Baichuan Huang, Shuai D. Han, Abdeslam Boularias, et al.15.83
- Learning Robotic Assembly From CAD (2018)Garrett Thomas, Melissa Chien, Aviv Tamar, et al.15.80
- Dynamic Locomotion For Passive-ankle Biped Robots And Humanoids Using Whole-body Locomotion Control (2019)D. Kim, S. Jorgensen, J. Lee, et al.15.73
- Task And Motion Planning With Large Language Models For Object Rearrangement (2023)Yan Ding, Xiaohan Zhang, Chris Paxton, et al.15.62
- Object-independent Human-to-robot Handovers Using Real Time Robotic Vision (2020)Patrick Rosenberger, Akansel Cosgun, Rhys Newbury, et al.15.46
- Learning Dexterous Manipulation For A Soft Robotic Hand From Human Demonstration (2016)Abhishek Gupta, Clemens Eppner, Sergey Levine, et al.15.43
- RBO Hand 3 -- A Platform For Soft Dexterous Manipulation (2022)Steffen Puhlmann, Jason Harris, Oliver Brock15.43
- GOAL: Generating 4D Whole-body Motion For Hand-object Grasping (2021)Omid Taheri, Vasileios Choutas, Michael J. Black, et al.15.40
- More Than A Million Ways To Be Pushed: A High-fidelity Experimental Dataset Of Planar Pushing (2016)Kuan-Ting Yu, Maria Bauza, Nima Fazeli, et al.15.34
- Se(3)-tracknet: Data-driven 6D Pose Tracking By Calibrating Image Residuals In Synthetic Domains (2020)Bowen Wen, Chaitanya Mitash, Baozhang Ren, et al.15.31
- Robust, Occlusion-aware Pose Estimation For Objects Grasped By Adaptive Hands (2020)Bowen Wen, Chaitanya Mitash, Sruthi Soorian, et al.15.26
- A Deep Learning Approach To Grasping The Invisible (2019)Yang Yang, Hengyue Liang, Changhyun Choi15.25
- A Framework For Robot Manipulation: Skill Formalism, Meta Learning And Adaptive Control (2018)Lars Johannsmeier, Malkin Gerchow, Sami Haddadin15.16
- Learning To Rearrange Deformable Cables, Fabrics, And Bags With Goal-conditioned Transporter Networks (2020)Daniel Seita, Pete Florence, Jonathan Tompson, et al.15.16
- Learning Variable Impedance Control Via Inverse Reinforcement Learning For Force-related Tasks (2021)Xiang Zhang, Liting Sun, Zhian Kuang, et al.15.16
- Solving The Robot-world Hand-eye(s) Calibration Problem With Iterative Methods (2019)Amy Tabb, Khalil M. Ahmad Yousef15.13
- Unidexgrasp: Universal Robotic Dexterous Grasping Via Learning Diverse Proposal Generation And Goal-conditioned Policy (2023)Yinzhen Xu, Weikang Wan, Jialiang Zhang, et al.15.03
- Ffrob: Leveraging Symbolic Planning For Efficient Task And Motion Planning (2016)Caelan Reed Garrett, Tomas Lozano-Perez, Leslie Pack Kaelbling15.00
- Manipulation By Feel: Touch-based Control With Deep Predictive Models (2019)Stephen Tian, Frederik Ebert, Dinesh Jayaraman, et al.14.97
- Dexgraspnet: A Large-scale Robotic Dexterous Grasp Dataset For General Objects Based On Simulation (2022)Ruicheng Wang, Jialiang Zhang, Jiayi Chen, et al.14.69
- Dynamic Cloth Manipulation With Deep Reinforcement Learning (2019)Rishabh Jangir, Guillem Alenya, Carme Torras14.66