applications.md

🏠 Table of Contents

• Application
  • Household
  • Agriculture
  • Service
  • Art
  • AI4Science
  • Sports
  • Entertrainment

Household

Title	Venue	Date	Code
Dress
Bimanual Robot-Assisted Dressing: A Spherical Coordinate-Based Strategy for Tight-Fitting Garments	IROS 2025	2025-08-17	-
Cook
ForceMimic: Force-Centric Imitation Learning with Force-Motion Capture System for Contact-Rich Manipulation	ICRA 2025	2024-10-10	Project
Feed
Adaptive Visual Imitation Learning for Robotic Assisted Feeding Across Varied Bowl Configurations and Food Types	ICRAW 2024	2024-03-19	-
VAPORS: Learning Sequential Acquisition Policies for Robot-Assisted Feeding	CoRL 2023	2023-09-11	Project
Scoop & Pick
Replaceable Bit-based Gripper for Picking Cluttered Food Items	RA-L 2026	2026-01-01	-
GRITS: A Spillage-Aware Guided Diffusion Policy for Robot Food Scooping Tasks	ICRA 2026	2023-10-01	-
Assist
Point and Go: Intuitive Reference Frame Reallocation in Mode Switching for Assistive Robotics	ICRA 2025	2025-10-09	-
PrioriTouch: Adapting to User Contact Preferences for Whole-Arm Physical Human-Robot Interaction	CoRL 2025	2025-09-22	Project
TASC: Task-Aware Shared Control for Teleoperated Manipulation	arXiv	2025-09-12	Github
Towards the Development of a Soft Manipulator as An Assistive Robot for Personal Care of Elderly People	IJARS 2017	2017-04-11	-
Stow
Predicting Object Interactions with Behavior Primitives: An Application in Stowing Tasks	CoRL 2023	2023-09-28	Github
Object Rearrangement
PACA: Perspective-Aware Cross-Attention Representation for Zero-Shot Scene Rearrangement	WACV 2025	2024-10-29	-
LGMCTS: Language-Guided Monte-Carlo Tree Search for Executable Semantic Object Rearrangement	IROS 2024	2023-09-27	Github
LLM-GROP: Task and Motion Planning with Large Language Models for Object Rearrangement	IROS 2023	2023-03-10	Colab
DALL-E-Bot: Introducing Web-Scale Diffusion Models to Robotics	RA-L 2023	2022-10-05	Project
Tool Manipulation
How to Peel with a Knife: Aligning Fine-Grained Manipulation with Human Preference	arXiv	2026-03-03	Github
Grasp to Act: Dexterous Grasping for Tool Use in Dynamic Settings	arXiv	2026-02-24	Project
SimToolReal: An Object-Centric Policy for Zero-Shot Dexterous Tool Manipulation	arXiv	2026-02-18	Github
Semantic-Contact Fields for Category-Level Generalizable Tactile Tool Manipulation	arXiv	2026-02-14	Project
GET-USE: Learning Generalized Tool Usage for Bimanual Mobile Manipulation via Simulated Embodiment Extensions	IROS 2025	2025-10-29	-
RobotSmith: Generative Robotic Tool Design for Acquisition of Complex Manipulation Skills	NeurIPS 2025	2025-06-17	Project
FUNCTO: Function-Centric One-Shot Imitation Learning for Tool Manipulation	arXiv	2025-02-17	Github
Tool-as-Interface: Learning Robot Policies from Human Tool Usage through Imitation Learning	ICRAW 2025	2025-04-06	Github
Leveraging Language for Accelerated Learning of Tool Manipulation	CoRL 2023	2022-06-27	Github
Non-prehensile Manipulation
AdaptPNP: Integrating Prehensile and Non-Prehensile Skills for Adaptive Robotic Manipulation	arXiv	2025-11-14	-
HACMan: Learning Hybrid Actor-Critic Maps for 6D Non-Prehensile Manipulation	CoRL 2023	2023-05-06	Github

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Industrial

Title	Venue	Date	Code
FactoryNet: A Large-Scale Dataset toward Industrial Time-Series Foundation Models	arXiv	2026-05-09	Github
Agile-VLA: Few-Shot Industrial Pose Rectification via Implicit Affordance Anchoring	arXiv	2026-03-24	-
SELF-VLA: A Skill Enhanced Agentic Vision-Language-Action Framework for Contact-Rich Disassembly	arXiv	2026-03-10	-
Vision-Language-Action Models for Selective Robotic Disassembly: A Case Study on Critical Component Extraction from Desktops	arXiv	2025-12-04	-
From Observation to Action: Latent Action-based Primitive Segmentation for VLA Pre-training in Industrial Settings	arXiv	2025-11-26	-
Vision-based Manipulation of Transparent Plastic Bags in Industrial Setups	frobt 2025	2024-11-14	-
A Flexible Manufacturing Assembly System with Deep Reinforcement Learning	Control Engineering Practice 2022	2021-10-25	-
Toward Fully Autonomous Mobile Manipulation for Industrial Environments	IJARS 2017	2017-07-14	-
RobotML for Industrial Robots: Design and Simulation of Manipulation Scenarios	ETFA 2016	2016-11-07	-

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Service

Title	Venue	Date	Code
SABER: A Scalable Action-Based Embodied Dataset for Real-World VLA Adaptation	arXiv	2026-05-10	Project
CANINE: Coaching Visually Impaired Users for Interactive Navigation with a Robot Guide Dog	RSS 2026	2026-05-19	Project

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Agriculture

Title	Venue	Date	Code
HarvestFlex: Strawberry Harvesting via Vision-Language-Action Policy Adaptation in the Wild	arXiv	2026-03-06	-
Task-Relevant and Irrelevant Region-Aware Augmentation for Generalizable Vision-Based Imitation Learning in Agricultural Manipulation	arXiv	2026-03-05	-
UNCLE-Grasp: Uncertainty-Aware Grasping of Leaf-Occluded Strawberries	arXiv	2026-01-20	-
Vision-Based Early Fault Diagnosis and Self-Recovery for Strawberry Harvesting Robots	arXiv	2026-01-05	-
Automated Behavior Planning for Fruit Tree Pruning via Redundant Robot Manipulators: Addressing the Behavior Planning Challenge	RAM 2025	2025-10-14	-
Vision-Guided Targeted Grasping and Vibration for Robotic Pollination in Controlled Environments	arXiv	2025-10-07	-
Learning to Pick: A Visuomotor Policy for Clustered Strawberry Picking	TAFE 2026	2025-09-18	-
Find the Fruit: Designing a Zero-Shot Sim2Real Deep RL Planner for Occlusion Aware Plant Manipulation	arXiv	2025-05-22	-
ChicGrasp: Imitation-Learning based Customized Dual-Jaw Gripper Control for Delicate, Irregular Bio-products Manipulation	Adv. Robot. 2025	2025-05-13	-
Autonomous Robotic Pepper Harvesting: Imitation Learning in Unstructured Agricultural Environments	RA-L 2025	2024-11-15	-
RICE: Reactive Interaction Controller for Cluttered Canopy Environment	RA-L 2025	2025-06-12	-
Enhanced View Planning for Robotic Harvesting: Tackling Occlusions with Imitation Learning	ICRA 2025	2025-03-13	-

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Art

Title	Venue	Date	Code
ScanDP: Generalizable 3D Scanning with Diffusion Policy	arXiv	2026-03-11	Project
DexDrummer: In-Hand, Contact-Rich, and Long-Horizon Dexterous Robot Drumming	arXiv	2026-03-23	Github
HandelBot: Real-World Piano Playing via Fast Adaptation of Dexterous Robot Policies	arXiv	2026-03-12	Github
Dexterous Robotic Piano Playing at Scale	arXiv	2025-11-04	-
PhotoAgent: A Robotic Photographer with Spatial and Aesthetic Understanding	ICRA 2026	2026-03-24	-
Learning to Play Piano in the Real World	arXiv	2025-03-19	Github
RP1M: A Large-Scale Motion Dataset for Piano Playing with Bi-Manual Dexterous Robot Hands	CoRL 2024	2024-08-20	Github
DeepCraft: Imitation Learning Method in a Cointelligent Design to Production Process to Deliver Architectural Scenarios	AI 2024	2024-04-02	-
Style Generation in Robot Calligraphy with Deep Generative Adversarial Networks	arXiv	2023-12-15	-
End-to-end Manipulator Calligraphy Planning via Variational Imitation Learning	arXiv	2023-04-06	-
RoboCoDraw: Robotic Avatar Drawing with GAN-based Style Transfer and Time-efficient Path Optimization	AAAI 2020	2019-12-11	-

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AI4Science

Title	Venue	Date	Code
Medical Science
MoE-ACT: Improving Surgical Imitation Learning Policies through Supervised Mixture-of-Experts	arXiv	2026-01-29	-
SurgWorld: Learning Surgical Robot Policies from Videos via World Modeling	arXiv	2025-12-29	-
SurgiPose: Estimating Surgical Tool Kinematics from Monocular Video for Surgical Robot Learning	IROS 2025	2025-12-19	-
UltraDP: Generalizable Carotid Ultrasound Scanning with Force-Aware Diffusion Policy	IROS 2025	2025-11-19	-
Cosmos-Surg-dVRK: World Foundation Model-based Automated Online Evaluation of Surgical Robot Policy Learning	arXiv	2025-10-17	-
Learning Surgical Robotic Manipulation with 3D Spatial Priors	CVPR 2026	2026-03-04	-
A Vision-Language-Action Model for Adaptive Ultrasound-Guided Needle Insertion and Needle Tracking	ICRA 2026	2026-04-22	-
Give me scissors: Collision-Free Dual-Arm Surgical Assistive Robot for Instrument Delivery	ICRA 2026	2026-03-03	Github
Learning to Perform Low-Contact Autonomous Nasotracheal Intubation by Recurrent Action-Confidence Chunking with Transformer	IROS 2025	2025-08-03	-
CapsDT: Diffusion-Transformer for Capsule Robot Manipulation	IROS 2025	2025-06-19	-
S3D: A Spatial Steerable Surgical Drilling Framework for Robotic Spinal Fixation Procedures	IROS 2025	2025-07-02	-
SRT-H: A Hierarchical Framework for Autonomous Surgery via Language Conditioned Imitation Learning	SR 2025	2025-05-15	Project
SonoGym: High Performance Simulation for Challenging Surgical Tasks with Robotic Ultrasound	NeurIPS D&B 2025	2025-07-01	Github
Surgical Robot Transformer (SRT): Imitation Learning for Surgical Tasks	CoRL 2024	2024-07-17	Project
3D Perception based Imitation Learning under Limited Demonstration for Laparoscope Control in Robotic Surgery	ICRA 2022	2022-04-07	-
Collaborative Robot-Assisted Endovascular Catheterization with Generative Adversarial Imitation Learning	ICRA 2020	2020-09-15	-
Biology
BioProVLA-Agent: An Affordable, Protocol-Driven, Vision-Enhanced VLA-Enabled Embodied Multi-Agent System with Closed-Loop-Capable Reasoning for Biological Laboratory Manipulation	arXiv	2026-05-08	-
Micro-Dexterity in Biological Micromanipulation: Embodiment, Perception, and Control	arXiv	2026-04-13	-
Learning From a Steady Hand: A Weakly Supervised Agent for Robot Assistance under Microscopy	arXiv	2026-01-28	-
RoboCulture: A Robotics Platform for Automated Biological Experimentation	arXiv	2025-05-20	-
Real-Time Spatiotemporal Assistance for Micromanipulation Using Imitation Learning	RA-L 2024	2024-02-14	-
Chemical
Sci-VLA: Agentic VLA Inference Plugin for Long-Horizon Tasks in Scientific Experiments	arXiv	2026-02-10	-
CAPER: Constrained and Procedural Reasoning for Robotic Scientific Experiments	arXiv	2026-02-10	-
A Multiagent-Driven Robotic AI Chemist Enabling Autonomous Chemical Research On Demand	JACS 2025	2025-03-08	-
Aerospace
Assembling Solar Panels by Dual Robot Arms Towards Full Autonomous Lunar Base Construction	arXiv	2026-01-09	-
Space Robotics Bench: Robot Learning Beyond Earth	CASE 2025	2025-09-27	Github
Enhancing Autonomous Manipulator Control with Human-in-loop for Uncertain Assembly Environments	CASE 2025	2025-07-15	-
Imitation Learning for Autonomous Trajectory Learning of Robot Arms in Space	arXiv	2020-08-10	-
Others
LabUtopia: High-Fidelity Simulation and Hierarchical Benchmark for Scientific Embodied Agents	NeurIPS D&B 2025	2025-05-28	-

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Sports

Title	Venue	Date	Code
HumanX: Toward Agile and Generalizable Humanoid Interaction Skills from Human Videos	arXiv	2026-02-02	Project
Humanoid Whole-Body Badminton via Multi-Stage Reinforcement Learning	arXiv	2025-11-14	Project
SpikePingpong: Spike Vision-based Fast-Slow Pingpong Robot System	ICLR 2026	2025-06-07	-
Learning Coordinated Badminton Skills for Legged Manipulators	SR 2025	2025-05-29	-
Sample-efficient Reinforcement Learning in Robotic Table Tennis	ICRA 2021	2020-11-06	-

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Entertrainment

Title	Venue	Date	Code
DexHoldem: Playing Texas Hold'em with Dexterous Embodied System	arXiv	2026-05-18	Project
System Design for Maintaining Internal State Consistency in Long-Horizon Robotic Tabletop Games	arXiv	2026-03-26	-

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