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{2026}, note = {gid: icra26:2473}, } @inproceedings{Nam20266626, title = {Enhancing VLA Precision in Robotic Manipulation Via FiLM-Based Force/Torque-Vision Integration}, author = {Nam, Gunhee and Hong, Ayoung}, booktitle = {ICRA 2026}, year = {2026}, note = {gid: icra26:6626}, } @inproceedings{Cui20261382, title = {Learning End-To-End Dexterous Arm-Hand VLA Policies with Shared Autonomy: DexGrasp AI Copilot for Efficient Teleoperation}, author = {Cui, Yu and Zhang, Yujian and Tao, Lina and Li, Yang and Yi, Xinyu and Li, Zhibin (Alex)}, booktitle = {ICRA 2026}, year = {2026}, note = {gid: icra26:1382}, } @inproceedings{Liu20262929, title = {MLA: A Multisensory Language�Action Model for Multimodal Understanding and Forecasting in Robotic Manipulation}, author = {Liu, Zhuoyang and Liu, Jiaming and XU, Jiadong and Han, Nuowei and Gu, Chenyang and Chen, Hao and zhou, kaichen and Zhang, Renrui and Hsieh, Kai Chin and Wu, Kun and Che, Zhengping and Tang, Jian and Zhang, Shanghang}, booktitle = {ICRA 2026}, year = {2026}, note = {gid: icra26:2929}, } @inproceedings{Zhao20260209, title = {Dexora: Open-Source VLA for High-DoF Bimanual Dexterity}, author = {Zhao, Hang and Wang, Pengwei and Zhang, Shanghang and Yao, Guocai and Chen, Jianyu and Li, Hongyang and Zhao, Hao}, booktitle = {ICRA 2026}, year = {2026}, note = {gid: icra26:0209}, } @inproceedings{Chan20264774, title = {NeuroVLA: Surgical Scenario-Aware Learning of Debulking Skills in Endoscopic Robotic Neurosurgery Via Vision-Language-Action Model}, author = {Tat Ming Danny Chan, Hongbin Liu, Renzhi Wang, and Ren, Hongliang}, booktitle = {ICRA 2026}, year = {2026}, note = {gid: icra26:4774}, } @inproceedings{Ling20260741, title = {IMPACT: Intelligent Motion Planning with Acceptable Contact Trajectories Via Vision-Language Models}, author = {Ling, Yiyang and Owalekar, Karan and Adesanya, Oluwatobiloba and Bıyık, Erdem and Seita, Daniel}, booktitle = {ICRA 2026}, year = {2026}, note = {gid: icra26:0741}, } @inproceedings{Song20262270, title = {Rethinking the Practicality of Vision-Language-Action Model: A Comprehensive Benchmark and an Improved Baseline}, author = {Song, Wenxuan and Chen, Jiayi and Sun, Xiaoquan and Lei, Huashuo and Qin, Yikai and zhao, wei and Ding, Pengxiang and Zhao, Han and Wang, Tongxin and Hou, Pengxu and Zhong, Zhide and Yan, Haodong and Wang, Donglin and Ma, Jun and Li, Haoang}, booktitle = {ICRA 2026}, year = {2026}, note = {gid: icra26:2270}, } @inproceedings{Peng20261221, title = {DAM-VLA: A Dynamic Action Model-Based Vision-Language-Action Framework for Robot Manipulation}, author = {Peng, Xiongfeng and Yu, Jiaqian and li, dingzhe and Jin, Yixiang and Xu, Lu and Yamin, Mao and Zhang, Chao and Li, Weiming and Jang, Sujin and Lee, Dongwook and Ji, Daehyun}, booktitle = {ICRA 2026}, year = {2026}, note = {gid: icra26:1221}, } @inproceedings{Guo20264981, title = {OmniVLA: Physically-Grounded Multimodal VLA with Unified Multi-Sensor Perception for Robotic Manipulation}, author = {Guo, Heyu and Wang, Shanmu and Ma, Ruichun and Jiang, Shiqi and Ghasempour, Yasaman and Abari, Omid and Guo, Baining and Qiu, Lili}, booktitle = {ICRA 2026}, year = {2026}, note = {gid: icra26:4981}, } @inproceedings{Lee20264466, title = {ManipForce: Force-Guided Policy Learning with Frequency-Aware Representation for Contact-Rich Manipulation}, author = {Lee, Geonhyup and Lee, Youngjin and Kim, Kangmin and Lee, Seongju and Noh, Sangjun and Back, Seunghyeok and Lee, Kyoobin}, booktitle = {ICRA 2026}, year = {2026}, note = {gid: icra26:4466}, } @inproceedings{Park20265579, title = {IVRA: Improving Visual-Token Relations for Robot Action Policy with Training-Free Hint-Based Guidance}, author = {Park, Jongwoo and Ranasinghe, Kanchana and Jang, Jinhyeok and Mata, Cristina and Jang, Yoo Sung and Ryoo, Michael S.}, booktitle = {ICRA 2026}, year = {2026}, note = {gid: icra26:5579}, } @inproceedings{Rao20262197, title = {AugVLA-3D: Depth-Driven Feature Augmentation for Vision-Language-Action Models}, author = {Rao, Zhifeng and ∗ and Chen∗, Wenlong and Xie, Lei and Hua, Xia and Yin, Dongfu and Tian, Zhen and Yu, F. Richard}, booktitle = {ICRA 2026}, year = {2026}, note = {gid: icra26:2197}, } @inproceedings{Tai20262835, title = {RealMirror: A Comprehensive, Open-Source Vision-Language-Action Platform for Embodied AI}, author = {Tai, Cong and Zheng, Zhaoyu and Long, Haixu and Wu, Hansheng and Xiang, Haodong and Long, Zhengbin and Xiong, Jun and Shi, Rong and Zhang, Shizhuang and Qiu, Gang and Wang, He and Li, Ruifeng and Huang, Jun and Chang, Bin and Feng, Shuai and Shen, Tao}, booktitle = {ICRA 2026}, year = {2026}, note = {gid: icra26:2835}, } @inproceedings{Chen20264936, title = {Goal-VLA: Image-Generative VLMs as Object-Centric World Models Empowering Zero-shot Robot Manipulation}, author = {Chen, Haonan and Guo, Jingxiang and Wang, Bangjun and Zhang, Tianrui and Huang, Xuchuan and Hou, Yiwen and Zheng, Boren and Tie, Chenrui and Deng, Jiajun and Shao, Lin}, booktitle = {ICRA 2026}, year = {2026}, note = {gid: icra26:4936}, } @inproceedings{wenkaientuedusg20261603, title = {VLA-Reasoner: Empowering Vision-Language-Action Models with Reasoning Via Online Monte Carlo Tree Search}, author = {wenkai@e.ntu.edu.sg and ziwei.wang@ntu.edu.sg}, booktitle = {ICRA 2026}, year = {2026}, note = {gid: icra26:1603}, } @inproceedings{Jiang20261012, title = {The Better You Learn, the Smarter You Prune: Towards Efficient Vision-Language-Action Models Via Differentiable Token Pruning}, author = {Jiang, Titong and Jiang, Xuefeng and Ma, Yuan and Wen, Xin and Li, Bailin and Zhan, Kun and Jia, Peng and Liu, Yahui and Sun, Sheng and Lang, Xianpeng}, booktitle = {ICRA 2026}, year = {2026}, note = {gid: icra26:1012}, } @inproceedings{Chen20262915, title = {IntentionVLA: Generalizable and Efficient Embodied Intention Reasoning for Human�Robot Interaction}, author = {Chen, Yandu and Gu, Kefan and Wen, Yuqing and Zhao, Yucheng and Wang, Tiancai and Nie, Liqiang}, booktitle = {ICRA 2026}, year = {2026}, note = {gid: icra26:2915}, } @inproceedings{Chopra20261133, title = {EveryDayVLA: A Vision-Language-Action Model for Affordable Robotic Manipulation}, author = {Chopra, Samarth and McMoil, Alexander and Carnovale, Benjamin and Sokolson, Evan and Kubendran, Rajkumar and Dickerson, Samuel}, booktitle = {ICRA 2026}, year = {2026}, note = {gid: icra26:1133}, } @inproceedings{Zhu20263535, title = {ShapeForce: Low-Cost Soft Robotic Wrist for Contact-Rich Manipulation}, author = {Zhu, Jinxuan and Yan, Zihao and Xiao, Yangyu and Guo, Jingxiang and Tie, Chenrui and Cao, Xinyi and Zheng, Yuhang and Shao, Lin}, booktitle = {ICRA 2026}, year = {2026}, note = {gid: icra26:3535}, } @inproceedings{Yang20262348, title = {Exploiting Vulnerabilities: Universal Adversarial Attacks on Vision-Language-Action Models in Robotics}, author = {Yang, Songhua and Liu, Ziyu and Liu, Yuanwei and Li, Xuetao and Fei, Xuanye and Huang, He and WANG, Zheng and Li, Miao}, booktitle = {ICRA 2026}, year = {2026}, note = {gid: icra26:2348}, } @inproceedings{Plottel20266044, title = {Contact Detection and Manipulation with a Shape-Memory Alloy Based Soft Gripper}, author = {Plottel, Louis and Desatnik, Richard and Patel, Dinesh K. and LeDuc, Philip and Majidi, Carmel}, booktitle = {ICRA 2026}, year = {2026}, note = {gid: icra26:6044}, } @inproceedings{Zeng20264747, title = {VSL-Skin: Individually Addressable Phase-Change Voxel Skin for Variable-Stiffness and Virtual Joints Bridging Soft and Rigid Robots}, author = {Zeng, Zihan Oliver and AN, JIAJUN and Luk, Preston and Kaur, Upinder}, booktitle = {ICRA 2026}, year = {2026}, note = {gid: icra26:4747}, }