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Robot Manipulation and Learning

Last updated July 7, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
Sven Gronauer
Technical University of Munich
2
Bowen Wen
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
3
Jacky Liang
Charles Sturt University
4
Tony Z. Zhao
Stanford University
5
Zhibin Li
Center for Drug Evaluation and Research
6
Yisheng He
ShanghaiTech University
7
Dylan Drotman
University of California San Diego
8
Sheng Yu
Beijing Institute of Technology
9
Jihong Zhu
University of York
10
Chengxi Li
TU Wien

Rising Stars Papers

1
FoundationPose: Unified 6D Pose Estimation and Tracking of Novel Objects
Unknown Journal|2024
229 cit.
2
FoundationStereo: Zero-Shot Stereo Matching
Unknown Journal|2025
41 cit.
3
Unleashing mixed-reality capability in Deep Reinforcement Learning-based robot motion generation towards safe human–robot collaboration
Journal of Manufacturing Systems|2024
36 cit.
4
Do You Need a Hand? – A Bimanual Robotic Dressing Assistance Scheme
IEEE Transactions on Robotics|2024
33 cit.
5
A logistic-tent chaotic mapping Levenberg Marquardt algorithm for improving positioning accuracy of grinding robot
Scientific Reports|2024
23 cit.
6
Learning to Learn Faster from Human Feedback with Language Model Predictive Control
Unknown Journal|2024
22 cit.
7
Dynamically Tunable Chiroptical Activities of Flexible Chiral Plasmonic Film via Surface Buckling
Small|2024
13 cit.
8
CatFormer: Category-Level 6D Object Pose Estimation with Transformer
Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence|2024
12 cit.
9
An Efficient Robotic Pushing and Grasping Method in Cluttered Scene
IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics|2024
9 cit.
10
Robotic Grasp Detection With 6-D Pose Estimation Based on Graph Convolution and Refinement
IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics Systems|2024
8 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
Arash Ajoudani
Italian Institute of Technology
2
Matthias Plappert
OpenAI (United States)
3
Cewu Lu
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
4
Pai Zheng
Hong Kong Polytechnic University
5
Andy Zeng
Google (United States)
6
Animesh Garg
University of Toronto
7
Xiaolong Wang
Beijing Health Vocational College
8
Google Brain
Google (United States)
9
Mehmet R. Doğar
Middle East Technical University
10
Zahid Usman
University of Education

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
AlphaPose: Whole-Body Regional Multi-Person Pose Estimation and Tracking in Real-Time
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence|2022
672 cit.
2
Code as Policies: Language Model Programs for Embodied Control
Unknown Journal|2023
569 cit.
3
ProgPrompt: Generating Situated Robot Task Plans using Large Language Models
Unknown Journal|2023
511 cit.
4
Orbit: A Unified Simulation Framework for Interactive Robot Learning Environments
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters|2023
230 cit.
5
Maintenance planning recommendation of complex industrial equipment based on knowledge graph and graph neural network
Reliability Engineering & System Safety|2022
135 cit.
6
An LLM-based vision and language cobot navigation approach for Human-centric Smart Manufacturing
Journal of Manufacturing Systems|2024
120 cit.
7
TransCG: A Large-Scale Real-World Dataset for Transparent Object Depth Completion and a Grasping Baseline
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters|2022
116 cit.
8
VideoINR: Learning Video Implicit Neural Representation for Continuous Space-Time Super-Resolution
2022 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)|2022
100 cit.
9
Large language models for chemistry robotics
Autonomous Robots|2023
100 cit.
10
Leveraging error-assisted fine-tuning large language models for manufacturing excellence
Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing|2024
95 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Established & currently active

Current Senior Leaders Researchers

1
Aude Billard
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
2
Kouhei Ohnishi
Keio University
3
Oussama Khatib
Stanford University
4
Aaron M. Dollar
Yale University
5
Stefan Schaal
Google (United States)
6
Gerd Hirzinger
Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e. V. (DLR)
7
Danica Kragić
KTH Royal Institute of Technology
8
Darwin G. Caldwell
Italian Institute of Technology
9
Ian D. Walker
University of Wyoming
10
Jan Peters
Technische Universität Darmstadt

Current Senior Leaders Papers

1
Real-Time Obstacle Avoidance for Manipulators and Mobile Robots
The International Journal of Robotics Research|1986
7.6k cit.
2
Reinforcement learning in robotics: A survey
The International Journal of Robotics Research|2013
3.1k cit.
3
A unified approach for motion and force control of robot manipulators: The operational space formulation
IEEE Journal on Robotics and Automation|1987
2.9k cit.
4
Motion control for advanced mechatronics
IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics|1996
1.9k cit.
5
Real-time obstacle avoidance for manipulators and mobile robots
Unknown Journal|2005
1.7k cit.
6
Locally Weighted Learning
Artificial Intelligence Review|1997
1.7k cit.
7
Lower Extremity Exoskeletons and Active Orthoses: Challenges and State-of-the-Art
IEEE Transactions on Robotics|2008
1.3k cit.
8
Torque sensorless control in multidegree-of-freedom manipulator
IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics|1993
1.2k cit.
9
Soft Robotics: Biological Inspiration, State of the Art, and Future Research
Applied Bionics and Biomechanics|2008
1.2k cit.
10
Soft Robotics: Biological Inspiration, State of the Art, and Future Research
Applied Bionics and Biomechanics|2008
1.1k cit.

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