arxivcs.ROcs.AI2026-06-30
Robustness of Robotic Manipulation: Foundations and Frontiers
Yifei Dong, Zhanyi Sun, Lujie Yang, Manuel Baum, Kei Ikemura, Shuran Song, et al.
Humans and animals exhibit remarkable robustness in physical manipulation, yet robots remain far behind. Progress toward human-level manipulation robustness is hindered by the absence of a unified and systematic understanding: different subfields frame robustness in distinct ways…