Jet Propulsion Laboratory Robotics
JPL's Robotics division comprises approximately 130 engineers developing robotic systems for space exploration and related terrestrial applications. They work on all aspects of robotics including design, control, perception, and autonomous operation for planetary rovers and spacecraft systems.
Notable achievements
Mars rovers (Curiosity, Perseverance), Ingenuity helicopter, sample collection systems
Notable work
Recent publications
All papers →Matched by this lab's specialties (keyword overlap + direct affiliation)
A digital twin-empowered resilient path-following approach for non-holonomic autonomous vehicles under DoS attacks
Hunain Kaisar, Muhammad Rehan, Ijaz Ahmed +1 more
Robotics and Autonomous Systems · 2026
A hierarchical approach to imitation learning for manipulation tasks requiring time varying forces
Rishabh Shukla, Adithya Santhosh, Shaili Gandhi +2 more
Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing · 2026
FloAff-Kitchen: Bridging Navigation and Manipulation via Canonical and Progressive Floor Affordance Learning
Ping Zhong, Manling Teng, Tao Wu +3 more
2026
VIA: Visual Interface Agent for Robot Control
Hengyuan Hu, Priya Sundaresan, Jensen Gao +1 more
2026
What Are We Actually Benchmarking in Robot Manipulation?
Tianchong Jiang, Xiangshan Tan, Samuel Wheeler +3 more
2026
DLO-Lab: Benchmarking Deformable Linear Object Manipulations with Differentiable Physics
Junyi Cao, Yian Wang, Ziyan Xiong +3 more
2026