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Robotics Research Publications
An open index of robotics research papers, refreshed daily.
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LOCOMOTION papers(1,239)
Clear ✕Design, Locomotion, and Control of Amphibious Robots: Recent Advances
Yi Jin, Chang Liu, Roger D. Quinn +2 more
2026
Gait Asymmetry from Unilateral Weakness and Improvement With Ankle Assistance: a Reinforcement Learning based Simulation Study
Yifei Yuan, Ghaith Androwis, Xianlian Zhou
2026
PEPA: a Persistently Autonomous Embodied Agent with Personalities
Kaige Liu, Yang Li, Lijun Zhu +1 more
2026
Scout-Rover cooperation: online terrain strength mapping and traversal risk estimation for planetary-analog explorations
Shipeng Liu, J. Diego Caporale, Yifeng Zhang +17 more
2026
Design and Biomechanical Evaluation of a Lightweight Low-Complexity Soft Bilateral Ankle Exoskeleton
Josée Mallah, Zakii Javed, Zafer Azak +2 more
2026
CapNav: Benchmarking Vision Language Models on Capability-conditioned Indoor Navigation
Xia Su, Ruiqi Chen, Benlin Liu +4 more
2026
Snapping Actuators with Asymmetric and Sequenced Motion
Xin Li, Ye Jin, Mohsen Jafarpour +2 more
2026
Learning Smooth Time-Varying Linear Policies with an Action Jacobian Penalty
Zhaoming Xie, Kevin Karol, Jessica Hodgins
2026
Role-Adaptive Collaborative Formation Planning for Team of Quadruped Robots in Cluttered Environments
Magnus Norén, Marios-Nektarios Stamatopoulos, Avijit Banerjee +1 more
2026
GrandTour: A Legged Robotics Dataset in the Wild for Multi-Modal Perception and State Estimation
Jonas Frey, Turcan Tuna, Frank Fu +5 more
2026
Cross-Embodiment Offline Reinforcement Learning for Heterogeneous Robot Datasets
Haruki Abe, Takayuki Osa, Yusuke Mukuta +1 more
2026
Whole-Brain Connectomic Graph Model Enables Whole-Body Locomotion Control in Fruit Fly
Zehao Jin, Yaoye Zhu, Chen Zhang +1 more
2026
Proximal powered knee placement: a case study
Kyle R. Embry, Lorenzo Vianello, Jim Lipsey +8 more
2026
Contact-Anchored Proprioceptive Odometry for Quadruped Robots
Minxing Sun, Yao Mao
2026
VIGOR: Visual Goal-In-Context Inference for Unified Humanoid Fall Safety
Osher Azulay, Zhengjie Xu, Andrew Scheffer +1 more
2026
Dynamic Modeling and MPC for Locomotion of Tendon-Driven Soft Quadruped
Saumya Karan, Neerav Maram, Suraj Borate +1 more
2026
System Identification under Constraints and Disturbance: A Bayesian Estimation Approach
Sergi Martinez, Steve Tonneau, Carlos Mastalli
2026
Dual-Quadruped Collaborative Transportation in Narrow Environments via Safe Reinforcement Learning
Zhezhi Lei, Zhihai Bi, Wenxin Wang +1 more
2026
Perceptive Humanoid Parkour: Chaining Dynamic Human Skills via Motion Matching
Zhen Wu, Xiaoyu Huang, Lujie Yang +8 more
2026
Grip as Needed, Glide on Demand: Ultrasonic Lubrication for Robotic Locomotion
Mostafa A. Atalla, Daan van Bemmel, Jack Cummings +3 more
2026
OSCAR: An Ovipositor-Inspired Self-Propelling Capsule Robot for Colonoscopy
Mostafa A. Atalla, Anand S. Sekar, Remi van Starkenburg +4 more
2026
Learning Transferability: A Two-Stage Reinforcement Learning Approach for Enhancing Quadruped Robots' Performance in U-Shaped Stair Climbing
Baixiao Huang, Baiyu Huang, Yu Hou
2026
SENSE-STEP: Learning Sim-to-Real Locomotion for a Sensory-Enabled Soft Quadruped Robot
Storm de Kam, Ebrahim Shahabi, Cosimo Della Santina
2026
TRANS: Terrain-aware Reinforcement Learning for Agile Navigation of Quadruped Robots under Social Interactions
Wei Zhu, Irfan Tito Kurniawan, Ye Zhao +1 more
2026