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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 ✕POINav: Benchmarking and Enhancing Final-Meters Arrival in Real-World Vision-Language Navigation
Ruiyan Gong, Meisheng Zhang, Yuxiang Zhao +12 more
2026
Visualizing Latent Phase Structures in Locomotion Policies: A Multi-Environment Study with Temporal Feature Extension
Daisuke Yasui, Toshitaka Matuki, Hiroshi Sato
2026
STR Robot: Design of an Autonomous Mobile Robot from Simulation to Reality
Vinh Nguyen, Gia-Uy Le, Tien-Dat Nguyen +2 more
2026
S-Cheetah: A Novel Quadrupedal Robot with a 3-DOF Active Spine Learning Agile Locomotion
Zimu Li, Weibang Bai
2026
Skin Deep: a novel biomimetic control strategy for rectilinear locomotion in snake robots.
Astley HC
Bioinspiration & biomimetics · 2026
AURA: Asymptotically Optimal Uncertainty-Robust Replanning Algorithm for Kinodynamic Systems
Seyedali Golestaneh, Zhuoyun Zhong, Donghyung Lee +1 more
2026
Uni-LaViRA: Language-Vision-Robot Actions Translation for Unified Embodied Navigation
Hongyu Ding, Sizhuo Zhang, Ziming Xu +13 more
2026
Learning to Balance Motor Thermal Safety and Quadrupedal Locomotion Performance with Residual Policy
Yuhang Wan, Weixian Lin, Letian Qian +5 more
2026
A Bioinspired Underwater Robot with a Latch-Mediated Soft Bistable Mechanism
Chongze Bi, Wenjie Wu, Zonghao Zuo +1 more
2026
Beyond Motion Primitives: Behavioral Activity Recognition from Head-Mounted IMU
Chung-Ta Huang, Leopold Das, Jeffrey Zhou +10 more
2026
The interfacial origin of self-diffusiophoretic propulsion: Bridging theory and experiment in colloidal motors.
Pan X, Yang L, He Q
Advances in colloid and interface science · 2026
RCSP: Risk-Sensitive Conjectural Scenario Planning for Safe Dynamic Robot Navigation
Zhengye Han, Quanyan Zhu
2026
Robust Tracking of Curvature-Constrained Paths for Uncertain Dubins Systems
Xingjian Xue, Sze Zheng Yong
2026
MIND: Multi-Scale Intent Diffusion for Text-Driven Physics-Based Humanoid Control
Bin Li, Ruichi Zhang, Han Liang +4 more
2026
ParkourFormer: Integrating Predictive Supervision and Sequence Modeling into Parkour Locomotion
Yanheng Mai, Wenhao Xu, Zirui Huang +6 more
2026
Learning, locomotion, and navigation of soft synthetic snakes in three-dimensional, heterogeneous environments
Xiaotian Zhang, Ali Albazroun, Tixian Wang +3 more
2026
Bridging the Gap: Enabling Soft Actor Critic for High Performance Legged Locomotion
Gianluca Sabatini, Chenhao Li, Marco Hutter
2026
Towards Low-Gravity Planetary Exploration using Reinforcement Learning for Walking, Jumping, and In-flight Attitude Control
Jørgen Anker Olsen, Kostas Alexis
2026
MuGen: Multi-Skill Generative Locomotion Controller for Humanoid Robots
Yusen Feng, Xiang Wang, Heyuan Yao +7 more
2026
Polymander II: an amphibious salamander-inspired robot with contact and flow sensors
Qiyuan Fu, Sudong Lee, Andrea Grillo +4 more
2026
Physics-informed sparse identification-based tube model predictive control for aerial vehicles
Tayyab Manzoor, Yasir Ali, Yuanqing Xia +2 more
2026
Multi-Floor Exploration for Ground Robots via an Incremental Reachable Graph and Structural Priors
Zhiwen Zhu, Jiaqi Chen, Xiangyi Huang +2 more
2026
ChainFlow-VLA: Causal Flow Planning with Vision-Language Models
Xiyang Wang, Xinlin Wang, Tingguang Zhou +7 more
2026
Four Simple Proprioceptive Estimators for Legged Robots
Frank Dellaert, Chiyun Noh, Varun Agrawal +1 more
2026