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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 ✕What Limits Vision-and-Language Navigation ?
Yunheng Wang, Yuetong Fang, Taowen Wang +9 more
2026
MUJICA: Multi-skill Unified Joint Integration of Control Architecture for Wheeled-Legged Robots
Yuqi Li, Peng Zhai, Yueqi Zhang +5 more
2026
The Unified Autonomy Stack: Toward a Blueprint for Generalizable Robot Autonomy
Mihir Dharmadhikari, Nikhil Khedekar, Mihir Kulkarni +7 more
2026
COSMIC: Concurrent Optimization of Structure, Material, and Integrated Control for robotic systems
Qinsong Guo, Liwei Wang
2026
A Proprioceptive-Only Benchmark for Quadruped State Estimation: ATE, RPE, and Runtime Trade-offs Between Filters and Smoothers
Ylenia Nisticò, João Carlos Virgolino Soares, Joan Solà +1 more
2026
VRA: Grounding Discrete-Time Joint Acceleration in Voltage-Constrained Actuation
Lingwei Zhang, Jiaming Wang, Tianlin Zhang +5 more
2026
EFGCL: Learning Dynamic Motion through Spotting-Inspired External Force Guided Curriculum Learning
Keita Yoneda, Kento Kawaharazuka, Kei Okada
2026
Explicit Stair Geometry Conditioning for Robust Humanoid Locomotion
Jianguo Zhang, Wentai Xu, Shusheng Ye +5 more
2026
Neuromorphic Reinforcement Learning for Quadruped Locomotion Control on Uneven Terrain
Zhuangyu Han, Abhronil Sengupta
2026
Constraint-Aware Diffusion Priors for High-Fidelity and Versatile Quadruped Locomotion
Jianhui Chen, Ruixin Zhan, Liu Liu +2 more
2026
Active Embodiment Identification with Reinforcement Learning for Legged Robots
Nico Bohlinger, Jan Peters
2026
Evaluation of an Actuated Spine in Agile Quadruped Locomotion
Nico Bohlinger, Piotr Kicki, Davide Tateo +2 more
2026
ReActor: Reinforcement Learning for Physics-Aware Motion Retargeting
David Müller, Agon Serifi, Sammy Christen +3 more
2026
Cycle-resolved Cephalopod-Inspired Pulsed-Jet Robot With High-Volume Expulsion and Drag-Reduced Gliding
Yiyuan Zhang, Anye Zhong, Junkai Chen +1 more
2026
On the Emergence of Pendular Structure in Multi-Contact Locomotion
Lingxue Lyu, Zihui Liu
2026
Right Model, Right Time: Real-Time Cascaded-Fidelity MPC for Bipedal Walking
Franek Stark, Felix Wiebe, Shubham Vyas +2 more
2026
Height Control and Optimal Torque Planning for Jumping With Wheeled-Bipedal Robots
Yulun Zhuang, Yuan Xu, Binxin Huang +5 more
2026
Adaptive Gait Generation for Multi-Terrain Exoskeletons via Constrained Kernelized Movement Primitives
Edoardo Trombin, Miroljub Mihailovic, Matheus Henrique Ferreira Moura +3 more
2026
Feedback Motion Planning for Stochastic Nonlinear Systems with Signal Temporal Logic Specifications
Liqian Ma, Zishun Liu, Glen Chou +1 more
2026
Natural Gradient Bayesian Filtering: Geometry-Aware Filter for Dynamical Systems
Chang Liu, Wenhan Cao, Zeju Sun +8 more
2026
Stability of Control Lyapunov Function Guided Reinforcement Learning
Zachary Olkin, William D. Compton, Aaron D. Ames
2026
Dynamics Aware Quadrupedal Locomotion via Intrinsic Dynamics Head
Aman Arora, Nalini Ratha
2026
Task-Conditioned Uncertainty Costmaps for Legged Locomotion
Kartikeya Singh, Christo Aluckal, Romeo Orsolino +1 more
2026
Bi-Level Optimization for Contact and Motion Planning in Rope-Assisted Legged Robots
Ruben Malacarne, Ioannis Tsikelis, Enrico Mingo Hoffman +1 more
2026