TU Delft — Robotics Institute
World leader in bio-inspired flying robots. TU Delft's DelFly flapping-wing drone and Nimble agile quadrotor are among the most advanced autonomous flying robots ever built.
Notable achievements
DelFly flapping-wing drone (insect-scale), Nimble agile quadrotor (Nature paper), swarm robotics, Mars drone concepts.
Notable work
Recent publications
All papers →Matched by this lab's specialties (keyword overlap + direct affiliation)
Simultaneous inference of environmental and interaction forces in collective dynamics
Nipuni de Silva, Ming Zhong, James M. Greene
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
Dynamic reconfiguration in multi-robot agent systems using embedded language models
Shokhikha Amalana Murdivien, Jongsu Park, Jumyung Um
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