JPL Robotics - Robotic Mobility & Manipulation Section
JPL's Robotics Section (Section 358) consists of approximately 130 engineers developing robotics technology for space exploration and terrestrial applications. They focus on all aspects of robotic mobility and manipulation for in-situ exploration missions.
Notable achievements
Mars rovers (Curiosity, Perseverance), Opportunity rover, advanced locomotion 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
Lightweight visual SLAM and traversability mapping for space robotics: Real-time operation in challenging environments
César Debeunne, Alex Torres, Damien Vivet
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
Design and dynamic performance prediction of a novel large-aperture offset-feed deployable antenna
Chuang Shi, Tianming Liu, Ning Xue +6 more
Aerospace Science and Technology · 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