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 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
How VLAs Fail Differently: Black-Box Action Monitoring Reveals Architecture-Specific Failure Signatures
Krishnam Gupta
2026
What Frozen VLAs Already Know About Success: A Probing Study of Value-Like Structure in Foundation Robot Policies
Jiachen Zhang, Junnan Nie, Junyi Lao +4 more
2026
Visualizing Latent Phase Structures in Locomotion Policies: A Multi-Environment Study with Temporal Feature Extension
Daisuke Yasui, Toshitaka Matuki, Hiroshi Sato
2026
Design of a Real-time Asynchronous Monocular Odometry for Planetary Exploration
Benat Inigo, Florian Steidle, Wolfgang Stuerzl
2026