🔬 University#49 Delft, Netherlands· Est. 2018
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.
aerial robotsdrone designbio-inspired flightswarm roboticsmanipulation
Notable achievements
DelFly flapping-wing drone (insect-scale), Nimble agile quadrotor (Nature paper), swarm robotics, Mars drone concepts.
Notable work
DelFlyNimble quadrotorSwarm drones
Recent publications
All papers →Matched by this lab's specialties (keyword overlap + direct affiliation)
MANIPULATION
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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
SWARM
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Dynamic reconfiguration in multi-robot agent systems using embedded language models
Shokhikha Amalana Murdivien, Jongsu Park, Jumyung Um
Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing · 2026
MANIPULATION
Open access
How VLAs Fail Differently: Black-Box Action Monitoring Reveals Architecture-Specific Failure Signatures
Krishnam Gupta
2026
MANIPULATION
Open access
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
PERCEPTION
Open access
OSMa-Bench++: Toward Open-Ended Benchmarking of Semantic Mapping for Manipulation with Prompt-Generated Synthetic Scenes
Regina Kurkova, Maxim Popov, Sergey Kolyubin
2026
MANIPULATION
Open access
EXPO-FT: Sample-Efficient Reinforcement Learning Finetuning for Vision-Language-Action Models
Perry Dong, Kuo-Han Hung, Tian Gao +2 more
2026