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Robotics Research Publications
An open index of robotics research papers, refreshed daily.
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LOCOMOTION papers(24,023)
Clear ✕Task-Aware Positioning for Improvisational Tasks in Mobile Construction Robots via an AI Agent with Multi-LMM Modules
Seongju Jang, Francis Baek, SangHyun Lee
2026
CATNAV: Cached Vision-Language Traversability for Efficient Zero-Shot Robot Navigation
Aditya Potnis, Francisco Affonso, Shreya Gummadi +2 more
2026
Allometric Scaling Laws for Bipedal Robots
Naomi Oke, Aja M. Carter, Ben Gu +4 more
2026
MEVIUS2: Practical Open-Source Quadruped Robot with Sheet Metal Welding and Multimodal Perception
Kento Kawaharazuka, Keita Yoneda, Shintaro Inoue +3 more
2026
Sim-to-Real of Humanoid Locomotion Policies via Joint Torque Space Perturbation Injection
Junhyeok Rui Cha, Woohyun Cha, Jaeyong Shin +2 more
2026
Evaluating Factor-Wise Auxiliary Dynamics Supervision for Latent Structure and Robustness in Simulated Humanoid Locomotion
Chayanin Chamachot
2026
Not an Obstacle for Dog, but a Hazard for Human: A Co-Ego Navigation System for Guide Dog Robots
Ruiping Liu, Jingqi Zhang, Junwei Zheng +8 more
2026
Morphology-Consistent Humanoid Interaction through Robot-Centric Video Synthesis
Weisheng Xu, Jian Li, Yi Gu +12 more
2026
ContractionPPO: Certified Reinforcement Learning via Differentiable Contraction Layers
Vrushabh Zinage, Narek Harutyunyan, Eric Verheyden +2 more
2026
Articulated-Body Dynamics Network: Dynamics-Grounded Prior for Robot Learning
Sangwoo Shin, Kunzhao Ren, Xiaobin Xiong +1 more
2026
PRIOR: Perceptive Learning for Humanoid Locomotion with Reference Gait Priors
Chenxi Han, Shilu He, Yi Cheng +2 more
2026
Efficient and Versatile Quadrupedal Skating: Optimal Co-design via Reinforcement Learning and Bayesian Optimization
Hanwen Wang, Zhenlong Fang, Josiah Hanna +1 more
2026
Proprioceptive-only State Estimation for Legged Robots with Set-Coverage Measurements of Learned Dynamics
Abhijeet M. Kulkarni, Ioannis Poulakakis, Guoquan Huang
2026
RoboForge: Physically Optimized Text-guided Whole-Body Locomotion for Humanoids
Xichen Yuan, Zhe Li, Bofan Lyu +4 more
2026
REAL: Robust Extreme Agility via Spatio-Temporal Policy Learning and Physics-Guided Filtering
Jialong Liu, Dehan Shen, Yanbo Wen +2 more
2026
Uncovering Latent Phase Structures and Branching Logic in Locomotion Policies: A Case Study on HalfCheetah
Daisuke Yasui, Toshitaka Matsuki, Hiroshi Sato
2026
SLowRL: Safe Low-Rank Adaptation Reinforcement Learning for Locomotion
Elham Daneshmand, Shafeef Omar, Glen Berseth +2 more
2026
vAccSOL: Efficient and Transparent AI Vision Offloading for Mobile Robots
Adam Zahir, Michele Gucciardom Falk Selker, Anastasios Nanos +4 more
2026
Learning Whole-Body Control for a Salamander Robot
Mengze Tian, Qiyuan Fu, Chuanfang Ning +2 more
2026
Segmentation-Based Attention Entropy: Detecting and Mitigating Object Hallucinations in Large Vision-Language Models
Jiale Song, Jiaxin Luo, Xue-song Tang +2 more
2026
When Rolling Gets Weird: A Curved-Link Tensegrity Robot for Non-Intuitive Behavior
Lauren Ervin, Harish Bezawada, Vishesh Vikas
2026
ADAPT: Adaptive Dual-projection Architecture for Perceptive Traversal
Shuo Shao, Tianchen Huang, Wei Gao +1 more
2026
Task-Specified Compliance Bounds for Humanoids via Lipschitz-Constrained Policies
Zewen He, Yoshihiko Nakamura
2026
KiRAS: Keyframe Guided Self-Imitation for Robust and Adaptive Skill Learning in Quadruped Robots
Xiaoyi Wei, Peng Zhai, Jiaxin Tu +5 more
2026