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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 ✕ODD-SEC: Onboard Drone Detection with a Spinning Event Camera
Kuan Dai, Hongxin Zhang, Sheng Zhong +1 more
2026
KISS-IMU: Self-supervised Inertial Odometry with Motion-balanced Learning and Uncertainty-aware Inference
Jiwon Choi, Hogyun Kim, Geonmo Yang +2 more
2026
DreamToNav: Generalizable Navigation for Robots via Generative Video Planning
Valerii Serpiva, Jeffrin Sam, Chidera Simon +4 more
2026
Moving Through Clutter: Scaling Data Collection and Benchmarking for 3D Scene-Aware Humanoid Locomotion via Virtual Reality
Beichen Wang, Yuanjie Lu, Linji Wang +2 more
2026
Terrain characterization and locomotion adaptation in a small-scale lizard-inspired robot
Duncan Andrews, Landon Zimmerman, Evan Martin +2 more
2026
Task-Level Decisions to Gait Level Control: A Hierarchical Policy Approach for Quadruped Navigation
Sijia Li, Haoyu Wang, Shenghai Yuan +2 more
2026
Safe-SAGE: Social-Semantic Adaptive Guidance for Safe Engagement through Laplace-Modulated Poisson Safety Functions
Lizhi Yang, Ryan M. Bena, Meg Wilkinson +4 more
2026
Accelerating Sampling-Based Control via Learned Linear Koopman Dynamics
Wenjian Hao, Yuxuan Fang, Zehui Lu +1 more
2026
Gait Generation Balancing Joint Load and Mobility for Legged Modular Robots with Easily Detachable Joints
Kennosuke Chihara, Takuya Kiyokawa, Kensuke Harada
2026
Swimming Under Constraints: A Safe Reinforcement Learning Framework for Quadrupedal Bio-Inspired Propulsion
Xinyu Cui, Fei Han, Hang Xu +9 more
2026
Self-adapting Robotic Agents through Online Continual Reinforcement Learning with World Model Feedback
Fabian Domberg, Georg Schildbach
2026
Characterization and Correlation of Robotic Snake Scale Friction and Locomotion Speed
Umit Sen, Andri Mahegan, Gina Olson
2026
X-Loco: Towards Generalist Humanoid Locomotion Control via Synergetic Policy Distillation
Dewei Wang, Xinmiao Wang, Chenyun Zhang +4 more
2026
Efficient Autonomous Navigation of a Quadruped Robot in Underground Mines on Edge Hardware
Yixiang Gao, Kwame Awuah-Offei
2026
Look Forward to Walk Backward: Efficient Terrain Memory for Backward Locomotion with Forward Vision
Shixin Luo, Songbo Li, Yuan Hao +4 more
2026
CMoE: Contrastive Mixture of Experts for Motion Control and Terrain Adaptation of Humanoid Robots
Shihao Ma, Hongjin Chen, Zijun Xu +6 more
2026
CASSR: Continuous A-Star Search through Reachability for real time footstep planning
Jiayi Wang, Steve Tonneau
2026
DreamFlow: Local Navigation Beyond Observation via Conditional Flow Matching in the Latent Space
Jiwon Park, Dongkyu Lee, I Made Aswin Nahrendra +2 more
2026
Design, Modeling and Direction Control of a Wire-Driven Robotic Fish Based on a 2-DoF Crank-Slider Mechanism
Yita Wang, Chen Chen, Yicheng Chen +5 more
2026
Watch Your Step: Learning Semantically-Guided Locomotion in Cluttered Environment
Denan Liang, Yuan Zhu, Ruimeng Liu +3 more
2026
Wukong-Omni: Design, Modeling and Control of a Multi-mode Robot for Air, Land, and Underwater Exploration with All-in-One Propulsion Unit
Yufan Liu, Rixi Yu, Junjie Li +7 more
2026
Learning Therapist Policy from Therapist-Exoskeleton-Patient Interaction
Grayson Snyder, Lorenzo Vianello, Levi Hargrove +2 more
2026
CHOP: Counterfactual Human Preference Labels Improve Obstacle Avoidance in Visuomotor Navigation Policies
Gershom Seneviratne, Jianyu An, Vaibhav Shende +6 more
2026
Learning Thermal-Aware Locomotion Policies for an Electrically-Actuated Quadruped Robot
Letian Qian, Yuhang Wan, Shuhan Wang +1 more
2026