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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 ✕SFCo-Nav: Efficient Zero-Shot Visual Language Navigation via Collaboration of Slow LLM and Fast Attributed Graph Alignment
Chaoran Xiong, Litao Wei, Xinhao Hu +5 more
2026
A Deployable Bio-inspired Compliant Leg Design for Enhanced Leaping in Quadruped Robots
Yiyang Chen, Yuxin Liu, Jinzheng Zhou +4 more
2026
TMR-VLA:Vision-Language-Action Model for Magnetic Motion Control of Tri-leg Silicone-based Soft Robot
Ruijie Tang, Chi Kit Ng, Kaixuan Wu +5 more
2026
Layered Safety: Enhancing Autonomous Collision Avoidance via Multistage CBF Safety Filters
Erina Yamaguchi, Ryan M. Bena, Gilbert Bahati +1 more
2026
Enhancing Cellular-enabled Collaborative Robots Planning through GNSS data for SAR Scenarios
Arnau Romero, Carmen Delgado, Jana Baguer +2 more
2026
Biomechanical Comparisons Reveal Divergence of Human and Humanoid Gaits
Luying Feng, Yaochu Jin, Hanze Hu +1 more
2026
Jumping Control for a Quadrupedal Wheeled-Legged Robot via NMPC and DE Optimization
Xuanqi Zeng, Lingwei Zhang, Linzhu Yue +4 more
2026
Event-Driven On-Sensor Locomotion Mode Recognition Using a Shank-Mounted IMU with Embedded Machine Learning for Exoskeleton Control
Mohammadsaleh Razmi, Iman Shojaei
2026
Autonomous Sea Turtle Robot for Marine Fieldwork
Zach J. Patterson, Emily Sologuren, Levi Cai +4 more
2026
A Robotic Testing Platform for Pipelined Discovery of Resilient Soft Actuators
Ang Li, Alexander Yin, Alexander White +6 more
2026
KCFRC: Kinematic Collision-Aware Foothold Reachability Criteria for Legged Locomotion
Lei Ye, Haibo Gao, Huaiguang Yang +6 more
2026
CACTO-BIC: Scalable Actor-Critic Learning via Biased Sampling and GPU-Accelerated Trajectory Optimization
Elisa Alboni, Pietro Noah Crestaz, Elias Fontanari +1 more
2026
WildOS: Open-Vocabulary Object Search in the Wild
Hardik Shah, Erica Tevere, Deegan Atha +6 more
2026
Design, Locomotion, and Control of Amphibious Robots: Recent Advances
Yi Jin, Chang Liu, Roger D. Quinn +2 more
2026
Gait Asymmetry from Unilateral Weakness and Improvement With Ankle Assistance: a Reinforcement Learning based Simulation Study
Yifei Yuan, Ghaith Androwis, Xianlian Zhou
2026
PEPA: a Persistently Autonomous Embodied Agent with Personalities
Kaige Liu, Yang Li, Lijun Zhu +1 more
2026
Scout-Rover cooperation: online terrain strength mapping and traversal risk estimation for planetary-analog explorations
Shipeng Liu, J. Diego Caporale, Yifeng Zhang +17 more
2026
Design and Biomechanical Evaluation of a Lightweight Low-Complexity Soft Bilateral Ankle Exoskeleton
Josée Mallah, Zakii Javed, Zafer Azak +2 more
2026
CapNav: Benchmarking Vision Language Models on Capability-conditioned Indoor Navigation
Xia Su, Ruiqi Chen, Benlin Liu +4 more
2026
Snapping Actuators with Asymmetric and Sequenced Motion
Xin Li, Ye Jin, Mohsen Jafarpour +2 more
2026
Learning Smooth Time-Varying Linear Policies with an Action Jacobian Penalty
Zhaoming Xie, Kevin Karol, Jessica Hodgins
2026
Role-Adaptive Collaborative Formation Planning for Team of Quadruped Robots in Cluttered Environments
Magnus Norén, Marios-Nektarios Stamatopoulos, Avijit Banerjee +1 more
2026
GrandTour: A Legged Robotics Dataset in the Wild for Multi-Modal Perception and State Estimation
Jonas Frey, Turcan Tuna, Frank Fu +5 more
2026
Cross-Embodiment Offline Reinforcement Learning for Heterogeneous Robot Datasets
Haruki Abe, Takayuki Osa, Yusuke Mukuta +1 more
2026