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LOCOMOTION papers(24,023)
Clear ✕ZEST: Zero-shot Embodied Skill Transfer for Athletic Robot Control
Jean Pierre Sleiman, He Li, Alphonsus Adu-Bredu +17 more
2026
Exo-Plore: Exploring Exoskeleton Control Space through Human-aligned Simulation
Geonho Leem, Jaedong Lee, Jehee Lee +2 more
2026
Macro-Scale Electrostatic Origami Motor
Alex S. Miller, Leo McElroy, Jeffrey H. Lang
2026
Towards Bridging the Gap between Large-Scale Pretraining and Efficient Finetuning for Humanoid Control
Weidong Huang, Zhehan Li, Hangxin Liu +3 more
2026
GPO: Growing Policy Optimization for Legged Robot Locomotion and Whole-Body Control
Shuhao Liao, Peizhuo Li, Xinrong Yang +7 more
2026
Enhancing Worker Safety in Harbors Using Quadruped Robots
Zoe Betta, Davide Corongiu, Carmine Tommaso Recchiuto +1 more
2026
RhoMorph: Rhombus-shaped Deformable Modular Robots for Stable, Medium-Independent Reconfiguration Motion
Jie Gu, Yirui Sun, Zhihao Xia +3 more
2026
Attention-Based Neural-Augmented Kalman Filter for Legged Robot State Estimation
Seokju Lee, Kyung-Soo Kim
2026
Scaling Rough Terrain Locomotion with Automatic Curriculum Reinforcement Learning
Ziming Li, Chenhao Li, Marco Hutter
2026
Efficiently Learning Robust Torque-based Locomotion Through Reinforcement with Model-Based Supervision
Yashuai Yan, Tobias Egle, Christian Ott +1 more
2026
PUMA: Perception-driven Unified Foothold Prior for Mobility Augmented Quadruped Parkour
Liang Wang, Kanzhong Yao, Yang Liu +4 more
2026
AION: Aerial Indoor Object-Goal Navigation Using Dual-Policy Reinforcement Learning
Zichen Yan, Yuchen Hou, Shenao Wang +3 more
2026
Learning a Unified Latent Space for Cross-Embodiment Robot Control
Yashuai Yan, Dongheui Lee
2026
Systematic Evaluation of Hip Exoskeleton Assistance Parameters for Enhancing Gait Stability During Ground Slip Perturbations
Maria T. Tagliaferri, Inseung Kang
2026
SandWorm: Event-based Visuotactile Perception with Active Vibration for Screw-Actuated Robot in Granular Media
Shoujie Li, Changqing Guo, Junhao Gong +3 more
2026
Group-Invariant Unsupervised Skill Discovery: Symmetry-aware Skill Representations for Generalizable Behavior
Junwoo Chang, Joseph Park, Roberto Horowitz +2 more
2026
Sample Efficient Learning of Body-Environment Interaction of an Under-Actuated System
Zvi Chapnik, Yizhar Or, Shai Revzen
2026
Learning Legged MPC with Smooth Neural Surrogates
Samuel A. Moore, Easop Lee, Boyuan Chen
2026
RobotDesignGPT: Automated Robot Design Synthesis using Vision Language Models
Nitish Sontakke, K. Niranjan Kumar, Sehoon Ha
2026
Learning Quadrupedal Locomotion for a Heavy Hydraulic Robot Using an Actuator Model
Minho Lee, Hyeonseok Kim, Jin Tak Kim +4 more
2026
IMU-based Real-Time Crutch Gait Phase and Step Detections in Lower-Limb Exoskeletons
Anis R. Shakkour, David Hexner, Yehuda Bitton +1 more
2026
FastStair: Learning to Run Up Stairs with Humanoid Robots
Yan Liu, Tao Yu, Haolin Song +7 more
2026
Reward Learning through Ranking Mean Squared Error
Chaitanya Kharyal, Calarina Muslimani, Matthew E. Taylor
2026
AME-2: Agile and Generalized Legged Locomotion via Attention-Based Neural Map Encoding
Chong Zhang, Victor Klemm, Fan Yang +1 more
2026