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  1. Lego-Like Stiffness Configuration of Planar Compliant Modules for Task-Specific Flexible Interfaces

    Oct 5, 2026Siyue Yao, Xiaochi Xie, Shixuan Zhao +4Mechanism DesignModular Robotics

    State Key Laboratory of Mechanical Systems and Vibration, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China · Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, USA · Shanghai Key Laboratory of Intelligent Robotics; META Robotics Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China +1

  2. ALFRED: Requirement-driven development of an open-source mobile manipulator for long-term plant monitoring

    Oct 1, 2026Ciarán Miceal Johnson, Christopher Quail, Garry Ellard +3Modular RoboticsMobile Robotics

  3. Recompositional Robotics: Cross-Domain, Open-set, and Lifelong Modularity Beyond Morphology

    Sep 29, 2026Steven Swanbeck, Jonathan Salfity, Corrie Van Sice +2Modular RoboticsRobotics

    Texas Robotics and the Walker Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA

  4. Executor-aware Candidate Selection via a Feasibility Certificate

    Sep 29, 2026Sooin Choi, Soonwoong Hwang, Wansoo KimConstrained Motion PlanningModular Robotics

    Department of Robotics, Hanyang University, Seoul, Republic of Korea · Department of Robotics, Hanyang University ERICA, Ansan, Republic of Korea

  5. Robot-Assisted Deployment and Maintenance of Inflatable Modules for Lunar Habitation: A Field Demonstration

    Sep 28, 2026Kentaro Uno, Shamistan Karimov, Ashutosh Mishra +5Robotic ConstructionModular Robotics

    Space Robotics Lab. (SRL) in Department of Aerospace Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8579, Japan · Department of Electrical Engineering, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Tokyo University of Science, Noda 278-8510, Japan

  6. Fly, Drive, Reconfigure: A Modular Reconfigurable Aerial-Ground Platform for Field Operations

    Sep 24, 2026Li-Yu Lo, Yanbaihui Liu, Chengchuan Shu +3Modular RoboticsMulti-Robot Systems

    Duke University

  7. Marginal Calibration Does Not Compose: Hidden Dependence in Modular Robot Navigation

    Sep 20, 2026Rista BaralModular RoboticsRobot State Estimation

    University of Delaware

  8. Tendon-Driven Continuum Robot with Modular Stiffness and In-Situ Self Pose Estimation

    Sep 14, 2026Guo Ning Sue, Zheng Cao, Junzhe Hu +5Modular RoboticsRobotics

    Carnegie Mellon University

  9. QLAUN: A Research-Oriented, Robust, Agile, Modular, and Affordable Torque-Controlled Quadruped Robot

    Sep 3, 2026Mohamad S. Moudallal, Noel J. MaaloufLegged RoboticsModular Robotics

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Lebanese American University, Byblos, Lebanon

  10. One Print, Many Moves: Monolithic Origami-inspired Folding Actuator for Composable Soft Multi-DoF Systems

    Sep 1, 2026Jaehyung Jang, Zhenish Zhakypov, Jasmin Elena Palmer +3Modular RoboticsRobotics

    IRiS Lab, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon, Korea. · CHARM Lab, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.

  11. Deployment Is Not Destiny: Robot Recomposition in the Field with Unseen Software, Hardware, and Compute Payloads

    Aug 11, 2026Steven Swanbeck, Jonathan Salfity, Jeffery Gunawan +3Modular RoboticsRobotics

    Texas Robotics and the Walker Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA

  12. Reconfigurable Structural Robotic Assembly: Interlocking 3D Aggregations with Self-Aligning Compound Nested Lattice Modules

    Aug 4, 2026Alexander Htet Kyaw, Miana Smith, Paul Richard +1Robotic ConstructionModular Robotics

    Massachusetts Instittue of Technology (MIT) · École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)

  13. Contact-Driven Localization in a Freeform Robotic Self-Assembled Structure

    Aug 3, 2026Mohammadali Rashidioun, Michael Sosa, Petras SwisslerModular RoboticsSwarm Robotics

    Institute of Technology · Industrial and Mechanical Engineering Department, New Jersey Institute of Technology

  14. Stress-Sharing: A Bio-Inspired Approach to Decentralized Fault Repair in Modular Spacecraft

    Jul 15, 2026Sidhdharth D. Sikka, Yue Shen, Shaoshuai MouModular RoboticsRobotics

    Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA · Manifold Research Group

  15. Programmable Synchronization Graphs for Adaptive and Fault-Tolerant Modular Miniature Robots

    Jul 8, 2026Okan Kulekcioglu, Arqam Bin Ahmad, Ines Garcia +3Dynamical SystemsModular Robotics

    Department of Mechanical Engineering, Bilkent University; Ankara, Türkiye. · International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory (INL); Braga, Portugal.

  16. PenduMorph: Development and Motion Analysis of Pendulum-Actuated Rolling Reconfigurable Spherical Robot with Magnetic-Coupling

    Jun 21, 2026Aung Myat, Peter Noyce, May Forgan +2Modular RoboticsRobotics

    Geometric Mechanics and Mechatronics in Robotics (gm2R) Lab, the School of Engineering, Cardiff University, Cardiff, CF24 3AA, United Kingdom

  17. Tessellated Biomes: Distributed Robotic Assemblies for Architectural Resilience

    Jun 7, 2026Sergio Mutis, Eric Hughes, Gert DuvenhageCyber-Physical SystemsRobotic Construction

    MIT · UCL

  18. Quantifying Full-Body Immersion

    May 21, 2026Alihan Bakir, Ekrem Yüksel, Fabio Zuliani +3Modular RoboticsVirtual Reality

    Reconfigurable Robotics Lab, EPFL, MED 1 2313 Building MED Station 9, Lausanne, 1015, Vaud, Switzerland.

  19. Self-assembling Modular Aerial Robot for Versatile Aerial Tasks

    May 19, 2026Junichiro Sugihara, Masaki Kitagawa, Jinjie Li +4Aerial RoboticsModular Robotics

    Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Tokyo,Tokyo, Japan. · Department of Mechano Informatics, The University of Tokyo,Tokyo, Japan.

  20. 3D Printing of Passively Actuated Self-Folding Robots with Integrated Functional Modules

    May 6, 2026Gaolin Ge, Qifeng Yang, Haoran Lu +3Modular RoboticsRobotics

    Mechanical Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA. · Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA. · Computer Science and Engineering, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, USA. +1