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  1. LLA-MPPI: Rapidly Adaptive Whole-body Control of Legged Robots with GPU-Accelerated Parallel Simulations

    Oct 7, 2026Sebin Jung, Maitham F. AL-Sunni, Juan Alvarez-Padilla +3Legged RoboticsRobot Locomotion

    Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA · Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA

  2. RFPO: Rectified Flow Policy Optimization for Embodied Control

    Oct 7, 2026Ting Huang, Lisiyu Pan, Haoyu Wang +6Robot Policy LearningRectified Flow

    School of Computer Science, Peking University · AI2 Robotics

  3. ClimbLab: MATLAB Simulation Platform for Legged Climbing Robotics

    Oct 7, 2026Kentaro Uno, Warley F. R. Ribeiro, Yusuke Koizumi +4Robotics SimulationLegged Robotics

    Space Robotics Lab (SRL), Department of Aerospace Engineering, Tohoku University, Aoba 6-6-01, Aramaki-Aza, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi 980-8579, Japan · VisionSpace Technologies GmbH, Robert-Bosch Straße 7, 64293 Darmstadt, Germany

  4. LACE-CRAFT: Robot Co-Design with Actor Inheritance and Blackboard Collaboration

    Oct 7, 2026Yuhan Wen, Jiawei Wang, Qixuan Zhang +3Robot Morphology-Control Co-DesignRobot Policy Adaptation

    Deemos Corporation · ShanghaiTech University · University of Cambridge

  5. Magnet-Aware Control of Legged Robots

    Oct 6, 2026J. Playan Garai, S. B. Djuve, C. McGreavy +1Robotic ControlLegged Robotics

    Technical University of Munich (TUM), Munich, Germany · Conseil Europ´een pour la Recherche Nucl´eaire (CERN), BE/CEM/MRO, Geneva, Switzerland

  6. Feeling Through the Load: Compliant Quadruped Locomotion under Payload Interactions

    Oct 6, 2026Shaunak A. Mehta, Mayank Mishra, Prajit KrisshnaKumar +2Robotic ControlRobot Locomotion

    Fujitsu Research of America, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213.

  7. Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning for Collision-Free Locomotion of an Underactuated Biped

    Oct 5, 2026Jagannath Prasad Sahoo, Saurabh Kumar, Surya Prakash S. K. +3Legged RoboticsHierarchical RL

    CAIR, Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, Mandi, India · SMME, Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, Mandi, India

  8. LocoWM: High-Precision Locomotion through World-Model-Guided Residual Adaptation

    Sep 30, 2026Zijie Zhao, Shengqian Chen, Xiaoxu Wang +3Robot Policy AdaptationWorld Models for Robotics

    University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences · Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications +1

  9. Video2SwimFish: An Automated Pipeline for Reconstructing Controllable Fish Models and Biological Locomotion from Real Fish Videos

    Sep 30, 2026Hangong Chen, Linfeng Cheng, Tahsin Zaman Jilan +4Underwater 3D ReconstructionRobot Locomotion

    Department of Computer Science, North Carolina A&T State University · Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland, College Park

  10. Systematically Exploring the Capabilities of GPT-6 Astra as Embodied Policies

    Sep 29, 2026Galbot Team, Xuchuan Chen, Xiaoqian Cheng +31Language Model-Based ControlRobot Foundation Models

    Galbot Team

  11. Multifunctional Locomotion Control of Multi-Jointed BURs with Swimming and gait Capabilities

    Sep 29, 2026Takumi Asada, Hideo Furuhashi, Kenta Tabata +2Robotic ControlRobot Locomotion

    Utsunomiya University, 7-1-2 Yoto, Utsunomiya, Tochigi, 321-8585, Japan · Aichi Institute of Technology, 1247 Yachigusa, Yakusa, Toyota, Aichi, 470-0392, Japan

  12. Graph-Based Simultaneous Path and Foothold Planning for Multi-Limbed Intra-Vehicular Robots in Space Stations

    Sep 28, 2026Masazumi Imai, Kentaro Uno, Toshinori Kuwahara +1Space RoboticsRobot Locomotion

    Department of Aerospace Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8579, Japan · New Industry Creation Hatchery Center (NICHe), Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8579, Japan · Research Center for Green X-Tech and Research Center for Space Cross-Tech, Green Goals Initiative, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8579, Japan

  13. Dense-Joint-Based Obstacle-Aided Locomotion with a Joint-Repositionable Snake Robot

    Sep 24, 2026Kyosuke Minomo, Ryo Takahashi, Kotaro Yasui +3Energy-Efficient Robot LocomotionRobot Locomotion

    Department of Mechanical Engineering, Kyushu University, Fukuoka 819-0395, Japan · Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan · Frontier Research Institute for Interdisciplinary Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8577, Japan +1

  14. TactileStep: Sole Tactile Learning for Regulating Foot-Terrain Interaction in Humanoid Locomotion

    Sep 24, 2026Zizhuo Wang, Ming-ju Lee, Shaoting Zhu +3Humanoid Robot LocomotionTerrain-Aware Robot Locomotion

    Tsinghua University

  15. FlyCNS: Connectome-Grounded Information Organization for Communication-Constrained Embodied Control

    Sep 23, 2026Jinchang Zhang, Jiakai Lin, Guoyu LuRobotic ControlRobot Locomotion

    Intelligent Vision and Sensing (IVS) Lab at Indiana University Bloomington

  16. REDACT: Robust Perceptive Locomotion under Unseen Visual Corruption

    Sep 21, 2026Natapat Kirdwichai, Tobias Driskell-Poole, Andrei Sontea +3Image Corruption RobustnessRobot Locomotion

    The authors are with the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences and the Faculty of Environmental and Life Sciences, University of Southampton, United Kingdom.

  17. FootQuery: Future-Touchdown-Guided Retrieval from Depth History for Perceptive Humanoid Locomotion

    Sep 18, 2026Tao Dong, Jia Yu, Yuxuan Fan +5Humanoid Robot LocomotionTerrain-Aware Robot Locomotion

    Institute for AI Industry Research (AIR), Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. · University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing, China. · Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. +1

  18. When to Waddle: A Comparative Study of Bipedal Torso-Stabilization on Low-Friction Surfaces

    Sep 18, 2026Ben Gu, Naomi Oke, George Ortiz +4Humanoid Robot LocomotionEnergy-Efficient Robot Locomotion

    Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA · Department of Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA · Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, New York University, New York, NY 10012, USA

  19. Accelerating Visual Policy Learning with Sampling-Based Model Predictive Control

    Sep 17, 2026Yilang Liu, Haoxiang You, Qian Wang +2Policy OptimizationVisuomotor Policy Learning

    Department of Mechanical Engineering, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA · Department of Computer Science, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA · School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia

  20. Learning Holistic Whole-Body Loco-Manipulation with a Bipedal Mobile Manipulator

    Sep 16, 2026Zhongyu Chen, Yuxuan Nai, Qian Chen +8RL for RoboticsHumanoid Loco-Manipulation

    ZJU-UIUC Institute. · LimX Dynamics.

  21. RecMorph: Topology-Guided Spatial Recurrence for Generalized Morphology Control

    Sep 16, 2026Quanrui Rao, Yong Liu, Xueming Xiao +4Recurrent Neural NetworksCross-Embodiment Robot Learning

    Jilin University, China · State Key Laboratory of Special Vehicle Design and Manufacturing Integration Technology, China · Changchun University of Science and Technology, China

  22. A3P5 NEMESIS Integrated Rover Design for Environmental Reconnaissance and Robotic Sampling with Reproducible Mobility Analysis and an External Data Machine Learning Calibration Benchmark

    Sep 16, 2026Shafi Bin Sultan, Sabik Bin Sultan, Safwan SadadRobotic Data CollectionMobile Robotics

    St. Joseph Higher Secondary School · BAF Shaheen College Kurmitola · Greenland Residential School

  23. Optimized Wrench Polytope Analysis for Real-Time Stability Control of Legged Robots in Complex Multi-Contact Configurations

    Sep 15, 2026Friedrich Graaf, Elias Birkefeld, Christian Eichmann +5Robotic ControlLegged Robotics

    FZI Research Center for Information Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany · Machine Intelligence and Robotics Lab (MaiRo), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany

  24. Fingers as Legs: Learning Self-Supported Locomotion and Manipulation with an Anthropomorphic Hand

    Sep 15, 2026Amirhossein Kazemipour, Hehui Zheng, Robert KatzschmannRL for RoboticsMobile Manipulation

    Soft Robotics Lab, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

  25. The Neverwhere Visual Parkour Benchmark Suite

    Sep 14, 2026Ziyu Chen, Henghui Bao, Haoran Chang +123D Gaussian SplattingRobotic Policy Evaluation

    University of Southern California · Stanford University · UC San Diego +5

  26. JEPLO: Joint-Embedding Predictive Learning for LiDAR-Based Legged Locomotion

    Sep 14, 2026Qihao Yuan, Yixuan Qiu, Ziyu Cao +2Joint-Embedding Predictive ArchitectureTerrain-Aware Robot Locomotion

    Faculty of Science and Engineering, University of Groningen, The Netherlands · Department of Electrical Engineering, Linköping University, Sweden

  27. Learning to Exploit Passive Dynamics for Energy-Efficient Target Hopping of a Spring-Legged Quadcopter

    Sep 14, 2026Ruigang Chen, Qi Zhang, Zhicheng Zhong +3RL ControlEnergy-Efficient Robot Locomotion

    Department of Mechanical Engineering and Robotics, Guangdong Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Shantou, 515063, Guangdong, China. · Department of Mechanical Engineering, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, 3200003, Israel.

  28. Dynamics-Informed Reinforcement Learning for Agile and Energy-Efficient Locomotion of a Monopedal Hopping Quadcopter

    Sep 14, 2026Ruigang Chen, Qi Zhang, Zhicheng Zhong +3Energy-Efficient Robot LocomotionRobot Locomotion

    Department of Mechanical Engineering and Robotics, Guangdong Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Shantou, 515063, Guangdong, China. · Department of Mechanical Engineering, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, 3200003, Israel.

  29. Pneumatic neurons for soft robots enable inflate-and-fire networks for rhythmic motion

    Sep 14, 2026Dongting Li, Michael Tolley, Nick GravishOscillatory Neural NetworksRobot Locomotion

    MAE Department, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093, US

  30. Decentralized Evolution of Hexapod Gaits with Independent Leg Controllers

    Sep 14, 2026Gary B. Parker, John Asaro, Jim O'ConnorLegged RoboticsEvolutionary Optimization

    Connecticut College, New London CT 06320-4125, USA