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  1. GeoTrussRover: Morphological Computation with Contact-Semantic Control Primitives

    Sep 11, 2026Muyuan Ma, Yi Zhang, Yang Yang +12Constrained Motion PlanningRobot Morphology-Control Co-Design

  2. CAP: Continuously Adaptive Perception-Blind Humanoid Locomotion via Learned Denoising

    Sep 11, 2026Hongjin Chen, Zijun Xu, Shihao Ma +8Humanoid Robot LocomotionRobot Policy Learning

    Fudan University · TARS Robotics · Shanghai Innovation Institute +2

  3. GM-Loco: Terrain-Adaptive Humanoid Locomotion on Granular Media

    Sep 9, 2026Junnosuke Kamohara, Feiyang Wu, Andy Ningan Zong +4Humanoid Robot LocomotionTerrain-Aware Robot Locomotion

    Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA · School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA · Northeastern University, 360 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA 02115, USA

  4. A Multimodal Label Forecasting Method for Aperiodic Visuo-Motor Time Series

    Sep 7, 2026Borui He, Garrett E KatzMultivariate Time Series ForecastingTime Series Forecasting

    EECS Department, Syracuse University, Syracuse NY 13244, USA.

  5. Importance and methods to control, vary, and characterize mud strength for studying locomotion

    Sep 1, 2026Divya Ramesh, Gargi Sadalgekar, Qiyuan Fu +3Terrain-Aware Robot LocomotionRobot Locomotion

    Department of Mechanical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University

  6. Exploring Nonlinear Body Oscillations for Natural Quadruped Gaits

    Sep 1, 2026Annika Schmidt, Davide Calzolari, Arne Sachtler +13Dynamical SystemsRobot Motion Generation

    Technical University of Munich (TUM), Department of Computer Engineering, Germany. · German Aerospace Center (DLR), Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics, Weßling, Germany. · Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), Department of Mechanical Engineering, The Netherlands. +1

  7. SOLO: Stable Omni-terrain Long-Horizon Perceptive Humanoid Locomotion

    Aug 27, 2026Pihai Sun, Gang Han, Jingkai Sun +17Humanoid Robot Locomotion3D Reconstruction

    1Artificial General Intelligence Institute, University of Science and Technology of China · 2X-Humanoid · 4The University of Hong Kong +5

  8. Optimal control of a swimming robot based on Purcell's microswimmer model

    Aug 18, 2026Noam Berkovich Lahav, Oren Wiezel, Yizhar OrEnergy-Efficient Robot LocomotionRobot Locomotion

  9. Hip Energized Monopedal Hopping

    Aug 11, 2026Shane Rozen-Levy, Griffon McMahon, Daniel KoditschekRobotic ControlLegged Robotics

    GRASP Lab, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA · GRASP Lab, Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA

  10. Neural Operators for Immersed-Boundary Soft Swimmers Locomotion

    Aug 7, 2026Mohammad Sadegh Eshaghi, Yizheng Wang, Navid Valizadeh +2PDE Surrogate ModelingRobot Locomotion

    Chair of Computational Science and Simulation Technology, Institute of Photonics, Department of Mathematics and Physics, Leibniz University Hannover, Germany · Department of Engineering Mechanics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China · Institute of Structural Mechanics, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Germany

  11. Learning Fault-Tolerant Locomotion with Adaptive Gait Timing

    Aug 7, 2026Giovanbattista Gravina, Luca Rossini, Carlo Rizzardo +2Legged RoboticsRobot Locomotion

    Humanoids and Human-Centered Mechatronics Research Line, Italian Institute of Technology, Genoa 16163, Italy

  12. A Reconfigurable Tracked Robot for Enhanced Obstacle Traversal Through Movable Articulation Point and Internal Mass Relocation

    Aug 7, 2026Yuki Uda, Yasutaka Nakashima, Motoji Yamamoto +1RoboticsTerrain-Aware Robot Locomotion

    Department of Mechanical Engineering, Kyushu University, 744 Motooka, Nishi-ku, Fukuoka 819-0395, Japan · Graduate School of Informatics and Engineering, The University of Electro-Communications, 1-5-1 Chofugaoka, Chofu-shi, Tokyo, 182-8585, Japan

  13. Acoustic-driven millimetric helical robot: ultrasonic synergistic manipulation in confined fluidic environment

    Aug 6, 2026Hanlin Wang, Xin Wang, Xinwei Wei +4Robotic Endovascular InterventionRobotics

    State Key Laboratory of Industrial Control Technology and the Institute of Cyber-Systems & Control, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, Zhejiang, China · Huzhou Institute of Zhejiang University, Huzhou Key Laboratory of Robot System Integration and Intelligent Equipment, Huzhou 313099, Zhejiang, China · State Key Laboratory of Advanced Drug Delivery and Release Systems, College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, Zhejiang, China +4

  14. Shooting for Contact: Contact-Implicit Multiple Shooting for Dynamic Motion Retargeting

    Aug 4, 2026Sergio A. Esteban, Jason H. K. Siu, Derrick Mach +4Trajectory OptimizationMultibody Dynamics

    Department of Mechanical and Civil Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA. · School of Computing, DePaul University, Chicago, IL, USA.

  15. Bicycle Acrobatics with Reinforcement Learning

    Aug 1, 2026Shamel Fahmi, Arianna Ilvonen, Samuel Zapolsky +8Robot Skill LearningRobotic RL

    1Robotics and AI Institute (RAI), Cambridge, MA, USA.

  16. Adaptive Undulatory Locomotion of Snake-like Robots in Dynamic Viscous Environments via Deep Reinforcement Learning

    Jul 24, 2026Tsuyoshi Kimoto, Akio Yamano, Kohei Honda +1Partially Observable RLRobotic RL

    Osaka Metropolitan University, 1-1, Gakuen-cho, Naka-ku, Sakai, Osaka, Japan · Nagoya University, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan

  17. Morphing MILR: Design and control of a cable-driven limbless robot with rolling joints for maneuvering in complex environments

    Jul 22, 2026Donoven Dortilus, Tianyu Wang, Galen Tunnicliffe +2Robotic ControlRobotics

    Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA

  18. Koopman DCM: Unstable Eigenfunctions as Data-driven Representations for Legged Balancing

    Jul 21, 2026Stéphane CaronLegged RoboticsKoopman Operator Learning

    Institute for Intelligent Systems and Robotics CNRS and Sorbonne University, Paris, France

  19. DASH Robot: Minimalistic Design and Optimal Aerial-Terrestrial Locomotion via Contact-Implicit Control

    Jul 20, 2026Ryan Gomes Paiva, Conrad Ho, Jiarong Kang +3Aerial RoboticsEnergy-Efficient Robot Locomotion

    University of Wisconsin–Madison, WI, USA. · Shanghai Innovation Institute (SII), Shanghai, China

  20. Agile perceptive multi-skill locomotion for quadrupedal robots in the wild

    Jul 15, 2026Jun-Gill Kang, Jaehyun Park, Tae-Gyu Song +3Terrain-Aware Robot LocomotionRobot Locomotion

    1Agency for Defense Development, Daejeon 34186, Republic of Korea · Department of Mechanical Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon 34141, Republic of Korea · 3DIDEN Robotics, Seoul 04799, Republic of Korea +2

  21. Robust bipedal locomotion on flowable slopes via foot-driven terrain manipulation

    Jul 13, 2026Deniz Kerimoglu, Junnosuke Kamohara, Jiyeon Maeng +4Humanoid Robot LocomotionTerrain-Aware Robot Locomotion

    Department of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA · School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA · Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston, MA 02115, USA

  22. STEMbot: A Compliant Robot for Under-Canopy Plant Navigation

    Jul 8, 2026Zachary Charlick, Nilay Roy Choudhury, Haoyu Ma +2Simultaneous Localization and MappingRobot Navigation

    Robotics Department, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.

  23. 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.

  24. Strouhal-Aware Model Predictive Control for Efficient Multi-Fin Flapping Locomotion

    Jul 3, 2026Yuya Hamamatsu, Zixi Chen, Maarja Kruusmaa +1Energy-Efficient Robot LocomotionModel Predictive Control

    Department of Computer Systems, Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn, Estonia · Brubotics, Vrije Universiteit Brussel and IMEC, Brussel, Belgium.

  25. A Reconfigurable Rocker-Bogie Robot for High Step Climbing and Turning

    Jul 2, 2026Kento Koizumi, Tomoaki Ohba, Yuta Saito +2Terrain-Aware Robot LocomotionRobot Locomotion

    Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan · Ph.D. Program in Engineering Mechanics and Energy, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan · Beaver’s Hive, Osaka, Japan +1

  26. [Preprint] Dynamic Modeling, Gait Synthesis, and Control of a Novel Subsurface Bore Propagator

    Jul 1, 2026Lina van Brügge, Shruti Kotpalliwar, Anton Koval +2Robotic ControlRobot Dynamics Identification

  27. Learning Locomotion on Discrete Terrain via Minimal Proximity Sensing

    Jun 30, 2026Jiale Fan, Connor Flynn, Tianao Xu +4Terrain-Aware Robot LocomotionRobot Locomotion

    All authors are with the Robotic Systems Lab, ETH Zurich.

  28. Reinforcement Learning-Based Control for an Inline Skating Humanoid Robot

    Jun 30, 2026Ethan Marot, Thomas Bi, Clemens Schwarke +3Humanoid Robot LocomotionRobot Locomotion

    Institute for Dynamic Systems and Control, ETH Zurich, Switzerland. · Robotic Systems Lab, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

  29. X-Morph: Human Motion Priors for Scalable Robot Learning Across Morphologies

    Jun 29, 2026Ritwik Sharma, Shivam Sood, Arhaan Jain +3Cross-Embodiment Robot LearningMotion Retargeting

    National University of Singapore

  30. KYON: Semi-Modular Wheel-Legged Quadruped With Agile Bimanual Capability

    Jun 29, 2026Luca Rossini, Arturo Laurenzi, Francesco Ruscelli +8Bimanual Robotic ManipulationRobot Locomotion

    Humanoids and Human Centered Mechatronics, Fondazione Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Via Morego 30, 16163, Genova, Italy · Advanced Robotics Facility, Fondazione Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Via Morego 30, 16163, Genova, Italy