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  1. Principles of Robot Autonomy

    Aug 4, 2026Daniele Gammelli, Joseph Lorenzetti, Katie Luo +2Robotic ControlRobot Navigation

  2. UniNav: A Unified World-Action Diffusion Model for Visual Navigation

    Aug 4, 2026Changqing Zhou, Yueru Luo, Zeyu Jiang +1Visual NavigationTrajectory Generation

    1The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) · 2The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen

  3. TravKAN: Fast and Interpretable Nonlinear Traversability Analysis with Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks

    Aug 3, 2026Daniel Fusaro, Simone Mosco, Wanmeng Li +1Mobile RoboticsRobot Navigation

    Department of Information Engineering, University of Padova, Italy.

  4. VertiAKD: Adaptive Off-Road Kinodynamics on Vertically Challenging Terrain

    Aug 2, 2026Tong Xu, Chenhui Pan, Francesco Cancelliere +1Robot Trajectory TrackingOnline System Identification

    Department of Computer Science, George Mason University, USA · Department of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering, University of Catania, Italy

  5. Minute-Scale Training for Microrobot Navigation

    Aug 1, 2026Yinghan Sun, Aoji Zhu, Xiang Ji +6Reward ShapingRobot Navigation

    State Key Laboratory of Ultra-precision Machining Technology, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China · Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China · Shenzhen Loop Area Institute, Shenzhen, China +3

  6. Motion Planning for Mobile Manipulators Navigating Doorways via Model Predictive Control

    Jul 31, 2026Kasra Sinaei, Kasun Weerakoon, Christopher Bradley +2Constrained Motion PlanningMobile Robotics

    The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802 USA · AlphaZ Inc., Baldwin Park, CA 91706 USA

  7. X-NavDP: Generalizing Navigation Diffusion Policy to Novel Behavior and Embodiments with Group Q-score Reweighted Matching

    Jul 30, 2026Tianyu Yang, Yiming Zeng, Wenzhe Cai +5Robot NavigationPolicy Optimization

    1Fudan University · 3Sun Yat-sen University · 2Shanghai AI Laboratory +1

  8. BioVLN: A Simulation Platform for Visual Language Navigation in Biomedical Laboratories

    Jul 29, 2026Zhe Liu, Quan Lu, Zhaohui Du +7Robotics SimulationRobot Navigation

    Key Laboratory of Smart Manufacturing in Energy Chemical Process, MoE, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, China · Department of Computer Science and Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, China · Department of Laboratory Medicine, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China +1

  9. VoLN: Vision-Only Long-Horizon Navigation---Paradigm, Benchmark, and Method

    Jul 23, 2026Jiabin Lou, Haopeng Wang, Yuanshuai Wang +6Embodied NavigationRobot Navigation

    Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China · Hangzhou International Innovation Institute, Beihang University, Hangzhou 311115, China

  10. ZONDA: Zero-shot Object Navigation with Dynamic Avoidance in Multi-floor Environments

    Jul 23, 2026Shaomin Liang, Xuanhong Liao, Shiyao ZhangRobot NavigationDynamic Obstacle Avoidance

    School of Automation and Intelligent Manufacturing, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China · School of Automation Science and Engineering, South China University of Technology · School of Advanced Engineering, Great Bay University, Dongguan City, China

  11. Robostral Navigate

    Jul 22, 2026Abdelaziz Bounhar, Abhijeet Somani, Aditi Kabra +273Robot Policy LearningRobot Navigation

  12. Towards Capability-Aware Traversability Navigation for Unstructured Environments

    Jul 22, 2026Gianluca Capezzuto, Felipe Tommaselli, Matheus P. Angarola +2Robot NavigationCross-Embodiment Robot Learning

    Mobile Robotics Group, University of São Paulo, São Carlos, SP, Brazil

  13. NavVerse: Benchmarking Indoor-to-Outdoor Embodied Navigation in Continuous Robot Simulation

    Jul 22, 2026Junzhe Wu, Yue Hu, Zeyu Han +4Embodied NavigationRobotics Simulation

    University of Michigan, Ann Arbor · Tsinghua University

  14. Milo, a Fully Autonomous Indoor/Outdoor Robotic Guide Dog

    Jul 21, 2026Florian Golemo, Joanna Wolski, Joel Ruben Antony Moniz +1Robot NavigationSocial Robot Navigation

    Mila - Quebec AI Institute Montreal, Canada · Mila - Quebec AI Institute, Polytechnique Montreal, Canada

  15. Eversion-based robots can enable safe access,steering and endoscopic imaging within the spinal subarachnoid space

    Jul 21, 2026Zicong Wu, Panagiotis Kalozoumis, S. M. Hadi Sadati +8Robot NavigationRobotic Insertion

    Department of Surgical & Interventional Engineering, School of Biomedical Engineering & Imaging Sciences, Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine, King’s College London, London WC2R 2LS, United Kingdom · Department of Computer Science & Biomedical Informatics, University of Thessaly, Lamia 35131, Greece · School of Engineering and Materials Science, Queen Mary University London, London E1 4NS, United Kingdom +2

  16. Beyond Transformers: Linear Attention Policy for Open-Vocabulary Object Goal Navigation

    Jul 21, 2026Jiahong Zhang, Yifan Lin, Yandong Zhang +6Robot NavigationLinear Attention

    Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100045, China · State Key Laboratory of Media Convergence and Communication, Communication University of China, Beijing 100024, China · Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China +2

  17. Beyond Fixed Goal Delivery: Online POMDP Planning for Target Interception in Crowds

    Jul 20, 2026Himanshu Gupta, Kelvin Aladum, Nisar Ahmed +2Robot NavigationSafe Motion Planning

    Dept. of Aerospace Engineering Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder, USA · Dept. of Computer Science, University of Colorado Boulder, USA

  18. Distilling Global Traversability Priors for Image-based Affordance Prediction in Off-road Environments

    Jul 20, 2026Matthew Sivaprakasam, Samuel Triest, Micah Nye +5Off-Road Robot NavigationEmbodied Navigation

    Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University · Field AI

  19. Stability and Comfort in Mobile Robot-Pedestrian Interactions

    Jul 20, 2026Alireza Jafari, Hong-Son Nguyen, Yen-Chen LiuRobot NavigationSocial Robot Navigation

    Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan

  20. Predictive Training with Latent Imagination for Visual Quadruped Navigation

    Jul 20, 2026Yancheng Zhu, Wanli Ma, Chen Han +3Robot NavigationRL for Legged Locomotion

    Anker Spatial Perception Lab

  21. G2-Nav: Grounded and Guarded Vision-Language Costmaps for Robot Social Navigation

    Jul 18, 2026Yuwen Liao, Yihang Lan, Yizhuo Yang +4Robot NavigationSafe Robot Navigation

    School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering Nanyang Technological University Singapore

  22. A BIM-enabled, Agent-based Discrete-event Simulation Platform for Robotic Studies: A Method based on Graph Theory

    Jul 18, 2026Ping Xu, Xinghua GaoRobotics SimulationRobot Navigation

    Myers-Lawson School of Construction, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, 24060, United States. · Myers-Lawson School of Construction, Virginia Tech, 320J Hitt Hall, Blacksburg, 24060, United States

  23. PRISM: Multimodal Terrain Mapping for Rover Navigation in Unstructured Environments

    Jul 17, 2026Raul Castilla-Arquillo, Carlos Perez-del-Pulgar, Levin Gerdes +2Robot NavigationVision Transformer

    Space Robotics (SpaceR) Research Group, SnT, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Luxembourg · Department of Automation and Systems Engineering, Universidad de Málaga, Andalucia Tech, 29070 Málaga, Spain

  24. RAVEN: Reinforcement-Adaptive Visibility-Graph Planning for Robust Humanoid Navigation with Collision-Free MPC

    Jul 17, 2026Ruochen Hou, Shiqi Wang, Beom Jun Kim +3Reinforcement LearningRobot Navigation

    Robotics and Mechanisms Laboratory (RoMeLa), Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA.

  25. MemoGuard: An Adaptive Runtime for Guarding Against Memory Traps in Communication-Limited Robot Navigation

    Jul 17, 2026Rajat Bhattacharjya, Hyeonjong Ju, Sing-Yao Wu +2Robot NavigationSafe Robot Navigation

    Department of Computer Science, University of California, Irvine · Department of Computer Science, Yonsei University, South Korea

  26. Learning Agile Navigation in Crowded Environments for Quadruped Robots

    Jul 16, 2026Shuyu Wu, Zeyu Liu, Tianbao Zhang +6Robot Policy LearningRobot Navigation

    Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China · State Key Laboratory of High-end Heavy-load Robots, Midea Group, Foshan 528300, China

  27. Modeling and Validation of Quality of Control for Edge-Offloaded Collaborative Navigation

    Jul 16, 2026Neelabhro Roy, Mikael Hammarling, Victor Nan Fernandez-Ayala +4Robot NavigationMulti-Robot Coordination

    †KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden · ∗National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra, India

  28. NavCMPO: Critic-Guided MeanFlow Policy Optimization for Adaptive Navigation

    Jul 16, 2026Junjie An, Yi Wu, Xiao Liu +5Flow MatchingRobot Policy Adaptation

    Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China · Shandong University

  29. VTM-Nav: Hierarchical Visual-Topological Memory for Cross-Episode Object-Goal Navigation

    Jul 16, 2026Xiaoran Xu, Yupeng Wu, Tianyu Xue +4Memory-Augmented VLMsRobot Navigation

    MAIS, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China · School of Advanced Interdisciplinary Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China · Tsinghua University, Beijing, China +1

  30. Merging Reaction to Cognition: A Hybrid Cognitive Strategy for Odour Source Localisation in Natural Environments

    Jul 15, 2026Hugo Magalhães, Rui Baptista, Lino MarquesBelief-Space PlanningRobot Navigation

    Institute of Systems and Robotics · Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering · University of Coimbra, 3030-290, Coimbra, Portugal