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  1. Unleashing the Agility of Wheeled-Legged Robots for High-Dynamic Reflexive Obstacle Evasion

    Apr 26, 2026Yongen Zhao, Zihao Xu, Wenzhi Lu +4Legged RobotsObstacle Avoidance

    Beijing Zhongguancun Academy, Beijing, China · School of Mechanical Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China · School of Computing, National University of Singapore, Singapore +1

  2. QDTraj: Exploration of Diverse Trajectory Primitives for Articulated Objects Robotic Manipulation

    Apr 24, 2026Mathilde Kappel, Mahdi Khoramshahi, Louis Annabi +2Robot TrajectoriesRobotic Manipulation

    Institute of Intelligent Systems and Robotics, CNRS, Sorbonne University, Paris, F-75005, France

  3. An LLM-Driven Closed-Loop Autonomous Learning Framework for Robots Facing Uncovered Tasks in Open Environments

    Apr 24, 2026Hong SuScalable Robot LearningRobot Systems

    School of Computer Science, Chengdu University of Information Technology, Chengdu, China.

  4. Characterizing pitch and roll torque coupling in insect-sized flapping-wing robots using a microfabricated gimbal

    Apr 23, 2026Aaron Weber, Daksh Dhingra, Sawyer B. FullerRotorcraftBidirectional Thrust

    Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, USA · Humanoid, Boston, USA · Department of Mechanical Engineering and Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science, University of Washington, Seattle, USA

  5. Dynamic Coupling and Indirect Control of Jointed Robots Rolling Atop A Moving Platform

    Apr 23, 2026Hamidreza Moradi, Scott David KellyUnderactuated DynamicsRobotic Manipulator

    Department of Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Science, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC 28223 USA

  6. Hi-WM: Human-in-the-World-Model for Scalable Robot Post-Training

    Apr 23, 2026Yaxuan Li, Zhongyi Zhou, Yefei Chen +5Efficient World-Action ModelScalable Robot Learning

    Current Robotics · Tsinghua University · Peking University +1

  7. Assessing VLM-Driven Semantic-Affordance Inference for Non-Humanoid Robot Morphologies

    Apr 21, 2026Jess Jones, Raul Santos-Rodriguez, Sabine HauertSemantic-Affordance InferenceAffordances

    Bristol Robotics Laboratory, University of Bristol Bristol, United Kingdom · University of Bristol Bristol, United Kingdom

  8. Enhancing Glass Surface Reconstruction via Depth Prior for Robot Navigation

    Apr 20, 2026Jiamin Zheng, Jingwen Yu, Guangcheng Chen +1Depth EstimationRobotic Perception

    Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Robotics and Computer Vision, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China · CKS Robotics Institute, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong SAR, China

  9. Will People Enjoy a Robot Trainer? A Case Study with Snoopie the Pacerbot

    Apr 20, 2026Maximilian Du, Jennifer Grannen, Shuran Song +1Robot AutonomyAthleticism

    Stanford University

  10. COFFAIL: A Dataset of Successful and Anomalous Robot Skill Executions in the Context of Coffee Preparation

    Apr 20, 2026Alex Mitrevski, Ayush SalunkeHuman-To-Robot TransferImitation Learning

    Division of Systems and Control, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden · Autonomous Systems Group, Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences, Sankt Augustin, Germany

  11. Equanimity in HRI: Applying Calm Technology Principles to Human-Robot Interaction

    Apr 20, 2026Barbara Sienkiewicz, Bipin IndurkhyaHuman-Robot InteractionRobot Systems

    Cognitive Science Department, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland

  12. Locomotion of an Elastic Snake Robot via Natural Dynamics

    Apr 20, 2026Tristan Ehlert, Arne Sachtler, Annika Schmidt +2LocomotionNonlinear Dynamics

    German Aerospace Center (DLR), Robotics and Mechatronics Center (RMC), Münchner Str. 20, 82234 Weßling, Germany · Technical University of Munich (TUM), Department of Computer Engineering; Boltzmannstraße 3, 85748 Garching, Germany

  13. Greedy Kalman-Swarm: Improving State Estimation in Robot Swarms in Harsh Environments

    Apr 18, 2026Phunyapa Suksomboon, Paulo GarciaState EstimationMulti-Robot Systems

    International School of Engineering, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand

  14. Emergency Stopping for Liquid-manipulating Robots

    Apr 17, 2026Samuli Hynninen, Ville KyrkiMotion PlanningRobot Systems

    Intelligent Robotics Group at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Automation, School of Electrical Engineering, Aalto University, Finland.

  15. A Reconfigurable Pneumatic Joint Enabling Localized Selective Stiffening and Shape Locking in Vine-Inspired Robots

    Apr 17, 2026Ayodele James Oyejide, Ustaz A. Yaqub, Samir Erturk +2Soft RoboticsRobot Systems

    Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Kadir Has University, Cibali, Istanbul, Türkiye · Department of Computer Engineering, Kadir Has University, Cibali, Istanbul, Türkiye · Department of Mechatronics Engineering, Istanbul Bilgi University, Istanbul, Türkiye

  16. Iterated Invariant EKF for Quadruped Robot Odometry

    Apr 16, 2026Hilton Marques Souza Santana, João Carlos Virgolino Soares, Sven Goffin +4Extended Kalman FilterLegged Robots

    Dynamic Legged Systems Lab, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genoa, Italy. · Department of Mechanical Engineering, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. · Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Liège, Belgium. +1

  17. NEAT-NC: NEAT guided Navigation Cells for Robot Path Planning

    Apr 16, 2026Hibatallah Meliani, Khadija Slimani, Samira KhouljiNeuroevolutionPath Planning

    ISI Laboratory, National School of Applied Sciences (ENSA), Abdelmalek Essaadi University Tetouan, Morocco · EsieaLab LDR, Higher School of Computer Science, Electronics and Automation (ESIEA) Paris, France

  18. Identifying and Exploiting Structure in Robot Co-Design

    Apr 13, 2026Apoorv Vaish, Oliver BrockCo-DesignSoft Robotics

    Robotics and Biology Laboratory, Technische Universität Berlin · Science of Intelligence (SCIoI), Cluster of Excellence, Berlin · Robotics Institute Germany (RIG)

  19. CableTract: A Co-Designed Cable-Driven Field Robot for Low-Compaction, Off-Grid Capable Agriculture

    Apr 10, 2026Ozgur YilmazHybrid PowertrainAgricultural Robotics

    Adana Science and Technology University, Adana, Türkiye

  20. Why That Robot? A Qualitative Analysis of Justification Strategies for Robot Color Selection Across Occupational Contexts

    Mar 30, 2026Jiangen He, Wanqi Zhang, Jessica K. BarfieldAnthropomorphismRationality

    The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA · University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, USA

  21. ManipArena: Comprehensive Real-world Evaluation of Reasoning-Oriented Generalist Robot Manipulation

    Mar 30, 2026Yu Sun, Meng Cao, Yang Ping +24Robot SystemsEvaluation Benchmarks

    Sun Yat-sen University · X Square Robot · MBZUAI +2

  22. Point of View: How Perspective Affects Perceived Robot Sociability

    Mar 30, 2026Subham Agrawal, Aftab Akthar, Nils Dengler +1Human-Robot InteractionRobot Navigation

    Humanoid Robots Lab, University of Bonn, Germany · Lamarr Institute for Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence and the Center for Robotics, Bonn, Germany

  23. Allometric Scaling Laws for Bipedal Robots

    Mar 23, 2026Naomi Oke, Aja M. Carter, Ben Gu +4Legged RobotsFeet

    Department of Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA · Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh PA 15213, USA

  24. Tendon-Actuated Robots with a Tapered, Flexible Polymer Backbone: Design, Fabrication, and Modeling

    Mar 19, 2026Harald Minde Hansen, Nandita Gallacher, Nicholas B. Andrews +3Cosserat Rod TheorySoft Robotics

    Mechatronics, Robotics and Operation Section, European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Meyrin, Switzerland · Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA · Department of Engineering Cybernetics, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway

  25. Fire as a Service: Augmenting Robot Simulators with Thermally and Visually Accurate Fire Dynamics

    Mar 19, 2026Anton R. Wagner, Madhan Balaji Rao, Helge Wrede +2Multi-Agent SimulationsRobot Systems

    Department of Computer Science, Kiel University, Germany · Department of Computer Science, George Mason University, USA

  26. CABTO: Context-Aware Behavior Tree Grounding for Robot Manipulation

    Mar 17, 2026Yishuai Cai, Xinglin Chen, Yunxin Mao +6Behavior TreeRobot Planning

    National University of Defense Technology · PsiBot · PKU-Psibot Lab +1

  27. Large Reward Models: Generalizable Online Robot Reward Generation with Vision-Language Models

    Mar 17, 2026Yanru Wu, Weiduo Yuan, Esteban Martinez Licon +4Robotic Manipulation PoliciesRobot Systems

    USC Physical Superintelligence Lab

  28. Coordinate-Independent Robot Model Identification

    Mar 15, 2026Yanhao Yang, Ross L. HattonInverse DynamicsSystem Identification

    Collaborative Robotics and Intelligent Systems (CoRIS) Institute at Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR USA

  29. Altered Thoughts, Altered Actions: Reasoning Chain as Control Surface for a Vision-Language-Action Policy

    Mar 13, 2026Tuan Duong Trinh, Basim Azam, Mohammed Ishaq Ansari +2Generalizable Vision-Language-Action PoliciesRobot Policies

    University of Melbourne Parkville, VIC, Australia

  30. LIPP: Load-Aware Informative Path Planning with Physical Sampling

    Mar 6, 2026Hojune Kim, Guangyao Shi, Gaurav S. SukhatmePath PlanningRobot Systems

    School of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Southern California Los Angeles, California · School of Computer Science University of Southern California Los Angeles, California

  31. Unified Learning of Temporal Task Structure and Action Timing for Bimanual Robot Manipulation

    Mar 6, 2026Christian Dreher, Patrick Dormanns, Andre Meixner +1Bimanual ManipulationClassical Planning

    Institute for Anthropomatics and Robotics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany

  32. Neuro-Symbolic Strong-AI Robots with Closed Knowledge Assumption: Learning and Deductions

    Feb 18, 2026Zoran MajkicNeuro-Symbolic FrameworkAxiom

    ISRST, Tallahassee, FL, USA

  33. From Legible to Inscrutable Trajectories: (Il)legible Motion Planning Accounting for Multiple Observers

    Feb 9, 2026Ananya Yammanuru, Maria Lusardi, Nancy M. Amato +1Motion PlanningPlanning

    University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana IL 61801, USA

  34. Learning Human-Like Badminton Skills for Humanoid Robots

    Feb 9, 2026Yeke Chen, Shihao Dong, Xiaoyu Ji +12BadmintonMotion Imitation

    Adaptive Robotic Controls Lab (ArcLab), Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China · EngineAI Robotics Technology Co., Ltd., Shenzhen, China

  35. PACT-WAM: Predicting Actions and Visual Foresight with Compact Temporal Encoding for Robot Manipulation

    Feb 5, 2026Yushan Liu, Jingjing Fan, Shoujie Li +3Robotic ManipulationForesight

    Tsinghua University · Nanyang Technological University · Xspark AI

  36. Robot Programming with Augmented Reality: The Role of Spatial Ability

    Feb 3, 2026Nicolas Leins, Muriel Fischer, Malte Teichmann +2Augmented RealityHuman-Robot Interaction

    Zuse Institute Berlin, Takustraße 7, 14195 Berlin, Germany · Weizenbaum Institute, Hardenbergstr. 32, 10623 Berlin, Germany · University of Potsdam, Am Neuen Palais 10, 14469 Potsdam, Brandenburg, Germany +1

  37. TriphiBot: A Triphibious Robot Combining FOC-based Propulsion with Eccentric Design

    Feb 1, 2026Xiangyu Li, Tiancheng Lai, Mingwei Lai +6QuadrotorModel Predictive Control

    State Key Laboratory of Industrial Control Technology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China · Huzhou Institute of Zhejiang University, Huzhou 313000, China · Hainan Red Tower Cigarette Co., Ltd., Hainan 571100, China

  38. OGPO: One-Step Generative Policy Optimization for Real-Time Robot Control

    Jan 28, 2026Guowei Zou, Haitao Wang, Hejun Wu +3Robot SystemsAgentic Benchmarks

    School of Computer Science and Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China · Guangdong Key Laboratory of Big Data Analysis and Processing, Guangzhou, China

  39. AnchorDream: Repurposing Video Diffusion for Embodiment-Aware Robot Data Synthesis

    Dec 12, 2025Junjie Ye, Rong Xue, Basile Van Hoorick +4Imitation LearningHuman Motion Generation

    Toyota Research Institute · USC Physical Superintelligence (PSI) Lab

  40. EmbodiedDiffusion: End-to-End Traversability-Guided Visual Diffusion for Heterogeneous Robot Navigation

    Dec 2, 2025Iana Zhura, Sausar Karaf, Faryal Batool +7TraversabilityDiffusion Planning

    Intelligent Space Robotics Laboratory, Center for Digital Engineering, Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology.

  41. Rapidly Learning Soft Robot Control via Implicit Time-Stepping

    Nov 10, 2025Andrew Choi, Dezhong Tong, Xiaonan HuangSoft RoboticsRobotic Manipulator

    Horizon Robotics, Cupertino, CA, USA · Robotics Department at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

  42. LapSurgie: Humanoid Robots Performing Surgery via Teleoperated Handheld Laparoscopy

    Oct 3, 2025Zekai Liang, Xiao Liang, Soofiyan Atar +7Surgical RobotsHumanoid Robotics

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093 USA. · School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853 USA. · UC San Diego Health, La Jolla, CA 92037 USA.

  43. ERUPT: An Open Toolkit for Interfacing with Robot Motion Planners in Extended Reality

    Oct 2, 2025Isaac Ngui, Courtney McBeth, André Santos +6Human-Robot InteractionRobot Planning

    Parasol Lab, Siebel School of Computing and Data Science, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL 61820 USA · Insper, São Paulo, Brazil · Department of Computer Science at Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM), Mexico City, Mexico

  44. Social 3D Scene Graphs: Modeling Human Actions and Relations for Interactive Service Robots

    Sep 29, 2025Ermanno Bartoli, Dennis Rotondi, Buwei He +33D Scene GraphsRobot Systems

    Faculty of Robotics Perception and Learning, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden · Socially Intelligent Robotics Lab at the Institute for Artificial Intelligence, University of Stuttgart, Germany · International Max Planck Research School for Intelligent Systems (IMPRS-IS)

  45. TransforMARS: Fault-Tolerant Self-Reconfiguration for Arbitrarily Shaped Modular Aerial Robot Systems

    Sep 17, 2025Rui Huang, Zhiyu Gao, Siyu Tang +4Aerial RobotsReconfiguration

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117583 · Department of Mechanical Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117583

  46. Distributed Event-Triggered Distance-Based Formation Control for Multi-Agent Systems

    Sep 15, 2025Evangelos Psomiadis, Panagiotis TsiotrasMulti-Robot SystemsOptimistic Follow-The-Regularized-Leader

    D. Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, 30332-0150, USA

  47. Real-Time Model Checking for Closed-Loop Robot Reactive Planning

    Aug 26, 2025Christopher Chandler, Bernd Porr, Giulia Lafratta +1Geometric PlanningObstacle Avoidance

    Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland, UK · School of Engineering, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland, UK · School of Computing Science, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland, UK

  48. Do Robots Really Need Anthropomorphic Hands? A Comparison of Human and Robotic Hands

    Aug 7, 2025Alexander Fabisch, Wadhah Zai El Amri, Chandandeep Singh +1Robotic HandsBimanual Manipulation

    Robotics Innovation Center, Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz GmbH (DFKI), Robert-Hooke-Straße 1, Bremen, 28359, Bremen, Germany. · Leibniz Universität Hannover, L3S Research Center, Appelstraße, Hanover, 30167, Lower Saxony, Germany.

  49. Tunable Leg Stiffness in a Monopedal Hopper for Energy-Efficient Vertical Hopping Across Varying Ground Profiles

    Aug 4, 2025Rongqian Chen, Jun Kwon, Kefan Wu +1TerrainRobot Systems

    George Washington University · General Robotics, Automation, Sensing & Perception Lab at the University of Pennsylvania · University of Connecticut

  50. Binaural Sound Event Localization and Detection based on HRTF Cues for Humanoid Robots

    Jul 28, 2025Gyeong-Tae Lee, Hyeonuk Nam, Yong-Hwa ParkSound Source LocalizationTime-Frequency

    Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon, South Korea

  51. Look, Focus, Act: Efficient and Robust Robot Learning via Human Gaze and Foveated Vision Transformers

    Jul 21, 2025Ian Chuang, Jinyu Zou, Andrew Lee +2Robotic PerceptionScalable Robot Learning

    University of California, Berkeley · 2Tongji University · University of California, Davis

  52. AntiGrounding: Executable Robot Trajectories as Visual Prompts for VLM-Guided Manipulation

    Jun 14, 2025Wenbo Li, Yiteng Chen, Wenhao Li +1Robot TrajectoriesRobotic Manipulation

    School of Software Engineering, South China University of Technology

  53. OV-MAP: Open-Vocabulary Zero-Shot 3D Instance Segmentation Map for Robots

    Jun 13, 2025Juno Kim, Yesol Park, Hye-Jung Yoon +1Open-Vocabulary 3D Segmentation3D Mapping

    Interdisciplinary Program in AI, Seoul National University · Artificial Intelligence Institute, Seoul National University · Department of Computer Science, Seoul National University

  54. Where Do Humans Look When Demonstrating to Robots? Human Gaze Behavior in Pick-and-Place Tasks Across Demonstration Devices

    Jun 6, 2025Yutaro Ishida, Takamitsu Matsubara, Takayuki Kanai +2Robot-Free DemonstrationsGaze Behavior

    Toyota Motor Corporation, Japan. · Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan.

  55. Soft yet Effective Robots via Holistic Co-Design

    Apr 20, 2025Maximilian Stölzle, Niccolò Pagliarani, Francesco Stella +6Soft RoboticsCo-Design

    Laboratory for Information & Decision Systems, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, 02139, MA, USA. · Cognitive Robotics, Delft University of Technology, Mekelweg 2, Delft, 2628 CD, Netherlands. · Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, 02139, MA, USA. +4

  56. Learning-Based Progressive Barrier Control for Robot Manipulators with Initial Errors Outside Prescribed Tracking Bounds

    Mar 18, 2025Hamed Rahimi Nohooji, Danial Zafaranchizadeh Moghaddam, Abolfazl Zaraki +1Control Barrier FunctionsRobotic Manipulator

    Automation and Robotics Research Group, Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust, University of Luxembourg, 1855 Luxembourg, Luxembourg · School of Physics, Engineering and Computer Science (SPECS), and Robotics Research Group of the University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, AL10 9AB, United Kingdom

  57. RoboDesign1M: A Large-scale Dataset for Robot Design Understanding

    Mar 9, 2025Tri Le, Toan Nguyen, Quang Tran +6Large-Scale Robot Demonstration DatasetsRobot Systems

    FPT Software AI Center, Vietnam · University of Liverpool, UK · University of Information Technology, HCMC, Vietnam +3

  58. Easier Said Than Done: Unpacking Intent-Behavior Gap in Jailbreaking LLM-Based Robots

    Dec 21, 2024Xuancun Lu, Zhengxian Huang, Xinfeng Li +3Large Language Model JailbreaksJailbreak Attacks

    Zhejiang University

  59. iTeach: In the Wild Interactive Teaching for Failure-Driven Adaptation of Robot Perception

    Oct 1, 2024Jishnu Jaykumar P, Cole Salvato, Vinaya Bomnale +4Robotic PerceptionRobot Systems

    The University of Texas at Dallas

  60. Generation of Uncertainty-Aware High-Level Spatial Concepts in Factorized 3D Scene Graphs via Graph Neural Networks

    Sep 18, 2024Jose Andres Millan-Romera, Muhammad Shaheer, Miguel Fernandez-Cortizas +33D Scene GraphsOrb-Slam2

    Automation and Robotics Research Group, Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT), University of Luxembourg · University of Amsterdam