Robotics Digest
Daily Paper Digest 🤖
Five new robotics papers picked and summarized every morning by an automated pipeline — arXiv (cs.RO / cs.LG / cs.SY) → relevance scoring → DeepSeek — with a focus on modular and legged robots.
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Robotics Paper Digest — 2026-09-25
Today's picks: DAWN: Noise-Robust Quadruped Parkour via Depth-Denoising World Models; Contact as a Decision Variable: Capability-Tradeoff Contact Selection for Legged Loco-Manipulation; Fly, Drive, Reconfigure: A Modular Reconfigurable Aerial-Ground Platform for Field Operations;
- 5 papers
Robotics Paper Digest — 2026-09-24
Today's picks: Spiderbot: An Open-Source Energy-Efficient Hexapod with Passive Gravity Compensation; ForgetMimic: Motion Unlearning for Reinforcement Learning Humanoid Control; Gray-Box Model Predictive Control for Articulated Dump Trucks via Gaussian Process Learning of Sideslip
- 5 papers
Robotics Paper Digest — 2026-09-23
Today's picks: SG-CPG: Severity-Gated Central Pattern Generators for Adaptive Quadruped Locomotion under Continuous Actuator Degradation; Learning Air-Ground Motion Control with Temporal Mode Switching and Cross-Terrain Tracking; HOTICE: Whole-Body Humanoid Object Transportation
- 5 papers
Robotics Paper Digest — 2026-09-22
Today's picks: STRIDER: Stepping-Enabled Multi-Gait Hierarchical 3D Loco-Manipulation Framework for Humanoid Robots; Smoothness as a Constraint for Stable Humanoid Locomotion; MimicAgent: Quadruped Skills via Prompt-to-Trajectory Generation; UniPoint: Unified Point-Level Sensor F
- 5 papers
Robotics Paper Digest — 2026-09-21
Today's picks: Duty Factor Predicts Robust Constrained Quadrupedal Locomotion Across Gait Types; FootQuery: Future-Touchdown-Guided Retrieval from Depth History for Perceptive Humanoid Locomotion; LIMBO: Learning and Internalizing Model-Free Barrier Objectives for Agile and Safe
- 5 papers
Robotics Paper Digest — 2026-09-20
Today's picks: Learning Slope-Adaptive Whole-Body Locomotion for Humanoid Robots in Roofing Construction; Walking on the Slope: Stable Bipedal Gaits with Genetic-Algorithm-Optimized Trajectories; Winning a Won Game: Strict Reach-Avoid-Stay Control Barrier Functions for High-Dimen
- 5 papers
Robotics Paper Digest — 2026-09-19
Today's picks: RecMorph: Topology-Guided Spatial Recurrence for Generalized Morphology Control; ViLoMan: Learning Visual-Proprioceptive Whole-Body Loco-Manipulation Skills for Humanoid Robots; Learning Safe Humanoid Navigation from Reduced Order Models; LEAP: Learning Emergent Ac
- 5 papers
Robotics Paper Digest — 2026-09-18
Today's picks: DR-MPC: Fast and Feasible Dynamics-Relaxed Model-Predictive Control for Legged Locomotion; GLAMDRING: Gait Learning And Morphology co-Design via Reinforcement LearnING of CPGs; Accelerating Visual Policy Learning with Sampling-Based Model Predictive Control; Quanti
- 5 papers
Robotics Paper Digest — 2026-09-17
Today's picks: Adaptive-MHE : A Sampling-Based Adaptive MPC for Legged Loco-Manipulation via Moving Horizon Estimation; Loco-Loco-RL: Low-Cost Terrain Mapping for Humanoid Locomotion with Reinforcement Learning; Learning Holistic Whole-Body Loco-Manipulation with a Bipedal Mobile
- 5 papers
Robotics Paper Digest — 2026-09-16
Today's picks: Optimized Wrench Polytope Analysis for Real-Time Stability Control of Legged Robots in Complex Multi-Contact Configurations; Fingers as Legs: Learning Self-Supported Locomotion and Manipulation with an Anthropomorphic Hand; Collision-Aware Humanoid Whole-Body Contr
- 5 papers
Robotics Paper Digest — 2026-09-15
Today's picks: Extending the Speed Limit of Quadrupedal Locomotion via Refined Actuator Modeling and Adaptive Command Scheduling; Breaking speed scaling in quadrupedal robots via Huygens' coupled-pendulum dynamics; JEPLO: Joint-Embedding Predictive Learning for LiDAR-Based Legged
- 5 papers
Robotics Paper Digest — 2026-09-14
Today's picks: Decentralized Evolution of Hexapod Gaits with Independent Leg Controllers; DWMP: Leveraging Dual World Models for Humanoid Obstacle Traversal; Global Path Planner with Multi-Model Switching; ASTRIL-MPC: Autonomous Traversal Framework of Articulated Tracked Robots w
- 5 papers
Robotics Paper Digest — 2026-09-13
Today's picks: An Adaptive Multi-Parameter ADMM Algorithm for Embedded MPC; Size Doesn't Matter: Material-State Reinforcement Learning for Excavator Transferable Soil Manipulation; Groupoid-Based Internal State Representations for Reinforcement Learning with Local Symmetries; Mul
- 5 papers
Robotics Paper Digest — 2026-09-12
Today's picks: Modular Kinematic Reduction of Closed-Chain Mechanisms Using Path Assembly and Defect Homotopy; Contact-Aware Incremental Model Predictive Control for an Underactuated Aerial Manipulator; Learning Agent-based Model Predictive Control for Holistic Vehicle Performanc
- 5 papers
Robotics Paper Digest — 2026-09-11
Today's picks: Morphology-Aware Human Motion Retargeting for Wheeled-Humanoid Loco-Manipulation; Gait-Dependent Effects on Quadruped Locomotion for Load-Carrying using Passive Mechanism; CAP: Continuously Adaptive Perception-Blind Humanoid Locomotion via Learned Denoising; GeoTru
- 5 papers
Robotics Paper Digest — 2026-09-10
Today's picks: Frame-Coded Legged Locomotion over Noisy Terrain; Actuator Dynamics Curricula for Narrow-Viability Tasks in Legged Robot Learning; Learning Terrain-Adaptive Humanoid Locomotion on Granular Terrain; ViBe: Visual Behavior Adaptation for Perceptive Humanoid Whole-Body
- 5 papers
Robotics Paper Digest — 2026-09-09
Today's picks: Anti-Gravity Walking by a Flying Humanoid Robot via Thrust-Rate Input Whole-Body Model Predictive Control; CAST: Alternating State-Value Targets and Expanded Policy Gradients for Model-Based Reinforcement Learning; PGMT: Perceptive General Motion Tracking for Human
- 5 papers
Robotics Paper Digest — 2026-09-08
Today's picks: ToPos: Automated Optimal Positioning on Topographic Manifolds using Constrained Geodesic Voronoi Decomposition; UniMate: One Unified Model to Animate Diverse Skeletons; Human-Human & Human-Robot Interaction Transformer (H2INT) for Robot Navigation in Dense and Unce
- 5 papers
Robotics Paper Digest — 2026-09-07
Today's picks: Headroom-Aware Stochastic Adaptive Model Predictive Control for Load Frequency Control in Microgrids; Modular Deep Recurrent Neural Network: Application to Quadrotors; Morphology and actuation as inductive biases in robotic hand manipulation; Grid-Mode-Aware Model
- 5 papers
Robotics Paper Digest — 2026-09-06
Today's picks: An Adaptive Control Architecture for Slope and Terrain Compensation in Autonomous Navigation in Mediterranean Greenhouses; Real-Time Shape Control of Multi-Segment Soft Robotic Arms Using Koopman Operators with Global and Local Observables; Physics-based Online Ada
- 5 papers
Robotics Paper Digest — 2026-09-05
Today's picks: RoughSense: Lightweight Terrain-Induced Rover Vibration Prediction Using Point Clouds and IMU Feedback; Revisiting Topological Graphs for Macro Action based Closed-loop Reinforcement Learning of Vision Language Navigation in Continuous Environment; Predictive Zonot
- 5 papers
Robotics Paper Digest — 2026-09-04
Today's picks: QLAUN: A Research-Oriented, Robust, Agile, Modular, and Affordable Torque-Controlled Quadruped Robot; MulDP: Multimodal Diffusion Policy for Autonomous Quadruped Parkour Navigation across Complex Terrains; FWBC-VLA: Force-Aware Whole-Body Compensation for Contact-R
- 5 papers
Robotics Paper Digest — 2026-09-03
Today's picks: World-Model-Augmented Visual Locomotion for Humanoids on Foothold-Constrained Terrain; FOCUS: Foot Observation Confidence for Robust Humanoid Proprioceptive Odometry; Humanoid Safe Stop via Learned Stoppability Value; Contact-Constrained Lower-Limb Joint-Offset Cal
- 5 papers
Robotics Paper Digest — 2026-09-02
Today's picks: Exploring Nonlinear Body Oscillations for Natural Quadruped Gaits; A System for Fast, Resilient, and Adaptable Loco-Manipulation Behaviors on Humanoid Robots; Accelerating Reinforcement Learning via MPC Solver-Gradient Guidance for Weights-varying MPC; ADAPT: Agile
- 5 papers
Robotics Paper Digest — 2026-09-01
Today's picks: SleepWalking: Privileged Representation Shaping for End-to-End Blind Locomotion in Legged Robots; A Dual-Cam Parallel Elastic Actuator with Shared Gas-Spring Compensation for Humanoid Ankles; SUN: Persistent Programs For Language-Grounded Control-to-Learning-to-Rea
- 5 papers
Robotics Paper Digest — 2026-08-31
Today's picks: Contact-Guided Exploration for Non-Prehensile Locomanipulation with Multi-Critic RL; Stay Seated: Learning Omnidirectional Humanoid Locomotion on a Passive Mobile Chair with Casters; Anytime Primal--Dual Certification of the Maximum Disturbance Radius in Robust MPC
- 5 papers
Robotics Paper Digest — 2026-08-30
Today's picks: Active Surface-Driven Reconfigurable Gripper: Robust Grasping and Sequential Manipulation of Thin Objects; Anytime Global Tensor Motion Planning; EgoNav: Bridging Learned Waypoints and Geometry-Aware Local Control for Robust Indoor Navigation; Planning a Shared Mod
- 5 papers
Robotics Paper Digest — 2026-08-29
Today's picks: Task-space model-based control of pneumatic soft actuators; Riemann-1.0: An Embodied World Action Model for Physical AI; CLAP: Cross-Embodiment Video World Models are Zero-Shot Physical Simulators; GRAFT: Grounded and Efficient Online Reinforcement Adaptation for F
- 5 papers
Robotics Paper Digest — 2026-08-28
Today's picks: Tensegrity Continuum Robots Enable Task-Adaptive Morphologies for Cooperative Behaviors; Closing the Loop on the Poppy Humanoid: Bipedal Locomotion with Linear-Quadratic Control and Learned Cost Functions; SOLO: Stable Omni-terrain Long-Horizon Perceptive Humanoid
- 5 papers
Robotics Paper Digest — 2026-08-27
Today's picks: LAC: Linear and Angular Compliance for Humanoid Whole-body Control; RAEM: Robust Autonomous Exploration for Multi-Floor Environments with a Quadruped Robot; PRISM: Projection-Integrated Sampling-Based MPC with Bayesian Cost Tuning for Bimanual Manipulation; SUPER O
- 5 papers
Robotics Paper Digest — 2026-08-26
Today's picks: CARO: Contact-Agnostic Residual Observation for Zero-Shot Robust Quadruped Locomotion; Safety-aware Model Predictive Path Integral Control with Signal Temporal Logic; WarpSAC: Towards the Pinnacle of Scalable Off-policy RL by Rethinking Exploration and Exploitation
- 5 papers
Robotics Paper Digest — 2026-08-25
Today's picks: Guided Riemannian Optimization (GuRO): Bridging Model Predictive Control and Decision Transformers; Physics Filtering Favors the Generalization of Robot Learning; TONAV: Task-Oriented Navigation and Action-Velocity Chunk Learning for Articulated Object Quadrupedal
- 5 papers
Robotics Paper Digest — 2026-08-24
Today's picks: Graph-Operator World Models for Morphology-Parameter Generalization in Continuous Control; Demonstration-Guided Humanoid Stand-Up on an Emulated Deformable Surface; Natural Sit-to-Stand Motion Synthesis For Humanoids via Guided Assistance Curricula and Staged Rewar
- 5 papers
Robotics Paper Digest — 2026-08-23
Today's picks: SCAPE: Scenario-Conditioned Simulation-Augmented Policy Evaluation; Learning the Right Abstraction: Neural Reduced Dynamics for Complex Robot Control; ADEPT: Accelerating Dexterity via Pre-Training and Post-Training using Reinforcement Learning; Multimodal Trajecto
- 5 papers
Robotics Paper Digest — 2026-08-22
Today's picks: Towards Professional Tennis Styles for Humanoid Robots with Adaptive Motion Planning and Tracking; Learning Hierarchical Skill Policies with Offline Quality-Diversity Reinforcement Learning; Adaptive Probabilistic Shielding by Learning MDPs for Safe Reinforcement L
- 5 papers
Robotics Paper Digest — 2026-08-21
Today's picks: Learning Highly Dynamic Skills Transition for Quadruped Jumping Through Constrained Space; MILD: Tractable Terrain Modeling for Learning Improved Bipedal Locomotion on Deformable Surfaces; Hybrid Feedback Sampling for Sample-Efficient Model Predictive Control; DECO
- 5 papers
Robotics Paper Digest — 2026-08-20
Today's picks: Real-Time Control-Constrained DDP for Underactuated Balancing of Legged Robots; GigaBrain-WBC-0.5: A Behavior World Model for Robust Whole-Body Control with Environment Interaction; MLREF: Efficient Module Reuse for Reward Design in Reinforcement Learning via Large
- 5 papers
Robotics Paper Digest — 2026-08-19
Today's picks: Reconfiguration-Complete Motion Primitives with Constructive Planning for Deformable Planar Modular Robots; FetchMan: Learning Visual Humanoid Loco-Manipulation Policies from Simulated Experiences; Terrain-Aware Local Path Planning with Global DEM Data Integration
- 5 papers
Robotics Paper Digest — 2026-08-18
Today's picks: Trajectory-Level Automatic Curriculum Learning for Legged Locomotion on Unstructured Terrain; HAF: Adapting Generalist VLAs to Humanoid Whole-Body Loco-manipulation via Hierarchical Action Flow and Spectral Latent RL; Tac4Loco: Learning Spatiotemporal Plantar Press
- 5 papers
Robotics Paper Digest — 2026-08-17
Today's picks: Communication in modular robotic motor control: Bilateral controllers under realistic constraints; OccPlanner: Goal-Aware Occupancy-Conditioned Diffusion Planner for Pixel-Goal Navigation; Coverage Aware Active Evaluation for Failure Discovery with Paired Systems;
- 5 papers
Robotics Paper Digest — 2026-08-16
Today's picks: Multi-AUV Ad-hoc network-based Target Tracking: A Value Gradient Guidance Multi-Agent Diffusion Reinforcement Learning Approach; Manufacturing Complex Airtight Soft Pneumatic Actuators for Soft Robotics: Process Evaluation and Optimization; RGB-D Video Generation f
- 5 papers
Robotics Paper Digest — 2026-08-15
Today's picks: Towards Socially Compliant Navigation in Deep Reinforcement Learning via Proxemics-Based Reward Modeling; Deliberate Practice: Learning Robot Skills under a Budget; Attention from Action, for Action: Emergent Visual Bottlenecks for Policy Learning; NestDex: Nested
- 5 papers
Robotics Paper Digest — 2026-08-14
Today's picks: HumanoidVLN: A Physics-Grounded Simulator and Benchmark for Vision-Language Navigation Across Diverse Humanoid Embodiments; HumanTracker: Towards Comprehensive and Human-Aligned Motion Tracking Benchmark; Weight Certificates for Convex Multi-Objective MPC: Geometri
- 5 papers
Robotics Paper Digest — 2026-08-13
Today's picks: Learning Loco-Manipulation From SMPC Demonstrations With Sparse Offline-to-Online RL; ContactIPM: A Structure-Exploiting Interior-Point Solver for Contact-Implicit Trajectory Optimization; Policy-Induced Hand Priors in Humanoid Dual-Arm Manipulation: Diagnosing and
- 5 papers
Robotics Paper Digest — 2026-08-12
Today's picks: Whole-Body Planning for Humanoids Navigating Confined Spaces via Self-Collision Avoidance References; Hip Energized Monopedal Hopping; Topological Feasibility Guarantees for Differentiable Predictive Control; Risk-Aware Kinodynamic Motion Planning Under Uncertainty
- 5 papers
Robotics Paper Digest — 2026-08-11
Today's picks: Removing Infrastructure Barriers in Human-Robot Collaboration Through Wireless Reconfigurable Cells; Efficient Real-World Online Reinforcement Learning for Robot Manipulation via Centralized Training and Critic Decomposition; Nonlinear Model Predictive Control of a
- 5 papers
Robotics Paper Digest — 2026-08-10
Today's picks: Learning Fault-Tolerant Locomotion with Adaptive Gait Timing; Spatiotemporal Agility: Time-Constrained Reinforcement Learning for Vision-Guided Dynamic Quadrupedal Interception; LyEvO: Lyapunov-Guided Evolutionary Optimization for Safe and Robust Sim-to-Real Policy
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Robotics Paper Digest — 2026-08-09
Today's picks: Transcutaneous Spinal Cord Stimulation Disrupts Conscious Ankle Proprioception and Produces a More Constrained Locomotor Pattern in Unimpaired Adults; Search-Aided Joint Agent-Environment Reinforcement Learning for Robust Lifelong Multi-Agent Path Finding with Rota
- 5 papers
Robotics Paper Digest — 2026-08-08
Today's picks: Variable Impedance Diffusion Policy for Compliant Robot Manipulation from Diverse Demonstrations; Observation-Grounded Self-Predictive Reinforcement Learning for Visual Continuous Control; Beyond Flat Policies: Hierarchical Post-Training for Embodied Agents in Robo
- 5 papers
Robotics Paper Digest — 2026-08-07
Today's picks: TRACE: Learned Proprioceptive Odometry for Legged Robots under Unreliable Contact Conditions; Nonvisual Classification of Ground-Condition by Artificial Proprioception in an Amoeba-Inspired Autonomous Walking Robot; PathCover: A Fast Convex Decomposition along a Pa
- 5 papers
Robotics Paper Digest — 2026-08-06
Today's picks: SCOPE: Field-of-View-Aware Path Planning in Unknown 3D Environments via Safety-Volume Certification; GASP: GPU-Accelerated Safe Planner for Real-Time Collision-Aware Motion Generation with Latent Trajectory Sampling; RoboReact: Agentic Skill Distillation from Gener
- 5 papers
Robotics Paper Digest — 2026-08-05
Today's picks: Shooting for Contact: Contact-Implicit Multiple Shooting for Dynamic Motion Retargeting; CUDA MPC: A GPU-Native Solver for Model Predictive Control; Contact-Driven Localization in a Freeform Robotic Self-Assembled Structure; Stochastic Multiple Shooting Trajectory
- 5 papers
Robotics Paper Digest — 2026-08-04
Today's picks: Open-DiffLoco: Open-Source Differentiable Learning for Deployable Blind Quadruped Locomotion; Rapid Embodiment Adaptation for Quadrupedal Locomotion; Bridging the Sim-to-Real Gap in Parallel-Link Leg Mechanisms via Simulator-Side Dynamics Normalization; Residual-Ba
- 5 papers
Robotics Paper Digest — 2026-08-03
Today's picks: Advances, challenges, and opportunities for legged robots; Balancing of Humanoid with Object Mass: Trade-off Analyses and Lifting Control; Self-Evolving Learning for Embodied AI with Criticality Model; Input-to-state Stable Approximate Nonlinear Model Predictive Co
- 5 papers
Robotics Paper Digest — 2026-08-01
Today's picks: X-NavDP: Generalizing Navigation Diffusion Policy to Novel Behavior and Embodiments with Group Q-score Reweighted Matching; Learning Social Robot Navigation By Sensing Human Legs; FA-RDP: A Frequency-Adaptive Reactive Diffusion Policy for Contact-Rich Manipulation;
- 5 papers
Robotics Paper Digest — 2026-07-31
Today's picks: PAC-MAN: Perception-Aware CBF-RL for Whole-Body Safety in Humanoid Dodgeball; TEA-AgriVLN: Traversability Estimation Alarm for Agricultural Vision-and-Language Navigation; RL$^2$-VLA: Adaptive RL Latent Compositional Steering with Test-Time Scaling for Vision-Langu
- 5 papers
Robotics Paper Digest — 2026-07-30
Today's picks: Reinforcement Learning on Cost-Constrained Quadrupedal Hardware; P3: Probabilistic Policy Propagation for Stable VAE-Based Robot Learning; Self-Adaptive Online Learning and Model Predictive Control for Tracking Unknown Dynamics with No Regret; RLMM-Flow: A Flow-bas
- 5 papers
Robotics Paper Digest — 2026-07-29
Today's picks: Amortising Trajectory Optimisation for Residual MPC via Implicit Contact Differentiation; Transformer Transformer: A Unified Model for Motion-Conditioned Robot Co-design; When Does Legacy Data Start to Help? Emergent Transfer in Cross-Configuration Robot Learning;
- 5 papers
Robotics Paper Digest — 2026-07-28
Today's picks: WARL: Wrench-Augmented Reinforcement Learning for Task-Agnostic Learning in Legged Robots; Learning Reusable Hybrid Motion Priors for Humanoid Locomotion from Motion Imitation; Learning Traversability-Aware Global Planners for Long Horizon Off-Road Navigation; Effe