Topic

Navigation & mobility

Getting a body from A to B: mobile manipulation, exploration, and outdoor autonomy.

226papers in 2026-07

19.38%of all cs.RO that month

-0.83ppshare change, last 6 vs prior 12 months

24-month volume

arXiv query: cat:cs.RO AND (abs:"navigation" OR abs:"mobile manipulation")

Presented at reading clubs

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2026-06-29

VLK: Learning Humanoid Loco-Manipulation from Synthetic Interactions in Reconstructed Scenes

Yen-Jen Wang, Jiaman Li, Sirui Chen +9

clubHumanoids & locomotion Egocentric & human data

2025-09-04

EMMA: Scaling Mobile Manipulation via Egocentric Human Data

Lawrence Y. Zhu, Pranav Kuppili, Ryan Punamiya +5 · 35 citations

clubRA-LEgocentric & human data Imitation & diffusion policies

2022-06-08

Deep Hierarchical Planning from Pixels

Danijar Hafner, Kuang-Huei Lee, Ian Fischer +1 · 145 citations

clubNeurIPSWorld models Humanoids & locomotion

Recent work

2026-08-27

4DSynth: Controllable Procedural World Synthesis for Dynamic Embodied Simulation

Zehao Qi, Haochen Luo, Jia-Wang Bian +2

Simulation, sim-to-real & benchmarks Navigation & mobility

2026-08-27

Dynamic Haven Selection for Multi-Agent Pickup and Delivery in Constrained Warehouses

Taisei Hirayama, Kohei Yoshida, Hiroki Sakaji +1

Navigation & mobility

2026-08-27

Contact-Aided Factor-Graph Localization for Underwater Sampling

Michele Grimaldi, Yosaku Maeda, Hitoshi Kakami +3

Navigation & mobility

2026-08-27

Beyond Shallow-Water Photorealism: Physically and Sensor-Grounded Simulation for Deep-Sea Robotics

Michele Grimaldi, Enrico Di Maria, Ignacio Carlucho +1

Simulation, sim-to-real & benchmarks Navigation & mobility

2026-08-27

Rapid On-Robot Learning for Dynamic Manipulation Skills: Robot Juggling

Taeyoon Lee, Chunpeng Wang, Christopher G. Atkeson +2

Dexterous manipulation Simulation, sim-to-real & benchmarks

2026-08-27

Beyond the Proving Ground: Independent Public-Road Testing of Assisted Lane Change Systems using LiDAR

Marcello Cellina, Akos Kriston, Antonio Migneco +7

Navigation & mobility Safety & evaluation

2026-08-27

Arrive and Survive: Scaling Safe Goal-Conditioned Policy Learning from One-Bit Failure Signals

Guopeng Li, Yiyang Duan, Yiru Jiao +1

Humanoids & locomotion Reinforcement learning & control

2026-08-27

Barrier Function Conformal Safety Clearance Certification with CVaR for Driving Trajectory Selection

Pei Yu Chang, Qadeer Ahmed

Navigation & mobility Safety & evaluation

2026-08-27

RTNav: Towards Real-Time Zero-Shot Object Navigation

Easop Lee, Lingyu Zhang, Boyuan Chen

Simulation, sim-to-real & benchmarks Navigation & mobility

2026-08-26

Gating Before Commitment: Anticipating Intent Divergence to Prevent Post-Interaction Decision Failures in Autonomous Driving

Cong Xu, Ravi Sankar

IROS 2026Navigation & mobility

2026-08-26

$R^3$: Training Robots to Reason in Natural Language via Reinforcement Learning

Lehong Wu, Yuxiao Qu, Zheyuan Hu +4

Imitation & diffusion policies Reinforcement learning & control

2026-08-26

When Obstacles Bend: Modeling Vegetation Deformation in the context of Field Robotics

Muhammad Hsaeeb Zaar Khizar, Tom Montagnon, Roland Lenain +2

Navigation & mobility

2026-08-26

Phantom Navigator: Stealthy and Precise Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Redirection with Real-Time Tracking and GPS Spoofing

Haocheng Meng, Shaocheng Luo, Songqiao Xie +1

Navigation & mobility Safety & evaluation

2026-08-26

DESCENT: Directed Edge Scene Encoding for Airport Surface Movement Prediction

Alexander Prutsch, David Schinagl, Horst Possegger

IROS 2026Navigation & mobility Safety & evaluation

2026-08-26

Anytime Global Tensor Motion Planning

Sai Coumar, An T. Le, Zachary Kingston

Navigation & mobility

2026-08-26

AGRO-Nav: Autonomous Graph-based Orchard Navigation

Ho Young Yun, Jaemin Yu, Duksu Kim

3D & spatial reasoning Navigation & mobility

2026-08-26

Opportunities of Self Supervised Learning for GNSS: Evaluation of a Deep Learning-Enhanced PVT Algorithm

Thomas Barbero, Bertrand Ekambi

World models Navigation & mobility

2026-08-26

PRISM: Projection-Integrated Sampling-Based MPC with Bayesian Cost Tuning for Bimanual Manipulation

Alinjar Dan, Iryna Hurova, Karl Kruusamäe +1

World models Tactile & force sensing

2026-08-26

EgoNav: Bridging Learned Waypoints and Geometry-Aware Local Control for Robust Indoor Navigation

Jing Wang, Shiqi Zhao, Hairong Qu +1

Humanoids & locomotion Navigation & mobility

2026-08-26

Advantage-Driven Explicit Memory for Social Navigation

Yeonsoo Park, Mattia Racca, Guillaume Bono +4

Simulation, sim-to-real & benchmarks Imitation & diffusion policies

2026-08-26

Towards safe and optimal flight: Viability Kernel MPC for Fully Actuated Multirotor

Massimiliano Bertoni, Alberto Piccina, Gianni Lunardi +4

Reinforcement learning & control Navigation & mobility

2026-08-26

Saliency-Depth Conditioning for Zero-Shot Segmentation of Communication-Tower Components in Cluttered UAV Imagery

Ali Lesani, Chul Min Yeum, Su-Min Kang

Navigation & mobility Data collection & teleoperation

2026-08-26

RAEM: Robust Autonomous Exploration for Multi-Floor Environments with a Quadruped Robot

Zikang Yuan, Yuan Ren, Yian Wang +10

Humanoids & locomotion Navigation & mobility

2026-08-26

SonicNudge: Controlled Displacement of Hovering UAVs via Estimator-Controller Coupling

Shaocheng Luo, Ashir Raza, Haocheng Meng +2

Navigation & mobility

2026-08-25

Control-Oriented Learning for Dynamic Tracking and Stability Analysis of Soft Pneumatic Actuators

Nithin S. Kumar, Eric J. Barth

Navigation & mobility Hardware & morphology co-design

2026-08-25

SkyDrive: Learning to Drive in a New City from Aerial Traffic Monitoring

Weijiang Xiong, Lan Feng, Alexandre Alahi +1

Egocentric & human data Imitation & diffusion policies

2026-08-25

VIP: Variation-based Iterative-learning Planning for Robotic Navigation

Shuli Lv, Pengda Mao, Chen Min +4

Navigation & mobility

2026-08-25

CARE: Camera-Residual Reserves for First Sightings in Adaptive LiDAR Sensing

Jiachen Gong, Yun Li, Ehsan Javanmardi +2

Navigation & mobility Safety & evaluation

2026-08-25

Coverage Planning for Robotic Tooth Preparation in Densely Constrained Environments

Yunwen Li, Chen Chen, Xiangjie Yan +4

Navigation & mobility Safety & evaluation

2026-08-24

Concept-Guided Exploration: Building Persistent, Actionable Scene Graphs

Noé Zapata, Gerardo Pérez, Alejandro Torrejón +2 · 6 citations

Applied SciencesNavigation & mobility

2026-08-24

GeoWAM: Visual Geometry World Action Models for Autonomous Driving

Yiren Lu, Xin Ye, Jiaming Liu +10

World models 3D & spatial reasoning

2026-08-24

Reward-Free Continual Adaptation for Resilient Space Robots

Andrej Orsula, Miguel Olivares-Mendez, Carol Martinez

World models Reinforcement learning & control

2026-08-24

MomADv2: Reliable Temporal Memory for End-to-End Autonomous Driving

Ziying Song, Shengkai Zhang, Lin Liu +8

Navigation & mobility

2026-08-24

OptiSight: Bridging Semantic Reasoning and Geometric Control for Embodied Navigation

Alperen Avan, Jordi Sanchez-Riera

Navigation & mobility Video & generative modeling

2026-08-24

Shaping the Evolutionary Dynamics of Robot Morphology via Adaptive Control Learning

Junru Song, Yang Yang, Yaqing Xu +5

Navigation & mobility Hardware & morphology co-design

2026-08-24

Macro-Action Topological Navigation under Noisy Localization using Reinforcement Learning

Simon Hakenes, Tobias Glasmachers

Simulation, sim-to-real & benchmarks Reinforcement learning & control

2026-08-24

Privileged Critic Training Enables Sensor-Free Thruster Fault Adaptation in End-to-End RL

Ricard Marsal I Castan, Miguel A. Olivares-Méndez

Navigation & mobility

2026-08-24

SuperMap: A Spatio-Temporal SLAM System for Visual-Language Navigation

Shibo Zhao, Guofei Chen, Honghao Zhu +7 · 1 citation

3D & spatial reasoning Navigation & mobility

2026-08-24

Physics Filtering Favors the Generalization of Robot Learning

Jindou Jia, Shixuan Han, Meng Wang +8 · 1 citation

Humanoids & locomotion Navigation & mobility

2026-08-24

RACO: Reliability-Aware Coarse-Goal Optimization for Inspection-Oriented UAV Vision-Language Navigation

Sen Wang, Yiming Sun, Jiaxuan He +1

Simulation, sim-to-real & benchmarks Navigation & mobility

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