Robotics PapersA programme for reading clubs

Topic 11 of 17

Navigation & mobility in robotics

Navigation and mobility is getting a robot body from A to B: mapping, path planning, exploration, mobile manipulation, and outdoor autonomy including driving and flight. It is the oldest area in this index and still the largest by paper volume.

226papers in 2026-07
19.33%of all cs.RO that month
-0.84ppshare 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

These already have a slide kit, so they are the fastest ones to pick up and present.

2025-09-04
Lawrence Y. Zhu, Pranav Kuppili, Ryan Punamiya +5 · 35 citations
2022-06-08
Danijar Hafner, Kuang-Huei Lee, Ian Fischer +1 · 145 citations

Recent work

2026-09-08
Brendan Gould, Zhiyuan Zhang, Panagiotis Tsiotras +1
2026-09-07
Clara Gomez, Alberto Jaenal, Antonio Artuñedo +2
2026-09-06
Ravi Prakash, Ryan P. McNabb, Patrick J. Codd +1

636 papers in this corpus carry the navigation & mobility tag. How tagging works.