Topic 10 of 17
3D & spatial reasoning in robotics
3D and spatial reasoning covers how a robot represents the geometry of a scene it has never seen: reconstruction, neural scene representations such as Gaussian splatting, occupancy and depth. Policies that act in clutter need geometry, not just pixels.
38papers in 2026-07
3.25%of all cs.RO that month
-0.16ppshare change, last 6 vs prior 12 months
24-month volume
arXiv query: cat:cs.RO AND (abs:"3D reconstruction" OR abs:"Gaussian splatting" OR abs:"scene representation")
Presented at reading clubs
These already have a slide kit, so they are the fastest ones to pick up and present.
2026-06-29
Yen-Jen Wang, Jiaman Li, Sirui Chen +9
2025-11-20
Dexterity from Smart Lenses: Multi-Fingered Robot Manipulation with In-the-Wild Human Demonstrations
Irmak Guzey, Haozhi Qi, Julen Urain +10 · 16 citations
2025-05-16
Ryan Hoque, Peide Huang, David J. Yoon +2 · 193 citations
Recent work
2026-09-09
Yuanxin Tian, Zhiyuan Liu, Jinhao Li +3
2026-09-09
Zhihao Cen, Chuhua Xian, Hailin Sun +6
2026-09-08
Jiahui Zhang, Bonian Han, Gongbo Liang +1
2026-09-08
Fei Teng, Sheng Wu, Mengfei Duan +7
2026-09-08
Hongchi Xia, Tianhang Cheng, Wei-Chiu Ma +1
2026-09-08
Tinghe Ding, Jiahao Li, He Wang
2026-09-08
Eunseong Jang, YuJin Chung, Sang Jun Lee +2
2026-09-08
Feiyu Zhao, Yuetong Li, Chenxi Xiao
2026-09-08
Xilin Wang, Guoxi Zhang, Hongming Xu +3
2026-09-08
Yujie Tang, Meiling Wang, Jinhao Jiang +4
2026-09-08
Igor Pavlovic, Thiemo Wandel, Anton Obukhov +6
2026-09-07
Xinggang Hu, Chenyangguang Zhang, Zihan Zhu +3
2026-09-07
Junze Bao, Ye Gao, Yiming Huang +5
2026-09-07
Jie Lu, Hengtan Zhang, Li Gong +7
2026-09-07
Sungwon Seo, Jaeseog Won, Jiyou Shin +5
2026-09-07
Sagar Gupta, Don Gideon, Seng W. Loke +2
2026-09-07
Mimo Shirasaka, Haochen Zhang, Yonatan Bisk
2026-09-06
Jiahui Zhang, Gongbo Liang, Yu Zhang
2026-09-06
Taekyung Kim, Hun Kuk Park, Renya Wada +3
2026-09-05
Azusa Sawada, Allan Wang, Hideo Saito +1
2026-09-05
Khoa Nguyen, Mitchell Turton, Florian Meyer
2026-09-04
Samer Abualhanud, Max Mehltretter
2026-09-04
Kun Hu, Menggang Li, Kaidi Wu +5
2026-09-04
Zhenxuan Fan, Bo Zhang, Yutong Lin +9
2026-09-04
Zijie Zhu, Weiren Cai, Yizhou Wang +4
2026-09-04
Haoxiang Sun, Fangyuan Wang, Songhao Huang +4
2026-09-04
Junhui Wang, Wei Yang, Xinyao Li +4
2026-09-03
Trung Tien Dong, Shengji Jin, Chen Chen +2
2026-09-03
Chenxi Tao, Seung-Kyum Choi
2026-09-03
Junqing Du, Fernando Ropero, Erkin Turkoz +2
2026-09-03
Konstantinos Dimitropoulos, Ioannis Hatzilygeroudis
2026-09-03
SeyedMohammadAmin Nabi Pour, S. Gareth Pierce, Randika Vithanage +3
2026-09-03
Yijun Yang, Shenghe Zheng, Wenbo Li +8
2026-09-03
Gabriel Manuel Garcia, Stephanie Aravecchia, Miguel Angel Olivares-Mendez
2026-09-02
Guido Caccianiga, Sergey Prokudin, Yutong Chen +9
2026-09-02
Jiasheng Qu, Zhikai Shen, Chenyu Xu +6
2026-09-02
Hanyang Cao, Yuetong Fang, Taesoo Kwon +10
2026-09-01
Jiho Lee, Nisar Ahmed, Kyle Hollins Wray +1
2026-09-01
Yiran Zhou, Yingyu Wang, Shoudong Huang +1
2026-09-01
Ruijie Tang, Chenye Zou, Guoquan Wu +3
301 papers in this corpus carry the 3d & spatial reasoning tag. How tagging works.