Key papers

• Learning Locomotion Skills Using Deeprl: Does The Choice Of Action Space Matter? (2016)
  Xue Bin Peng, Michiel van de Panne
  15.65
• CARL: Controllable Agent With Reinforcement Learning For Quadruped Locomotion (2020)
  Ying-Sheng Luo, Jonathan Hans Soeseno, Trista Pei-Chun Chen, et al.
  12.17
• Learning To Walk: Spike Based Reinforcement Learning For Hexapod Robot Central Pattern Generation (2020)
  Ashwin Sanjay Lele, Yan Fang, Justin Ting, et al.
  11.49
• The Dynamics Of Scattering In Undulatory Active Collisions (2017)
  Jennifer M. Rieser, Perrin E. Schiebel, Arman Pazouki, et al.
  9.59
• WANDR: Intention-guided Human Motion Generation (2024)
  Markos Diomataris, Nikos Athanasiou, Omid Taheri, et al.
  9.41
• Lyapunov Stability Of A Rigid Body With Two Frictional Contacts (2016)
  Péter L. Várkonyi, Yizhar Or
  8.35
• ROLO-SLAM: Rotation-Optimized LiDAR-Only SLAM in Uneven Terrain with Ground Vehicle (2025)
  Yinchuan Wang et al.
  7.66
• Closed-loop Robots Driven By Short-term Synaptic Plasticity: Emergent Explorative Vs. Limit-cycle Locomotion (2016)
  Laura Martin, Bulcsú Sándor, Claudius Gros
  7.50
• Physical Plausibility-aware Trajectory Prediction Via Locomotion Embodiment (2025)
  Hiromu Taketsugu, Takeru Oba, Takahiro Maeda, et al.
  7.42
• Learning Domain Randomization Distributions For Training Robust Locomotion Policies (2019)
  Melissa Mozifian, Juan Camilo Gamboa Higuera, David Meger, et al.
  7.16
• Decaying Clipping Range In Proximal Policy Optimization (2021)
  Mónika Farsang, Luca Szegletes
  6.77
• TRG-planner: Traversal Risk Graph-Based Path Planning in Unstructured Environments for Safe and Efficient Navigation (2025)
  Dongkyu Lee et al.
  6.72
• Bistable SMA-driven engine for pulse-jet locomotion in soft aquatic robots (2025)
  Graziella Bedenik et al.
  6.47
• Self-imitation Learning Of Locomotion Movements Through Termination Curriculum (2019)
  Amin Babadi, Kourosh Naderi, Perttu Hämäläinen
  6.34
• Demonstrating Berkeley Humanoid Lite: An Open-source, Accessible, and Customizable 3D-printed Humanoid Robot (2025)
  Yufeng Chi et al.
  5.96
• Learning Multi-Stage Pick-and-Place with a Legged Mobile Manipulator (2025)
  Haichao Zhang et al.
  5.93
• Humanoid Locomotion and Manipulation: Current Progress and Challenges in Control, Planning, and Learning (2025)
  Zhaoyuan Gu et al.
  5.79
• Benchmarking Model Predictive Control and Reinforcement Learning Based Control for Legged Robot Locomotion in MuJoCo Simulation (2025)
  Shivayogi Akki and Tan Chen
  5.79
• High-speed control and navigation for quadrupedal robots on complex and discrete terrain (2025)
  Hyeongjun Kim et al.
  5.76
• Perceptive Mixed-Integer Footstep Control for Underactuated Bipedal Walking on Rough Terrain (2025)
  Brian Acosta and Michael Posa
  5.48
• FOUND-IT: Foundation-model-first Task-driven 3D Scene Graphs with Granularity on Demand (2026)
  Dominic Maggio et al.
  5.38
• Continuous Locomotive Crowd Behavior Generation (2025)
  Inhwan Bae, Junoh Lee, Hae-Gon Jeon
  5.26
• Tailless Flapping-Wing Robot With Bio-Inspired Elastic Passive Legs for Multi-Modal Locomotion (2025)
  Zhi Zheng et al.
  5.24
• On The Effects Of Measurement Uncertainty In Optimal Control Of Contact Interactions (2016)
  Brahayam Ponton, Stefan Schaal, Ludovic Righetti
  5.24
• Online Friction Coefficient Identification for Legged Robots on Slippery Terrain Using Smoothed Contact Gradients (2025)
  Hajun Kim et al.
  5.18
• Watch Your STEPP: Semantic Traversability Estimation using Pose Projected Features (2025)
  Sebastian {\AE}gidius et al.
  5.13
• Autonomous Exploration with Terrestrial-Aerial Bimodal Vehicles (2025)
  Yuman Gao et al.
  5.04
• Adaptive Undulatory Locomotion of Snake-like Robots in Dynamic Viscous Environments via Deep Reinforcement Learning (2026)
  Tsuyoshi Kimoto et al.
  5.01
• OmniContact: Chaining Meta-Skills via Contact Flow for Generalizable Humanoid Loco-Manipulation (2026)
  Runyi Yu et al.
  4.95
• A System for Fast, Resilient, and Adaptable Loco-Manipulation Behaviors on Humanoid Robots (2026)
  Duncan William Calvert
  4.95
• Humanoid-DART: Humanoid Loco-Manipulation using Diffusion-guided Augmentation through Relabeling and Tracking (2026)
  Pranav Debbad et al.
  4.95
• HumanoidUMI: Bridging Robot-Free Demonstrations and Humanoid Whole-Body Manipulation (2026)
  Hongwu Wang et al.
  4.95
• Unleashing Infinite Motion: Scaling Expressive Quadrupedal Motion via Generative Video Priors (2026)
  Youzhi Liu et al.
  4.95
• Survival Reinforcement Learning: Toward Scalable Self-Supervised RL (2026)
  Franki Nguimatsia-Tiofack et al.
  4.90
• MUSE: A Real-Time Multi-Sensor State Estimator for Quadruped Robots (2025)
  Ylenia Nistic\`o et al.
  4.82
• Adaptive Perching and Grasping by Aerial Robot with Light-weight and High Grip-force Tendon-driven Three-fingered Hand using Single Actuator (2025)
  Hisaaki Iida et al.
  4.82
• Isaac Lab: A GPU-Accelerated Simulation Framework for Multi-Modal Robot Learning (2025)
  NVIDIA: Mayank Mittal et al.
  4.75
• RaccoonBot: An Autonomous Wire-Traversing Solar-Tracking Robot for Persistent Environmental Monitoring (2025)
  Efrain Mendez-Flores et al.
  4.71
• Robust and Modular Multi-Limb Synchronization in Motion Stack for Space Robots with Trajectory Clamping via Hypersphere (2025)
  Elian Neppel (1) et al.
  4.53
• Learning Humanoid Arm Motion via Centroidal Momentum Regularized Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (2025)
  Ho Jae Lee et al.
  4.53
• Assessing Evolutionary Terrain Generation Methods For Curriculum Reinforcement Learning (2022)
  David Howard, Josh Kannemeyer, Davide Dolcetti, et al.
  4.52
• Q-learning For POMDP: An Application To Learning Locomotion Gaits (2019)
  Tixian Wang, Amirhossein Taghvaei, Prashant G. Mehta
  4.52
• Learning Aerodynamics for the Control of Flying Humanoid Robots (2025)
  Antonello Paolino et al.
  4.47
• Primal-Dual iLQR for GPU-Accelerated Learning and Control in Legged Robots (2025)
  Lorenzo Amatucci and Jo\~ao Sousa-Pinto and Giulio Turrisi and Dominique Orban and Victor Barasuol and Claudio Semini
  4.47
• Local Motion Matters: A Deconstruct-Recompose Paradigm for Reinforcement Learning Pre-training from Videos (2026)
  Jinwen Wang et al.
  4.39
• Immersive Social Interaction with VR and LLM-Assisted Humanoids (2026)
  Niraj Pudasaini et al.
  4.39
• EgoHTR: Egocentric 4D Demonstrations of Human Terrain Traversal (2026)
  Alex Brandes et al.
  4.39
• Agile perceptive multi-skill locomotion for quadrupedal robots in the wild (2026)
  Jun-Gill Kang et al.
  4.39
• Handroid: Bridging Dexterous Hand and Humanoid (2026)
  Ruogu Li et al.
  4.39
• Morphing MILR: Design and control of a cable-driven limbless robot with rolling joints for maneuvering in complex environments (2026)
  Donoven Dortilus et al.
  4.39
• Towards Miniature Humanoid Tele-Loco-Manipulation Using Virtual Reality and Reinforcement Learning (2026)
  Nicolas Kosanovic et al.
  4.39
• Development of a 3 in Sewer Pipe Inspection Robot with an Articulated Differential Mechanism using X-shaped Linkages (2026)
  Shoya Umemura et al.
  4.33
• GAIT: Legged Robot Proprioceptive State Estimation with Attention over Inertial-Leg Tokens (2026)
  Young-Rang Seo et al.
  4.33
• Robust Fall Recovery for Armless Bipedal-Wheeled Robots Via Force-Guided Learning (2026)
  Haidong Hou et al.
  4.33
• Kine2Go: Kinematic dataset for the Unitree Go2 robot with diverse gaits and motions (2026)
  Władysław Pałucki et al.
  4.33
• SRL: Combining SLIP Model and Reinforcement Learning for Agile Robotic Jumping (2026)
  Xiaowen Hu et al.
  4.33
• High-Degree-of-Freedom Lightweight Bioinspired Leg for Enhanced Mobility in Small Robots (2026)
  Haoqi Han et al.
  4.33
• Selective Unit-Cell Actuation in Lattice Structures for Distributed Morphology in Soft Robots (2026)
  Trevor Exley et al.
  4.33
• ZiMPedance: Impedance-Aware ZMP Modeling and Control for Payload Carrying with Quadruped Robots (2026)
  Giovanni B. Dessy et al.
  4.33
• Sensor Configuration Matters: A Systematic Evaluation of Multimodal SLAM on Quadruped Robots (2026)
  Roberto Corlito et al.
  4.33