10 Robotics Research You Need to Know About
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1. J. K. Yim and R. S. Fearing, "Precision Jumping Limits from Flight-phase Control in Salto-1P," 2018 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Madrid, Spain, 2018, pp. 2229-2236, doi: 10.1109/IROS.2018.8594154.
🔗 https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/8594154
2. Zhao, M., 2025. Vectorable Thrust Control for Multimodal Locomotion of Quadruped Robot SPIDAR. arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.11551.
🔗 https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.11551
3. Hopping gives this tiny robot a leg up: MIT engineers developed an insect-sized jumping robot that can traverse challenging terrains and carry heavy payloads.
🔗 https://news.mit.edu/2025/hopping-gives-tiny-robot-leg-up-0409
4. Zhang, B., Zhang, Y., Li, Y., Xuan, S., Ng, H.W., Liufu, Y., Tang, Z. and Laschi, C., 2024. Octopus-Swimming-Like Robot with Soft Asymmetric Arms. arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.11764.
🔗 https://yiyuanzhang.crd.co/#octopus
5. Lee, T., Wen, B., Kang, M., Kang, G., Kweon, I.S. and Yoon, K.J., 2025. Any6D: Model-free 6D Pose Estimation of Novel Objects. arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.18673.
🔗 https://sites.google.com/view/taeyeop-lee/any6d
6. Mellet, J., Berra, A., Marcellini, S., Soto, M.Á.T., Heredia, G., Ruggiero, F. and Lippiello, V., 2024. Design and Control of an Omnidirectional Aerial Robot with a Miniaturized Haptic Joystick for Physical Interaction. arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.09003.
🔗 https://tilties2.github.io/omniquad-website/
7. H. Yoon, J. Bae, M. Yim and T. Seo, "Compliant Node Conceptual Design and Position Estimation for Truss-Like Robotic System," 2024 2nd International Conference on Mechatronics, Control and Robotics (ICMCR), Jeju, Korea, Republic of, 2024, pp. 46-50, doi: 10.1109/ICMCR60777.2024.10482274.
🔗 https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10482274
8. Mirjan, A., Augugliaro, F., D’Andrea, R., Gramazio, F. and Kohler, M., 2016. Building a bridge with flying robots. Robotic fabrication in architecture, art and design 2016, pp.34-47.
🔗 https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-26378-6_3
9. S. Taylor, K. Park, S. Yamsani and J. Kim, "Fully 3D printable Robot Hand and Soft Tactile Sensor based on Air-pressure and Capacitive Proximity Sensing," 2024 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Yokohama, Japan, 2024, pp. 18100-18105, doi: 10.1109/ICRA57147.2024.10610731.
🔗 https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10610731
10. Zhao, T.Z., Kumar, V., Levine, S. and Finn, C., 2023. Learning fine-grained bimanual manipulation with low-cost hardware. arXiv preprint arXiv:2304.13705.
🔗 https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.13705