Robotics and AI Institute

Homepage: rai-inst.com

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Humanoid Locomotion and Manipulation: Current Progress and Challenges in Control, Planning, and Learning

2026 · Zhaoyuan Gu, Junheng Li, et al. · IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics · 138

Equivariant diffusion policy for sample-efficient robotic manipulation

2026 · Dian Wang, Stephen Hart, et al. · The International Journal of Robotics Research · 49

From Pixels to Predicates: Learning Symbolic World Models via Pretrained VLMs

2026 · Ashay Athalye, Nishanth Kumar, et al. · IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters · 34

Real-is-Sim: Bridging the Sim-to-Real Gap with a Dynamic Digital Twin

2026 · Jad Abou-Chakra, Lingfeng Sun, et al. · Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation/Proceedings · 32

ZEST: Zero-shot embodied skill transfer for athletic robot control

2026 · Jean Pierre Sleiman, He Li, et al. · Science Robotics · 25

Dexterous contact-rich manipulation via the contact trust region

2026 · H. J. Terry Suh, Tao Pang, et al. · The International Journal of Robotics Research · 23

ReBot: Scaling Robot Learning with Real-to-Sim-to-Real Robotic Video Synthesis

2025 · Yu Fang, Yue Yang, et al. · IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) · 23

Diffuse-CLoC: Guided Diffusion for Physics-based Character Look-ahead Control

2025 · Xiaoyu Huang, Takara Truong, et al. · ACM Transactions on Graphics · 22

High-Performance Reinforcement Learning on Spot: Optimizing Simulation Parameters with Distributional Measures

2025 · A.J. Miller, Fangzhou Yu, et al. · Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation/Proceedings · 21

ParticleFormer: A 3D Point Cloud World Model for Multi-Object, Multi-Material Robotic Manipulation

2025 · Huang, Suning, Chen, Qianzhong, et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 20

Sumo: Dynamic and Generalizable Whole-Body Loco-Manipulation

2026 · Zhang, John Z., Sorokin, Maks, et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 12

NovaPlan: Zero-Shot Long-Horizon Manipulation via Closed-Loop Video Language Planning

2026 · Fu, Jiahui, Nan, Junyu, et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 11

Online Adaptation Framework Enables Personalization of Exoskeleton Assistance During Locomotion in Patients Affected by Stroke

2025 · Inseung Kang, Dean D. Molinaro, et al. · IEEE Transactions on Robotics · 11

EgoInfinity: A Web-Scale 4D Hand-Object Interaction Data Engine for Any-View Robot Retargeting and Video-to-Action Robot Learning

2026 · Wang, Gaotian, Ren, Kejia, et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 10

You've Got a Golden Ticket: Improving Generative Robot Policies With A Single Noise Vector

2026 · Patil, Omkar, Biza, Ondrej, et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 10

AnyTask: an Automated Task and Data Generation Framework for Advancing Sim-to-Real Policy Learning

2025 · Gong, Ran, Zhang, Xiaohan, et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 10

Versatile Loco-Manipulation through Flexible Interlimb Coordination

2025 · Zhu, Xinghao, Chen, Yuxin, et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 9

EMPM: Embodied MPM for Modeling and Simulation of Deformable Objects

2026 · Yunuo Chen, Yafei Hu, et al. · IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters · 7

ASHiTA: Automatic Scene-Grounded HIerarchical Task Analysis

2025 · Yun Chang, Leonor Fermoselle, et al. · IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · 7

CuriousBot: Interactive Mobile Exploration via Actionable 3D Relational Object Graph

2026 · Yixuan Wang, Leonor Fermoselle, et al. · IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters · 6

Accelerating Residual Reinforcement Learning With Uncertainty Estimation

2025 · Lakshita Dodeja, Karl Schmeckpeper, et al. · IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters · 6

System design of the Ultra Mobility Vehicle: A driving, balancing, and jumping bicycle robot

2026 · Benjamin Bokser, Daniel J. Gonzalez, et al. · Science Robotics · 5

GaRLILEO: Gravity-aligned radar-leg-inertial enhanced odometry

2026 · Chiyun Noh, Sangwoo Jung, et al. · The International Journal of Robotics Research · 5

Caging in time: A framework for robust object manipulation under uncertainties and limited robot perception

2025 · Gaotian Wang, Kejia Ren, et al. · The International Journal of Robotics Research · 5

Generalizing from References using a Multi-Task Reference and Goal-Driven RL Framework

2026 · Jiashun Wang, M. Mungai, et al. · Robotics: Science and Systems · 4

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Citation count: 2,755