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    2026 edition · Top 35

    Robotics

    Perception, planning and control for machines in the physical world.

    Robotics: 35 · N = 35, scaled from 93 candidates.

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    1. 1
      Robotics2023

      Diffusion Policy: Visuomotor Policy Learning via Action Diffusion

      Cheng Chi · 4,769 citations · Papers With Code

      Editor's note
    2. 2
      Robotics2023

      RT-2: Vision-Language-Action Models Transfer Web Knowledge to Robotic Control

      Anthony Brohan · 4,794 citations · Papers With Code

      Editor's note
    3. 3
      Robotics2015

      ORB-SLAM: A Versatile and Accurate Monocular SLAM System

      Raúl Mur-Artal · 7,567 citations · Papers With Code

    4. 4
      Robotics2017

      Domain Randomization for Transferring Deep Neural Networks from Simulation to the Real World

      Josh Tobin · 4,260 citations · Papers With Code

      Editor's note
    5. 5
      Robotics1996

      Probabilistic roadmaps for path planning in high-dimensional configuration spaces

      Lydia E. Kavraki · 6,340 citations · OpenAlex

      Editor's note
    6. 6
      Robotics2010 · published 2011

      Sampling-based Algorithms for Optimal Motion Planning

      Sertac Karaman · 5,895 citations · Papers With Code

    7. 7
      Robotics2015 · published 2016

      End-to-End Training of Deep Visuomotor Policies

      Sergey Levine · 3,979 citations · Papers With Code

    8. 8
      Robotics2012

      Are We Ready for Autonomous Driving? The KITTI Vision Benchmark Suite

      Andreas Geiger · 14,894 citations · OpenAlex

      Award
    9. 9
      Robotics2014

      LSD-SLAM: Large-Scale Direct Monocular SLAM

      Jakob Engel · 4,146 citations · Semantic Scholar

      Award
    10. 10
      Robotics2007

      Parallel Tracking and Mapping for Small AR Workspaces

      Georg Klein · 4,348 citations · OpenAlex

    11. 11
      Robotics2009

      ROS: an open-source Robot Operating System

      Morgan Quigley · 11,242 citations · Semantic Scholar

    12. 12
      Robotics2007

      MonoSLAM: Real-Time Single Camera SLAM

      Andrew J. Davison · 3,959 citations · OpenAlex

    13. 13
      Robotics2022

      RT-1: Robotics Transformer for Real-World Control at Scale

      Anthony Brohan · 3,041 citations · Papers With Code

    14. 14
      Robotics2024

      OpenVLA: An Open-Source Vision-Language-Action Model

      Moo Jin Kim · 4,015 citations · Papers With Code

    15. 15
      Robotics2018

      Learning Dexterous In-Hand Manipulation

      OpenAI · 2,350 citations · Papers With Code

    16. 16
      Robotics2002

      FastSLAM: A Factored Solution to the Simultaneous Localization and Mapping Problem

      Michael Montemerlo · 2,082 citations · OpenAlex

    17. 17
      Robotics2016 · published 2017

      ORB-SLAM2: An Open-Source SLAM System for Monocular, Stereo, and RGB-D Cameras

      Raúl Mur-Artal · 6,897 citations · OpenAlex

    18. 18
      Robotics1998

      Rapidly-Exploring Random Trees: A New Tool for Path Planning

      Steven M. LaValle · 5,237 citations · Semantic Scholar

    19. 19
      Robotics2001

      A Solution to the Simultaneous Localization and Map Building (SLAM) Problem

      M. W. M. G. Dissanayake · 2,661 citations · OpenAlex

    20. 20
      Robotics2016

      Learning Hand-Eye Coordination for Robotic Grasping with Deep Learning and Large-Scale Data Collection

      Sergey Levine · 2,322 citations · Semantic Scholar

    21. 21
      Robotics2000

      RRT-Connect: An Efficient Approach to Single-Query Path Planning

      James J. Kuffner Jr. · 3,555 citations · OpenAlex

    22. 22
      Robotics2010 · published 2011

      A Reduction of Imitation Learning and Structured Prediction to No-Regret Online Learning

      Stéphane Ross · 4,850 citations · Papers With Code

    23. 23
      Robotics2017 · published 2018

      VINS-Mono: A Robust and Versatile Monocular Visual-Inertial State Estimator

      Tong Qin · 4,667 citations · OpenAlex

    24. 24
      Robotics2012

      MuJoCo: A physics engine for model-based control

      Emanuel Todorov · 4,630 citations · OpenAlex

    25. 25
      Robotics2016

      End to End Learning for Self-Driving Cars

      Mariusz Bojarski · 4,774 citations · Papers With Code

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      Robotics2011

      DTAM: Dense Tracking and Mapping in Real-Time

      Richard A. Newcombe · 2,078 citations · OpenAlex

      Award
    27. 27
      Robotics1999

      Monte Carlo Localization: Efficient Position Estimation for Mobile Robots

      Dieter Fox · 1,379 citations · Semantic Scholar

      Award
    28. 28
      Robotics2019 · published 2020

      nuScenes: A multimodal dataset for autonomous driving

      9,231 citations · Papers With Code

    29. 29
      Robotics2017

      CARLA: An Open Urban Driving Simulator

      Alexey Dosovitskiy · 7,373 citations · Papers With Code

    30. 30
      Robotics2023

      PaLM-E: An Embodied Multimodal Language Model

      Danny Driess · 3,334 citations · Papers With Code

    31. 31
      Robotics2011

      KinectFusion: Real-Time Dense Surface Mapping and Tracking

      Richard A. Newcombe · 4,747 citations · Semantic Scholar

    32. 32
      Robotics2024

      π₀: A Vision-Language-Action Flow Model for General Robot Control

      Kevin Black · 3,224 citations · Papers With Code

    33. 33
      Robotics1986

      Real-Time Obstacle Avoidance for Manipulators and Mobile Robots

      Oussama Khatib · 7,896 citations · OpenAlex

    34. 34
      Robotics2022

      Do As I Can, Not As I Say: Grounding Language in Robotic Affordances

      Michael Ahn · 3,967 citations · Papers With Code

    35. 35
      Robotics2004

      Apprenticeship Learning via Inverse Reinforcement Learning

      Pieter Abbeel · 3,798 citations · Semantic Scholar

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