Keita Nagaoka — accepted AI-conference papers

2026

A Pin-Array Structured Climbing Robot for Stable Locomotion on Steep Rocky Terrain

Keita Nagaoka, Kentaro Uno, Kazuya Yoshida

ICRA 2026poster

Climbing robots face significant challenges when navigating unstructured environments, where reliable attachment to irregular surfaces is critical. We present a novel mobile climbing robot equipped with compliant pin-array structured grippers that passively conform to surface irregularities, ensurin…

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2026

LIMBERO: A Limbed Climbing Exploration Robot Toward Traveling on Rocky Cliffs

Kentaro Uno, Masazumi Imai, Kazuki Takada, Teruhiro Kataonami, Yudai Matsuura, Antonin Ringeval-Meusnier +4

ICRA 2026poster

In lunar and planetary exploration, legged robots have attracted significant attention as an alternative to conventional wheeled robots, which struggle to traverse rough and uneven terrain. To enable locomotion over highly irregular and steeply inclined surfaces, limbed climbing robots equipped with…

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