RoboPaper Atlas

Four decades of robotics research, indexed. 91,000+ papers from ICRA, IROS, RA-L, T-RO, RSS, IJRR, Science Robotics, Soft Robotics, IEEE/ASME T-Mech, IEEE T-FR, IEEE RA-P, IEEE T-ASE, IEEE RAM, CoRL, and iSpaRo — searchable, filterable, ranked by citation impact.
ICRA 1984~ IROS 1988~ RA-L 2016~ T-RO 2004~ RSS 2005~ IJRR 1982~ Sci-Rob 2016~ SoRo 2014~ T-Mech 1996~ T-FR 2024~ RA-P 2025~ T-ASE 2004~ RAM 1994~ CoRL 2017~ iSpaRo 2024~
91,457
Papers (deduped)
15
Venues
1984~2026
Years
95.4%
Abstract coverage

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Full Explorer MAIN
All 91k+ papers. Filter by year / venue / min-citations, search title & author, sort any column, paginate. Hover a title to preview its abstract.
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Papers by Year
Annual paper counts per venue. Stacked, grouped, and line views — see the rise of RA-L, the steady growth of ICRA/IROS.
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Co-author Network
26k+ researchers connected by 82k+ co-authored-paper edges. Search a name, jump to their node, and reveal 1st / 2nd / 3rd-degree collaborators.
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Robotics Paper Phylogeny ↗
The original robotics-paper taxonomy / phylogeny browser used as the comparison vocabulary for the iSpaRo explorer.
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SLAM Paper Phylogeny ↗
A SLAM-focused paper taxonomy browser, organized around mapping, localization, front-end, back-end, and system-flow perspectives.
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iSpaRo Taxonomy Explorer ↗
A separate hosted explorer for 154 iSpaRo papers: technical taxonomy, curated reading groups, and color-coded abstract sentence roles.
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Conference Location Globe ↗
Where ICRA and IROS have been held — an interactive 3D globe of host cities, year by year.
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CVML Paper Atlas ↗
A sibling atlas for computer vision and machine learning papers, built as a companion literature explorer.
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📊 Excel (.xlsx) 5 sheets · 91,457 papers 👁 Preview first rows of every sheet

Data sources & method

Paper metadata (title, authors, year, DOI, pages) is harvested from DBLP / Crossref / OpenAlex; abstracts, citation counts, and topic concepts come from Semantic Scholar. Duplicates across venues (e.g., a RA-L paper presented at ICRA) are collapsed via DOI + (normalized title, year) matching, with journals taking priority over conferences.

Citation counts change over time — the exact data date is shown in the header of every view and in the Excel summary sheet.

VenueSourceSince
ICRADBLP conf/icra1984
IROSDBLP conf/iros1988
IJRRDBLP journals/ijrr1982
T-RODBLP journals/trob2004
RSSDBLP conf/rss2005
RA-LDBLP journals/ral2016
Science RoboticsDBLP journals/scirobotics2016
Soft RoboticsOpenAlex ISSN 2169-51722014
IEEE/ASME T-MechOpenAlex ISSN 1083-44351996
IEEE T-FROpenAlex ISSN 2997-11012024
IEEE RA-POpenAlex ISSN 2995-43042025
IEEE T-ASEOpenAlex ISSN 1545-59552004
IEEE RAMDBLP journals/ram1994
CoRLDBLP conf/corl2017
iSpaRoCrossref IEEE proceedings2024

Update / refresh

Citations drift and new papers appear. See REFRESH.md for the one-line prompt to re-run the pipeline, or README.md for full pipeline docs.