RoboPaper Atlas

Four decades of robotics research, indexed. 94,000+ 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, iSpaRo, and SSRR — searchable, filterable, ranked by citation impact.
Latest dataset update
September 9, 2026
94,699 deduplicated papers · All 16 venues checked · RSS 2026 proceedings added
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~ SSRR 2004~
94,699
Papers (deduped)
16
Venues
1984~2026
Years
97.0%
Abstract coverage

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Full Explorer MAIN
All 93k+ 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
27k+ researchers connected by 86k+ 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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Download the dataset

📊 Excel (.xlsx) 5 sheets · 94,699 papers · 51 MB 👁 Preview first rows of every sheet

Data sources & method

Paper metadata (title, authors, year, DOI, pages) is harvested from DBLP / Crossref / OpenAlex, supplemented by official RSS and PMLR proceedings; 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.

The dataset update date is shown in each view and in the Excel summary sheet. Citation retrieval dates vary by paper; existing cached counts are retained unless refreshed. Recent journal records are supplemented by OpenAlex when DBLP is unavailable.

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
SSRRCrossref IEEE proceedings2004

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.