Robot Squid Game: Quadrupedal Locomotion for Traversing Narrow Tunnels

Published in IROS 2026, 2026

Recommended citation: Raj, A. H., Das, D., & Xiao, X. (2026). "Robot Squid Game: Quadrupedal Locomotion for Traversing Narrow Tunnels." IROS 2026. https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.13665

SQUID trains expert policies on procedurally generated tunnels and distills them into one vision-based student policy, validated in real-world tunnel deployments.