NeRFs in robotics: A survey

Guangming Wang, Lei Pan, Songyou Peng, Shaohui Liu, Chenfeng Xu, Yanzi Miao, Wei Zhan, Masayoshi Tomizuka, Marc Pollefeys, Hesheng Wang, University of Cambridge, China University of Mining and Technology, ETH Zurich, Mechanical Systems Control Laboratory, University of California, School of Automation and Intelligent Sensing, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

The International Journal of Robotics Research

Published online on September 29, 2025

Abstract

The International Journal of Robotics Research, Volume 45, Issue 6, Page 858-892, May 2026.
Detailed and realistic 3D environment representations have been a long-standing goal in the fields of computer vision and robotics. The recent emergence of neural implicit representations has introduced significant advances to these domains, enabling ...