BAIR at CoRL 2026
The Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL) takes place November 9–12, 2026, in Austin, Texas. BAIR faculty, postdocs and students will be presenting research at various sessions, including an Early Career Keynote from Professor Negar Mehr. See below for the full schedule of sessions with BAIR members, including papers co-authored with collaborators at other universities and companies.
November 9–12, 2026 Austin, Texas All times CST · UTC−6
Times shown for oral and spotlight papers are session windows. Individual presentation order is not specified. Papers appear in both their talk and poster sessions.
Paper inclusion: At least one author is affiliated with UC Berkeley; joint affiliations qualify. Faculty talks, session-chair roles and workshop participation are also included.
Late-breaking results: Four late-breaking posters with Berkeley authors are listed so far. This list may grow as more late-breaking posters are confirmed.
Showing all sessions Updated November 8, 2026
Monday , November 9
Main conference 10 papers + 3 LBR posters
Generalist policies, memory and transfer
MEM: Multi-Scale Embodied Memory for Vision Language Action Models
Marcel Torne, Karl Pertsch, Homer Walke, Kyle Vedder, Suraj Nair, Brian Ichter, Allen Z. Ren, Haohuan Wang, Jiaming Tang, Kyle Stachowicz, Karan Dhabalia, Michael Robert Equi, Quan Vuong, Jost Tobias Springenberg, Sergey Levine, Chelsea Finn, Danny Driess
Also at Poster Session I · 5:00–6:30 PM · Poster 42 · JW Marriott
Diagnosing Compositional Generalization in Sequential Robot Tasks
Yixiao Wang, Cheng-En Wu, Lingfeng Sun, Pengcheng Wang, Xiang Ji, Boyuan Liang, Guojian Zhan, Masayoshi Tomizuka
Also at Poster Session I · 5:00–6:30 PM · Poster 115 · JW Marriott
Agentic Robotics
Scaling Online Exploration for Robot Agents
Runhan Huang, Xiangcheng Zhang, Haoyu Chen, Yitong Li, Yen-Jen Wang, Bohan Lyu, Haotian Ye, Chuye Hong, Yixuan Wang, Chloe Su, Haoyu Xiong, Yangzhen Wu, Enze Xie, Travis Manderson, Stefano Ermon, Pieter Abbeel, Antonio Torralba, Dawn Song, Weirui Ye, Yilun Du
Reconstruct, Practice, Go Real: Guided Self-Improvement for Embodied Agents
Yen-Jen Wang, Haozhe Jiang, Shuying Deng, Haoru Xue, Weirui Ye, Rocky Duan, Nika Haghtalab, S. Shankar Sastry, Pieter Abbeel, Haozhi Qi
Also at Agentic Robotics workshop · Thursday, November 12 · 4:15–5:55 PM
Flip Anything with Agentic Robotics Self-Learning
Shuangyu Xie, Kaiyuan Chen, Ken Goldberg
Early Career Keynote II
Hilton Austin Session chair: Ken Goldberg
Professor Negar Mehr
How Can Robots Learn to Interact and Coordinate with Others?
Poster Session I
MEM: Multi-Scale Embodied Memory for Vision Language Action Models
Authors listed under Monday, Spotlight S1
Large Video Planner Enables Generalizable Robot Control
Boyuan Chen, Tianyuan Zhang, Haoran Geng, Caiyi Zhang, Peihao Li, Kiwhan Song, William T. Freeman, Jitendra Malik, Pieter Abbeel, Russ Tedrake, Vincent Sitzmann, Yilun Du
How to Peel with a Knife: Aligning Fine-Grained Manipulation with Human Preference
Toru Lin, Shuying Deng, Zhao-Heng Yin, Pieter Abbeel, Jitendra Malik
HiRE: Hindsight Reward Editing for Policy Finetuning
Haoyi Niu, Zhengtao Han, Yufeng Ji, Zhongyu Li, Koushil Sreenath
Scalable Behavior Cloning with Open Data, Training, and Evaluation
Arthur Allshire, Himanshu Gaurav Singh, Ritvik Singh, Adam Rashid, Hongsuk Choi, David McAllister, Justin Yu, Yiyuan Chen, Huang Huang, Pieter Abbeel, Xi Chen, Rocky Duan, Phillip Isola, Jitendra Malik, Fred Shentu, Guanya Shi, Philipp Wu, Angjoo Kanazawa
Diagnosing Compositional Generalization in Sequential Robot Tasks
Authors listed under Monday, Spotlight S1
AsyncVLA: An Asynchronous VLA for Fast and Robust Navigation on the Edge
Noriaki Hirose, Catherine Glossop, Dhruv Shah, Sergey Levine
GLST: Global-Local Spatio-Temporal Memory Decomposition Framework for Online Chained-Goal Navigation
Yousef Liang, Ryan Ardalan, Yarden Goraly, Chenhao Zhu, Jonas Frey, Claire Tomlin, Marco Pavone, S. Shankar Sastry
ENPIRE: Agentic Robot Policy Self-Improvement in the Real World
Wenli Xiao, Jia Xie, Tonghe Zhang, Haotian Lin, Letian Fu, Haoru Xue, Jalen Lu, Yi Yang, Cunxi Dai, Zi Wang, Jimmy Wu, Guanzhi Wang, S. Shankar Sastry, Ken Goldberg, Linxi Fan, Yuke Zhu, Guanya Shi
Energy-Based Policy Orchestration
Weirui Ye, Yen-Jen Wang, Elvis Hsieh, Zhiyang Dou, Shibo Zhao, Pieter Abbeel, Yilun Du, Leslie Pack Kaelbling, Tomás Lozano-Pérez
Tuesday , November 10
Main conference 11 papers + 1 LBR poster
Reinforcement learning and motion reasoning
Flow Policy Gradients for Robot Control
Brent Yi, Hongsuk Choi, Himanshu Gaurav Singh, Xiaoyu Huang, Takara E. Truong, Carmelo Sferrazza, Yi Ma, Rocky Duan, Pieter Abbeel, Guanya Shi, Karen Liu, Angjoo Kanazawa
Also at Poster Session II · 5:00–6:30 PM · Poster 63 · JW Marriott
Dexterous learning, grasping and assembly
EgoScale: Scaling Dexterous Manipulation with Diverse Egocentric Human Data
Ruijie Zheng, Dantong Niu, Yuqi Xie, Jing Wang, Mengda Xu, Yunfan Jiang, Fernando Castañeda, Fengyuan Hu, You Liang Tan, Letian Fu, Trevor Darrell, Furong Huang, Yuke Zhu, Danfei Xu, Linxi Fan
Also at Poster Session II · 5:00–6:30 PM · Poster 54 · JW Marriott
Humanoid data, control and skills
Hilton Austin Session chair: Koushil Sreenath
SuperMimic: Scaling Humanoid Whole-Body Control with One Differentiable World Model
Qiayuan Liao, Yiyang Shao, Junfeng Long, Kevin Zakka, Roberto Horowitz, Pieter Abbeel, Koushil Sreenath
Also at Poster Session II · 5:00–6:30 PM · Poster 217 · JW Marriott
Real2Sim2Real
RoboSimStudio: An Interactive Toolkit for Rapid Real2Sim of Robot Manipulation Tasks
Kaiyuan Chen, Shuangyu Xie, Uksang Yoo, Xinyue Zhu, Cael Magner, Alvin Zhu, Daehwa Kim, Eric Heiden, Erwin Coumans, Miles Macklin, Spencer Huang, Ken Goldberg
Poster Session II
DiscreteRTC: Discrete Diffusion Policies are Natural Asynchronous Executors
Pengcheng Wang, Kaiwen Hong, Chensheng Peng, Katherine Rose Driggs-Campbell, Masayoshi Tomizuka, Chenfeng Xu, Chen Tang
Improving Robotic Generalist Policies via Flow Reversal Steering
Andy Tang, William Chen, Andrew Wagenmaker, Chelsea Finn, Sergey Levine
EgoScale: Scaling Dexterous Manipulation with Diverse Egocentric Human Data
Flow Policy Gradients for Robot Control
Why Does Action Chunking Improve Behavioral Cloning Performance in Robotic Control?
Filippo Lazzati, Kyle Stachowicz, William Chen, Alberto Maria Metelli, Andrew Wagenmaker, Sergey Levine
FTP-1: A Generalist Foundation Tactile Policy Across Tactile Sensors for Contact-Rich Manipulation
Chengbo Yuan, Zicheng Zhang, Mingjie Zhou, Wendi Chen, Yi Wang, Zhuoyang Liu, Dantong Niu, Shuo Wang, Hui Zhang, Wenkang Zhang, Yingdong Hu, Yuanqing Gong, Wanli Xing, Chuan Wen, Cewu Lu, Kaifeng Zhang, Yang Gao
PTLD: Sim-to-Real Privileged Tactile Latent Distillation for Dexterous Manipulation
Rosy Chen, Mustafa Mukadam, Michael Kaess, Tingfan Wu, Francois Robert Hogan, Jitendra Malik, Akash Sharma
Counterfactual Video Generation Enables Scalable Humanoid Loco-Manipulation
Zihan Wang, Zhen Wu, Pieter Abbeel, Rocky Duan, Jitendra Malik, Carmelo Sferrazza, Karen Liu, Guanya Shi, Angjoo Kanazawa
VLK: Learning Humanoid Loco-Manipulation from Synthetic Interactions in Reconstructed Scenes
Yen-Jen Wang, Jiaman Li, Sirui Chen, Takara E. Truong, Pei Xu, Pieter Abbeel, Rocky Duan, Koushil Sreenath, Angjoo Kanazawa, Carmelo Sferrazza, Guanya Shi, Karen Liu
Social Humanoid: Socially Responsive Human–Humanoid Interaction
Vongani Hlavutelo Maluleke, James Ni, Kie Horiuchi, Lea Wilken, Jiahui Lei, Evonne Ng, Roei Herzig, Jitendra Malik, Trevor Darrell, Angjoo Kanazawa
SuperMimic: Scaling Humanoid Whole-Body Control with One Differentiable World Model
Wednesday , November 11
Optimization, agentic planning and evaluation
Playful Agentic Robot Learning
Junyi Zhang, Jiaxin Ge, Hanjun Yoo, Letian Fu, Zihan Yang, Yaowei Liu, Raj Saravanan, Shaofeng Yin, Justin Yu, Dantong Niu, Zirui Wang, Roei Herzig, Ken Goldberg, Yutong Bai, David M. Chan, Ion Stoica, Angjoo Kanazawa, Jiahui Lei, Haiwen Feng, Trevor Darrell
Also at Poster Session III · 10:30 AM–12:00 PM · Poster 99 · JW Marriott
GaP: A Graph-as-Policy Multi-Agent Self-Learning Harness For Variational Automation Tasks
Kaiyuan Chen, Shuangyu Xie, Letian Fu, Justin Yu, William Pacini, Sandeep Bajamahal, Hudson Kim, Jaimyn Drake, Daehwa Kim, Haoru Xue, Jonathan Francis, Christian Juette, Peter Schaldenbrand, Muhammet Yunus Seker, Ruwan Wickramarachchi, Uksang Yoo, Guanzhi Wang, Adithyavairavan Murali, Balakumar Sundaralingam, S. Shankar Sastry, Yuke Zhu, Linxi Fan, Spencer Huang, Ken Goldberg
Also at Poster Session III · 10:30 AM–12:00 PM · Poster 100 · JW Marriott
Humanoid locomotion and whole-body control
LadderMan: Learning Humanoid Perceptive Ladder Climbing
Siheng Zhao, Yuanhang Zhang, Ziqi Lu, Pieter Abbeel, Rocky Duan, Koushil Sreenath, Yue Wang, Karen Liu, Guanya Shi
Also at Poster Session III · 10:30 AM–12:00 PM · Poster 195 · JW Marriott
ResSafe: Learning Safety Filtering with Residual Reinforcement Learning for Humanoids
Gechen Qu, Tong Zhang, Bike Zhang, Yen-Jen Wang, Koushil Sreenath, Claire Tomlin, Jason Jangho Choi
Also at Poster Session III · 10:30 AM–12:00 PM · Poster 198 · JW Marriott
TANGO: Humanoid Navigation in Cluttered Environments with a Whole-Body Vision-Language-Action Model
Anqi Li, Yuxin Chen, Zhaobo Li, Zhuo Cao, Junli Ren, Masayoshi Tomizuka, Dhruv Shah
Also at Poster Session III · 10:30 AM–12:00 PM · Poster 200 · JW Marriott
Poster Session III
Do as I Do: Dexterous Manipulation Data from Everyday Human Videos
Bhawna Paliwal, Haritheja Etukuru, William Liang, Pieter Abbeel, Nur Muhammad Mahi Shafiullah, Jitendra Malik
WARP-RM: A Warp-Augmented Relative Progress Reward Model for Data Curation
Justin Yu, Andrew Goldberg, Kavish Kondap, Karim El-Refai, Ethan Ransing, Qianzhong Chen, Mac Schwager, Fred Shentu, Philipp Wu, Ken Goldberg
Playful Agentic Robot Learning
Authors listed under Wednesday, Spotlight S6
GaP: A Graph-as-Policy Multi-Agent Self-Learning Harness For Variational Automation Tasks
Authors listed under Wednesday, Spotlight S6
T-Rex: Tactile-Reactive Dexterous Manipulation
Dantong Niu, Zhuoyang Liu, Zekai Wang, Boning Shao, Zhao-Heng Yin, Anirudh Pai, Yuvan Sharma, Stefano Saravalle, Ruijie Zheng, Jing Wang, Ryan Punamiya, Mengda Xu, Yuqi Xie, Yunfan Jiang, Letian Fu, Konstantinos Kallidromitis, Matteo Gioia, Junyi Zhang, Jiaxin Ge, Haiwen Feng, Fabio Galasso, Wei Zhan, David M. Chan, Yutong Bai, Roei Herzig, Jiahui Lei, Fei-Fei Li, Ken Goldberg, Jitendra Malik, Pieter Abbeel, Yuke Zhu, Danfei Xu, Linxi Fan, Trevor Darrell
Tactile Curiosity Drives Robot Interaction
Klemens Iten, Alexander Proshkin, Bhavya Sukhija, Stelian Coros, Andreas Krause, Pieter Abbeel, Carmelo Sferrazza
RPL: Learning Robust Humanoid Perceptive Locomotion on Challenging Terrains
Yuanhang Zhang, Younggyo Seo, Juyue Chen, Yifu Yuan, Koushil Sreenath, Pieter Abbeel, Carmelo Sferrazza, Karen Liu, Rocky Duan, Guanya Shi
TEXEDO: Test Time Scaling for Controller-aware Language-conditioned Humanoid Motion Generation
Jianuo Cao, Yuxin Chen, Yuzhen Song, Masayoshi Tomizuka, Chenran Li, Thomas Tian
CLIFT: Turning Gemini Robotics On-Device into Humanoid Specialists via Non-Invasive Closed-Loop Iterative Fine-Tuning
Yuxin Chen, Hari Srikanth, Nathan Jew, Menglin Wu, Pengcheng Wang, Junli Ren, Masayoshi Tomizuka, Peng Xu, Jinyu Xie, Thomas Tian
LadderMan: Learning Humanoid Perceptive Ladder Climbing
Authors listed under Wednesday, Spotlight S7
ResSafe: Learning Safety Filtering with Residual Reinforcement Learning for Humanoids
Authors listed under Wednesday, Spotlight S7
TANGO: Humanoid Navigation in Cluttered Environments with a Whole-Body Vision-Language-Action Model
Authors listed under Wednesday, Spotlight S7
Thursday , November 12
Workshops Talks, papers and organizing roles
Roadmap to Sample-Efficient Real-World Reinforcement Learning (R2RL) · Keynote block
Zhiyuan “Paul” Zhou
Sergey Levine’s lab. Speaks during the keynote block.
Bimanual Dexterous Tool Use · Spotlights
T-Rex: Tactile-Reactive Dexterous Manipulation
Authors listed under Wednesday, Poster Session III
Do as I Do: Dexterous Manipulation Data from Everyday Human Videos
Authors listed under Wednesday, Poster Session III
Bimanual Dexterous Tool Use · Posters & demos
T-Rex: Tactile-Reactive Dexterous Manipulation
Authors listed under Wednesday, Poster Session III
Do as I Do: Dexterous Manipulation Data from Everyday Human Videos
Authors listed under Wednesday, Poster Session III
Everything Beneath the Policy · Posters
TouchScale: 500 Hours of Human Vision and Touch for Visual-Tactile Learning
Dayou Li, Hao Wang, Qianqian Yang, Zihao Zhu, Haoquan Fang, Ziyao Zeng, Yan Han, Zihan Wang, Yan Wang, Baoru Huang, Dilin Wang, Kenji Shimada, Yiyue Luo, Manling Li, Teresa Lv, Mustafa Mukadam, Rakesh Ranjan, Ruohan Zhang, Qi He, Changliu Liu, Xu Chen, Marco Pavone, Bangya Liu, Jiachen Li, Masayoshi Tomizuka, Zhiwen Fan
Workhorse: Learning Robust Whole-Body Humanoid Loco-Manipulation from Human Data
Songbo Hu, Qiayuan Liao, Yufeng Chi, Kevin Zakka, Sophia Shao, Pieter Abbeel, Koushil Sreenath
Bimanual Dexterous Tool Use · Invited talk
Professor Jitendra Malik
R2RL · Panel discussion
Zhiyuan “Paul” Zhou
Panel with workshop speakers and audience volunteers.
Agentic Robotics · Invited talk
Professor Ken Goldberg
Sim-to-Real-to-Field · Invited talks
Professor Claire Tomlin
Shared invited-talk block with Michael Lutter (Boston Dynamics).
Agentic Robotics · Live demos & posters
ASPIRE: Agentic /Skills Discovery for Robotics
Runyu Lu, Yubo Wu, Ethan Kou, Haotian Lin, Letian Fu, Wenli Xiao, Ajay Mandlekar, Yinzhen Xu, Guanya Shi, Ken Goldberg, Ang Chen, Mosharaf Chowdhury, Jan Kautz, Yuke Zhu, Linxi Fan, Guanzhi Wang
Agentic World Action Models
Zhuoyang Liu, Dantong Niu, Botong Zhang, Boning Shao, Jing Wang, Ruijie Zheng, Yuvan Sharma, Runyu Lu, Jiaming Liu, Renrui Zhang, Roei Herzig, Yutong Bai, Ken Goldberg, Danfei Xu, Yuke Zhu, Guanzhi Wang, Linxi Fan, Trevor Darrell
Reconstruct, Practice, Go Real: Guided Self-Improvement for Embodied Agents
Authors listed under Monday, Late-breaking results, Agentic Robotics
BAIR behind the program
Do Robots Need World Models? Lasse Peters, Negar Mehr’s lab — organizer.
Sim-to-Real-to-Field S. Shankar Sastry, Bike Zhang, Siming He, Jonas Frey — organizers.
“Oops, I Erred” Sergey Levine — faculty advisor. Zhiyuan “Paul” Zhou and Renhao Wang — organizers.
Dexterous Manipulation: Full-Stack Robotics on Learning and Design Jitendra Malik — organizer. Workshop: 2:00–6:00 PM.
About this schedule
Schedule compiled from the conference program, paper and project pages, and workshop programs. Workshop schedules may change; consult each linked program for updates.
Coverage includes 33 main-conference papers, 4 late-breaking results posters and the workshop contributions listed above. The main conference demo track is not covered. Main-conference poster numbers follow an unofficial paper index; check the official program on the day. Hilton stage content will also be streamed to viewing rooms at the Marriott.
Paper affiliations reviewed November 6, 2026; late-breaking results updated November 8, 2026.
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