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  1. Assembling Two Parts in One Hand

    Sep 9, 2026Liuao Pei, Tianyue Wu, Hui Zhang +2RL for RoboticsDexterous Manipulation

    The University of Hong Kong · The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) · ETH Zurich +1

  2. CAST: Alternating State-Value Targets and Expanded Policy Gradients for Model-Based Reinforcement Learning

    Sep 8, 2026Pietro Noah Crestaz, Mohamed Yassine Kabouri, Nicolas Mansard +1RL for RoboticsReinforcement Learning

    1Industrial Engineering Department, University of Trento, Trento, Italy. · 2LAAS-CNRS, Universit´e de Toulouse, CNRS, Toulouse, France. · 4Artificial and Natural Intelligence Toulouse Institute (ANITI), Toulouse. +1

  3. Learning to build covering structures with continuous adjustments

    Sep 8, 2026Gabriel Vallat, Maryam Kamgarpour, Stefana ParaschoRL for RoboticsRobotic Construction

  4. Proprioception-Anchored Cross-Modal Pretraining for Zero-Shot Sim-to-Real Contact-Rich Assembly

    Sep 7, 2026Yuhan Wang, Yurou Chen, Hongye Jiang +2RL for RoboticsCross-Modal Representation Learning

    Shanghai Jiao Tong University · University of Sussex

  5. Non-Prehensile Throwing: A Reinforcement Learning Perspective

    Sep 1, 2026Abdullah Mustafa, Ryo Hanai, Ixchel G. Ramirez-Alpizar +4RL for RoboticsNon-Prehensile Manipulation

    National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan · Graduate School of Fundamental Science and Engineering, Waseda University, Tokyo 169-8555, Japan

  6. Towards Socially Compliant Navigation in Deep Reinforcement Learning via Proxemics-Based Reward Modeling

    Aug 13, 2026Takieddine Soualhi, Jacques Saraydaryan, Laetitia MatignonRL for RoboticsSocial Robot Navigation

    CHROMA · Inria, CITI Lab, INRIA–INSA Chroma Team, Villeurbanne, France. · CPE, CHROMA +3

  7. Adaptation of Generalist Robot Policies with Minimal Data

    Aug 11, 2026Shreyas Kowshik, Sreyas Venkataraman, Leo Wang +3RL for RoboticsRobot Policy Adaptation

    Carnegie Mellon University

  8. Task-Oriented Formation Decision via Reinforcement Learning: Herding an Attacking Swarm

    Aug 10, 2026Zhaozong Wang, Guibin Sun, Jinyong Chen +1Multi-Robot Formation ControlRL for Robotics

    School of Automation Science and Electrical Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China

  9. JoyAI-RA 0.5: Scaling Robot Manipulation Learning via Dual Action Alignment

    Aug 6, 2026JoyAI-RA TeamRL for RoboticsLatent Action Learning

    Joy Future Academy, JD

  10. Learning Context-Aware Motion Priors for Humanoid Control

    Aug 4, 2026Yunyang Mo, Yi Gu, Yangchen Zhou +2RL for RoboticsRobot Policy Learning

    The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), Guangzhou, China

  11. PFM-HR: Pose Flow Matching for Humanoid Robots

    Aug 4, 2026Yukang Gao, Yi Gu, Yangchen Zhou +9RL for RoboticsFlow Matching

    1HKUST(GZ) · 2Noitom Robotics · 4Google +1

  12. First Deployable Dynamic-CoM: A Unified Policy and Method-Agnostic Benchmark for Humanoid Single-Leg Balance

    Aug 1, 2026Yikai Zhou, Xingyun Wang, Jieming Cui +4RL for RoboticsHumanoid Robot Control

    Peking University

  13. PAC-MAN: Perception-Aware CBF-RL for Whole-Body Safety in Humanoid Dodgeball

    Jul 30, 2026Lizhi Yang, Junheng Li, Aaron D. AmesRL for RoboticsControl Barrier Functions

    California Institute of Technology, CA 91106, USA

  14. Learning Social Robot Navigation By Sensing Human Legs

    Jul 30, 2026Alberto Vaglio, Andrea Garulli, Antonio Giannitrapani +2RL for RoboticsRobot Policy Learning

    Department of Information Engineering and Mathematics, University of Siena, Siena, Italy · Uninettuno University, Rome, Italy

  15. Simulation of Surgical Suturing Using Position-Based Dynamics and the Material Point Method for Robot Reinforcement Learning

    Jul 29, 2026Tleukhan Mussin, Yafei Ou, Mahdi TavakoliRL for RoboticsRobotics Simulation

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada · Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

  16. Learning Reusable Hybrid Motion Priors for Humanoid Locomotion from Motion Imitation

    Jul 27, 2026Valerio Belli, Valerio Modugno, Enrico Mingo Hoffman +1RL for RoboticsLatent Action Learning

    UNIROMA, UCL · Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy · University College London, London, UK +3

  17. Egocentric Station Holding of Robotic Fish in Unknown Turbulent Background Flow

    Jul 26, 2026Xiaozhu Lin, Xu Huang, Hongru Dai +3Robotic ControlRL for Robotics

    School of Information Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai, China · State Key Laboratory for Turbulence and Complex Systems, Department of Advanced Manufacturing and Robotics, College of Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China · Laboratory of Cognitive and Decision Intelligence for Complex System, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China

  18. PRISM: Polynomial Representations for Interaction-Structured Motor Control

    Jul 26, 2026Seung Hyun Lee, Stella X. YuRobotic ControlRL for Robotics

    University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Computer Science and Engineering

  19. Reinforcement Learning for the Full Strawberry Harvesting Process: Obstacle Separation, Detachment, and Placement

    Jul 16, 2026Changyou Miao, Teng Li, Ya XiongRL for RoboticsLong-Horizon Robotic Manipulation

    The Intelligent Equipment Research Center, Beijing Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences, Beijing 100097, China. · College of Engineering, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China

  20. DenseReward: Dense Reward Learning via Failure Synthesis for Robotic Manipulation

    Jul 14, 2026Yu Fang, Wanxi Dong, Jiaqi Liu +7RL for RoboticsReward Modeling

    University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · Carnegie Mellon University · Shanghai Jiao Tong University +1

  21. Vision-Based Dribbling for Humanoid Soccer via Privileged Representation Learning

    Jul 14, 2026Flavio Maiorana, Valerio Spagnoli, Eugenio Bugli +5RL for RoboticsReinforcement Learning

    Dept. of Computer, Control, and Management Engineering Sapienza University of Rome, Rome (Italy) · Institut de Robòtica i Informàtica Industrial (CSIC-UPC), C/ Llorens i Artigas 4-6, 08028, Barcelona, Spain · École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland

  22. StratMamba: Strategic and Reactive Stream Partitioning for Path-Efficient LiDAR-Based Obstacle Avoidance

    Jul 14, 2026Hung-Chieh Wu, Xiaopan Zhang, Kasra Sinaei +6RL for RoboticsMamba

    1The Pennsylvania State University, USA. · 2AlphaZ, Inc., USA. · 3Georgia Institute of Technology, USA. +1

  23. Towards Human-level Dexterous Teleoperation

    Jul 13, 2026Puhao Li, Zeyuan Chen, Yingying Wu +9RL for RoboticsLong-Horizon Robotic Manipulation

    1Tsinghua University · 2State Key Lab of General Artificial Intelligence, BIGAI · 3Peking University

  24. Think When It Matters: Conditional VLM Reasoning for Social Navigation with RL Policies

    Jul 13, 2026Ali Ahmadi, Hamed Rahimi, Adrien Jacquet Cretides +3RL for RoboticsSocial Robot Navigation

    Institut des Syst`emes Intelligents et de Robotique (ISIR) Sorbonne Universit´e France

  25. VINE: Taming Generative Control Policies for Reinforcement Learning

    Jul 11, 2026Rushuai Yang, Zhuo Han, Houlin Li +10RL for RoboticsOffline RL

    1AgiBot · 3Peking University · 2The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

  26. TAC-LOCO: Unified Whole-Body Control for Quadrupedal TACtile-Informed LOCO-Manipulation

    Jul 11, 2026Muqun Hu, Yuhao Zhou, Kabir Ray Malik +4Legged RoboticsRL for Robotics

    1Purdue University · University of Florida

  27. CORL-AUV: CFD Oriented Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles

    Jul 10, 2026Steven Roche, Milo Van Mooy, Nathan McGuire +3RL ControlRL for Robotics

    MIT-WHOI Joint Program, MA 02543, USA · WHOI, MA 02543, USA · Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02319, USA

  28. Learning to Throw Objects Safely in Multi-Obstacle Environments

    Jul 7, 2026Mohammadreza Kasaei, Klemen Voncina, Hamidreza KasaeiRL for RoboticsRobot Skill Learning

    School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, UK · Department of Artificial Intelligence, University of Groningen, The Netherlands

  29. Deep Reinforcement Learning for Dynamic Battery Management of Autonomous Order Pickers

    Jul 6, 2026Taniya Shaji, Abhay Sobhanan, Christof DefrynRL for RoboticsMobile Robotics

    Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, Bannerghatta Road, Bengaluru 560076, Karnataka, India · University of Antwerp, Prinsstraat 13, Antwerp 2000, Belgium

  30. SILO: Simulation-in-the-Loop Sim-to-Real Transfer for Multi-Stage Cable Routing

    Jul 6, 2026Stone Tao, Jie Xu, Hesam Rabeti +3RL for RoboticsSim-to-Real Transfer

    1NVIDIA Corporation · University of California, San Diego