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  1. RobotUse: Allocating Computation, Context, and Decisions

    Oct 4, 2026Junhoo Lee, Injun Baek, Seungyeon Kim +4Scalable Robot Learning

    KAIST

  2. Robot Learning on Discrete Surfaces: Theory and Applications

    Oct 1, 2026Matteo Dalle Vedove, Fares J. Abu-Dakka, Luigi Palopoli +2Scalable Robot LearningSurface Representation

    Department of Industrial Engineering, Universit`a di Trento, Trento, Italy. · DRIM, Ph.D. of national interest in Robotics and Intelligent Machines. · Mechanical Engineering Program, Division of Engineering, New York University Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. +1

  3. Inline Memory Meets Reusable Skills: Memory-centric Framework for Vision-Language-Action Model

    Sep 30, 2026Zaijing Li, Rui Shao, Bing Hu +3Vision-Language Model AdaptationScalable Robot Learning

    Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen) · Pengcheng Laboratory

  4. Experience-Driven Continual Learning of Terrain Traversability for Quadruped Robots

    Sep 30, 2026Luca Bricarello, João Carlos Virgolino Soares, Alberto Sanchez-Delgado +2Legged RobotsTraversability

    Dynamic Legged Systems Lab, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genoa, Italy. · Universit`a degli Studi di Genova, Genoa, Italy.

  5. Neuro-Symbolic Predicate Learning for Semantic Safe Robot Control

    Sep 30, 2026Zihan Ye, Jiayi Liu, Puze Liu +4Neuro-Symbolic FrameworkScalable Robot Learning

    TU Darmstadt · AIML group · Hessian AI +5

  6. EmbodiRSI: Recursive Self-Improvement for Data-Efficient Robot Adaptation

    Sep 30, 2026Haoran Lang, Haotao Lu, Shiyu Sang +6Scalable Robot LearningRobotic Manipulation Policies

    InstAdapt · ShanghaiTech University

  7. Memorize, Adapt, Ignore: Diagnosing Robot Learning Mechanisms under Training Data Variation

    Sep 29, 2026Ke Zhang, Danica J. Sutherland, Chao LiuScalable Robot LearningImitation Learning

    PRIME Robotics Lab, Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of British Columbia · Department of Computer Science, University of British Columbia · Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute

  8. In-context Robot Learning Made Simple: A Democratized Recipe for Manipulation Tasks

    Sep 29, 2026Minxing Li, Minghao Han, Weizhi Zhao +10Scalable Robot LearningRobot Systems

    NLPR, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CASIA) · Amap, Alibaba Group

  9. CogWAM: Aligning Semantic Cognition with World Action Modeling via Event-Driven Interfaces

    Sep 29, 2026Sen Wang, Liu Liu, Xinjiang Wang +7Efficient World-Action ModelWorld Models

    Xi'an Jiaotong University · Horizon Robotics · Huazhong University of Science and Technology +1

  10. Wrench-ACT: Enhancing Robot Policies for Contact Rich Behavior Using Direct Wrench Control

    Sep 29, 2026Johannes Hechtl, Yannik Blei, Simon Ball +5Robotic Manipulation PoliciesContact Wrench Estimation

    Siemens Research and Predevelopment · Department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, University of Technology Nuremberg, Germany

  11. All You Need Is Low Fidelity: Zero-Shot Sim-to-Real of Learned Robotic Fish Control

    Sep 29, 2026Liam Maloney, Simon Ramchandani, Mike Y. Michelis +2Sim-To-Real Reinforcement LearningScalable Robot Learning

    Soft Robotics Lab, ETH Zurich, Switzerland · ETH AI Center, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

  12. F4R: Failure-Driven Recognition, Reconstruction, Refinement, and Redeployment for Continual Robot Self-Improvement

    Sep 28, 2026Zhuoyuan Yu, Jiacheng Wang, Tianle Liu +13Scalable Robot LearningRefinement

    Nanyang Technological University · Xi’an Jiaotong University · Dexmal

  13. EMPIRIC: Experiment-Driven Learning of Residual World Models for Robot Planning

    Sep 28, 2026Yichao Liang, Amber Li, Dat Nguyen +13Scalable Robot LearningRobot Planning

    Basis Research Institute · University of Cambridge · Carnegie Mellon University +6

  14. RoboFL: Federated Expert Assembly for World Action Models

    Sep 28, 2026Rongyu Zhang, Ruizhi Fan, Yunfan Lou +8Efficient World-Action ModelScalable Robot Learning

    Nanjing University · Hong Kong University of Science and Technology · State Key Laboratory of Multimedia Information Processing, School of Computer Science, Peking University

  15. Model-Informed Safe Reinforcement Learning for Bipedal Locomotion via Step-to-Step Prediction

    Sep 28, 2026Victor Paredes, Ayonga HereidScalable Robot LearningGait Dynamics

    Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA.

  16. ARS: Agentic Reward System for Robot Learning

    Sep 28, 2026Sheng Hu, Weiyi Lu, Lingbing Zeng +5Scalable Robot LearningProgress Reward Modeling

    AIRC, Midea Group

  17. RoboICL: Embodied In-Context Learning with GPT-6 Astra

    Sep 28, 2026Fangcheng Liu, Yeqing Shen, Anda Cheng +7Scalable Robot LearningRobocasa

    Samsung Research, Beijing, China · Samsung Robotics eXperience · Shanghai Jiao Tong University

  18. RACaP: Agentic Reasoning, Acting, and Coding as Policies for Evolvable Robot Learning

    Sep 24, 2026Zexi Li, Yehang Zhang, Haojian Huang +10Robot PoliciesScalable Robot Learning

    The Chinese University of Hong Kong · Knowin AI · The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)

  19. IronViT: Toward Efficient Generalist Visual Representation Learning

    Sep 24, 2026Jiaxi Huang, Yueqi Hu, Xin Zhu +13Vision EncodersRepresentation Quality

    Robotics Foundation Model Team, Xpeng Inc.

  20. Online Sim-to-Real Adaptation via Closed-Loop System Modeling

    Sep 24, 2026Yuhao Huang, Samuel A. Moore, Boyuan ChenSim-To-Real GapClosed-Loop Feedback

    Duke University

  21. An Analysis of Streaming Deep Reinforcement Learning for Adaptive Continual Learning in Robotics

    Sep 23, 2026Teeratham Vitchutripop, Alyssa Quarles, Wenhe Zhang +2Scalable Robot LearningPlasticity

    Department of Computer Science, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA

  22. Generalizing Manipulation Skills with a Local Coding Agent

    Sep 22, 2026Raman Talwar, Elias Nijs, Andreas Verleysen +1Scalable Robot LearningCoding Agents

    IDLab-AIRO, Ghent University – imec, Belgium

  23. Teaching Reinforcement Learning and Humanoid Robotics to High-School Students: An Expert-Validated Curriculum Design on a Low-Cost Open Platform

    Sep 22, 2026Yuanzhe Dong, Jie Cao, Shuman WangScalable Robot LearningHumanoid Robotics

    Stanford University Stanford, CA, USA · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC, USA

  24. Learning to Plan in Human-Robot Collaboration: Multimodal Reinforcement Learning for Adaptive Interaction

    Sep 21, 2026Afagh Mehri Shervedani, Siyu Li, Natawut Monaikul +3Human-Robot CollaborationScalable Robot Learning

    University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, IL 60607 USA · California State University Channel Islands

  25. H2RBench: A Real-to-Sim Benchmark for Evaluating Human-to-Robot Transfer

    Sep 21, 2026Chuyang Xiao, Haotian Zhan, Sriram Krishna +4Human-Robot InteractionScalable Robot Learning

    Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University · University of Michigan · Toyota Research Institute

  26. Co-VLA: Consensus-based Federated Training for Vision-Language-Action Models

    Sep 17, 2026Haolong Li, Guner Dilsad Er, Michael Muehlebach +1Diffusion-Based Vision-Language-ActionsScalable Robot Learning

    Intelligent Perception in Technical Systems, University of Augsburg, Germany · Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Germany

  27. WorldContact: A Contact-Centric World Model for Scalable Robot Learning

    Sep 17, 2026Caoliwen Wang, Mengdi Wang, Heng Zhang +7Tactile World ModelScalable Robot Learning

    University of British Columbia · Westlake University · Style3D Research

  28. In-Context Robot Learning with VLM Agents

    Sep 16, 2026Dongzhou Cheng, Taoran Yi, Ye Fang +12Scalable Robot LearningRobot Systems

    Morphi Robot · Shanghai Innovation Institute · Huazhong University of Science and Technology +7

  29. UMI-Bridge: Action-Anchored Latent Alignment across Human and Robot Manipulation Data

    Sep 16, 2026Haiyi Liu, Jinming Ma, Ke Rui +12Human-To-Robot TransferScalable Robot Learning

    Tsinghua University · Simple AI

  30. SCQ: Stabilizing Conservative Q-Learning with Sigmoid-Bounded Entropy

    Sep 14, 2026Xiefeng Wu, Shu Zhang, Zhaojie Chu +1Q-LearningEntropy Regularized Reinforcement Learning

    School of Computer Science, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China · School of Electronic Information, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China · School of Internet, Anhui University, Hefei, China

  31. A Novel Robot-Assisted Learning Pedagogy for Children with ASD

    Sep 13, 2026Laura Boccanfuso, Erin Barney, Marilena Mademtzi +7Autism Spectrum DisorderScalable Robot Learning

    Yale Child Study Center, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA · Now at Van Robotics, Inc. · Yale Social Robotics Lab, Department of Computer Science, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA +1

  32. Learning to build covering structures with continuous adjustments

    Sep 8, 2026Gabriel Vallat, Maryam Kamgarpour, Stefana ParaschoScalable Robot LearningEfficient Exploration

  33. Continual Field-Adaptive Models (CFAMs) for Post-Deployment Physical AI

    Sep 3, 2026Amarjot Singh, Tanmay R. Pancholi, Jainam Kothari +7Embodied Artificial IntelligenceArtificial Intelligence Deployment

    Skylark Labs · Carnegie Mellon University · University of California, Berkeley

  34. Toward Unified Robot Learning: Bridging Representation, Vision-Language-Action, and World Models

    Sep 3, 2026Shaunak A. Mehta, Ananya Hazarika, Haochen Zhang +5Scalable Robot LearningEfficient World-Action Model

    Fujitsu Research of America · Carnegie Mellon University · Fujitsu Limited[cs.RO]

  35. Facet-0: A Robotic Foundation Model for Contact-Rich Precise Manipulation

    Sep 1, 2026Haoyuan Deng, Haichao Liu, Wenkai Guo +6Robotic ManipulationScalable Robot Learning

    1PINE Lab, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

  36. Dual Process Motion Planning

    Sep 1, 2026Jiayi Yan, Francesco Fabiano, Alessandro AbateMotion PlanningScalable Robot Learning

    The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen · University of Oxford

  37. AM-Bench: A Modular Simulation Suite and Benchmark for Aerial Manipulation Policy Learning

    Sep 1, 2026Yutong Wang, Dongjae Lee, Xiaofeng Guo +9Aerial ManipulationRobotic Manipulation Policies

    The Robotics Institute, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University · School of Mechanical Engineering, Kyung Hee University · Department of Aerospace Engineering, Pennsylvania State University

  38. CRESSim-Neo: A Batched GPU Simulation Engine for Surgical Robotics and Robot Learning

    Aug 25, 2026Yafei Ou, Ahnaf Naheen, Tleukhan Mussin +3Physics SimulationSurgical Robots

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering; 2Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

  39. Teach and Grow: An Agent-Centered Architecture for General Robot Learning

    Aug 17, 2026Chang Nie, Zhe Liu, Hesheng WangScalable Robot LearningRobot Systems

    School of Automation and Intelligent Sensing, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and the Shanghai Key Laboratory of Navigation and Location Based Services, Shanghai 200240, China

  40. Mind the Context: Continual Learning of Socially Appropriate Robot Actions via Environmental-Social Disentanglement

    Aug 13, 2026Rafal Robert Karpinski, Fethiye Irmak Dogan, Nikhil Churamani +4Scalable Robot LearningRobot Systems

    Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands · Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge, UK

  41. HandEdit: A Unified Benchmark for Egocentric Human-to-Robot Dexterous Hand Image Editing

    Aug 12, 2026Zhenjie Yang, Xingyu Jiao, Guopeng Zhong +18Robotic HandsLarge-Scale Robot Demonstration Datasets

    Inspire Robots · Shanghai Jiao Tong University · Fudan University +3

  42. Surgical WAM: A World-Action Model for Data-Efficient Surgical Robot Learning

    Aug 11, 2026Wenrui Bao, Tianyun Jiang, Zhiben Chen +3Surgical VideosSurgical Robots

    University of Central Florida · AdventHealth

  43. V-Simba: Unleashing the Architectural Potential of RL in Visual Continuous Control

    Aug 8, 2026Donghu Kim, Youngdo Lee, Hojoon Lee +6Simulation-Based Reinforcement LearningScalable Robot Learning

    KAIST · Mila – Québec AI Institute · Université de Montréal +2

  44. Decoupling Intention from Trajectory: A Representational Deduction Framework for World Action Models

    Aug 7, 2026Xiangkai Ma, Yue Ma, Junjie Wang +6Efficient World-Action ModelWorld Models

    1NJU · 2HKUST · 3CUHK-SZ +4

  45. VLAff: Vision-Language-Affordance Model for Unified Actionable Affordances

    Aug 5, 2026Jihoon Oh, Kento Kawaharazuka, Kei OkadaScalable Robot LearningEgocentric Video

    University of Tokyo, Japan

  46. Learning Physical Interaction: A Survey of Tactile- and Force-aware Robot Learning

    Aug 2, 2026Shilin Shan, Chuhao Zhou, Ruize Wang +30TactileScalable Robot Learning

    Nanyang Technological University · Stanford University · University of California, Berkeley +9

  47. Diffusion-Based Body Schema Learning Enabling Abnormal-State Adaptation in Musculoskeletal Robots

    Aug 2, 2026Kento Kawaharazuka, Shuhei IkemotoScalable Robot LearningBiomechanics

    Department of Mechano-Informatics, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-8656, Japan. · Graduate School of Life Science and Systems Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology, 7230, Hibikino 2-4, Wakamatsu, Kitakyushu, Fukuoka, 808-0135, Japan.

  48. Bicycle Acrobatics with Reinforcement Learning

    Aug 1, 2026Shamel Fahmi, Arianna Ilvonen, Samuel Zapolsky +8Scalable Robot LearningAgile Locomotion

    1Robotics and AI Institute (RAI), Cambridge, MA, USA.

  49. Minute-Scale Training for Microrobot Navigation

    Aug 1, 2026Yinghan Sun, Aoji Zhu, Xiang Ji +6Scalable Robot Learning

    State Key Laboratory of Ultra-precision Machining Technology, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China · Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China · Shenzhen Loop Area Institute, Shenzhen, China +3

  50. From Digital to Physical Reservoir Computing: Co-Optimizing Soft Robotic Reservoirs via Dynamics Matching

    Aug 1, 2026Nicola Visentin, Maximilian Stölzle, Mariano Ramírez Montero +3Reservoir ComputingReservoir

    Department of Cognitive Robotics, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands · Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA · Department of Mechanical Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy

  51. Temporal Policy: History-Initialized Action Generation for Robotic Learning from Demonstration

    Jul 31, 2026Dylan Miller, Martin JagersandRobot PoliciesScalable Robot Learning

    Department of Computing Science, University of Alberta, Canada

  52. BWM: A Low-Cost High-Fidelity World Simulator for Robot Learning

    Jul 31, 2026BWM TeamEfficient World-Action ModelWorld Models

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

    Jul 29, 2026Tleukhan Mussin, Yafei Ou, Mahdi TavakoliSurgical RobotsSoft Robotics

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

  54. SymmGrid: Super-Scaling On-Robot Learning with Parallelized Symmetries and Egocentric-Exocentric Visual Perception

    Jul 29, 2026Gabe Everett, Brice Gunter, Ryan Vander Stelt +3Scalable Robot LearningEgocentric Vision

  55. When Does Legacy Data Start to Help? Emergent Transfer in Cross-Configuration Robot Learning

    Jul 28, 2026Tao Wang, Hudson Hou, Yingdong Hu +7Scalable Robot LearningRobot Systems

    Huazhong University of Science and Technology · Spirit AI · Peking University +3

  56. P3: Probabilistic Policy Propagation for Stable VAE-Based Robot Learning

    Jul 28, 2026Liyun Yan, Jianming Ma, Yang Zhang +5Proximal Policy OptimizationRobot Policies

    Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China · Shanghai Innovation Institute, Shanghai, China · Tongji University, Shanghai, China +1

  57. WARL: Wrench-Augmented Reinforcement Learning for Task-Agnostic Learning in Legged Robots

    Jul 27, 2026Keita Yoneda, Kento Kawaharazuka, Kei OkadaScalable Robot LearningLegged Robots

    Department of Mechano-Informatics, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-8656, Japan. · AI Center, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo, Japan.

  58. LeapBot-WA: World-Anchor Action Models via Predictive Latent Alignments

    Jul 27, 2026Pei Liu, Nan Zheng, Lang Zhang +8Efficient World-Action ModelScalable Robot Learning

    1The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) · 2The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology · 3Leapmotor +1

  59. A Few Words Go a Long Way: Language Guided Robot Policy Synthesis

    Jul 26, 2026Daphne Chen, Archit Ritesh Jain, Eric Goossen +4Robot PoliciesScalable Robot Learning

    University of Washington · 2Microsoft Research · 3Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  60. Robot-Factored World Models via Robot Rendering

    Jul 24, 2026Byungjun Kim, Taeksoo Kim, Hyunsoo Cha +1Efficient World-Action ModelVideo World Models

    Seoul National University · RLWRLD