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  1. Energy-Regularized Imitation Learning for Force- and Work-Aware Robotic Manipulation

    Sep 16, 2026Toshiki Otani, Hiromu Taketsugu, Norimichi UkitaRobotic RLRobotic Manipulation

    Toyota Technological Institute, Japan

  2. REVERSAL-BENCH: A Reversibility Axis and Reset Oracle for Measuring the Reset-Free RL Cliff

    Sep 15, 2026Riyaaz Shaik, Chandru VenkataramanRL BenchmarksReinforcement Learning

    Apple

  3. PredTac: Learning Contact-Rich Manipulation with Predicted Touch

    Sep 14, 2026Weijia Fan, Daqiang GuoTactile SensingContact-Rich Robotic Manipulation

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

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

    Sep 14, 2026Xiefeng Wu, Shu Zhang, Zhaojie Chu +1Robotic RLOffline RL

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

  5. Real-World Reinforcement Learning with MPC Scaffolding for Dexterous Manipulation

    Sep 14, 2026Emek Barış Küçüktabak, Karankumar Patel, Zhaodong Yang +3Dexterous ManipulationContact-Rich Robotic Manipulation

    Honda Research Institute USA, San Jose, CA, USA · Skild AI, San Mateo, CA, USA · Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA

  6. Expressive Robotic Pianist: Mastering Complex Piano Repertoire with Graph-Mimic and Musical Dynamics

    Sep 11, 2026Yanhong Liang, Xianwei Liu, Chaojie Fu +7Robotic ControlRobotic RL

    the Center for X-Mechanics, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou & 310027, China. · ZJU-Hangzhou Global Scientific and Technological Innovation Center, Hangzhou & 311200, China. · Department of Public Physical and Art Education, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou & 310058, China.

  7. Beyond Noise Steering: Dual-Latent Space Reinforcement Learning for Generative Robot Policy

    Sep 11, 2026Pengfei Zhang, Teng Sun, Xianchao XiuLatent Action LearningRobot Policy Learning

    School of Mechatronic Engineering and Automation, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China

  8. One Demonstration, Many Objects: Generalizing Manipulation via Local Contact Geometry

    Sep 1, 2026Satvik Sharma, Samrat Sahoo, Huang Huang +4Contact-Rich Robotic ManipulationSim-to-Real Transfer

    Stanford University

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

    Sep 1, 2026Haoyuan Deng, Haichao Liu, Wenkai Guo +6Robot Skill LearningContact-Rich Robotic Manipulation

    1PINE Lab, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

  10. SUN: Persistent Programs For Language-Grounded Control-to-Learning-to-Real Policies

    Aug 31, 2026Weiqi Wang, Zhi Li, Yudong Lei +7Robot Policy LearningLong-Horizon Robotic Manipulation

    University of California, Los Angeles · University of California, Santa Barbara · Amazon +1

  11. Learning to infer and manipulate through distributed whole-arm interaction in a soft robot

    Aug 31, 2026Chuhan Zhang, Ebrahim Shahabi, Kseniia Khomenko +2Robotic GraspingRobotic RL

    Cognitive Robotics Department, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Delft University of Technology, Delft 2628 CD, The Netherlands. · School of Engineering, Newcastle University, UK.

  12. T3S: Improving Multi-Task Reinforcement Learning with Task-Specific Feature Selector and Scheduler

    Aug 31, 2026Yuanqiang Yu, Tianpei Yang, Yongliang Lv +2Robotic RLMulti-Task RL

    College of Intelligence and Computing Tianjin University Tianjin, China · Department of Computing Science University of Alberta and Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute Edmonton, Canada

  13. SmoothRL: Online Reinforcement Learning During Asynchronous Execution

    Aug 30, 2026Guang Gao, Yuxuan Nong, Baifu Huang +1Robot Policy LearningAsynchronous RL

    Astribot Team

  14. Reinforced Planning with Latent World Models

    Aug 19, 2026Armin Sommer, Jannik SchillingWorld Model-Based PlanningRobotic RL

    Pantheon Industries

  15. Navigating the Proximity-Safety Balance: Constraint Decomposition for Human Following in Pedestrian Crowds

    Aug 10, 2026Shiting Gong, Jianpeng Yao, Jinfeng Wang +2Constrained RLRobotic RL

    University of Pennsylvania, PA, USA · University of California, Riverside, CA, USA · 3Stanford University, CA, USA +2

  16. Efficient Real-World Online Reinforcement Learning for Robot Manipulation via Centralized Training and Critic Decomposition

    Aug 10, 2026Changhao Li, Yifang Zhang, Heng Zhang +6Reinforcement LearningRobotic RL

    HHCM, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genoa, Italy · DIBRIS, University of Genova, Genova, Italy · Human-Robot Interfaces and Interaction Lab, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genova, Italy +1

  17. SpeedTuning: Speeding Up Policy Execution with Lightweight Reinforcement Learning

    Aug 10, 2026David D. Yuan, Tony Z. Zhao, Kaylee Burns +1Robot Policy LearningRobot Skill Learning

    Stanford University

  18. Knowledge-Distilled End-to-End Reinforcement Learning for Smooth 6-DOF Thrust Control and Rapid Adaptation to Ocean Currents in Remotely Operated Vehicles

    Aug 9, 2026Tiankuang Wen, Huiping Li, Gang Liu +1Robotic RLProximal Policy Optimization

    Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an 710129, China · Wuhan Second Ship Design and Research Institute, Wuhan 430205, China

  19. Beyond Flat Policies: Hierarchical Post-Training for Embodied Agents in Robotic Manipulation

    Aug 6, 2026He Kong, Zengjue Chen, Qi Wang +6Long-Horizon Robotic ManipulationHierarchical RL

    School of Artificial Intelligence, Jilin University · College of computer science and technology, Jilin University · Joy Future Academy, JD

  20. SP3O: Reinforcement Learning from Segment Preferences without Reward Modeling

    Aug 3, 2026Evan Assmus, Qining Zhang, Lei YingReinforcement LearningRobotic RL

    University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

  21. RL Bootstrapping of OpenVLA-OFT for a Novel Robot Embodiment

    Aug 2, 2026Damir Nurtdinov, Alexei Kornaev, Alexander MaloletovRobot Skill LearningCross-Embodiment Robot Learning

    Research Center of the Artificial Intelligence Institute Innopolis University Innopolis, Russia

  22. Bicycle Acrobatics with Reinforcement Learning

    Aug 1, 2026Shamel Fahmi, Arianna Ilvonen, Samuel Zapolsky +8Robot Skill LearningRobotic RL

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

  23. Minute-Scale Training for Microrobot Navigation

    Aug 1, 2026Yinghan Sun, Aoji Zhu, Xiang Ji +6Reward ShapingRobot Navigation

    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

  24. LooperMuscle: Fast and Stable Learning of Humanoid Whole-Body Tracking via Structured Mixture-of-Experts

    Aug 1, 2026Boyi Liu, Qijin Li, Tianqi Yu +2Robotic RLHumanoid Motion Tracking

    1DeepMirror Inc., Guangzhou, China. · 3Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI), Abu Dhabi, UAE.

  25. DexMani: Human-Derived Manipulability Guidance for Dexterous Rotation

    Aug 1, 2026Xiaoyang Chen, Shengcheng Luo, Haoran Guo +4Dexterous ManipulationRobot Skill Learning

    Shanghai Jiao Tong University · ShanghaiTech University · Beijing Institute for General Artificial Intelligence (BIGAI) +1

  26. Generalizing deep reinforcement learning across cable-driven parallel robot configurations with actuator-level policies

    Jul 31, 2026Abir Bouaouda, Mohamed Boutayeb, François Charpillet +2Robotic ControlCross-Embodiment Robot Learning

    CRAN, UIR · Université de Lorraine, INRIA, CNRS, LORIA, Nancy, F-54000, France · International University of Rabat, Rabat, 11103, Morocco +5

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

    Jul 29, 2026Gabe Everett, Brice Gunter, Ryan Vander Stelt +3Data AugmentationVisuomotor Policy Learning

  28. RLMM-Flow: A Flow-based Mobile Manipulation Framework with Latent-Space Reinforcement Learning

    Jul 29, 2026Shuhang Wang, Ziming Li, Hui ChengReinforcement LearningMobile Manipulation

  29. Adaptive Undulatory Locomotion of Snake-like Robots in Dynamic Viscous Environments via Deep Reinforcement Learning

    Jul 24, 2026Tsuyoshi Kimoto, Akio Yamano, Kohei Honda +1Partially Observable RLRobotic RL

    Osaka Metropolitan University, 1-1, Gakuen-cho, Naka-ku, Sakai, Osaka, Japan · Nagoya University, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan

  30. Progress Reward Modeling for Robotic Learning: A Comprehensive Survey

    Jul 22, 2026Jianshu Zhang, Keliang Wu, Haoran Lu +8Reward ModelingProcess Reward Models

    Northwestern University · Carnegie Mellon University · University of Wisconsin–Madison +2