BAIR at CoRL 2026
BAIR at CoRL 2026
Researchers at BAIR (UC Berkeley) will present 33 main conference papers, 4 late-breaking results posters, and 10 orals and spotlights at CoRL, held November 9–12, 2026 in Austin, Texas, along with Professor Negar Mehr's Early Career Keynote.
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, 2026Austin, TexasAll times CST · UTC−6
33Main-conference papers
4Late-breaking results (LBR) posters
10Orals & spotlights3 orals · 7 spotlights
4Days of researchNovember 9–12
MonNov 9 TueNov 10 WedNov 11 ThuNov 12 Main conference Nov 9–11 · Workshops Nov 12
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 sessionsUpdated November 8, 2026
Monday, November 9
Main conference10 papers + 3 LBR posters
9:00–9:30 AMCST
Spotlight · S1
Generalist policies, memory and transfer
Hilton Austin
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
12:00–1:30 PMCST · LUNCH BREAK
Late-breaking results · Posters
Agentic Robotics
Griffin · Level 2 · JW Marriott Austin
Griffin board 119 · LBR #15
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
Griffin board 120 · LBR #19
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
Griffin board 131 · LBR #54
Flip Anything with Agentic Robotics Self-Learning
Shuangyu Xie, Kaiyuan Chen, Ken Goldberg
Late-breaking results program ↗
2:00–2:30 PMCST
Keynote
Early Career Keynote II
Hilton Austin
Session chair: Ken Goldberg
Professor Negar Mehr
How Can Robots Learn to Interact and Coordinate with Others?
5:00–6:30 PMCST
Posters
Poster Session I
JW Marriott
Poster 42
MEM: Multi-Scale Embodied Memory for Vision Language Action Models
Authors listed under Monday, Spotlight S1
Poster 57
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
Poster 68
How to Peel with a Knife: Aligning Fine-Grained Manipulation with Human Preference
Toru Lin, Shuying Deng, Zhao-Heng Yin, Pieter Abbeel, Jitendra Malik
Poster 97
HiRE: Hindsight Reward Editing for Policy Finetuning
Haoyi Niu, Zhengtao Han, Yufeng Ji, Zhongyu Li, Koushil Sreenath
Poster 113
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
Poster 115
Diagnosing Compositional Generalization in Sequential Robot Tasks
Authors listed under Monday, Spotlight S1
Poster 142
AsyncVLA: An Asynchronous VLA for Fast and Robust Navigation on the Edge
Noriaki Hirose, Catherine Glossop, Dhruv Shah, Sergey Levine
Poster 159
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
Poster 202
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
Poster 225
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 conference11 papers + 1 LBR poster
9:00–9:30 AMCST
Oral · O4
Reinforcement learning and motion reasoning
Hilton Austin
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
10:30–11:00 AMCST
Oral · O5
Dexterous learning, grasping and assembly
Hilton Austin
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
11:30 AM–12:00 PMCST
Oral · O7
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
12:00–1:30 PMCST · LUNCH BREAK
Late-breaking results · Posters
Real2Sim2Real
Griffin · Level 2 · JW Marriott Austin
Griffin board 122 · LBR #26
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
Late-breaking results program ↗
5:00–6:30 PMCST
Posters
Poster Session II
JW Marriott
Poster 7
DiscreteRTC: Discrete Diffusion Policies are Natural Asynchronous Executors
Pengcheng Wang, Kaiwen Hong, Chensheng Peng, Katherine Rose Driggs-Campbell, Masayoshi Tomizuka, Chenfeng Xu, Chen Tang
Poster 39
Improving Robotic Generalist Policies via Flow Reversal Steering
Andy Tang, William Chen, Andrew Wagenmaker, Chelsea Finn, Sergey Levine
Poster 54
EgoScale: Scaling Dexterous Manipulation with Diverse Egocentric Human Data
Authors listed under Tuesday, Oral O5
Poster 63
Flow Policy Gradients for Robot Control
Authors listed under Tuesday, Oral O4
Poster 77
Why Does Action Chunking Improve Behavioral Cloning Performance in Robotic Control?
Filippo Lazzati, Kyle Stachowicz, William Chen, Alberto Maria Metelli, Andrew Wagenmaker, Sergey Levine
Poster 142
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
Poster 153
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
Poster 184
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
Poster 189
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
Poster 195
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
Poster 217
SuperMimic: Scaling Humanoid Whole-Body Control with One Differentiable World Model
Authors listed under Tuesday, Oral O7
Wednesday, November 11
Main conference12 papers
8:30–9:00 AMCST
Spotlight · S6
Optimization, agentic planning and evaluation
Hilton Austin
Session chair: Negar Mehr
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
9:00–9:30 AMCST
Spotlight · S7
Humanoid locomotion and whole-body control
Hilton Austin
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
10:30 AM–12:00 PMCST
Posters
Poster Session III
JW Marriott
Poster 51
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
Poster 68
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
Poster 99
Playful Agentic Robot Learning
Authors listed under Wednesday, Spotlight S6
Poster 100
GaP: A Graph-as-Policy Multi-Agent Self-Learning Harness For Variational Automation Tasks
Authors listed under Wednesday, Spotlight S6
Poster 135
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
Poster 148
Tactile Curiosity Drives Robot Interaction
Klemens Iten, Alexander Proshkin, Bhavya Sukhija, Stelian Coros, Andreas Krause, Pieter Abbeel, Carmelo Sferrazza
Poster 159
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
Poster 175
TEXEDO: Test Time Scaling for Controller-aware Language-conditioned Humanoid Motion Generation
Jianuo Cao, Yuxin Chen, Yuzhen Song, Masayoshi Tomizuka, Chenran Li, Thomas Tian
Poster 178
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
Poster 195
LadderMan: Learning Humanoid Perceptive Ladder Climbing
Authors listed under Wednesday, Spotlight S7
Poster 198
ResSafe: Learning Safety Filtering with Residual Reinforcement Learning for Humanoids
Authors listed under Wednesday, Spotlight S7
Poster 200
TANGO: Humanoid Navigation in Cluttered Environments with a Whole-Body Vision-Language-Action Model
Authors listed under Wednesday, Spotlight S7
Thursday, November 12
WorkshopsTalks, papers and organizing roles
8:40–9:50 AMCST
Workshop
Roadmap to Sample-Efficient Real-World Reinforcement Learning (R2RL) · Keynote block
JW Marriott · Room 213
Zhiyuan “Paul” Zhou
Sergey Levine’s lab. Speaks during the keynote block.
9:40–10:15 AMCST
Workshop
Bimanual Dexterous Tool Use · Spotlights
JW Marriott · Rooms 303–304
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
10:15–10:40 AMCST
Workshop
Bimanual Dexterous Tool Use · Posters & demos
JW Marriott · Rooms 303–304
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
10:35–11:05 AMCST
Workshop
Everything Beneath the Policy · Posters
Hilton Austin · Salon E, 4th floor
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
10:40–11:10 AMCST
Workshop
Bimanual Dexterous Tool Use · Invited talk
JW Marriott · Rooms 303–304
11:50 AM–12:20 PMCST
Workshop
R2RL · Panel discussion
JW Marriott · Room 213
Zhiyuan “Paul” Zhou
Panel with workshop speakers and audience volunteers.
2:45–3:05 PMCST
Workshop
Agentic Robotics · Invited talk
Room to be announced
Approx. 2:55–3:25 PMCST
Workshop
Sim-to-Real-to-Field · Invited talks
Hilton Austin · Salon E, 4th floor
Professor Claire Tomlin
Shared invited-talk block with Michael Lutter (Boston Dynamics).
4:15–5:55 PMCST
Workshop
Agentic Robotics · Live demos & posters
Room to be announced
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
Additional involvement
Workshop organizers
BAIR behind the program
Workshop organizing roles.
- 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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Source: Berkeley AI Research · bair.berkeley.edu