RSS 2026 Accepted Papers

The full list of 210 papers accepted at RSS 2026. Click any title for details, similar papers, and links to the original source. You can also search these papers by meaning, not just keywords.

1. A Closed-Loop Multi-Agent Framework for Robust Multi-Robot ManipulationPoster
2. A Dual-Mode Electrical Capacitance Tomography Sensor for Robotic Proximity Servoing and GraspingPoster
3. A Minimal, Deterministic Approach to Shared Control for Safe Powered Wheelchair DrivingPoster
4. A Super-Resolution and Multi-Axis Tactile Sensor with Soft Artificial SkinPoster
5. A Systematic Study of Data Modalities and Strategies for Co-training Large Behavior Models for Robot ManipulationPoster
6. AR-VLA: Autoregressive Action Expert for Vision–Language–Action ModelsPoster
7. Act2Goal: From World Model To General Goal-conditioned PolicyPoster
8. Action-to-Action Flow MatchingPoster
9. Active Surface-Driven Reconfigurable Gripper: Robust Grasping and Sequential Manipulation of Thin ObjectsPoster
10. Adapting Execution-Time Objectives for Multi-Robot Policies via Collaborative Flow Policy GuidancePoster
11. Adaptive Smooth Tchebycheff Attention for Multi-Objective Policy OptimizationPoster
12. Anticipatory Motion Suppression in Event-Based CamerasPoster
13. AnyAmber: A Generalist for Versatile Anonymous Bearing and Range Based Position TrackingPoster
14. Asymptotically Optimal Ergodic Coverage on Generalized Motion FieldsPoster
15. Automated Synthesis of Facial Mechanisms for Conversational Animatronic RobotsPoster
16. AxisGuide: Grounding Robot Action Coordinate System in RGB Observations for Robust Visuomotor ManipulationPoster
17. BIEVR-LIO: Robust LiDAR-Inertial Odometry through Bump-Image-Enhanced Voxel MapsPoster
18. BagelVLA: Enhancing Long-Horizon Manipulation via Interleaved Vision-Language-Action GenerationPoster
19. Bellman Value Decomposition for Task Logic in Safe Optimal ControlPoster
20. Betting for Sim-to-Real Performance EvaluationPoster
21. Beyond Binary Success: Sample-Efficient and Statistically Rigorous Robot Policy ComparisonPoster
22. Beyond Failure Recovery: An Engagement-Aware Human-in-the-loop Framework for Robotic SystemsPoster
23. Beyond Isolation: A Unified Benchmark for General-Purpose NavigationPoster
24. Bridging Language and Physics: Automated Design of Continuum Robots with Large Language ModelsPoster
25. CANINE: Coaching Visually Impaired Users for Interactive Navigation with a Robot Guide DogPoster
26. CLAMP: Contrastive Learning for 3D Multi-View Action-Conditioned Robotic Manipulation PretrainingPoster
27. CRAFT: A Tendon-Driven Hand with Hybrid Hard-Soft CompliancePoster
28. Causal World Modeling for Robot ControlPoster
29. Certifiable Gradient-Based Contact-Rich Manipulation via Smoothing-Error Reachable TubesPoster
30. CoCo-InEKF: State Estimation with Learned Contact Covariances in Dynamic, Contact-Rich ScenariosPoster
31. CoRAL: Contact-Rich Adaptive LLM-based Control for Robotic ManipulationPoster
32. Collaborating Visual and Parameter Spaces for Consistent Long-Horizon Embodied World ModelPoster
33. Computational Design of a Low-Visibility UAV Using a Human-Aligned Perceptual MetricPoster
34. Consensus-based optimization (CBO): Towards Global Optimality in RoboticsPoster
35. Contact-Anchored Policies: Contact Conditioning Creates Strong Robot Utility ModelsPoster
36. Contact-Grounded Policy: Dexterous Visuotactile Policy with Generative Contact GroundingPoster
37. Continuum Robot Localization using Distributed Time-of-Flight SensorsPoster
38. Continuum Robot Modeling with Action Conditioned Flow MatchingPoster
39. D-Nav: End-to-End Dynamic UAV Navigation with Dual-Resolution Motion AwarenessPoster
40. DISC: Decoupling Instruction from State-Conditioned Control via Policy GenerationPoster
41. Damage Adaptation in Seconds for Architected MaterialsPoster
42. DexEvolve: Evolutionary Optimization for Robust and Diverse Dexterous Grasp SynthesisPoster
43. DexGrasp-Zero: A Morphology-Aligned Policy for Zero-Shot Cross-Embodiment Dexterous GraspingPoster
44. DexImit: Learning Bimanual Dexterous Manipulation from Monocular Human VideosPoster
45. Distributed Pose Graph Optimization via Continuous Riemannian DynamicsPoster
46. Distributionally Robust Control via Stein Variational Inference for Contact-rich ManipulationPoster
47. Dr-BA: Separable Optimization for Direct Radar Bundle Adjustment & LocalizationPoster
48. ELVIS: Ensemble-Calibrated Latent Imagination for Long-Horizon Visual MPCPoster
49. Efficient Feature-Free Initialization for Monocular Visual-Inertial Systems Using A Feed-Forward 3D ModelPoster
50. EgoVerse: An Egocentric Human Dataset for Robot Learning from Around the WorldPoster
51. EigenSafe: A Spectral Framework for Learning-Based Probabilistic Safety AssessmentPoster
52. Embodiment Meets Environment: Toward Context-Aware, Safe Physical Caregiving RobotsPoster
53. Emergence of Human to Robot Transfer in Vision-Language-Action ModelsPoster
54. Emergent Neural Automaton Policies: Learning Symbolic Structure from Visuomotor TrajectoriesPoster
55. Emerging Extrinsic Dexterity in Cluttered Scenes via Dynamics-aware Policy LearningPoster
56. Event-Driven Sleep-Wake Scheduling for Heterogeneous Robots under LTL ConstraintsPoster
57. Exploit Agile Mobility of Steerable-Wheeled Mobile Robots: A Fast Motion Planning ApproachPoster
58. FlashSAC: Fast and Stable Off-Policy Reinforcement Learning for High-Dimensional Robot ControlPoster
59. Force Policy: Learning Hybrid Force-Position Control Policy under Interaction Frame for Contact-Rich ManipulationPoster
60. FreeOcc: Training-Free Embodied Open-Vocabulary Occupancy PredictionPoster
61. From Local Matches to Global Masks: Template-Guided Instance Detection and Segmentation in Open-World ScenesPoster
62. From Reaction to Anticipation: Proactive Failure Recovery through Agentic Task Graph for Robotic ManipulationPoster
63. Functional Force-Aware Retargeting from Virtual Human Demos to Soft Robot PoliciesPoster
64. GHOST: Hierarchical Sub-Goal Policies for Generalizing Robot ManipulationPoster
65. GS-Playground: A High-Throughput Photorealistic Simulator for Vision-Informed Robot LearningPoster
66. Galilean State Estimation for Inertial Navigation Systems with Unknown Time DelayPoster
67. Generalizing from References using a Multi-Task Reference and Goal-Driven RL FrameworkPoster
68. Grounding Discrete-Time Joint-Level Acceleration Bounds in Voltage-Constrained ActuationPoster
69. Guided Streaming Stochastic Interpolant PolicyPoster
70. GuidedVLA: Specifying Task-Relevant Factors via Plug-and-Play Action Attention SpecializationPoster
71. HAIC: Humanoid Agile Object Interaction Control via Dynamics-Aware World ModelPoster
72. HOP: Fast Differential Dynamic Programming for Horizon-Optimal Trajectory PlanningPoster
73. HUSKY: Humanoid Skateboarding System via Physics-Aware Whole-Body ControlPoster
74. HiWET: Hierarchical World-Frame End-Effector Tracking for Long-Horizon Humanoid Loco-ManipulationPoster
75. High Fidelity Capture, Reconstruction, and Transfer of Human Demonstrations for Robot-Assisted BathingPoster
76. High Precision Hydraulic Excavator Control for Heavy Duty GradingPoster
77. HoMMI: Learning Whole-Body Mobile Manipulation from Human DemonstrationsPoster
78. HumanFlow - Diffusion-Driven MAV Navigation Among Humans via Tightly-Coupled Motion Tracking, Forecasting, and ControlPoster
79. HydroShear: Hydroelastic Shear Simulation for Tactile Sim-to-Real Reinforcement LearningPoster
80. Hypothesis-driven Model Expansion under Uncertainty for Open-World Robot PlanningPoster
81. IMPACT: An Implicit Active-Set Augmented Lagrangian for Fast Contact-Implicit Trajectory OptimizationPoster
82. Implicit Null-space Manifold Generation for Redundant Robotic SystemsPoster
83. Informative Path Planning with Guaranteed Estimation UncertaintyPoster
84. Integrated Hierarchical Decision-Making in Inverse Kinematic Planning and ControlPoster
85. Interactive Knowledge Distillation with Adaptive Teachers in Cooperative Multi-Agent Reinforcement LearningPoster
86. Interactive World Simulator for Robot Policy Training and EvaluationPoster
87. KinDER: A Physical Reasoning Benchmark for Robot Learning and PlanningPoster
88. KlaskTron: An Open-Source Platform for Physical Adversarial Multi-Agent RLPoster
89. Knowing When Not to Help: Active Estimation of Human Reachability for Just-Right Robot AssistancePoster
90. LAP: Language-Action Pre-training Enables Zero-Shot Cross-Embodiment TransferPoster
91. LDA-1B: Scaling Latent Dynamics Action Model via Universal Embodied Data IngestionPoster
92. LIBERO-X: Robustness Litmus for Vision-Language-Action ModelsPoster
93. Latent Diffeomorphic Co-Design of End-Effectors for Deformable and Fragile Object ManipulationPoster
94. Latent Policy Steering through One-Step Flow PoliciesPoster
95. Learning Agile Quadrotor Flight in the Real WorldPoster
96. Learning Deformable Object Manipulation Using Task-Level Iterative Learning ControlPoster
97. Learning Native Continuation for Action Chunking Flow PoliciesPoster
98. Learning Point Cloud Geometry as a Statistical Manifold: Theory and PracticePoster
99. Learning What Matters: Adaptive Information Theoretic Objectives for Robot ExplorationPoster
100. Learning When to Jump for Off-road NavigationPoster
101. Learning to Evolve: Multi-modal Interactive Fields for Robust Humanoid Navigation in Dynamic EnvironmentsPoster
102. Learning to Localize Reference Trajectories in Image-Space for Visual NavigationPoster
103. Learning-Based Adaptive Control for Surgical Robotic Exposure Task on Deformable TissuesPoster
104. LightTact: A Visual-Tactile Fingertip Sensor for Deformation-Independent Contact SensingPoster
105. Long-Context Robot Imitation Learning by Focusing on Key History FramesPoster
106. LongNav-R1: Horizon-Adaptive Multi-Turn RL for Long-Horizon VLA NavigationPoster
107. MOBIUS: A Multi-Modal Bipedal Robot that can Walk, Crawl, Climb, and RollPoster
108. MVP-Nav: Multi-layer Value Map Planner NavigatorPoster
109. Memory Retrieval in Visuomotor Policies for Long-Horizon Robot ControlPoster
110. Mimic Intent, Not Just TrajectoriesPoster
111. Mind Your Steps: A General Learning Framework for Accurate Humanoid Foothold TrackingPoster
112. Minimalist Compliance ControlPoster
113. Model-Based Diffusion Optimal Control for Multi-Robot Motion PlanningPoster
114. MolmoSpaces: Large-Scale Open Ecosystem for Robot Manipulation and NavigationPoster
115. More with LESS – Local Scene Representations for Tactile ImagingPoster
116. Motion-Uncertainty-Aware Next-Best-View Planning for Moving Object ReconstructionPoster
117. Muninn: Your Trajectory Diffusion Model But FasterPoster
118. Natural Functional Gradients for Smooth Trajectory OptimizationPoster
119. NeuralActuator: Neural Actuation Modeling for Robot Dynamics and External Force PerceptionPoster
120. Now You See That: Learning End-to-End Humanoid Locomotion from Raw PixelsPoster
121. Offline Policy Evaluation for Manipulation Policies via Discounted Liveness FormulationPoster
122. OmniXtreme: Breaking the Generality Barrier in High-Dynamic Humanoid ControlPoster
123. One Hand to Rule Them All: Canonical Representations for Unified Dexterous ManipulationPoster
124. One-Shot Real-World Demonstration Synthesis for Scalable Bimanual ManipulationPoster
125. OopsieVerse: A Safety Benchmark with Damage-Aware Simulation for Robot ManipulationPoster
126. OpenFrontier: General Navigation with Visual-Language Grounded FrontiersPoster
127. Optimal UGV–UAV Cooperative Partitioning and Inspection of Shortest PathsPoster
128. PRIME: Physically-consistent Robotic Inertial and Motion Estimation for Legged and Humanoid RobotsPoster
129. Parallel Differentiable Reachability for Learning and Planning with Certified Neural Dynamics and ControllersPoster
130. Perceptive Humanoid Parkour: Chaining Dynamic Human Skills via Motion MatchingPoster
131. Picasso: Holistic Scene Reconstruction with Physics-Constrained SamplingPoster
132. PointACT: Vision-Language-Action Models with Multi-Scale Point-Action InteractionPoster
133. PolaRiS: Scalable Real-to-Sim Evaluations for Generalist Robot PoliciesPoster
134. Provably Guaranteed Polytopic Uncertainty Quantification for SLAMPoster
135. QuickLAP: Quick Language–Action Preference Learning for Autonomous Driving AgentsPoster
136. R2RGen: Real-to-Real 3D Data Generation for Spatially-generalized Robotic ManipulationPoster
137. RAG-Diff: Adapting Diffusion Policies to Dynamic Constraints with Retrieval-Augmented GuidancePoster
138. RIO: Flexible Real-time Robot I/O for Cross-Embodiment Robot LearningPoster
139. RLux-VLA: A Unified and Efficient Framework for Reinforcement Learning of Vision-Language-Action ModelsPoster
140. ReSteer: Quantifying and Refining the Steerability of Multitask Robot PoliciesPoster
141. Realizing Robotic Swimming with Unified Fluid-Robot MultiphysicsPoster
142. Relaxation-Aware Multimodal Sensing of Soft Gripper Driven by Structure-Perception-LearningPoster
143. Rhythm: Learning Interactive Whole-Body Control for Dual HumanoidsPoster
144. Robo3R: Enhancing Robotic Manipulation with Accurate Feed-Forward 3D ReconstructionPoster
145. RoboLab: A High-Fidelity Simulation Benchmark for Analysis of Task Generalist PoliciesPoster
146. RoboVista: Evaluating Vision Language Models for Diverse Robot ApplicationsPoster
147. Robometer: Scaling General-Purpose Robotic Reward Models via Trajectory ComparisonsPoster
148. Robots That Know What to Ask: Recovering Misaligned Rewards through Targeted ExplanationsPoster
149. SID: Sliding into Distribution for Robust Few-Demonstration ManipulationPoster
150. Safe Large-Scale Robust Nonlinear MPC in Milliseconds via Reachability-Constrained System Level Synthesis on the GPUPoster
151. Safe Multi-Agent Navigation via Constrained HJB-Informed LearningPoster
152. Sampling-Based Follow-the-Leader Motion Planning for Manipulator-Mounted Continuum RobotsPoster
153. SanD-Planner: Sample-Efficient Diffusion Planner in B-Spline Space for Robust Local NavigationPoster
154. Seeing Danger Before Moving: Learning Environment-Centric Risk for Safe Robot NavigationPoster
155. Seeing is Believing: Certified Perception-Based Control from Learned Visual Representations via System Level SynthesisPoster
156. Self-Improving Robot Policy with Compositional World ModelPoster
157. Self-Supervised Bootstrapping of Action-Predictive Embodied ReasoningPoster
158. Semantic Contact Fields for Category-Level Generalizable Tool ManipulationPoster
159. Semantically Structured Mixture-of-Experts for Compositional Robotic ManipulationPoster
160. Set-Supervised Diffusion Policy: Learning Action-Chunking Diffusion through CorrectionsPoster
161. SimToolReal: An Object-Centric Policy for Zero-Shot Dexterous Tool ManipulationPoster
162. Simulation Distillation: Pretraining World Models in Simulation for Rapid Real-World AdaptationPoster
163. Simulation-Ready Cluttered Scene Estimation via Physics-aware Joint Shape and Pose OptimizationPoster
164. SkillVLA: Tackling Combinatorial Diversity in Dual-Arm Manipulation via Skill ReusePoster
165. Social Human Robot Embodied Conversation (SHREC) Dataset: Benchmarking Foundational Models’ Social ReasoningPoster
166. Stabilizing 3D Continuum-Arm Rollouts via Equilibrium Anchoring and Feature-Lifted Residual LearningPoster
167. Steerable Vision-Language-Action Policies for Embodied Reasoning and Hierarchical ControlPoster
168. StereoVLA: Enhancing Vision-Language-Action Models with Stereo VisionPoster
169. Structured Learning for Electromagnetic Field Modeling and Real-Time InversionPoster
170. SuperMap: A Spatio-Temporal SLAM System for Visual-Language NavigationPoster
171. Supervised Mixture-of-Experts for Surgical Grasping and RetractionPoster
172. TACO: Temporal Consensus Optimization for Continual Neural MappingPoster
173. TACTIC: Tactile and Vision Conditioned Contact-Centric Control for Whole-Arm ManipulationPoster
174. TAIL-Safe: Task-Agnostic Safety Monitoring for Imitation Learning PoliciesPoster
175. TE-SDF: Tetra-Encoded Signed Distance Field for Memory-Efficient and Accurate Collision DetectionPoster
176. TMRL: Diffusion Timestep-Modulated Pretraining Enables Exploration for Efficient Policy FinetuningPoster
177. TactAlign: Human-to-Robot Policy Transfer via Tactile AlignmentPoster
178. Teaming Linear Temporal Logic: Coordinated Behavior Specification in Heterogeneous Multi-Agent SystemsPoster
179. TeleGate: Whole-Body Humanoid Teleoperation via Gated Expert Selection with Motion PriorPoster
180. Tempered Sequential Monte Carlo for Trajectory and Policy Optimization with Differentiable DynamicsPoster
181. Time-Aggregated Connectivity Maintenance for Multi-Robot NetworksPoster
182. TinySDP: Real Time Semidefinite Optimization for Certifiable and Agile Edge RoboticsPoster
183. TouchGuide: Inference-Time Steering of Visuomotor Policies via Touch GuidancePoster
184. Toward Reliable Sim-to-Real Predictability for MoE-based Robust Quadrupedal LocomotionPoster
185. Towards Long-Lived Robots: Continual Learning VLA Models via Reinforcement Fine-TuningPoster
186. TravSUITE: Traversability via Self-Supervised, Uncertainty-Aware IRL and Terrain EstimationPoster
187. Tune to Learn: How Controller Gains Shape Robot Policy LearningPoster
188. UMI-Underwater: Learning Underwater Manipulation without Underwater TeleoperationPoster
189. UP-Fuse: Uncertainty-guided LiDAR-Camera Fusion for 3D Panoptic SegmentationPoster
190. USER: A Unified and Extensible System for Online Real-World Policy Learning in Embodied AIPoster
191. Universal Pose Pretraining for Generalizable Vision-Language-Action PoliciesPoster
192. Unlocking In-the-Wild Loco-Manipulation with Robot-Free Egocentric DemonstrationPoster
193. VGGT-SLAM 2.0: Real-time Dense Feed-forward Scene ReconstructionPoster
194. Variance-Reduced Model Predictive Path Integral via Quadratic Model ApproximationPoster
195. Vec-QMDP: Vectorized POMDP Planning on CPUs for Real-Time Autonomous DrivingPoster
196. ViTacFormer: Learning Cross-Modal Representation for Visuo-Tactile Dexterous ManipulationPoster
197. Viser: Imperative, Web-based 3D Visualization for PythonPoster
198. ViserDex: Visual Sim-to-Real for Robust Dexterous In-hand ReorientationPoster
199. Visual Verification Enables Inference-time Steering and Autonomous Policy ImprovementPoster
200. When Life Gives You BC, Make Q-functions: Extracting Q-values from Behavior Cloning for On-Robot Reinforcement LearningPoster
201. When to Act, Ask, or Learn: Uncertainty-Aware Policy SteeringPoster
202. X-DiffVLA: X-Embodied Diffusion Action Heads for Vision-Language-Action ModelsPoster
203. X-Loco: Towards Generalist Humanoid Locomotion Control via Synergetic Policy DistillationPoster
204. Zero-Shot Sim-to-Real Robot Learning: A Dexterous Manipulation Study on Reactive CatchingPoster
205. \textcolorMaroon\texttt{OAT}\textcolorMaroon\texttt{OAT}\textcolor{Maroon}{\textbf{\texttt{OAT}}}: Ordered Action TokenizationPoster
206. asRoBallet: Closing the Sim2Real Gap via Friction-Aware Reinforcement Learning for Underactuated Spherical DynamicsPoster
207. cuNRTO: GPU-Accelerated Nonlinear Robust Trajectory OptimizationPoster
208. mimic-video: Video-Action Models for Generalizable Robot Control Beyond VLAsPoster
209. Ψ0Ψ0\Psi_0: An Open Foundation Model Towards Universal Humanoid Loco-ManipulationPoster
210. π∗0.6π0.6∗\pi^{*}_{0.6}: a VLA That Learns From ExperiencePoster

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