BAIR at CoRL 2026: 33 Main Conference Papers and Negar Mehr Keynote

BAIR at CoRL 2026

Berkeley AI Research Editors

Nov 9, 2026

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.

33Main-conference papers 4Late-breaking results (LBR) posters 10Orals & spotlights3 orals · 7 spotlights 4Days of researchNovember 9–12

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.

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Monday, November 9

Main conference10 papers + 3 LBR posters

9:00–9:30 AMCST

Spotlight · S1

Generalist policies, memory and transfer

Hilton Austin

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

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12:00–1:30 PMCST · LUNCH BREAK

Late-breaking results · Posters

Agentic Robotics

Griffin board 120 · LBR #19

Yen-Jen Wang, Haozhe Jiang, Shuying Deng, Haoru Xue, Weirui Ye, Rocky Duan, Nika Haghtalab, S. Shankar Sastry, Pieter Abbeel, Haozhi Qi

Griffin board 131 · LBR #54

GitHub ↗

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Professor Negar Mehr

How Can Robots Learn to Interact and Coordinate with Others?

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

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Poster 57

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

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Poster 68

How to Peel with a Knife: Aligning Fine-Grained Manipulation with Human Preference

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Poster 97

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Poster 113

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Poster 115

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Poster 142

AsyncVLA: An Asynchronous VLA for Fast and Robust Navigation on the Edge

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Poster 159

Yousef Liang, Ryan Ardalan, Yarden Goraly, Chenhao Zhu, Jonas Frey, Claire Tomlin, Marco Pavone, S. Shankar Sastry

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Poster 202

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

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Poster 225

Energy-Based Policy Orchestration

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Tuesday, November 10

Main conference11 papers + 1 LBR poster

9:00–9:30 AMCST

Oral · O4

Reinforcement learning and motion reasoning

Hilton Austin

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

Dexterous learning, grasping and assembly

Hilton Austin

Humanoid data, control and skills

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12:00–1:30 PMCST · LUNCH BREAK

Late-breaking results · Posters

Real2Sim2Real

Late-breaking results program ↗

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Poster 39

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Poster 54

Authors listed under Tuesday, Oral O5

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Poster 63

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

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Poster 77

Why Does Action Chunking Improve Behavioral Cloning Performance in Robotic Control?

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Poster 142

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Poster 153

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Poster 184

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Poster 189

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

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Poster 195

Poster 217

Authors listed under Tuesday, Oral O7

Optimization, agentic planning and evaluation

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

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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

Humanoid locomotion and whole-body control

Hilton Austin

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Poster 68

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Poster 99

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

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Poster 100

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

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Poster 135

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

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Poster 148

Tactile Curiosity Drives Robot Interaction

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Poster 159

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Poster 175

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Poster 178

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Poster 195

Authors listed under Wednesday, Spotlight S7

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Poster 198

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Poster 200

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Thursday, November 12

WorkshopsTalks, papers and organizing roles

8:40–9:50 AMCST

Workshop

JW Marriott · Room 213

Zhiyuan “Paul” Zhou

Sergey Levine’s lab. Speaks during the keynote block.

Bimanual Dexterous Tool Use · Spotlights

JW Marriott · Rooms 303–304

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

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JW Marriott · Rooms 303–304

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

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Everything Beneath the Policy · Posters

Hilton Austin · Salon E, 4th floor

JW Marriott · Rooms 303–304

Professor Jitendra Malik

Talk title has not been announced.

Panel with workshop speakers and audience volunteers.

Agentic Robotics · Invited talk

Room to be announced

Professor Ken Goldberg

Talk title has not been announced.

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).

Agentic Robotics · Live demos & posters

Room to be announced

Agentic World Action Models

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

Authors listed under Monday, Late-breaking results, Agentic Robotics

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.

Jitendra Malik — organizer. Workshop: 2:00–6:00 PM.

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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