The Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL) 2025 is being held from September 27 - 30 in Seoul, South Korea. Weβre excited to share all the work from SAIL thatβs being presented, and youβll find links to papers, videos and blogs below. Feel free to reach out to the contact authors directly to learn more about the work thatβs happening at Stanford!
List of Accepted Papers
ARCH: Hierarchical Hybrid Learning for Long-Horizon Contact-Rich Robotic Assembly
Authors: Jiankai Sun, Aidan Curtis, Yang You, Yan Xu, Michael Koehle, Qianzhong Chen, Suning Huang, Leonidas Guibas, Sachin Chitta, Mac Schwager, Hui Li
Contact: jksun@stanford.edu
Workshop: Main Conference
Links: Paper | Website
Keywords: robotic assembly, long-horizon assembly, hybrid learning
BEHAVIOR Robot Suite: Streamlining Real-World Whole-Body Manipulation for Everyday Household Activities
Authors: Yunfan Jiang, Ruohan Zhang, Josiah Wong, Chen Wang, Yanjie Ze, Hang Yin, Cem Gokmen, Shuran Song, Jiajun Wu, Li Fei-Fei
Contact: yunfanj@cs.stanford.edu
Workshop: Main Conference
Links: Paper | Blog Post | Video | Website
Keywords: whole-body manipulation, mobile manipulation, household tasks, imitation learning
CUPID: Curating Data your Robot Loves with Influence Functions
Authors: Christopher Agia, Rohan Sinha, Jingyun Yang, Rika Antonova, Marco Pavone, Haruki Nishimura, Masha Itkina, Jeannette Bohg
Contact: cagia@stanford.edu
Workshop: Main Conference
Award nominations: Best Paper Award at the Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) 2025 Workshop on Robot Evaluation for the Real World
Links: Paper | Video | Website
Keywords: imitation learning, data curation, influence functions
Compliant Residual DAgger Improving Real-World Contact-Rich Manipulation with Human Corrections
Authors: Xiaomeng Xu, Yifan Hou, Chendong Xin, Zeyi Liu, Shuran Song
Contact: yifanhou@stanford.edu
Workshop: Workshop
Award nominations: Spotlight talk
Links: Paper | Website
Keywords: imitation learning, data aggregation, compliance control
Crossing the Human-Robot Embodiment Gap with Sim-to-Real RL using One Human Demonstration
Authors: Tyler Ga Wei Lum, Olivia Y. Lee, C. Karen Liu, Jeannette Bohg
Contact: tylerlum@stanford.edu, oliviayl@stanford.edu
Workshop: Main Conference
Links: Paper | Video | Website
Keywords: dexterous manipulation, reinforcement learning, sim-to-real
DexSkin: High-Coverage Conformable Robotic Skin for Learning Contact-Rich Manipulation
Authors: Suzannah Wistreich*, Baiyu Shi*, Stephen Tian*, Samuel Clarke, Michael Nath, Chengyi Xu, Zhenan Bao, Jiajun Wu
Contact: tians@stanford.edu
Workshop: Main Conference
Award nominations: Oral presentation
Links: Paper | Website
Keywords: tactile sensing, dexterous manipulation
DexUMI: Using Human Hand as the Universal Manipulation Interface for Dexterous Manipulation
Authors: Mengda Xu, Han Zhang, Yifan Hou, Zhenjia Xu, Linxi Fan, Manuela Veloso, Shuran Song
Contact: mengdaxu@stanford.edu
Workshop: Main Conference
Award nominations: Best paper award finalist
Links: Paper | Website
Keywords: imitation learning, dexterous manipulation, exoskeleton
Enter the Mind Palace: Reasoning and Planning for Long-term Active Embodied Question Answering
Authors: Muhammad Fadhil Ginting, Dong-Ki Kim, Xiangyun Meng, Andrzej Reinke, Bandi Jai Krishna, Navid Kayhani, Oriana Peltzer, David D. Fan, Amirreza Shaban, Sung-Kyun Kim, Mykel J. Kochenderfer, Ali-akbar Agha-Mohammadi, Shayegan Omidshafiei
Contact: ginting@stanford.edu
Workshop: Main Conference
Links: Paper | Video | Website
Keywords: embodied qa, long-term reasoning, vision-language navigation
Hand-Eye Autonomous Delivery: Learning Humanoid Navigation, Locomotion and Reaching
Authors: Sirui Chen*, Yufei Ye*, Zi-Ang Cao*, Jennifer Lew, Pei Xu, C. Karen Liu
Contact: ericcsr@stanford.edu
Workshop: Main Conference
Links: Paper | Website
Keywords: humanoid, whole body control, navigation
Mobi-Ο: Mobilizing Your Robot Learning Policy
Authors: Jingyun Yang, Isabella Huang*, Brandon Vu*, Max Bajracharya, Rika Antonova, Jeannette Bohg
Contact: jingyuny@stanford.edu
Workshop: Main Conference
Links: Paper | Website
Keywords: policy mobilization, mobile manipulation, robot learning, robot perception
One Demo is Worth a Thousand Trajectories: Action-View Augmentation for Visuomotor Policies
Authors: Chuer Pan, Litian Liang, Dominik Bauer, Eric Cousineau, Benjamin Burchfiel, Siyuan Feng, Shuran Song
Contact: chuerpan@stanford.edu
Workshop: Main Conference
Links: Paper
Keywords: data augmentation, visuomotor policies, policy robustness, novel view synthesis, trajectory optimization
ParticleFormer: A 3D Point Cloud World Model for Multi-Object, Multi-Material Robotic Manipulation
Authors: Suning Huang, Qianzhong Chen, Xiaohan Zhang, Jiankai Sun, Mac Schwager
Contact: jksun@stanford.edu
Workshop: Main Conference
Links: Paper | Website
Keywords: world model, multi-object robot interaction
ParticleFormer: A 3D Point Cloud World Model for Multi-Object, Multi-Material Robotic Manipulation
Authors: Suning Huang, Qianzhong Chen, Xiaohan Zhang, Jiankai Sun, Mac Schwager
Contact: suning@stanford.edu
Workshop: Main Conference
Links: Paper | Blog Post | Video | Website
Keywords: robotic manipulation, learning-based dynamics modeling, modelbased planning and control
Real-Time Out-of-Distribution Failure Prevention via Multi-Modal Reasoning
Authors: Milan Ganai, Rohan Sinha, Christopher Agia, Daniel Morton, Luigi Di Lillo, Marco Pavone
Contact: mganai@cs.stanford.edu
Workshop: Main Conference
Award nominations: Oral
Links: Paper | Video | Website
Keywords: multi-modal reasoning, semantic safety, ood reliability
RoboMonkey: Scaling Test-Time Sampling and Verification for Vision-Language-Action Models
Authors: Jacky Kwok, Christopher Agia, Rohan Sinha, Matt Foutter, Shulu Li, Ion Stoica, Azalia Mirhoseini, Marco Pavone
Contact: jackykwok@stanford.edu
Workshop: Main Conference
Links: Paper | Website
Keywords: vision-language-action models, test-time scaling, reward learning, imitation learning
Robot Trains Robot: Automatic Real-World Policy Adaptation and Learning for Humanoids
Authors: Kaizhe Hu*, Haochen Shi*, Yao He, Weizhuo Wang, C. Karen Liuβ , Shuran Songβ
Contact: hshi74@stanford.edu
Workshop: Main Conference
Links: Paper | Blog Post | Video | Website
Keywords: humanoid robots, sim-to-real adaptation, real-world rl
SIREN: Semantic, Initialization-Free Registration of Multi-Robot Gaussian Splatting Maps
Authors: Ola Shorinwa, Jiankai Sun, Mac Schwager, Anirudha Majumdar
Contact: jksun@stanford.edu
Workshop: Main Conference
Links: Paper | Website
Keywords: gaussian splatting, multi-robot system
TWIST: Teleoperated Whole-Body Imitation System
Authors: Yanjie Ze, Zixuan Chen, JoΓ£o Pedro AraΓΊjo, Zi-ang Cao, Xue Bin Peng, Jiajun Wu, C. Karen Liu
Contact: yanjieze@stanford.edu
Workshop: Main Conference
Links: Paper | Blog Post | Video | Website
Keywords: humanoid robot, whole-body control
ToddlerBot: Open-Source ML-Compatible Humanoid Platform for Loco-Manipulation
Authors: Haochen Shi*, Weizhuo Wang*, Shuran Songβ , C. Karen Liuβ
Contact: hshi74@stanford.edu
Workshop: Main Conference
Links: Paper | Blog Post | Video | Website
Keywords: humanoid robots, mechanisms & design, robot modeling & simulation
Vision in Action: Learning Active Perception from Human Demonstrations
Authors: Haoyu Xiong, Xiaomeng Xu, Jimmy Wu, Yifan Hou, Jeannette Bohg, Shuran Song
Contact: haoyux.me@gmail.com
Workshop: Main Conference
Links: Paper | Blog Post | Video | Website
Keywords: active perception, bimanual manipulation, imitation learning, teleoperation systems
We look forward to seeing you at CoRL 2025!