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

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

Paper ↗

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

Late-breaking results program ↗

5:00–6:30 PMCST
Posters

Poster Session I

JW Marriott

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

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10:30–11:00 AMCST
Oral · O5

Dexterous learning, grasping and assembly

Hilton Austin

11:30 AM–12:00 PMCST
Oral · O7

Humanoid data, control and skills

Hilton Austin
Session chair: Koushil Sreenath

12:00–1:30 PMCST · LUNCH BREAK
Late-breaking results · Posters

Real2Sim2Real

Griffin · Level 2 · JW Marriott Austin

Late-breaking results program ↗

5:00–6:30 PMCST
Posters

Poster Session II

JW Marriott

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

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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

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9:00–9:30 AMCST
Spotlight · S7

Humanoid locomotion and whole-body control

Hilton Austin

10:30 AM–12:00 PMCST
Posters

Poster Session III

JW Marriott

Poster 99

Playful Agentic Robot Learning

Authors listed under Wednesday, Spotlight S6

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Poster 100

GaP: A Graph-as-Policy Multi-Agent Self-Learning Harness For Variational Automation Tasks

Authors listed under Wednesday, Spotlight S6

Paper ↗

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

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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.

Session details ↗

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

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Workshop program ↗

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

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Workshop program ↗

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

Workshop program ↗

10:40–11:10 AMCST
Workshop

Bimanual Dexterous Tool Use · Invited talk

JW Marriott · Rooms 303–304

Professor Jitendra Malik

Talk title has not been announced.

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11:50 AM–12:20 PMCST
Workshop

R2RL · Panel discussion

JW Marriott · Room 213

Zhiyuan “Paul” Zhou

Panel with workshop speakers and audience volunteers.

Session details ↗

2:45–3:05 PMCST
Workshop

Agentic Robotics · Invited talk

Room to be announced

Professor Ken Goldberg

Talk title has not been announced.

Session details ↗

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).

Session details ↗

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

Workshop program ↗

Additional involvement
Workshop organizers

BAIR behind the program

Workshop organizing roles.

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