ICRA 2026 · Vienna

TCRL@ICRA

A guide for anyone interested in robot learning at ICRA 2026.

Floor Plan Orientation

ICRA 2026 venue floor plan showing Foyer A, Hall A, Hall B, Hall C, and Hall D.

Program

Day-by-day robot learning guide.

Detailed robot-learning sessions and related TC activity from the welcome kit.

June 1, 2026 Monday Opening day with robot learning workshops and tutorials.
Workshops 5 entries
  • Act to Sense to Act Better: 1st Workshop on Learning and Representations for Active Perception in Manipulation

  • Synthetic Data for Robot Learning

  • ViTac - Learning to See and Feel: Vision-Tactile Synergy for Embodied AI

  • Workshop on Reinforcement Learning in the Era of Imitation Learning

  • Riemann and Gauss meet Asimov: 3rd Tutorial on Geometric Methods in Robot Learning, Optimization and Control

June 2, 2026 Tuesday Keynotes, oral sessions, posters, late-breaking results, and award finalists.
Keynotes 4 entries
  • Learning Agile Vision-Based Quadrotor Flight: From Simulation to Real-World Adaption

  • Learning to Handle Autonomous Vehicles at the Limits - Lessons Learned from Real-World Autonomous Motorsport

  • Learning to Navigate: From Scene Understanding to Decision Making

  • Can GOFE and Code-as-Policy Close the 100,000-Year "Data Gap" in Robot Manipulation?

Oral Sessions 6 entries
Field & Space Robotics Hall A3
  • Learning to Anchor Visual Odometry: KAN-Based Pose Regression for Planetary Landing

Grasping & Manipulation Lehar 1-4
  • DAM-VLA: A Dynamic Action Model-Based Vision-Language-Action Framework for Robot Manipulation

  • Leveraging Embodied Mechanical Intelligence for Learning Decluttering Tasks

  • Language-Guided Dexterous Functional Grasping by LLM Generated Grasp Functionality and Synergy for Humanoid Manipulation (I)

Manipulation & Locomotion Lehar 1-4
  • Learning Location-Specific Latent Behavior Priors for Occupancy Prediction in Automated Driving

  • CLF-RL: Control Lyapunov Function Guided Reinforcement Learning

Posters 46 entries
Interactive Session 1 Hall C
  • Learning Constraint-Aware Dynamical Systems from Human Demonstrations for Constrained Manipulation Tasks

  • LLM Trainer: Automated Robotic Data Generating Via Demonstration Augmentation Using LLMs

  • TARAD: Task-Aware Robot Affordance-Centric Diffusion Policy Learned from LLM-Generated Demonstrations

  • DAPPER: Discriminability-Aware Policy-To-Policy Preference-Based Reinforcement Learning for Query-Efficient Robot Skill Acquisition

  • What Matters in Learning a Zero-Shot Sim-To-Real RL Policy for Quadrotor Control? a Comprehensive Study

  • Latent Action Diffusion for Cross-Embodiment Manipulation

  • Seeing Motion, Generating Action: Explicit Motion-Aware Policy for Robotic Action Generation

  • Zero-Shot Exocentric Viewpoint-Robust Imitation Learning (VIL): Bridging Handheld Gripper and Exocentric Views

  • Behavior Foundation Model for Humanoid Robots

  • SOE: Sample-Efficient Robot Policy Self-Improvement Via On-Manifold Exploration

  • From Dream to Action: Hierarchical Policy Learning with 3D World Imagination for Robotic Manipulation

  • Learning-Based Robust Control: Unifying Exploration and Distributional Robustness for Reliable Robotics Via Free Energy

  • DexKnot: Generalizable Visuomotor Policy Learning for Dexterous Bag-Knotting Manipulation

  • Robot Crash Course: Learning Soft and Stylized Falling

  • Learning on the Fly: Rapid Policy Adaptation Via Differentiable Simulation

  • Real-World Robot Control by Deep Active Inference with a Temporally Hierarchical World Model

  • Robot Control Stack: A Lean Ecosystem for Robot Learning at Scale

Late Breaking Results 1 Hall C
  • Rapid Robot Manipulation Policy Learning Via Hierarchical Foundation-Model Prior Distillation

  • Reinforcement Learning for Stair Locomotion of a Wheeled Bipedal Robot with Contact-Guided Behavior Cloning

  • Toward Human Preference Optimization for Vision-Language-Action Models: A Pilot Study on the Limits of Imitation Learning

  • Learning Contact Tasks Skills Based on DMP and Affordance Templates

  • Learning Traversability Cost Maps with Decomposed Uncertainties Via Continuous-State MEDIRL

  • Agile Collision Avoidance for Deformable-Tethered Multi-Robot Systems Via Zone-Aware Hierarchical Learning and VLM-Guided Control

  • Enhancing VLA Precision in Robotic Manipulation Via FiLM-Based Force/Torque-Vision Integration

Interactive Session 2 Hall C
  • Flow-Enabled Generalization to Human Demonstrations in Few-Shot Imitation Learning

  • Unlocking the Potential of Soft Actor-Critic for Imitation Learning

  • AMPLIFY: Actionless Motion Priors for Robot Learning from Videos

  • Inference-Stage Adaptation-Projection Strategy Adapts Diffusion Policy to Cross-Manipulators Scenarios

  • SCOOP'D: Learning Mixed-Liquid-Solid Scooping Via Sim2Real Generative Policy

  • Viper: Verifiable Imitation Learning Policy for Efficient Robotic Manipulation

  • Enhancing Classical Motion Planners Using RL with Safety Guarantees

  • History-Aware Visuomotor Policy Learning Via Point Tracking

  • ManeuverNet: A Soft Actor-Critic Framework for Precise Maneuvering of Double-Ackermann-Steering Robots with Optimized Reward Functions

  • Residual Off-Policy RL for Finetuning Behavior Cloning Policies

  • JuggleRL: Mastering Ball Juggling with a Quadrotor Via Deep Reinforcement Learning

  • NaviGait: Navigating Dynamically Feasible Gait Libraries Using Deep Reinforcement Learning

  • Knowledge-Guided Manipulation Using Multi-Task Reinforcement Learning

  • AURA: Autonomous Upskilling with Retrieval-Augmented Agents

  • Implicit Maximum Likelihood Estimation for Real-Time Generative Model Predictive Control

  • An Alignment-Based Approach to Learning Motions from Demonstrations

  • NavGSim: High-Fidelity Gaussian Splatting Simulator for Large-Scale Navigation

  • Mimir: Hierarchical Goal-Driven Diffusion with Uncertainty Propagation for End-To-End Autonomous Driving

  • Augmented Reality for RObots (ARRO): Pointing Visuomotor Policies towards Visual Robustness

Late Breaking Results 2 Hall C
  • An Efficient Learning-Based Task Planning Approach Using a Bio-Inspired Action Context-Free Grammar for Bimanual Manipulation

  • GLaMP: A Grounded Language Model-Based Multi-Agent System for Long-Horizon Robotic Task Planning in Industrial Settings

  • Learning from Demonstrations Over Riemannian Manifolds Using Neural ODEs

Awards 7 entries
Robot Learning Award Finalists 1 11:00-12:30 | Hall A2
  • GRITS: A Spillage-Aware Guided Diffusion Policy for Robot Food Scooping Tasks

  • Hierarchical DLO Routing with Reinforcement Learning and In-Context Vision-Language Models

  • FP3: A 3D Foundation Policy for Robotic Manipulation

  • Do You Know Where Your Camera Is? View-Invariant Policy Learning with Camera Conditioning

Human-Robot Interaction Award Finalists 2 16:45-18:15 | Hall A2
  • Uncertainty Comes for Free: Human-In-The-Loop Policies with Diffusion Models

Automation Award Finalists 1 16:45-18:15 | Hall A2
  • ETac: A Lightweight and Efficient Tactile Simulation Framework for Learning Dexterous Manipulation

Robot Perception Award Finalists 1 16:45-18:15 | Hall A2
  • KISS-IMU: Self-Supervised Inertial Odometry with Motion-Balanced Learning and Uncertainty-Aware Inference

June 3, 2026 Wednesday Robot Learning I, humanoid robot learning, aerial robotics, posters, and award finalists.
Keynotes 1 entry
  • Surviving the Paper Deluge: A One-Year Study in Learning from Demonstration

Oral Sessions 17 entries
Medical Robotics I Hall A3
  • ArthroCut: Autonomous Policy Learning for Robotic Bone Resection in Knee Arthroplasty

Robot Learning I Hall A3
  • Agile in the Face of Delay: Asynchronous End-To-End Learning for Real-World Aerial Navigation

  • Human2Nav: Learning Crowd Navigation from Human Videos across Robots Via Feasibility-Guided Flow Matching

  • Hybrid Diffusion Policies with Projective Geometric Algebra for Efficient Robot Manipulation Learning

  • Shifted Flow Policy: Uncertainty-Aware Time Reparameterization for Visuomotor Learning

  • Closed-Loop Action Chunks with Dynamic Corrections for Training-Free Diffusion Policy

  • EMMA: Scaling Mobile Manipulation Via Egocentric Human Data

  • Better Than Diverse Demonstrators: Reward Decomposition from Suboptimal and Heterogeneous Demonstrations

  • GRAM: Generalization in Deep RL with a Robust Adaptation Module

  • VGC-RIO: A Tightly Integrated Radar-Inertial Odometry with Spatial Weighted Doppler Velocity and Local Geometric Constrained RCS Histograms

Humanoid Robots Lehar 1-4
  • Mixture-Of-Experts Policy for Smooth and Stable Multi-Posture Fall Recovery in Bipedal Robot

  • MimicDroid: In-Context Learning for Humanoid Robot Manipulation from Human Play Videos

  • TOLEBI: Learning Fault-Tolerant Bipedal Locomotion Via Online Status Estimation and Fallibility Rewards

  • DreamControl: Human-Inspired Whole-Body Humanoid Control for Scene Interaction Via Guided Diffusion

  • Learn to Teach: Sample-Efficient Privileged Learning for Humanoid Locomotion Over Real-World Uneven Terrain

  • Learning Humanoid Arm Motion Via Centroidal Momentum Regularized Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

Aerial Robotics Lehar 1-4
  • Dream to Fly: Model-Based Reinforcement Learning for Vision-Based Drone Flight

Posters 35 entries
Interactive Session 3 Hall C
  • Policy Diversification through Representation Distinguishability Regularization for Multi-Actor Deep Reinforcement Learning

  • MotionTrans: Human VR Data Enable Motion-Level Learning for Robotic Manipulation Policies

  • Robust Online Residual Refinement Via Koopman-Guided Dynamics Modeling

  • SVP: Improving Vision-Language-Action Models with Dual Stochastic Visual Prompting

  • Reinforcement Fine-Tuning of Flow-Matching Policies for Vision-Language-Action Models

  • ACG: Action Coherence Guidance for Flow-Based Vision-Language-Action Models

  • Neural Internal Model Control: Learning a Robust Control Policy Via Predictive Error Feedback

  • PEEK: Guiding and Minimal Image Representations for Zero-Shot Generalization of Robot Manipulation Policies

  • Placeit! a Framework for Learning Robot Object Placement Skills

  • R2BC: Multi-Agent Imitation Learning from Single-Agent Demonstrations

  • Scalable Multi-Objective Robot Reinforcement Learning through Gradient Conflict Resolution

  • MoE-DP: An MoE-Enhanced Diffusion Policy for Robust Long-Horizon Robotic Manipulation with Skill Decomposition and Failure Recovery

  • MoRe-ERL: Learning Motion Residuals Using Episodic Reinforcement Learning

  • Beyond the Majority: Long-Tail Imitation Learning for Robotic Manipulation

  • Contact-Safe Reinforcement Learning with ProMP Reparameterization and Energy Awareness

  • VO-DP: Semantic-Geometric Adaptive Diffusion Policy for Vision-Only Robotic Manipulation

  • Overcoming Imperfect Kinematics in Surgical Robotics through Sim-To-Real Visuomotor Learning

  • Adaptive Motion Priors with Constrained Optimization

Late Breaking Results 3 Hall C
  • Hierarchical LLM-VLA-Controller Integration for Task Generalization

Interactive Session 4 Hall C
  • InSpire: Vision-Language-Action Models with Intrinsic Spatial Reasoning

  • EDAIL: Adversarial Imitation Learning Via Exploration-Driven Data Augmentation

  • HAND Me the Data: Fast Robot Adaptation Via Hand Path Retrieval

  • TWISTED-RL: Hierarchical Skilled Agents for Knot-Tying without Human Demonstrations

  • Flow before Imitation: Learning Dexterous In-Hand Manipulation with Dynamic Visuotactile Shortcut Policy

  • A Champion-Level Vision-Based Reinforcement Learning Agent for Competitive Racing in Gran Turismo 7

  • Learning-Based Observer for Coupled Disturbance

  • EasyMimic: A Low-Cost Framework for Robot Imitation Learning from Human Videos

  • ExpReS-VLA: Specializing Vision-Language-Action Models through Experience Replay and Retrieval

  • Beyond the Teacher: Leveraging Mixed-Skill Demonstrations for Robust Imitation Learning

  • Simultaneous Deep Model-Based Reinforcement Learning and State Inference under Partial Observability

  • SoftMimicGen: A Data Generation System for Scalable Robot Learning in Deformable Object Manipulation

  • Flow with the Force Field: Learning 3D Compliant Flow Matching Policies from Force and Demonstration-Guided Simulation Data

  • Diffusion Trajectory-Guided Policy for Long-Horizon Robot Manipulation

Late Breaking Results 4 Hall C
  • Beyond Domain Randomization: Safety Certificates for Reinforcement Learning

  • Reward-Free Continual Adaptation for Resilient Space Robots

Awards 3 entries
Robot Manipulation & Locomotion Award Finalists 3 11:00-12:30 | Hall A2
  • Dexora: Open-Source VLA for High-DoF Bimanual Dexterity

Planning & Control Award Finalists 4 16:45-18:15 | Hall A2
  • HITTER: A HumanoId Table TEnnis Robot Via Hierarchical Planning and Learning

  • ActivePusher: Active Learning and Planning with Residual Physics for Nonprehensile Manipulation

June 4, 2026 Thursday Robot Learning II, interactive sessions, and the TC social in Vienna.
Keynotes 4 entries
  • Scalable Robot Decision Making in the Open World: Planning and Plan Prediction with LLMs

  • Towards Complex Language in Partially Observed Environments

  • Traveling the Robot Learning Manifold: A Tale of Geometries and Inductive Biases

  • Intrinsic Robustness: A Journey from Control-Aware Planning to Robust Robot Learning

Oral Sessions 13 entries
Planning Hall A2
  • URPlanner: A Universal Paradigm for Collision-Free Robotic Motion Planning Based on Deep Reinforcement Learning

Robot Learning II Hall A3
  • SVR-GS: Spatially Variant Regularization for Probabilistic Masks in 3D Gaussian Splatting

  • Dense-Jump Flow Matching with Non-Uniform Time Scheduling for Robotic Policies: Mitigating Multi-Step Inference Degradation

  • SCIZOR: A Self-Supervised Approach to Data Curation for Large-Scale Imitation Learning

  • Deep Sensorimotor Control by Imitating Predictive Models of Human Motion

  • ViTaS: Visual Tactile Soft Fusion Contrastive Learning for Visuomotor Learning

  • TADPO: Reinforcement Learning Goes Off-Road

  • Learning Problem Decomposition for Efficient Sequential Multi-Object Manipulation Planning

  • Motion Generation for Modular Robots Using Hierarchical Policies

  • Factorizing Diffusion Policies for Observation Modality Prioritization

Mechanisms, Design and Control Lehar 1-4
  • End-To-End Low-Level Neural Control of an Industrial-Grade 6D Magnetic Levitation System

  • Whole-Body Safe Control of Robotic Systems with Koopman Neural Dynamics

Applications Strauss 1-2
  • Localized Graph-Based Neural Dynamics Models for Terrain Manipulation

Posters 31 entries
Interactive Session 5 Hall C
  • GRAPE: Generalizing Robot Policy Via Preference Alignment

  • CAPS: Context-Aware Priority Sampling for Enhanced Imitation Learning in Autonomous Driving

  • Data-Efficient Hierarchical Goal-Conditioned Reinforcement Learning Via Normalizing Flows

  • Rainbow-DemoRL: Combining Improvements in Demonstration-Augmented Reinforcement Learning

  • AutoFocus-IL: VLM-Based Saliency Maps for Data-Efficient Visual Imitation Learning without Extra Human Annotations

  • Enhancing Robot Learning through Cognitive Reasoning Trajectory Optimization under Unknown Dynamics

  • Motion before Action: Diffusing Object Motion As Manipulation Condition

  • DemoBot: Efficient Learning of Bimanual Manipulation with Dexterous Hands from Third-Person Human Videos

  • Refinery: Active Fine-Tuning and Deployment-Time Optimization for Contact-Rich Policies

  • Teaching to Individual Needs: Bidirectional Teacher-Student Learning for Wheeled-Legged Locomotion

  • Generative Adversarial Imitation Learning for Robot Swarms: Learning from Human Demonstrations and Trained Policies

  • Learning Affordances at Inference-Time for Vision-Language-Action Models

Late Breaking Results 5 Hall C
  • Knowledge-Based Locomotion Policy for Quadruped Robots under Incomplete Terrain Observation

  • Knowledge Synthesis in Dynamic Human-Swarm Interactions Using LLMs

  • Risk-Aware Control of Tendon-Driven Continuum Robots Via CVaR-MPPI with Residual Learning for Hysteresis Compensation : A Pilot Study

Interactive Session 6 Hall C
  • WorldPlanner: Monte Carlo Tree Search and MPC with Action-Conditioned Visual World Models

  • X-Diffusion: Training Diffusion Policies on Cross-Embodiment Human Demonstrations

  • Multimodal Variational DeepMDP: An Efficient Approach for Industrial Assembly in High-Mix, Low-Volume Production

  • The Better You Learn, the Smarter You Prune: Towards Efficient Vision-Language-Action Models Via Differentiable Token Pruning

  • DA-MMP: Learning Coordinated and Accurate Throwing with Dynamics-Aware Motion Manifold Primitives

  • Learning Task-Invariant Properties Via Dreamer: Enabling Efficient Policy Transfer for Quadruped Robots

  • ManipForce: Force-Guided Policy Learning with Frequency-Aware Representation for Contact-Rich Manipulation

  • HoMeR: Learning In-The-Wild Mobile Manipulation Via Hybrid Imitation and Whole-Body Control

  • Using Non-Expert Data to Robustify Imitation Learning Via Offline Reinforcement Learning

  • Vision-Based Policy Learning for High-Speed Autonomous Racing

  • Cross-Embodiment Imitation: Learning a Unified Latent Space for Multi-Robot Control

  • Robust Robot Navigation through Failure-Aversion Learning

  • Temporal Action Representation Learning for Tactical Resource Control and Subsequent Maneuver Generation

  • Flip Stunts on Bicycle Robots Using Iterative Motion Imitation

Late Breaking Results 6 Hall C
  • Diffusion Policy for Robot-Assisted Dressing with Moving Human Arms

  • Heterogeneous Skill Learning for Asynchronous Multi-Robot Relay Pushing in Complex Environments

TC Social 1 entry
  • Informal evening social with the Technical Committees on Robot Learning, Humanoid Robotics, and Robotic Hands, Grasping and Manipulation.

    Space is limited to 150 attendees on a first-come, first-served basis. Confirmations are sent after membership verification.

June 5, 2026 Friday Closing day with robot learning workshops and tutorials.
Workshops 7 entries
  • Beyond Teloperation: Learning from Diverse Human and Simulation Data

  • Bridging the Gap between Robot Learning and Human-Robot Interaction

  • From Data to Decisions: VLA Pipelines for Real Robots

  • Geometry in the Age of Data-Driven Robotics

  • RoboTac 2026: Embodied Tactile Intelligence in Predictive Perception, Learning, & Control in Grasp & Manipulation: Emerging the Role of Embodiment and Visuo-Tactile-LLM Foundation Models

  • Scaling Compositional Intelligence for Multi-Agent Robotic Systems

  • Xplore: Cross-Disciplinary aspects of Exploration in Robotics, Reinforcement Learning, and Search