Accepted Papers

39 papers exploring reasoning, learning, and action in the physical world.

CoRL 2026 Workshop on Agentic Robotics · November 12, 2026 · Austin, Texas. This list covers accepted papers; separately accepted demos are not included.

39 of 39 papers

• ENCORE: Few-Shot Agentic Discovery of Manipulation Strategies

  Yifan Kang, Zihan Wang, Zhiwen Fan, Bangya Liu

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• Recovery Credit: Evaluating Robot Decisions Under Physical-State Uncertainty

  Mateo PETEL

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• 2AM: Grounding Agent-Side Memory as Guidance for Steerable Action Models in Long-Horizon Manipulation

  Yutong Hu, FengJiao Chen, Xuezhi Cao, Renaud Detry

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• World Action Planner: Generalizable Robot Decision-Making with Action-Conditioned World Models

  XiangCheng Zhang, Runhan Huang, Yilun Du

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• Uncertainty Is the Wrong Trigger: An Exact Account of When an Agent Should Ask Before It Cannot Undo

  Varun Puttagunta

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• EMBODIEDSWE: Coding Agents for Long Horizon Dexterous Robotics

  Yilang Liu, Zeyu Shen, Haoxiang You, Zhicheng Zheng, Lihan Zha, Kashu Yamazaki, Mingtong Zhang, Suning Huang, Jiankai Sun, Qianzhong Chen, Luxi He, Kaiyuan Liu, Haoran Chang, Katerina Fragkiadaki, Mac Schwager, Dhruv Shah, Peter Henderson, Ian Abraham, Canwen Xu

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• Agentic Real2Sim: Physics-based World Modeling with Vision-Language Agents

  Guanxiong Chen, Qianjun Xia, Jiawei Peng, Heng Zhang, Pengyu Jing, Bole Ma, Justin Qian, Yixian Cheng, Ziyi Jiao, Bingyang Zhou, Yiduo Qu, Luoxin Ye, Kaifeng Zhang, Kunyi Wang, Weijia Zeng, Yunuo Chen, Pengzhi Yang, Ziqiu Zeng, Siyuan Luo, Huamin Wang, Chao Liu, Alan Yuille, Fan Shi, Changxi Zheng, Yunzhu Li, Chenfanfu Jiang, Peter Yichen Chen

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• Program-Level Adversarial Co-Adaptive Self-Play for Robotic Security

  Leo Benaharon, Chi Zhang, Wei Zheng, Weifan Zhang, Yifan Wei

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• SceneRig: An Agentic System for Simulation-Ready 3D Scene Reconstruction from Single Images

  Rundong Luo, Yunong Liu, Di Cao, Matthew Tancik, Shyamal Buch, Colton Stearns, Wenqi Xian

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• Co-Evolving Robot Orchestrators and Policies through Deployment

  Xilun Zhang, Maggie Wang, Erik Bauer, Hong-Xing Yu, Huang Huang, Jiajun Wu, Marco Pavone

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• Fewer Tokens, Better Action: GPT-6 Astra Robot Agents with 14% Higher Success but 65% Fewer Tokens

  Ruiyang Si, Jianxin Bi, Shunyu Yang, Rui Ni, Wenbo Huang, Qiang Wang, Shulong Jiang, Duomin Wang, Zhen Dong, Daquan Zhou

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• Skill2Real: Agentic Skill Learning for Zero-Shot Sim-to-Real Robot Manipulation

  Xincheng He, Siyu Ma, Chang Yu, Yunuo Chen, Yanjia Huang, Ying Nian Wu, Yin Yang, Chenfanfu Jiang

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• Guava: Distilling Frontier VLMs into a Compact Agent through a Robotic Manipulation Harness

  Haowen Liu, Xirui Li, Shaoxiong Yao, Peng Shi, Tianyi Zhou, Jia-Bin Huang, Furong Huang, Jiayuan Mao

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• Topology-Informed Visual Prompting for Hierarchical Vision-Language-Action Control

  Haoyang Wu, Abhinav Kumar, Dmitry Berenson

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• PhysCaP: Grounding Code-as-Policy Agent with Physics-Informed Exploration

  Chen-Yu Lin, Jing-Wen Chen, Hsueh-En Chang, Hung-An Chen, Sheng-Hsun Chang, Chi-Pin Huang, Fu-En Yang, Min-Hung Chen, Yi-Ting Chen, Yu-Chiang Frank Wang, Shao-Hua Sun

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• [PAPER]: A Few Words Go a Long Way: Language Guided Robot Policy Synthesis

  Daphne Chen, Archit Ritesh Jain, Eric Goossen, Emma Romig, Michael Murray, Nick Walker, Maya Cakmak

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• FEIJOA: Task-Driven Grounding and Execution for Mobile Manipulation

  Aditya Agarwal, William Shen, Sahit Chintalapudi, Lucy Cai, Nishanth Kumar, Aidan Curtis, Travis Manderson, Tomás Lozano-Pérez, Leslie Pack Kaelbling

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• 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

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• Do Agentic Policies Need to Look at Every Step? Geometric Abstraction for Reasoning and Action

  Yihang Liu, Yiming Chen, Mingzhe Zheng

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• Generalized Planning Interfaces for Agentic Robotics

  Ben Zandonati, Yifan Kang, Tomás Lozano-Pérez, Leslie Pack Kaelbling

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• STeP: Signal Temporal Logic for Precise Specifications for Action Generation with Vision Language Models

  Kasra Torshizi, Anukriti Singh, Sidharth Mathur, Khuzema Habib, Leo Du, Pratap Tokekar

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• RAPID: Robot Agentic Programming from Demonstrations

  Yuyao Liu, Jiayuan Mao, David Hsu, Leslie Pack Kaelbling, Tomás Lozano-Pérez

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• Agentic World Action Model

  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

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• Harness VLA: Steering Frozen VLAs into Reliable Manipulation Primitives via Memory-Guided Agents

  Yixian Zhang, Huanming Zhang, Feng Gao, Xiao Li, Zhihao Liu, Yi Nie, Chunyang Zhu, Jiaxing Qiu, Yuchen Yan, Jiyuan Liu, Wenhao Tang, Jiaji Rao, Zhengru Fang, Changxu Wei, Quanlu Zhang, Yu Wang, Wenbo Ding, Chao Yu

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• ComDex: A Compositional Framework for Dexterity Learning from Offline Human Manipulation Videos

  Yunhai Han, Harish Ravichandar, Yashraj Narang, Jie Xu, Wei Yang

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• Impossible Twins: Judge-Free Measurement of Verifier False Positives in Agentic Robot Controller Search

  Tianlang Chen

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• RLE-Bench: A Qualifying Exam for Coding Agents as Robot Learning Engineers

  Haitong Ma, Chenxiao Gao, Rushi Qiang, Bo Dai, Na Li

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• SimEX: Simulation-Integrated Robotics AutoResearch

  Jiaheng Hu, Roberto Martín-Martín, Peter Stone, Rocky Duan, Zhenyu Jiang, Guanya Shi

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• Embodied XAI: Tracing Hierarchical Agent Decisions via 4D Spatio-Temporal Saliency

  Suzan Halim

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• Agentic Aerial Cinematography: From Dialogue Cues to Cinematic Trajectories

  Yifan Lin, Sophie Z. Liu, Ran Qi, George Z. Xue, Xinping Song, Chao QIn, Hugh H.-T. Liu

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• Contact Code: A Typed Program Interface for Measurable and Repairable Contact-Rich Manipulation

  Yanru Wu, Zizhe Zhang, Qi Chen, Haimin Hu, Alan Yuille, Jieneng Chen

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• Can Astra Solve RoboMME without Breaking the Bank?

  Bingao Chen, Haoquan Fang, Karen Liu

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• SUTO: Failure-Localized Reasoning for Robot Task Planning and Execution

  Sohan Rudra, Yuezhe Zhang, Kumar Manas, Vignesh Prasad, Georgia Chalvatzaki

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• Physical Agency: Better Robot Performance Through Better Interfaces

  Liane Galanti, Dhruv Shah, Tri Dao

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• RL$^2$-VLA: Adaptive RL Latent Compositional Steering with Test-Time Scaling for Vision-Language-Action Models

  Derek Ming Siang Tan, Shailesh Shailesh, Srikrishna Iyer, William Teo, Yuanliang Ju, Qiao Gu, Guillaume Adrien Sartoretti

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• How Hard Are Current Robot Memory Benchmarks for Agentic Harnesses?

  Feiyang Wu, Weirui Ye, Haonan Chen, Haoyu Chen, Jiayu Zhou, Yandong Ji, Yuejiang Liu, Yilun Du

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• KPI: A Promptable Kernel for Physical Interaction on Humanoids

  Yikai Wang, Honghao Zhu, Xiao Hu, Hao Zhang, Zelin Wang, Yip Fun Yeung, Ding Zhao, Lingfeng Sun

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• 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

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• MemBodied: Recurrent Associative Memory for Vision-Language-Action Models

  Tej Deep Pala, Navonil Majumder, Bryce Goh, Raphael Yee, Jianfei Yang, Liming Chen, Soujanya Poria

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