Outstanding Paper Award

2025

Winner

FEAST: A Flexible Mealtime-Assistance System Tackling In-the-Wild Personalization
Rajat Kumar Jenamani (Cornell University), Tom Silver (Cornell University), Ben Dodson (Cornell University), Shiqin Tong (Cornell University), Anthony Song (Cornell University), Yuting Yang (University of Michigan), Ziang Liu (Cornell University), Benjamin Howe (Independent), Aimee Whitneck (Independent), and Tapomayukh Bhattacharjee (Cornell University)

Finalists

FAST: Efficient Action Tokenization for Vision-Language-Action Models
Karl Pertsch (Physical Intelligence, Stanford University), Kyle Stachowicz (UC Berkeley), Brian Ichter (Physical Intelligence), Danny Driess (Physical Intelligence), Suraj Nair (Physical Intelligence), Quan Vuong (Physical Intelligence), Oier Mees (UC Berkeley), Chelsea Finn (Physical Intelligence, Stanford University), and Sergey Levine (Physical Intelligence, UC Berkeley)

Solving Multi-Agent Safe Optimal Control with Distributed Epigraph Form MARL
Songyuan Zhang (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Oswin So (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Mitchell Black (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Zachary Serlin (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Chuchu Fan (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

2024

Winner

Real-Time Anomaly Detection and Reactive Planning with Large Language Models
Rohan Sinha (Stanford University), Amine Elhafsi (Stanford University), Christopher Agia (Stanford University), Matt Foutter (Stanford University), Edward Schmerling (NVIDIA), and Marco Pavone (Stanford University)

Finalists

Advancing Humanoid Locomotion: Mastering Challenging Terrains with Denoising World Model Learning
Xinyang Gu (RobotEra Technology), Yen-Jen Wang (Tsinghua University), Xiang Zhu (Tsinghua University), Chengming Shi (Tsinghua University), Yanjiang Guo (Tsinghua University), Yichen Liu (Tsinghua University), and Jianyu Chen (Tsinghua University)

Configuration Space Distance Fields for Manipulation Planning
Yiming Li (EPFL), Xuemin Chi (Zhejiang University), Amirreza Razmjoo (EPFL), and Sylvain Calinon (EPFL)

2023

Winner

Time Optimal Ergodic Search
Dayi E Dong (Yale University) and Henry P Berger (Yale University) and Ian Abraham (Yale University)

Finalists

Robot Learning on the Job: Human-in-the-Loop Autonomy and Learning During Deployment
Huihan Liu (University of Texas at Austin) and Soroush Nasiriany (University of Texas at Austin) and Lance Zhang (University of Texas at Austin) and Zhiyao Bao (University of Texas at Austin) and Yuke Zhu (University of Texas at Austin)

Language-Driven Representation Learning for Robotics
Siddharth Karamcheti (Stanford University) and Suraj Nair (Stanford University) and Annie S Chen (Stanford University) and Thomas Kollar (Toyota Research Institute) and Chelsea Finn (Stanford University) and Dorsa Sadigh (Stanford University) and Percy Liang (Stanford University)

Non-Euclidean Motion Planning with Graphs of Geodesically-Convex Sets
Thomas B Cohn (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and Mark Petersen (Harvard University) and Max Simchowitz (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and Russ Tedrake (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Convex Geometric Motion Planning on Lie Groups via Moment Relaxation
Sangli Teng (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor) and Ashkan Jasour (Jet Propulsion Laboratory) and Ram Vasudevan (University of Michigan) and Maani Ghaffari Jadidi (University of Michigan)

2022

Winner

Iterative Residual Policy for Goal-Conditioned Dynamic Manipulation of Deformable Objects
Cheng Chi, Benjamin CM Burchfiel, Eric Cousineau, Siyuan Feng, and Shuran Song

Nominees

FlowBot3D: Learning 3D Articulation Flow to Manipulate Articulated Objects
Benjamin Eisner, Harry Zhang, and David Held

You Only Demonstrate Once: Category-Level Manipulation from Single Visual Demonstration
Bowen Wen, Wenzhao Lian, Kostas Bekris, and Stefan Schaal

DiPCAN: Distilling Privileged Information for Crowd-Aware Navigation
Gianluca Monaci, Michel Aractingi, and Tomi Silander

Multi-Robot Adversarial Resilience using Control Barrier Functions
Matthew Cavorsi, Beatrice Capelli, Lorenzo Sabattini, and Stephanie Gil

2021

Winner

Finalists

Optimal Pose and Shape Estimation for Category-level 3D Object Perception
Jingnan Shi, Heng Yang, and Luca Carlone

Moving sidewinding forward: optimizing contact patterns for limbless robots via geometric mechanics
Baxi Chong, Tianyu Wang, Bo Lin, Shengkai Li, Howie Choset, Grigoriy Blekherman, Daniel Goldman

Toward Certifiable Motion Planning for Medical Steerable Needles
Mengyu Fu, Oren Salzman, Ron Alterovitz

2020

Winner

TBA

Nominees

Cable Manipulation with a Tactile-Reactive Gripper
Yu She, Shaoxiong Wang, Siyuan Dong, Neha Sunil, Alberto Rodriguez, Edward Adelson

Deep Drone Acrobatics
Elia Kaufmann, Antonio Loquercio, René Ranftl, Matthias Müller, Vladlen Koltun, Davide nan Scaramuzza

Learning Agile Robotic Locomotion Skills by Imitating Animals
Xue Bin Peng , Erwin Coumans , Tingnan Zhang , Tsang-Wei Lee , Jie Tan , Sergey Levine

2019

Winner

A Magnetically-Actuated Untethered Jellyfish-Inspired Soft Milliswimmer
Ren, Ziyu; Wang, Tianlu; Hu, Wenqi; Sitti, Metin

Finalists

2018

Winner

Differentiable Physics and Stable Modes for Tool-Use and Manipulation Planning
Marc Toussaint, Kelsey Allen, Kevin Smith, Joshua Tenenbaum

Finalists

2015

Winner

Guidance and Navigation for UAV Airborne Docking
Daniel Wilson, Ali Goktogan, Salah Sukkarieh

Finalists

IMU Preintegration on Manifold for Efficient Visual-Inertial Maximum-a-Posteriori Estimation
Christian Forster, Luca Carlone, Frank Dellaert, Davide Scaramuzza

On the hardness of unlabeled motion planning
Kiril Solovey, Dan Halperin

Layered Interpretation of Street View Images
Ming-Yu Liu, Shuoxin Lin, Srikumar Ramalingam, Oncel Tuzel

Policy Search for Multi-Robot Coordination under Uncertainty
Christopher Amato, George Konidaris, Ariel Anders, Gabriel Cruz, Jonathan How, Leslie Kaelbling

Dealing with Difficult Instances of Object Rearrangement
Athanasios Krontiris, Kostas Bekris

 

2014

Winner

Asking for Help Using Inverse Semantics
Stefanie Tellex, Ross Knepper, Adrian Li, Daniela Rus, Nicholas Roy

Finalists

2012

Winner

Affine trajectory deformation for redundant manipulators
Quang-Cuong Pham, Yoshihiko Nakamura

Finalist

2010

Winner

Biophysically inspired development of a sand-swimming robot
R. Maladen, Y. Ding, P. Umbanhowar, A. Kamor and D. Goldman

Finalist