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
TARE: A Hierarchical Framework for Efficiently Exploring Complex 3D Environments
Chao Cao, Hongbiao Zhu, Howie Choset, and Ji Zhang
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
Robot Packing with Known Items and Nondeterministic Arrival Order
Wang, Fan; Hauser, Kris
Equivalence of the Projected Forward Dynamics and the Dynamically Consistent Inverse Solution
Moura, Joao; Ivan, Vladimir; Erden, Mustafa Suphi; Vijayakumar, Sethu
Commonsense Reasoning and Knowledge Acquisition to Guide Deep Learning on Robots
Mota, Tiago; Sridharan, Mohan
Idiothetic Verticality Estimation through Head Stabilization Strategy
Farkhatdinov, Ildar; Michalska, Hannah; Berthoz, Alain; Hayward, Vincent
2018
Winner
Differentiable Physics and Stable Modes for Tool-Use and Manipulation Planning
Marc Toussaint, Kelsey Allen, Kevin Smith, Joshua Tenenbaum
Finalists
Predicting Human Trust in Robot Capabilities across Tasks
Harold Soh, Shu Pan, Chen Min, David Hsu
Analytical Derivatives of Rigid Body Dynamics Algorithms
Justin Carpentier
2017
Winner
Asymptotically Optimal Design of Piecewise Cylindrical Robots using Motion Planning
Cenk Baykal, Ron Alterovitz
Finalists
Joint Optimization of Robot Design and Motion Parameters using the Implicit Function Theorem
Sehoon Ha, Stelian Coros, Alexander Alspach, Joohyung Kim, Katsu Yamane
Learning to Reconstruct 3D Structures for Occupancy Mapping
Vitor Guizilini, Fabio Ramos
2016
Winner
Efficient Grounding of Abstract Spatial Concepts for Natural Language Interaction with Robot Manipulators
Rohan Paul, Jacob Arkin, Nicholas Roy and Thomas M. Howard
Finalists
Probabilistic Approaches to the AXB = YCZ Calibration Problem in Multi-Robot Systems
Qianli Ma, Zachariah Goh and Gregory S. Chirikjian
Coordinated multi-arm motion planning: Reaching for moving objects in the face of uncertainty
Seyed Sina Mirrazavi Salehian, Nadia Figueroa and Aude Billard
An End-To-End System for Accomplishing Tasks with Modular Robots
Gangyuan Jing, Tarik Tosun, Mark Yim and Hadas Kress-Gazit
Integrated force and distance sensing using elastomer-embedded commodity proximity sensors
Radhen Patel and Nikolaus Correll
Efficient Grounding of Abstract Spatial Concepts for Natural Language Interaction with Robot Manipulators
Rohan Paul, Jacob Arkin, Nicholas Roy and Thomas M. Howard
Robust Multimodal Sequence-Based Loop Closure Detection via Structured Sparsity
Hao Zhang, Fei Han and Hua Wang
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
Cogging Torque Ripple Minimization via Position Based Characterization
Matthew Piccoli, Mark Yim
Control of Robotic Mobility-On-Demand Systems: a Queueing-Theoretical Perspective
Rick Zhang, Marco Pavone
Six-Degrees-of-Freedom Remote Actuation of Magnetic Microrobots
Eric Diller, Joshua Giltinan, Guo Zhan Lum, Zhou Ye, Metin Sitti
2013
Winner
Dynamics, Control and Planning for Cooperative Manipulation of Payloads Suspended by Cables from Multiple Quadrotor Robots
Koushil Sreenath, and Vijay Kumar
Finalists
Generating Legible Motion
Anca Dragan, Siddhartha Srinivasa
Multi-Hypothesis Social Grouping and Tracking for Mobile Robots
Matthias Luber, Kai Arras
Modeling and Evaluating Narrative Gestures for Humanlike Robots
Chien-Ming Huang and Bilge Mutlu
2012
Winner
Affine trajectory deformation for redundant manipulators
Quang-Cuong Pham, Yoshihiko Nakamura
Finalist
On Stochastic Optimal Control and Reinforcement Learning by Approximate Inference
Konrad Rawlik, Marc Toussaint, Sethu Vijayakumar
2011
Winner
Identification and Representation of Homotopy Classes of Trajectories for Search-based Path Planning in 3D
Subhrajit Bhattacharya, Maxim Likhachev, Vijay Kumar
Finalist
Cross-Entropy Randomized Motion Planning
Marin Kobilarov
2010
Winner
Biophysically inspired development of a sand-swimming robot
R. Maladen, Y. Ding, P. Umbanhowar, A. Kamor and D. Goldman
Finalist
Color-Accurate Underwater Imaging using Perceptual Adaptive Illumination
I. Vasilescu, C. Detweiler and D. Rus