ICRA 2026 Award Finalists
ICRA 2026 will again present the Best Paper Awards. Please find hereunder the list of the finalists.
Session: Award Session 1
Date: Tuesday, June 2
Time: 11:00-12:30
Place: Hall A2
Best Paper Award on Robot Learning
| Paper Title | Authors | Session Code | Paper Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| GRITS: A Spillage-Aware Guided Diffusion Policy for Robot Food Scooping Tasks | Tai, Yen-Ling; Yang, Yi-Ru; Yu, Kuan-Ting; Chao, Yu-Wei; Chen, Yi-Ting | TuAT1.1 | 11:00-11:10 |
| Hierarchical DLO Routing with Reinforcement Learning and In-Context Vision-Language Models | Li, Mingen; Yu, Houjian; Huang, Yixuan; Hong, Youngjin; Ye, Hantao; Choi, Changhyun | TuAT1.2 | 11:10-11:20 |
| FP3: A 3D Foundation Policy for Robotic Manipulation | Yang, Rujia; Chen, Geng; Wen, Chuan; Gao, Yang | TuAT1.3 | 11:20-11:30 |
| Do You Know Where Your Camera Is? View-Invariant Policy Learning with Camera Conditioning | Jiang, Tianchong; Ji, Jingtian; Tan, Xiangshan; Fang, Jiading; Bhattad, Anand; Guizilini, Vitor; Walter, Matthew | TuAT1.4 | 11:30-11:40 |
Best Paper Award in Medical Robotics
| Paper Title | Authors | Session Code | Paper Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| RCM Constraint-Consistent Dynamic Control in Surgical Robots | Li, Yu; Sadeghian, Hamid; Yang, Zewen; Le Mesle, Valentin; Haddadin, Sami | TuAT1.5 | 11:40-11:50 |
| One-Shot Autofocus Via User-Adaptive Gaze Control for Robot-Assisted Microsurgery | Luan, Yunfei; Liu, Yuxuan; Zhuge, Yuyang; Luo, Yating; Guo, Yao; Yang, Guang-Zhong | TuAT1.6 | 11:50-12:00 |
| SurgAM: Surgical Affordance Map Prediction with Multimodal Feature Fusion for Robot Autonomy | Song, Lei; Long, Yonghao; Xu, Mengya; Geng, Jiayi; Chen, Xiuyuan; Dou, Qi | TuAT1.7 | 12:00-12:10 |
| Geometry-Aware Visual Odometry for Bronchoscopic Navigation Via High-Gain Observer Fusion | Kasaei, Mohammadreza; Zhang, Francis Xiatian; Li, Feng; Alambeigi, Farshid; Dhaliwal, Kev; Khadem, Mohsen | TuAT1.8 | 12:10-12:20 |
Best Paper Award on Robot Perception (Part 1)
| Paper Title | Authors | Session Code | Paper Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| FindAnything: Open-Vocabulary and Object-Centric Mapping for Robot Exploration in Any Environment | Barbas Laina, Sebastián; Boche, Simon; Papatheodorou, Sotiris; Schaefer, Simon; Jung, Jaehyung; Oleynikova, Helen; Leutenegger, Stefan | TuAT1.9 | 12:20-12:30 |
Session: Award Session 2
Date: Tuesday, June 2
Time: 16:45-18:15
Place: Hall A2
Best Paper Award on Human-Robot Interaction
| Paper Title | Authors | Session Code | Paper Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| HEXAR: A Hierarchical Explainability Architecture for Robots | Love, Tamlin; Gebellí, Ferran; Pramanick, Pradip; Andriella, Antonio; Alenyà, Guillem; Garrell, Anaís; Ros, Raquel; Rossi, Silvia | TuBT1.1 | 16:45-16:55 |
| Uncertainty Comes for Free: Human-In-The-Loop Policies with Diffusion Models | He, Zhanpeng; Cao, Yifeng; Ciocarlie, Matei | TuBT1.2 | 16:55-17:05 |
| SA-VLM V2: Useful, Comprehensive, and Concise Guidance for Guide-Dog Robots Assisting the Visually Impaired | Yun, Woo-han; Shin, JaeHo; Seo, BeomSu; Kim, Jaehong; Han, ByungOk | TuBT1.3 | 17:05-17:15 |
Best Paper Award in Automation
| Paper Title | Authors | Session Code | Paper Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| IMR-LLM: Industrial Multi-Robot Task Planning and Program Generation using Large Language Models | Su, Xiangyu; Xu, Juzhan; van Kaick, Oliver; Xu, Kai; Hu, Ruizhen | TuBT1.4 | 17:15-17:25 |
| ETac: A Lightweight and Efficient Tactile Simulation Framework for Learning Dexterous Manipulation | Xu, Zhe; Zhao, Feiyu; Huang, Xiyan; Xiao, Chenxi | TuBT1.5 | 17:25-17:35 |
| Ro-To-Go! Robust Reactive Control with Signal Temporal Logic | Ilyes, Roland; Brudermüller, Lara; Hawes, Nick; Lacerda, Bruno | TuBT1.6 | 17:35-17:45 |
| LASER: Level-Based Asynchronous Scheduling and Execution Regime for Spatiotemporally Constrained Multi-Robot Timber Manufacturing | Huang, Zhenxiang; Skoury, Lior; Stark, Tim; Wagner, Aaron; Wagner, Hans-Jakob; Wortmann, Thomas; Menges, Achim | TuBT1.7 | 17:45-17:55 |
Best Paper Award on Robot Perception (Part 2)
| Paper Title | Authors | Session Code | Paper Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| LR-SGS: Robust LiDAR-Reflectance-Guided Salient Gaussian Splatting for Self-Driving Scene Reconstruction | Chen, Ziyu; Zhu, Fan; Zhu, Hui; Kong, Deyi; Kuang, Xinkai; Zhang, Yujia; Jiang, Chunmao | TuBT1.8 | 17:55-18:05 |
| KISS-IMU: Self-Supervised Inertial Odometry with Motion-Balanced Learning and Uncertainty-Aware Inference | Choi, Jiwon; Kim, Hogyun; Yang, Geonmo; Lee, Juhui; Cho, Younggun | TuBT1.9 | 18:05-18:15 |
Session: Award Session 3
Date: Wednesday, June 3
Time: 11:00-12:30
Place: Hall A2
Best Paper Award on Robot Manipulation and Locomotion
| Paper Title | Authors | Session Code | Paper Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dexora: Open-Source VLA for High-DoF Bimanual Dexterity | Zhang, Zongzheng; Pang, Jingrui; Yang, Zhuo; li, kun; Liao, Minwen; Zhang, Saining; Chi, Guoxuan; Guo, jinbang; Gao, Huan-ang; Shi, Modi; Ge, Dongyun; Mu, Yao; Gu, Jiayuan; Chen, Rui; Dong, Hao; Xu, Huazhe; Yi, Li; Zhu, Yixin; Zhao, Hang; Wang, Pengwei; Zhang, Shanghang; Yao, Guocai; Chen, Jianyu; Li, Hongyang; Zhao, Hao | WeAT1.1 | 11:00-11:10 |
| Robotic Dexterous Manipulation Via Anisotropic Friction Modulation Using Passive Rollers | Fisk, Ethan; Lee, Taeyoon; Yuan, Shenli | WeAT1.2 | 11:10-11:20 |
| Bi-Adapt: Few-Shot Bimanual Adaptation for Novel Categories of 3D Objects Via Semantic Correspondence | Zhou, Jinxian; Wu, Ruihai; Liu, Yiwei; Yu, Checheng; Zhou, Xunzhe; Hou, Yiwen; Zhong, Licheng; Shao, Lin | WeAT1.3 | 11:20-11:30 |
| OmniRetarget: Interaction-Preserving Data Generation for Humanoid Whole-Body Loco-Manipulation and Scene Interaction | Yang, Lujie; Huang, Xiaoyu; Wu, Zhen; Kanazawa, Angjoo; Abbeel, Pieter; Sferrazza, Carmelo; Liu, Karen; Duan, Yan; Shi, Guanya | WeAT1.4 | 11:30-11:40 |
| Push Anything: Single and Multi-Object Pushing from First Sight with Contact-Implicit MPC | Bui, Hien; Gao, Yufeiyang; Yang, Haoran; Cui, Eric; Mody, Siddhant; Acosta, Brian; Felix, Thomas Stephen; Bianchini, Bibit; Posa, Michael | WeAT1.5 | 11:40-11:50 |
Best Paper Award on Mechanisms and Design
| Paper Title | Authors | Session Code | Paper Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Design and Implementation of an Angle-Bisecting Foot Mechanism for a Leg-Wheel Transformable Robot | LEE, Hsing-Chen; Yu, Wei-Shun; Lin, Pei-Chun | WeAT1.6 | 11:50-12:00 |
| DigiArm: An Anthropomorphic 3D-Printed Prosthetic Hand with Enhanced Dexterity for Typing Tasks | Zadok, Dean; Naamani, Tom; Bar-Ratson, Yuval; Barash, Elisha; Salzman, Oren; Wolf, Alon; Bronstein, Alexander; Krausz, Nili | WeAT1.7 | 12:00-12:10 |
| Relaxation Dynamics in Oblate Spherical Rolling Robots | Oevermann, Micah; Ambrose, Robert | WeAT1.8 | 12:10-12:20 |
| A Novel Bio-Inspired Fish Robot with Tunable Stiffness Via Particle Jamming | Stonecipher, Jack; Gao, Allen; Wang, Wei | WeAT1.9 | 12:20-12:30 |
Session: Award Session 4
Date: Wednesday, June 3
Time: 16:45-18:15
Place: Hall A2
Best Paper Award on Multi-Robot Systems
| Paper Title | Authors | Session Code | Paper Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dynamics Modeling of a Multi-UAV Slung Load System Using a Discrete-Link Cable Approach | Merton, Harvey; Hunter, Ian | WeBT1.1 | 16:45-16:55 |
| A Distributed Gaussian Process Model for Multi-Robot Mapping | Nabarro, Seth; van der Wilk, Mark; Davison, Andrew J | WeBT1.2 | 16:55-17:05 |
| Optimal Multi-Robot Planning for Simultaneous Area and Line Coverage | Zheng, Tianyuan; Yu, Kaiyan; Gao, Mingyang; Yi, Jingang | WeBT1.3 | 17:05-17:15 |
Best Best Paper Award in Field and Service
| Paper Title | Authors | Session Code | Paper Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Planar-Sector LOS Guidance for Interception of Agile Targets with Lifting-Wing Quadcopters | Liu, Linkai; Yang, Kun; Zou, Han; Min, Chen; Lv, Shuli; Wang, Shuai; Quan, Quan | WeBT1.4 | 17:15-17:25 |
| GuideTWSI: A Diverse Tactile Walking Surface Indicator Dataset from Synthetic and Real-World Images for Blind and Low-Vision Navigation | Hwang, Hochul; Yang, Soowan; Nguyen, Nhat Hong Anh; Goel, Parth; Adhikari, Krisha; Lee, Sunghoon Ivan; Biswas, Joydeep; Giudice, Nicholas; Kim, Donghyun | WeBT1.5 | 17:25-17:35 |
| Sonar-MASt3R: Real-Time Opti-Acoustic Fusion in Turbid, Unstructured Environments | Phung, Amy; Camilli, Richard | WeBT1.6 | 17:35-17:45 |
Best Paper Award on Planning and Control
| Paper Title | Authors | Session Code | Paper Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| HITTER: A HumanoId Table TEnnis Robot Via Hierarchical Planning and Learning | Su, Zhi; Zhang, Bike; Rahmanian, Nima Abraham; Gao, Yuman; Liao, Qiayuan; Regan, Caitlin; Sreenath, Koushil; Sastry, Shankar | WeBT1.7 | 17:45-17:55 |
| SymSkill: Symbol and Skill Co-Invention for Data-Efficient and Reactive Long-Horizon Manipulation | Shao, Yifei; Zheng, Yuchen; Sun, Sunan; Chaudhari, Pratik; Kumar, Vijay; Figueroa, Nadia | WeBT1.8 | 17:55-18:05 |
| ActivePusher: Active Learning and Planning with Residual Physics for Nonprehensile Manipulation | Zhong, Zhuoyun; Golestaneh, Seyedali; Chamzas, Constantinos | WeBT1.9 | 18:05-18:15 |