
CoRL 2026 Workshop
Description
A half-day workshop focused on how robots decide, sense, and control contact while moving through the world, spanning prehensile and non-prehensile skills. This workshop brings together researchers in legged locomotion, mobile manipulation, non-prehensile manipulation, whole-body control, contact-aware planning, onboard perception, and sim-to-real transfer to identify shared challenges and promising research directions.
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Meet the speakers

Alan Fern
Theme:Oregon State University - Robot learning, planning, reinforcement learning, and decision making under uncertainty.
Tao Pang
Theme:Robotics and AI Institute - Contact-rich manipulation, planning, control, and robust physical interaction.

Pulkit Agrawal
Theme:MIT - Robot learning, legged mobility, manipulation, and sim-to-real transfer.

Emo Todorov
Theme:Roboti and University of Washington - Optimal control, physics simulation, contact dynamics, and robot movement.











