PEARL team heads to IROS 2026 with orals on robot RL and a generalist-vs-specialist debate
GeorgiaChal · x · 2026-09-27
A PEARL member previews a packed IROS 2026 (Pittsburgh) schedule: Monday oral on self-supervised multisensory pretraining for contact-rich robot RL (Rickmer Krohn); Tuesday chairing a bimanual manipulation session and presenting Zechu Li's work on scalable RL data generation for language-conditioned bimanual dexterous manipulation; Wednesday arguing the generalist side in a plenary debate moderated by Ken Goldberg and Andrea Bajcsy; plus invited workshop talks on hybrid architectures for embodied autonomy.
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