Georgia Tech STAR Lab brings 5 robotics papers to CoRL 2026 and is recruiting

fdellaert · x · 2026-11-09

STAR Lab at Georgia Tech is heading to CoRL 2026 (Nov 9–12, Austin) with five papers and is recruiting a PhD student and a postdoc for Fall 2027.

The papers cover:

• K-UBM: Koopman behavior models as pseudo-planners for visuomotor dexterity
• OmniTacTune: policy-agnostic real-world RL for tactile residual adaptation of visual policies (main conference poster #150)
• Video2Sim2Real: full-stack autonomous dexterous skill acquisition from a single human video (workshop oral)
• ComDex: compositional framework for dexterity learning from offline human manipulation videos
• Social Navigation (Curriculum RL): surprising effectiveness of curriculum RL for social navigation with sparse human localization

The author also jokes that foundation models have made him too lazy to manually craft conference visuals: "I honestly don't know if I love or hate this!"

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