Awards
Congratulations to the RSS 2026 award winners and finalists!
Award Winners
Outstanding Paper Award
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FlashSAC: Fast and Stable Off-Policy Reinforcement Learning for High-Dimensional Robot Control
Donghu Kim, Youngdo Lee, Minho Park, Kinam Kim, Takuma Seno, I. Made Aswin Nahrendra, Sehee Min, Daniel Palenicek, Florian Vogt, Danica Kragic, Jan Peters, Jaegul Choo, Hojoon Lee
Winner: Outstanding Paper Award
Outstanding Student Paper Award
Outstanding Systems Paper in Memory of Seth Teller Award
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NeuralActuator: Neural Actuation Modeling for Robot Dynamics and External Force Perception
Zhiyang Dou, John U. Onyemelukwe, Hangxing Zhang, Heng Zhang, Minghao Guo, Yunsheng Tian, Michal Piotr Lipiec, Joshua Jacob, Chao Liu, Peter Yichen Chen, Yuri Ivanov, Wojciech Matusik
Winner: Outstanding Systems Paper in Memory of Seth Teller Award
Outstanding Paper Award Finalists
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Automated Synthesis of Facial Mechanisms for Conversational Animatronic Robots
Zongzheng Zhang, Zi Lin, Jiawen Yang, Ziqiao Peng, Junyan Lao, Lin Cheng, Huazhe Xu, Hang Zhao, Hao Zhao
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OAT: Ordered Action Tokenization
Chaoqi Liu, Xiaoshen Han, Jiawei Gao, Yue Zhao, Haonan Chen, Yilun Du
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Muninn: Your Trajectory Diffusion Model But Faster
Gokul Puthumanaillam, Hao Jiang, Ruben Hernandez, Jose Fuentes, Paulo Padrao, Leonardo Bobadilla, Melkior Ornik
Winner: Outstanding Student Paper Award
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Realizing Robotic Swimming with Unified Fluid-Robot Multiphysics
Jeong Hun Lee, Junzhe Hu, Sofia Kwok, Carmel Majidi, Zac Manchester
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NeuralActuator: Neural Actuation Modeling for Robot Dynamics and External Force Perception
Zhiyang Dou, John U. Onyemelukwe, Hangxing Zhang, Heng Zhang, Minghao Guo, Yunsheng Tian, Michal Piotr Lipiec, Joshua Jacob, Chao Liu, Peter Yichen Chen, Yuri Ivanov, Wojciech Matusik
Winner: Outstanding Systems Paper in Memory of Seth Teller Award
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cuNRTO: GPU-Accelerated Nonlinear Robust Trajectory Optimization
Jiawei Wang, Arshiya Taj Abdul, Evangelos Theodorou
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FlashSAC: Fast and Stable Off-Policy Reinforcement Learning for High-Dimensional Robot Control
Donghu Kim, Youngdo Lee, Minho Park, Kinam Kim, Takuma Seno, I. Made Aswin Nahrendra, Sehee Min, Daniel Palenicek, Florian Vogt, Danica Kragic, Jan Peters, Jaegul Choo, Hojoon Lee
Winner: Outstanding Paper Award
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Emerging Extrinsic Dexterity in Cluttered Scenes via Dynamics-aware Policy Learning
Yixin Zheng, Jiangran Lyu, Yifan Zhang, Jiayi Chen, Mi Yan, Yuntian Deng, Xuesong Shi, Xiaoguang Zhao, Yizhou Wang, Zhizheng Zhang, He Wang
Awards Committee
- Dylan Shell
Texas A&M University
- Kris Hauser
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- Eiichi Yoshida
Tokyo University of Science
- Jeannette Bohg
Stanford University
- Marco Hutter
ETH Zurich
- Peter Corke
Queensland University of Technology
- Niko Suenderhauf
Queensland University of Technology