The Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) 2025 is being hosted in Los Angeles from June 21st-25th. We’re excited to share all the work from SAIL that’s being presented, and you’ll find links to papers, videos and blogs below. Feel free to reach out to the contact authors directly to learn more about the work that’s happening at Stanford!

List of Accepted Papers

SLAP: Shortcut Learning for Abstract Planning

Authors: Y. Isabel Liu, Bowen Li, Benjamin Eysenbach, Tom Silver
Contact: isabel.liu@princeton.edu
Venue: Workshop
Keywords: robotics and control, reinforcement learning algorithms

CUPID: Curating Data your Robot Loves with Influence Functions

Authors: Christopher Agia, Rohan Sinha, Jingyun Yang, Rika Antonova, Marco Pavone, Haruki Nishimura, Masha Itkina Jeannette Bohg
Contact: cagia@stanford.edu
Venue: Workshop
Keywords: imitation learning, data curation, influence functions

Compliant Residual DAgger: Improving Real-World Contact-Rich Manipulation with Human Corrections

Authors: Xiaomeng Xu*, Yifan Hou*, Zeyi Liu, Shuran Song
Contact: xuxm@stanford.edu
Venue: Workshop
Keywords: dagger, compliance control, contact-rich manipulation

Learning Long-Context Diffusion Policies via Past-Token Prediction

Authors: Marcel Torne, Andy Tang, Yuejiang Liu, Chelsea Finn
Contact: marcelto@stanford.edu, yuejiang.liu@stanford.edu
Venue: Workshop
Keywords: robot learning, diffusion policy, long context

Scaffolding Dexterous Manipulation with Vision-Language Models

Authors: Vincent de Bakker, Joey Hejna, Tyler Ga Wei Lum, Onur Celik, Aleksandar Taranovic, Denis Blessing, Gerhard Neumann, Jeannette Bohg, Dorsa Sadigh
Contact: debakker@cs.stanford.edu
Venue: Workshop
Award nominations: Spotlight
Keywords: dexterous manipulation, vision-language models, reinforcement learning

Self-Guided Action Diffusion

Authors: Rhea Malhotra, Yuejiang Liu, Chelsea Finn
Contact: rheamal@stanford.edu
Venue: Workshop
Award nominations: Firestone Medal for Research
Keywords: inference-time adaptation, trajectory coherence, temporal consistency, policy generalization

BEHAVIOR Robot Suite: Streamlining Real-World Whole-Body Manipulation for Everyday Household Activities

Authors: Yunfan Jiang, Ruohan Zhang, Josiah Wong, Chen Wang, Yanjie Ze, Hang Yin, Cem Gokmen, Shuran Song, Jiajun Wu, Li Fei-Fei
Contact: yunfanj@cs.stanford.edu
Venue: Workshop
Award nominations: Spotlight Presentation
Links: Paper | Blog Post | Video | Website
Keywords: whole-body manipulation, mobile manipulation, household tasks, imitation learning

Deformable Cargo Transport in Microgravity with Astrobee

Authors: Daniel Morton, Rika Antonova, Brian Coltin, Marco Pavone, Jeannette Bohg
Contact: dmorton@stanford.edu
Venue: Workshop
Award nominations: Best paper finalist for the Space Robotics Workshop
Links: Paper | Video | Website
Keywords: space robotics, manipulation, deformables

PhD Student (Computer Science)

Authors: Moo Jin Kim, Chelsea Finn, Percy Liang
Contact: moojink@stanford.edu
Venue: Main Conference
Links: Paper | Video | Website
Keywords: vision-language-action models, imitation learning, robotic manipulation

Real-Time Out-of-Distribution Failure Prevention via Multi-Modal Reasoning

Authors: Milan Ganai, Rohan Sinha, Christopher Agia, Daniel Morton, Marco Pavone
Contact: mganai@cs.stanford.edu
Venue: Workshop
Links: Paper | Video | Website
Keywords: multi-modal reasoning, semantic safety, ood reliability

RoboPanoptes: The All-Seeing Robot with Whole-body Dexterity

Authors: Xiaomeng Xu, Dominik Bauer, Shuran Song
Contact: xuxm@stanford.edu
Venue: Main Conference
Links: Paper | Video | Website
Keywords: whole-body dexterity, whole-body vision

Robot Learning with Super-Linear Scaling

Authors: Marcel Torne Villasevil, Arhan Jain, Jiayi Yuan, Vidyaaranya Macha, Lars Lien Ankile, Anthony Simeonov, Pulkit Agrawal, Abhishek Gupta
Contact: marcelto@stanford.edu
Venue: Main Conference
Links: Paper | Video | Website
Keywords: robot learning: reinforcement learning, robot modeling & simulation, grasping & manipulation

Self-supervised Multi-future Occupancy Forecasting for Autonomous Driving

Authors: Bernard Lange, Masha Itkina, Jiachen Li, Mykel J. Kochenderfer
Contact: blange@stanford.edu
Venue: Main Conference
Links: Paper
Keywords: autonomous driving, world model

Unified Video Action Model

Authors: Shuang Li, Yihuai Gao, Dorsa Sadigh, Shuran Song
Contact: lishuang@stanford.edu
Venue: Main Conference
Links: Paper | Website
Keywords: robot learning, imitation learning, video action models

We look forward to seeing you at RSS!