A curated list of 21 robotics and robotics-adjacent papers presented at ICML 2025.
This year’s highlights include robot learning, sim2real transfer, VLAs, skill abstraction, motion planning, and scalable policy architectures. Explore interactive papers on Bytez or browse the virtual posters on ICML. ✨
| Paper Title | TLDR | Virtual Poster | Interactive Paper (Bytez) |
|---|---|---|---|
| ABNet: Adaptive explicit-Barrier Net for Safe and Scalable Robot Learning | Barrier networks for safe robot learning. | ICML | Bytez |
| Reinforcement Learning Control of a Physical Robot Device for Assisted Human Walking without a Simulator | RL for real-world robotic walking assist. | ICML | Bytez |
| Learning Efficient Robotic Garment Manipulation with Standardization | Standardized pipeline for robot garment manipulation. | ICML | Bytez |
| Diversifying Robot Locomotion Behaviors with Extrinsic Behavioral Curiosity | Curiosity-driven locomotion behavior diversity. | ICML | Bytez |
| STAR: Learning Diverse Robot Skill Abstractions through Rotation-Augmented Vector Quantization | Skill abstraction via rotation-augmented quantization. | ICML | Bytez |
| Hi Robot: Open-Ended Instruction Following with Hierarchical Vision-Language-Action Models | Hierarchical models for open-ended robot instructions. | ICML | Bytez |
| Robot-Gated Interactive Imitation Learning with Adaptive Intervention Mechanism | Interactive imitation learning with robot gating. | ICML | Bytez |
| Simultaneous Multi-Robot Motion Planning with Projected Diffusion Models | Diffusion models for planning multi-robot motion. | ICML | Bytez |
| A Large Recurrent Action Model: xLSTM enables Fast Inference for Robotics Tasks | Large xLSTM for fast robot task inference. | ICML | Bytez |
| VIP: Vision Instructed Pre-training for Robotic Manipulation | Vision-instructed pre-training for manipulation. | ICML | Bytez |
| SAM2Act: Integrating Visual Foundation Model with A Memory Architecture for Robotic Manipulation | Visual foundation model + memory for manipulation. | ICML | Bytez |
| ReinboT: Amplifying Robot Visual-Language Manipulation with Reinforcement Learning | RL-enhanced visual-language manipulation. | ICML | Bytez |
| ELEMENTAL: Interactive Learning from Demonstrations and Vision-Language Models for Reward Design in Robotics | Reward design via demo & vision-language learning. | ICML | Bytez |
| Closed-Loop Long-Horizon Robotic Planning via Equilibrium Sequence Modeling | Equilibrium sequence modeling for long-horizon plans. | ICML | Bytez |
| Rethinking Latent Redundancy in Behavior Cloning: An Information Bottleneck Approach for Robot Manipulation | Info bottleneck for efficient behavior cloning. | ICML | Bytez |
| DexScale: Automating Data Scaling for Sim2Real Generalizable Robot Control | Automating sim2real data scaling for robots. | ICML | Bytez |
| Efficient Robotic Policy Learning via Latent Space Backward Planning | Latent space backward planning for robot policies. | ICML | Bytez |
| Video Prediction Policy: A Generalist Robot Policy with Predictive Visual Representations | Predictive video-based generalist robot policy. | ICML | Bytez |
| DiffusionVLA: Scaling Robot Foundation Models via Unified Diffusion and Autoregression | Unified diffusion/autoregression for scaling VLA. | ICML | Bytez |
| Flow-based Domain Randomization for Learning and Sequencing Robotic Skills | Domain randomization for robotic skill learning. | ICML | Bytez |
| Pre-training Auto-regressive Robotic Models with 4D Representations | 4D representations for autoregressive robot models. | ICML | Bytez |