Workshop on Robot Learning at Deployment (Learn@Deploy)

Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL 2026) · November 12, 2026 · Half-Day Workshop

About the Workshop

Robots deployed in the real world inevitably face novel variations, unseen tasks, and edge cases that no amount of offline pretraining can anticipate. Yet standard paradigms rely on static policies that cannot correct errors, self-critique, or optimize online.

This half-day workshop focuses on Robot Learning at Deployment Time (Learn@Deploy): the methods, safety guardrails, and evaluation strategies for continuous adaptation and test-time optimization after deployment, under real constraints on compute, memory, streaming data, and physical safety. We bring together industry and academic researchers across robot learning, embodied AI, planning, control, and computer vision to discuss the principles of safe, resource-bounded online adaptation, with an emphasis on interactive, small-group discussions.

Core Challenges & Research Questions

01

Test-Time Optimization under Real-World Constraints

02

Agentic Guidance & Code Generation in the Loop

03

Deployment-Time Evaluation & Performance Correlation

04

Adaptive Reasoning, Self-Critiquing & Failure Remediation

05

Streaming Sample-Efficiency & Catastrophic Forgetting

Submissions

Submissions are managed through OpenReview. Please use the workshop submission site to submit your paper and view its status.

Open submission site

Important Dates

All deadlines are 11:59 p.m. Anywhere on Earth (AoE).

Submission deadline
Paper acceptance
Camera-ready deadline

Submission Guidelines

  • Page limit: Submissions may contain up to 8 pages of single-column main text. References and appendices do not count toward this limit.
  • Template: Submissions should use the official CoRL 2026 template.
  • Anonymity: Manuscripts must be anonymized for review, with author names, affiliations, and other identifying information omitted.
  • Non-archival: Accepted submissions will be non-archival and will not appear in archival proceedings.

Speakers

David Fan
David Fan
CTO
Field AI
Guanya Shi
Guanya Shi
Assistant Professor
Carnegie Mellon University
Mengdi Xu
Mengdi Xu
Assistant Professor
Tsinghua University
Michelle Lee
Michelle Lee
CEO
Medra

Schedule

Thursday, November 12, 2026. Half-day program. Times are tentative and subject to change.

8:30 - 8:40Opening Remarks
8:40 - 9:05Keynote 1
9:05 - 9:30Keynote 2
9:30 - 10:10Mentor-Mentee Discussions (interactive theme tables)
10:10 - 10:30Spotlight Talks & Best Paper Award
10:30 - 11:00Coffee Break & Interactive Partner Poster Stroll
11:00 - 11:25Keynote 3
11:25 - 11:50Keynote 4
11:50 - 12:30Theme Group Catch-up & Takeaway Summary
12:30End of Session

Organizers

Shivam Vats
Shivam Vats
Postdoc
Brown University
Cherie Ho
Cherie Ho
Postdoc
Stanford University
Jonathan Francis
Jonathan Francis
Lead Research Scientist
Bosch Center for AI
Huihan Liu
Huihan Liu
PhD Candidate
UT Austin

Advisory Committee

George Konidaris
George Konidaris
Professor
Brown University