Waterloo Robot Learning Reading Group - CoRL / Humanoids 2025 Recap (Week 7)

​​Meetup to discuss state-of-the-art research on robot learning (humanoids, foundation models, RL, sim2real, etc.), similar to the Toronto ML/Systems Reading Group and Vector Institute's Machine Learning Lunches- list of topics & articles below - all are welcome! 🎉

​Pizza sponsored by Palatial and BracketBot (and maybe Shiza)

​Previous week: https://luma.com/ympgqji6

​Topic - CoRL / Humanoids 2025 Recap

​This week, Shiza will be doing a recap of her experience attending CoRL in South Korea where frontier robot learning research is presented!

• ​7:00pm - CoRL Recap Presented by Shiza Charania

​Additional Reading List:

• ​CoRL website: https://www.corl.org/

• ​Humanoids website: https://2025humanoids.org/

• ​Geometric Red-Teaming for Robotic Manipulation: https://georedteam.github.io/

• ​Compliant Residual DAgger: https://compliant-residual-dagger.github.io/

• ​RoboMonkey: https://robomonkey-vla.github.io/

• ​Ctrl-World: A Controllable Generative World Model for Robot Manipulation: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.10125

• ​RoboArena: Distributed Real-World Evaluation of Generalist Robot Policies: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.18123

• ​Chelsea Finn's Talk Recording from CoRL: https://youtu.be/DX5VCRGn12w?t=15736

• ​Robotics Deep-Dive: https://github.com/aapatni/robotics-deep-dive-2025

• ​Why Today’s Humanoids Won’t Learn Dexterity (Rodney Brooks): https://rodneybrooks.com/why-todays-humanoids-wont-learn-dexterity/