Call for Workshops

Call for Workshops

We invite proposals for full- and half-day workshops and tutorials for the Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL) 2025. Our workshops aim to foster cutting-edge discussions, showcase emerging ideas, and advance developments in robot learning, offering a vibrant forum for both established and early-career researchers.

CoRL 2025, including the workshops, will be held in-person. We encourage organizers to plan fully in-person workshops (for both speakers and participants).

We welcome proposals that:

• Feature a confirmed, high-quality, and diverse lineup of invited speakers. We strongly encourage diversity across multiple dimensions, including but not limited to career stage, gender, race, ethnicity, geographic location, and sector (industry, government, or academia).

• Promote innovative and interactive formats, such as debates, panel discussions, and hands-on activities, to maximize participant engagement.

• Inspire new research directions, foster critical reflection, or highlight underexplored topics, including negative results and open challenges.

• Offer timeliness and uniqueness, differentiating themselves from recent workshops at other robotics and machine learning conferences.

• Are designed as half-day workshops to ensure focused and fully engaged participation.

Important Dates for Workshop Submission

• Workshop Date: September 27th, 2025 (the first day of CoRL 2025)

• Submission Deadline: May 12th, 23:59 AoE (through Google Form).

• Acceptance notification: June 12, 2025

• CoRL workshop organizer meeting: early July 2025

Notes

1. Merging of Similar Workshops: If multiple high-quality submissions cover overlapping themes, proposers may be asked to merge their workshops to foster broader and more impactful discussions. To facilitate this process, proposals should include a statement indicating a willingness to collaborate with the workshop chairs on potential mergers.

2. Discouraging CoRL 2025 Papers as Workshop Contributions: To ensure workshops focus on innovative, ongoing research, we strongly recommend emphasizing preliminary or in-progress work rather than accepting papers already presented at CoRL 2025. This helps create a space for fresh ideas and active discussions rather than re-presenting completed work.

3. Invited Speakers Appearance Limit: To promote diverse and accessible content, we encourage workshop organizers to invite a varied set of speakers. Each invited speaker should commit to no more than two workshops. If a speaker has committed to more than two workshops, they should disclose this to the organizers. Such speakers may be included as tentative in the proposal. Upon workshop acceptance, speakers with multiple commitments must finalize their participation in up to two workshops. Suggested communication for invited speakers:
   
   “CoRL 2025 implements a speaker commitment policy to maximize diversity. Invited speakers are asked to limit their engagements to no more than two workshops. If you are considering or have already committed to multiple events, please inform us. This will enable us to mark your potential participation as tentative until our workshop's acceptance, at which point we'll need confirmation of your final commitment."

Submission Guidelines

Proposals should be concise, ideally between 2-3 pages, with a maximum length of 5 pages. The proposal must include:

• Workshop title

• Type of event (half/full-day workshop or tutorial)

• Organizers' information

• Tentative website URL

• Summary, research questions/discussion topics/keywords specific to the event

• List of invited speakers and panelists (confirmed and expected)

• Proposed format and schedule

• Plans to encourage participation

• Special requirements and resources

• Commitment of organizers participation in CoRL 2025 in person

• Acknowledgement to attend the CoRL workshop organizers meeting

• Any additional information relevant to the workshop's format

A template of the workshop proposals can be found here. Please submit your proposal through this Google Form: https://forms.gle/dchYotRQzPnjs9uQ9 

Workshop Schedule

Workshop start time 9:30 am

Coffee break 10:30 am - 11:00 am

Lunch break 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm

Coffee break 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm

Workshop end time 4:30 pm

Contact

For any inquiries, please contact the CoRL 2025 workshop chairs, Youngwoon Lee (youngwoon@yonsei.ac.kr) and Lerrel Pinto (lerrel@cs.nyu.edu).