USC @ RSS 2026 (Midjourney)
USC researchers will present three papers at the 2026 Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) conference, with research spanning robotic foundation models, humanoid loco-manipulation, robotic reward models and robot manipulation learning.
Held July 13–17 in Sydney, Australia, RSS 2026 is one of the world’s largest robotics conferences, bringing together researchers from academia and industry to share the latest advances in robotics through peer-reviewed papers, workshops, tutorials and technical presentations.
Faculty and students from the USC Viterbi School of Engineering‘s Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science and the Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and USC Mark and Mary Stevens School of Computing and AI, will represent the university throughout the conference.
In addition to presenting research papers, USC researchers are contributing as workshop organizers, invited speakers and area chairs, reflecting the university’s continued leadership across the robotics community.
