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Reinforcement Learning in Robotics

Last updated July 7, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
Joon Sung Park
Stanford University
2
Sven Gronauer
Technical University of Munich
3
Yihan Hu
InternetLab
4
Zhuangdi Zhu
Michigan State University
5
Lukas Brunke
Technical University of Munich
6
Elia Kaufmann
University of Zurich
7
Jacky Liang
Charles Sturt University
8
Gabriel Dulac-Arnold
Google (United States)
9
Daya Guo
Sun Yat-sen University
10
Iuliu Alexandru Zamfirache
Polytechnic University of Timişoara

Rising Stars Papers

1
DeepSeek-R1 incentivizes reasoning in LLMs through reinforcement learning
Nature|2025
568 cit.
2
Adaptive reinforcement learning-based control using proximal policy optimization and slime mould algorithm with experimental tower crane system validation
Applied Soft Computing|2024
63 cit.
3
Learning to Learn Faster from Human Feedback with Language Model Predictive Control
Unknown Journal|2024
22 cit.
4
Safe reinforcement learning-based control using deep deterministic policy gradient algorithm and slime mould algorithm with experimental tower crane system validation
Information Sciences|2024
21 cit.
5
Semantically Safe Robot Manipulation: From Semantic Scene Understanding to Motion Safeguards
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters|2025
10 cit.
6
Practical Considerations for Discrete-Time Implementations of Continuous-Time Control Barrier Function-Based Safety Filters
Unknown Journal|2024
2 cit.
7
Vulnerable transmission section determination method based on improved agglomerative hierarchical clustering
Unknown Journal|2025
1 cit.
8
Chain-of-Modality: Learning Manipulation Programs from Multimodal Human Videos with Vision-Language-Models
Unknown Journal|2025
0 cit.
9
Preventing Inactive CBF Safety Filters Caused by Incorrect Relative Degree Assumptions
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control|2025
0 cit.
10
Web Intellectual Property at Risk: Preventing Unauthorized Real-Time Retrieval by Large Language Models
Unknown Journal|2025
0 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
Julian Schrittwieser
Google DeepMind (United Kingdom)
2
Thomas Hubert
Google DeepMind (United Kingdom)
3
David Meger
McGill University
4
Matthias Plappert
OpenAI (United States)
5
Audrūnas Gruslys
Google (United States)
6
Yankai Lin
Renmin University of China
7
Hongyang Li
Guilin Medical University
8
Amanda Prorok
University of Cambridge
9
Bilal Kartal
Dicle University
10
Andy Zeng
Google (United States)

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
Planning-oriented Autonomous Driving
Unknown Journal|2023
713 cit.
2
Code as Policies: Language Model Programs for Embodied Control
Unknown Journal|2023
569 cit.
3
End-to-End Autonomous Driving: Challenges and Frontiers
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence|2024
445 cit.
4
Delving Into the Devils of Bird’s-Eye-View Perception: A Review, Evaluation and Recipe
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence|2023
136 cit.
5
Scene as Occupancy
Unknown Journal|2023
97 cit.
6
Think Twice before Driving: Towards Scalable Decoders for End-to-End Autonomous Driving
Unknown Journal|2023
82 cit.
7
DriveAdapter: Breaking the Coupling Barrier of Perception and Planning in End-to-End Autonomous Driving
Unknown Journal|2023
51 cit.
8
A Framework for Real-World Multi-Robot Systems Running Decentralized GNN-Based Policies
2022 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)|2022
45 cit.
9
How to Prompt Your Robot: A PromptBook for Manipulation Skills with Code as Policies
Unknown Journal|2024
25 cit.
10
Online Control Barrier Functions for Decentralized Multi-Agent Navigation
Unknown Journal|2023
16 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Established & currently active

Current Senior Leaders Researchers

1
David Silver
Google (United Kingdom)
2
Demis Hassabis
Google DeepMind (United Kingdom)
3
Peter Dayan
University of Toronto
4
Andrew Moore
Carnegie Mellon University
5
Martin L. Puterman
University of British Columbia
6
Pieter Abbeel
OpenAI (United States)
7
Peter Stone
The University of Texas at Austin
8
Risto Miikkulainen
The University of Texas at Austin
9
Jan Peters
Technische Universität Darmstadt
10
Satinder Singh
Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research

Current Senior Leaders Papers

1
Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
Nature|2021
45.2k cit.
2
Human-level control through deep reinforcement learning
Nature|2015
30k cit.
3
Mastering the game of Go with deep neural networks and tree search
Nature|2016
15.8k cit.
4
Mastering the game of Go without human knowledge
Nature|2017
9.2k cit.
5
Q-learning
Machine Learning|1992
9k cit.
6
Reinforcement Learning: A Survey
Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research|1996
8.8k cit.
7
Markov Decision Processes: Discrete Stochastic Dynamic Programming.
Journal of the American Statistical Association|1995
8.5k cit.
8
Deep Reinforcement Learning with Double Q-Learning
Unknown Journal|2016
6k cit.
9
Technical Note: Q-Learning
Machine Learning|1992
3.7k cit.
10
A general reinforcement learning algorithm that masters chess, shogi, and Go through self-play
Science|2018
3.5k cit.

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