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Can robots undo what they just did?

Yigit Yildirim, Giuseppe Rauso, Riccardo Caccavale, Alberto Finzi

June 3, 2026

Reversing a robot's actions isn't just rewinding—physics gets in the way. This work combines symbolic planning (like STRIPS operators extracted from demos) with residual reinforcement learning to undo manipulation tasks. A planner first sketches the inverse moves; when that fails to fully restore object state, RL refines the outcome. On pushing tasks, symbolic picks place the cube roughly; RL fine-tunes pose precision to satisfy remaining constraints.
Published as Inverse Manipulation through Symbolic Planning and Residual Operator Learning arXiv:2606.05248
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