IROS 2026 workshop sets Aug. 10 paper deadline for embodied world models and WorldArena 2.0
量子位 · wechat · 2026-07-21
A workshop on physical world models for embodied AI will be held at IROS 2026 in Pittsburgh, alongside the WorldArena 2.0 challenge.
Key details:
- Workshop date: Oct. 1, 2026, 13:00–17:30
- Paper deadline: Aug. 10, 2026
- Non-archival format: accepted papers will be posters, with some invited spotlights
- Challenge: three tracks, total prizes of $7,000, with submission deadline Aug. 30
The post argues that embodied AI is hitting a data wall: text, image, and video data are abundant, but robot learning needs action, feedback, and physical consequences. It outlines two research directions:
- build scalable embodied experience from human video, multi-robot data, sim2real, 3D/4D world modeling, and synthetic data
- turn world models into world action models for planning, tactile manipulation, long-horizon reasoning, and safer action selection
It also highlights benchmark results showing that better-looking predictions do not necessarily translate into better task success, especially on contact-rich manipulation tasks.
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