NVIDIA Launches V2D Challenge to Teach Robots From Video
YunzhuLiYZ · x · 2026-09-17
NVIDIA Robotics has launched the Video to Data (V2D) Challenge, aimed at turning existing human videos into robot skills.
- Three tracks: 4D Reconstruction, Robotic Grounding, and Egocentric Video-to-Policy.
- Prizes: winning solutions announced at CoRL 2026; evaluation at scale; top teams invited to integrate code into a maintained repository; contributors can co-author the challenge's technical report.
- Judges include Yunzhu Li, Hao Su, Louis Lian and Changliu Liu.
- Registration closes September 21, 2026.
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