$20k travel grants offered for first CoRL workshop on physical AI safety
chooi_jeq · x · 2026-09-19
Organizers are offering $20k in travel grants for the first CoRL Workshop on the Science of Physical AI Safety, aiming to get more researchers to take safety and alignment of general-purpose robots seriously. Context in the thread: on the ammonia-and-bleach task, no model refused; Astra completed 50%, Fable 20%, MolmoAct2 0%.
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