RoboWorld Challenge 2026 opens: embodied world modeling across three tracks
liuziwei7 · x · 2026-10-08
RoboWorld Challenge 2026, affiliated with the RoboPAD workshop at NeurIPS 2026, is now open for registration. It targets embodied world modeling for robotics and autonomous driving, inviting world models, VLA agents, and embodied policies. Deadline: November 30, 2026; top 5 teams per track receive awards.
Tracks:
- WorldNav: open-loop language-conditioned navigation from a single initial RGB observation.
- HA-VLN 2.0: closed-loop RGB-D human-aware social navigation among dynamic crowds.
- SafeDrive-VLA: language-guided autonomous driving handling instruction-scene conflicts.
Evaluation combines offline trajectory metrics and closed-loop simulation with per-track datasets, metrics, and baselines.
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