CoRL 2026 to host 'Do Robots Need World Models?' debate workshop in Austin
YunzhuLiYZ · x · 2026-11-09
A half-day CoRL 2026 workshop (Nov 12, 8:30–12:30, JW Marriott Austin, Brazos room) will stage a structured debate on whether robots need world models: explicit predictive structure for planning, counterfactual reasoning, data efficiency and safety vs. absorbing it implicitly into end-to-end imitation/diffusion/VLA policies. The call for papers is open on OpenReview; the goal is concrete design principles for choosing among explicit world models, implicit predictive policies, and hybrid systems.
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