IROS 2026: Physical World Models for Scaling Embodied AI

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1 October 2026 · Pittsburgh, USA

Dandan Zhang co-organised the IROS workshop on Physical World Models for Scaling Embodied AI. The workshop explored how physical experience can support robot learning, simulation, synthetic data and action-oriented world models.

Its programme combined invited talks, research presentations, posters and the WorldArena 2.0 Challenge. Topics included learning from human and robot demonstrations, visuo-tactile information, predictive planning and evaluation of embodied systems.

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