Robot World Models

RSS 2026 Workshop

Friday, July 17, 2026

📍 CB11.00.405 · University of Technology Sydney (UTS)
Building 11, Level 0, Room 405 — 15 Broadway, Ultimo NSW 2007

🇦🇺 Sydney, Australia 🇦🇺

Schedule

Invited Talk, Panel Discussion, Contributed Talks, Poster Session, Other.

Time Speaker/Moderator Title
08:30 - 08:40 Organizers Introduction
08:40 - 09:05 Laura Smith (Physical Intelligence) Steering VLAs with Imagined Goals
09:05 - 09:30 Li Chen (OpenDriveLab & Archon) Improving Embodied Policy with Compositional World Model
09:30 - 09:55 Max Li (NVIDIA) Cosmos 3: An OmniModel of Text, Video, and Action for Physical AI
09:55 - 10:10 Spotlight Presentations
10:10 - 10:50 Coffee break & Poster Session
10:50 - 11:15 Sherry Yang (Google DeepMind & NYU) Evaluating and Improving Physical Agents in a World Model
11:15 - 11:40 Danfei Xu (Georgia Tech & NVIDIA) Compositional World Models
11:40 - 12:25 Panelists Panel Discussion
12:25 - 12:30 Organizers Paper Awards

For questions / comments, reach out to: nematoli@cs.uni-freiburg.de

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