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R-WM 2026
Robot World Models
The R-WM 2026 workshop at RSS focuses on advancing robot world models—internal simulators that enable robots to anticipate the outcomes of their actions in unstructured environments. It brings together researchers to address challenges in action-conditioned modeling, perception-control integration, long-horizon planning, and evaluation beyond prediction accuracy, with an emphasis on generalization across tasks, environments, and robot embodiments.
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Contribution paths
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Abstracts from Previously Published Work
One-page abstracts summarizing work already published or accepted at other venues, including a link to the original publication and highlighting relevance to the workshop.
Research areas in scope
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Topics of Interest
How should actions and embodiment be represented in world models?Why do world models fail over long imagined horizons?How should perception, language, and control be integrated?What abstractions or hierarchies are needed for long-horizon planning?When does learning or planning inside a world model work in practice?How can world models generalize across tasks, environments, and robots?How should world models be evaluated beyond prediction accuracy?How can uncertainty in imagined rollouts be detected before deployment?
Policies worth checking twice
- Submissions must be made via OpenReview.
- 4-page submissions must be fully anonymized for double-blind review.
- Supplementary material should only contain minor details not fitting in the main paper.
- Papers with more than 4 pages of main content before references may be desk-rejected.
- Abstracts from previously published work must include a link to the original publication.
Official sources
Compiled from the official call for papers. The organizers’ pages remain authoritative.
Last verified September 9, 2026