Call for Papers

Submit your work on zero-shot Physical AI, foundation models for robotics, and embodied generalization.


Topics

We welcome non-archival contributed papers on topics including. Submissions consisting solely of previously published conference papers are discouraged without substantial new discussion or insight.

  • Zero-shot, few-shot, and continual adaptation for robot learning
  • Vision-language-action models and generalist robot policies
  • World models and generative simulators
  • Cross-embodiment and cross-environment generalization
  • Large-scale robot data, simulation, and data curation
  • Evaluation protocols and benchmarks for zero-shot Physical AI
  • Safety, uncertainty, and failure analysis in deployed robots
  • Real-world deployment studies and negative results


Important Dates

  • Submission Deadline: August 26, 2026 (11:59 PM AoE)
  • Decisions Announced: September 29, 2026
  • Workshop Day: TBD 11/12th December @ NeurIPS 2026, Sydney


Submission Details

Up to 6 pages in NeurIPS format. Submit through OpenReview.

Accepted papers will be presented during poster sessions, with exceptional submissions selected for spotlight oral presentations.

All accepted papers will be made publicly available as non-archival reports, allowing for future submissions to archival conferences or journals.


Questions

Contact us at wrl2026organizers@robot-learning.ml