I am co-organizing the Do Robots Need World Models? Workshop at CoRL in Austin, TX, USA 🇺🇸

I am co-organizing a Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL) 2026 workshop! The workshop is Do Robots Need World Models? A Debate on Dynamics Learning, Planning, and End-to-End Robot Learning. This workshop aims to foster spirited debates around whether (and in what form) future robots require world models to interact with the environment.

This workshop was the brainchild of Alberta Longhini, Wenlong Huang, Bardienus Duisterhof, and Lasse Peters. Additional organization support was provided by Siddharth Patki, Jeffrey Ichnowski, and Fei-Fei Li.