Annual Embodied AI Workshop Call for Papers

 Call for Papers - 7th Annual Embodied AI Workshop  - CVPR2026
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The Embodied AI Workshop is proud to announce its 7th iteration at the
2026 Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2026)
in Denver Colorado!

We are now opening our call for papers, accepting works covering the
wide spectrum of embodied AI research. Submit here:
https://openreview.net/group?id=thecvf.com/CVPR/2026/Workshop/EAI
https://openreview.net/group?id=thecvf.com/CVPR/2026/Workshop/EAI

Accepted papers and winners in any of our 3 hosted embodied AI
challenges will get opportunities to have their work highlighted
during the workshop.

Details of the workshop and associated challenges, including current
known dates and important links are outlined below.

Workshop Overview
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The Embodied AI Workshop is proud to announce its seventh year at CVPR
hosting amazing speakers, debates, embodied AI challenge
presentations, and half a dozen participating organizations.

This year we will be exploring the theme of World Models for Embodied
AI with subthemes including:

    World Models for Action and Evaluation
    Resurgence of Classic Methods (e.g. Reinforcement Learning)
    Long-Horizon Embodied Artificial Intelligence.


We are hosting 3 Embodied AI Challenges within this year's workshop:

    ARNOLD (Language Grounded Manipulation)
    ManiSkill-ViTac (Vision-Tactile Fusion Bimanual Manipulation)
    ManipArena (Desktop and Mobile Manipulation)


Call for Papers
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Submission page - 
https://openreview.net/group?id=thecvf.com/CVPR/2026/Workshop/EAI
Paper format - 2 page extended abstract
Submission style - non-archival, single blind
Submission date - May 15th 2026
Follow-up format - poster with chance of oral presentation within the workshop

We invite high-quality 2-page extended abstracts on embodied AI,
especially in areas relevant to the themes of this year's workshop:

    World Models for Action and Evaluation
    Classical Methods for Embodied AI
    Long-Horizon Embodied Intelligence

as well as themes related to embodied AI in general:

    Visual Navigation
    Embodied Mobile Manipulation
    Embodied Question Answering
    Embodied AI Foundation Models
    Embodied Vision & Language
    Language Model Planning
    Advances in Simulation for Embodied AI

We accept submissions of novel works, works that are under review, and
accepted CVPR works.

Accepted papers and winning challenges will be invited to present
their work at the Embodied AI Workshop at CVPR2026 as posters with
selected papers providing spotlight talks

Important Dates
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    Submission deadline - May 15th 2026.
    Decision date -  May 27th 2026.
    Camera-ready submissions - June 1st.
    Workshop Date - June 3rd or 4th (TBA)


Important Links
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Embodied AI Workshop Website: 
https://embodied-ai.org/cvpr2026/
EAI7 Paper Submissions: 
https://openreview.net/group?id=thecvf.com/CVPR/2026/Workshop/EAI
ARNOLD 2026 Challenge Website: 
https://sites.google.com/view/arnoldchallenge/
ManiSkill-ViTac 2026 Challenge Website: 
https://callmeray.github.io/Mani_ViTac_Challenge_2026_page/
https://callmeray.github.io/Mani_ViTac_Challenge_2026_page/
ManipArena 2026 Challenge Website: (TBA)

Contact Us
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Slack Channel: https://join.slack.com/t/embodied-aiworkshop/shared_invite/zt-3rc6rc31x-IrSr~XIa0bt~OmKQbMcGZw
General contact e-mail: embodied-ai-workshop@googlegroups.com

Extra Links
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Embodied AI Retrospective Paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2210.06849
Embodied AI Medium Blog: https://medium.com/embodied-artificial-intelligence
Embodied AI YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoMZfljfYHVWr1BCoQ9AGzA

Supporting Organizations
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    Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization 
    Logical Robotics
    NVIDIA
    Adobe
    MIT
    RAI
    Microsoft
    Stanford