April 28th, 2026 
Daniela Lopez de Luise UNOFFICIAL
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!
This is a reminder for 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
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:
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World Models for Action and Evaluation
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Resurgence of Classic Methods (e.g. Reinforcement Learning)
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Long-Horizon Embodied Artificial Intelligence.
We are hosting 3 Embodied AI Challenges within this year's workshop:
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ARNOLD (Language Grounded Manipulation)
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ManiSkill-ViTac (Vision-Tactile Fusion Bimanual Manipulation)
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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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Workshop
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Submission deadline – May 15th 2026.
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Decision date – May 27th 2026.
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Camera-ready submissions – June 1st.
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Workshop Date – June 4th
Challenges
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ManipArena preliminary round ends – April 30th
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ManiSkill-ViTac full dataset and baseline released – May 1st
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ManipArena semi-finals begin – May 6th
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ManipArena competition ends – May 27th
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ARNOLD submission date – May 31st
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ManiSkill winners announced – June 1st
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/
ManipArena 2026 Challenge Website: https://maniparena.x2robot.com/
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
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Logical Robotics
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NVIDIA
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Adobe
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MIT
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RAI
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Microsoft
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Stanford
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