ESR · NeurIPS 2026

NeurIPS 2026 · Full-Day Workshop

The 2nd Workshop on Embodied Spatial Reasoning

From generative and discriminative modeling to agents that truly understand and interact in 3D space, bridging embodied AI, spatial reasoning, and world modeling.

Date TBA Sydney Paper & demo tracks

About the workshop

Embodied spatial reasoning is the ability to interpret the positions, orientations, physical properties, and temporal dynamics of an agent and its surrounding objects in 3D space: a foundation for spatial understanding, reasoning, and generation in modern embodied AI and world modeling.

Yet work on this topic remains fragmented. Embodied agents derive spatial reasoning from multimodal alignment, while world models extract priors from video, with no shared interface for spatial, physical, and temporal modeling. This workshop brings together researchers across embodied AI, spatial reasoning, and world modeling to tackle object permanence, spatial memory, physical consistency, and long-horizon temporal coherence.

By bridging these communities, we aim to advance agents and video world models that maintain object permanence and spatial memory while preserving physical and temporal consistency in 3D space.

Schedule

Full schedule available soon

Paper and demo submission

The paper track welcomes long and short submissions on spatial understanding, reasoning, and generation for embodied agents and world models: new methods, benchmarks, analyses, and position papers. We uphold high standards of review, with impartial and constructive feedback for every submission.

The demo track is a dedicated venue for novel, interactive, and visionary systems. Where the paper track emphasizes rigorous evaluation, the demo track focuses on active embodied agents and physically-grounded world models: systems you can watch behave in the real world. It shares the same reviewing process and the same deadlines as the paper track.

Submission timeline

  1. Aug 5, 2026 Submissions open
  2. Sep 5, 2026 Submission deadline
  3. Sep 25, 2026 Acceptance notification
  4. Oct 15, 2026 Award notification
  5. Oct 25, 2026 Camera-ready

All deadlines are 23:59 Anywhere on Earth (AoE).

Submit

Topics, format, and full submission guidelines: see the Call for Papers ↗ and Call for Demos ↗ pages.

Paper & demo awards

  • Paper track One Best Paper Award and two Runner-Up Awards.
  • Demo track One Best Demo Award and two Runner-Up Awards.

More details coming soon