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.
Overview
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.
Program
Schedule
Full schedule available soon
Call for submissions
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
- Aug 5, 2026 Submissions open
- Sep 5, 2026 Submission deadline
- Sep 25, 2026 Acceptance notification
- Oct 15, 2026 Award notification
- 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.
Awards
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
Team
Organizers
Wufei Ma
Johns Hopkins University
Haoyu Chen
Harvard University
Hunar Batra
University of Oxford
Tommie Kerssies
TU Eindhoven
Ju He
Apple
Yu-Cheng Chou
Johns Hopkins University
Tiezheng Zhang
Johns Hopkins University
Adam Kortylewski
CISPA Helmholtz Center
Yilun Du
Harvard University
Alan Yuille
Johns Hopkins University