Call for Papers Now Open · Submission Deadline: August 29, 2026 (AoE)

NeurIPS 2026 Workshop

RoboPAD: Post-Training Adaptation of Robot Foundation Models

Adaptation, reasoning, and evaluation for robot foundation models after pretraining.

Dec 12–13, 2026 Paris, France
RoboPAD workshop teaser: post-training adaptation pipeline for robot foundation models

About the Workshop

Pretrained robot foundation models are increasingly capable, yet real-world deployment still requires adaptation to new environments, embodiments, tasks, and failures. RoboPAD focuses on post-training: how to adapt, correct, evaluate, and safely improve these models after pretraining.

We bring together researchers in robot learning, reinforcement learning, foundation models, world models, and embodied AI to consolidate post-training as a shared research agenda.

Topics

Human Feedback / Intervention Policy Optimization / Specialization World Model / Simulation Reasoning & Memory Cross-Embodiment Adaptation Evaluation & Safety

Call for Papers

We welcome work in progress, papers under review, recently published work, benchmarks, and position papers on the topics above.

Important Dates

Submission

Aug 29, 2026

Anywhere on Earth (AoE)

Notification

Sep 29, 2026

Anywhere on Earth (AoE)

Workshop

Dec 12–13, 2026

Paris, France

Submission Guidelines

Format

4 pages, NeurIPS 2026 workshop template; unlimited references and appendix

Review

Double-blind review via OpenReview

Status

Non-archival; poster or oral presentation

OpenReview Portal Coming Soon

Invited Speakers

Coming Soon

Speaker lineup will be announced soon.

Program

Coming Soon

Detailed schedule will be released later.

Organizers

Shijie Li

Shijie Li

A*STAR

Shizhe Chen

Shizhe Chen

Inria Paris

Ziwei Wang

Ziwei Wang

NTU

Jiafei Duan

Jiafei Duan

University of Washington

Sihao Lin

Sihao Lin

Adelaide University

Changliu Liu

Changliu Liu

Carnegie Mellon University

Gerhard Neumann

Gerhard Neumann

KIT

Contact

For inquiries about the workshop, reach out via email:

Li_Shijie@a-star.edu.sg