Overview

Workshop Details

Welcome to the IROS 2025 RoboGen Workshop on World Understanding and Generation!

RoboGen focuses on 2 aspects: multimodal world understanding and generation, because we believe these two problems are tightly bound, only if understanding is done right, then the generation is reasonable. Recent advances in 3D Vision (NeRF, Gaussian Splatting) and multimodal foundation models (LLM, VLM, diffusion and flow-based model) are transforming robotics by enabling the creation of high quality data for training, testing, and validation. Despite impressive capabilities of learning-based robotics in embodied AI, autonomous driving, unmanned aerial navigation, progress in generalizable systems remains constrained by the fundamental challenge of data acquisition.

Building towards AGI, RoboGen brings together researchers and industry experts to address this data bottleneck for scaling law. The goal is to develop innovative approaches that leverage recent advances in world generation and understanding methods to . Our workshop emphasizes practical applications and solutions to long-tail data problems in challenging robotics scenarios, with the goal of empowering deep learning systems for real-world deployment.

The RoboGen workshop aims to advance world generation for robotics with four key objectives:

1. (1) Understanding: advance multimodal world understanding and spatial-temporal reasoning through vision-language models,
2. (2) Representation: explore video diffusion and flow-based models conditioned on sensor geometry cues for physical world representation,
3. (3) Action: democratize access to high-quality synthetic data generation to train robust vision-language-action models.
4. (4) Scaling: enable practical deployment of generalizable robot learning systems overcoming the data scaling law bottleneck.

Workshop Features

The workshop will feature the following events and activities to encourage discussion and participation. We are looking for industry partners to showcase their products and services. If you are interested in sponsoring the workshop, please contact us at robogen-iros@googlegroups.com.

• Industry-Academia Keynote Sessions

  Leading researchers and practitioners from both academia and industry will present cutting-edge advancements in multimodal foundation models and world generation methods for robotics applications.

• Oral Presentations

  Selected paper presentations highlighting impactful approaches to data generation, artifact mitigation, and domain-specific applications of neural rendering and generative models for robotics.

• Interactive Poster & Demo Session

  A dedicated session where student researchers can demonstrate their methods and techniques, fostering discussions and collaborations. This will provide an opportunity for junior researchers to directly interact with senior researchers.

• Expert Panel Discussion

  A focused discussion on bridging the gap between theoretical advancements in world generation and practical robotics applications.

• Award Ceremony

  Awards will be presented in multiple categories including Best Paper, Best Poster, Most Impactful Open-Source Project, and Most Engaging Speaker to encourage participation and recognize outstanding contributions.

Keynote Speaker: Siyuan Huang

Rising Star Speaker: Yifei Shao

Rising Star Speaker: Pou-Chun Kung

Keynote Speaker: Yue Wang

Best Keynote Winner: Shenlong Wang

Keynote Speaker: Chenfei Wu

Keynote Speaker: Zhijian Liu

Keynote Speaker: Ruigang Yang

Keynote Speaker: Peter KT Yu

Panel: Building Toward Embodied AGI - Solving the Data Bottleneck

Workshop Photo Highlights

📚 Topics

Topics of this workshop include but are not limited to:

• Vision-language conditioned image/video generation
• Embodied robot training through exploration in interactive synthetic environments
• Multimodal world understanding with spatial-temporal reasoning
• Long-horizon AV/robotics video reasoning using chain-of-thought and reinforcement learning
• Post-training multimodal LLMs to reason about the physical world
• Inference-time scaling of general-purpose world models for cost-effective robot deployment
• Simultaneous sensor and traffic simulation for novel environment adaptation in robotics
• Multi-modal sensing integration (radar, lidar) with diffusion-based generative world models
• 4D dynamic scene composition with NeRF and 3D Gaussian Splatting using cost-effective multi-modal sensors
• Robust perception in adverse environments (low-light, long-range, sparse view) using neural rendering
• Robot simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) with neural or Gaussian scene representation

📅 Important Dates

Event	Date
Submission open	June 1st, 2025, 11:59 PM AOE
Submission due	September 1st, 2025, 11:59 PM AOE September 20th, 2025, 11:59 PM AOE Submission Extended!
Notification to authors	September 27th, 2025, 11:59 PM AOE
Camera Ready	October 1st, 2025, 11:59 PM AOE
Workshop Date	Oct 24th, 2025

📝 Submission Format

Authors may submit either (1) extended abstracts (2–4 pages) , which is suitable for preliminary work-in-progress or already-published results; (2) full papers (6–8 pages) that present original, detailed research contributions (methodology, experiments, and analysis).

Formatting Requirements:
All submissions must follow the IROS/IEEE double column format with page limits that include references, appendices, and any additional material. Papers should be submitted as a single PDF file (up to 6MB). Official formatting templates are available here.

Submission Portal:
RoboGen @ OpenReview

To recognize and encourage outstanding contributions, RoboGen will present awards in the following categories. All awards will be selected by the organizing committee:

•     • Best Paper: Three best paper candidates will be invited for oral spotlight presentations, with one selected as the winner
•     • Best Poster: Selected from all accepted papers presented in the poster session
•     • Best Open-Source: Open to novel datasets, projects or already published open-source works of great impact in the field
•     • Best Speaker: Awarded to the most engaging speaker across all presentations

Additional Information:
    • All submissions will be peer-reviewed
    • Optional supplementary materials (videos, images, code) may be submitted as a separate ZIP file
    • Accepted papers and abstracts will be made publicly available on this website
    • Authors will present their work in either oral or poster sessions

Papers

Accepted Papers

We are excited to present the following accepted papers for the RoboGen workshop. The papers marked with ⭐ will be presented in the oral sessions. All accepted papers will be presented in the poster sessions.

Speakers

Invited Speakers

Oral Presentations

Best Paper Oral Speakers

Program

Workshop Schedule (Tentative)

All invited talks, oral presentations and the panel discussion will take place in-person at IROS in Hangzhou, China with support for remote participation.

Organizers

Workshop Organizers

Keynote Speaker: Siyuan Huang

Rising Star Speaker: Yifei Shao

Rising Star Speaker: Pou-Chun Kung

Keynote Speaker: Yue Wang

Best Keynote Winner: Shenlong Wang

Keynote Speaker: Chenfei Wu

Keynote Speaker: Zhijian Liu

Keynote Speaker: Ruigang Yang

Keynote Speaker: Peter KT Yu

Panel: Building Toward Embodied AGI - Solving the Data Bottleneck

Workshop Photo Highlights