IROS 2026 Competition
WorldArena Challenge 2.0 evaluates embodied world models across video quality, interactive RL utility, and real-world manipulation.
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The WorldArena Challenge 2.0 competition and submission window opens.
The first scheduled leaderboard update.
The second scheduled leaderboard update.
Final date for teams to submit their competition entries.
The final competition results and rankings are announced.
Awards are presented during the IROS 2026 workshop program.
WorldArena Challenge 2.0 is built around the next-generation WorldArena 2.0 benchmark for embodied world models. The benchmark extends the original WorldArena along three coordinated axes: modality, functionality, and platform.
WorldArena 2.0 introduces visuo-tactile evaluation, evaluates world models as online reinforcement learning environments, and expands evaluation from simulator-only settings toward simulated and real robotic platforms.
Following this benchmark direction, the challenge is organized into three competition tracks:
Evaluate embodied world model video generation across visual quality, motion quality, content consistency, physics adherence, 3D accuracy, and controllability.
The 2.0 version keeps the 1.0 evaluation direction while increasing task difficulty and introducing OOD scenes.
Evaluate world models as online, interactive RL environments that can support policy rollouts, reward-driven optimization, and iterative policy improvement.
This track follows the functionality extension described in the WorldArena 2.0 paper.
Evaluate real-world WAM manipulation under two settings: tactile WAM and vision-only WAM.
This track focuses on real-world manipulation behavior, interface compatibility, and deployment-facing evaluation.
Submission limit: Each team may submit at most twice per day. If a team submits more than twice on the same day, the latest two submissions of that day will be used for evaluation.
Awards are given separately for all three challenge tracks. Each track includes first, second, and third prizes.
Track 1
Track 2
Track 3
Official contact email: worldarenav2@outlook.com