Hosts: Junfan Zhu, Aurora Feng
discord.gg/WH7DrTHRXK
🤖🥘 Saturday Robotics x SpatialVerse by Manycore Tech CVPR 2026 Denver Happy Hour | Robotics & World Models Reading Club Special Session
🤖🥘 Saturday Robotics x SpatialVerse by Manycore Tech CVPR 2026 Denver Happy Hour | Robotics & World Models Reading Club Special Session
Date: June 6, 2026 (Saturday)
Time: 5:30PM — 9:30PM (tentative)
Location: Denver (CVPR venue area — TBD)
Organized by: Saturday Robotics & World Models Reading Club X SpatialVerse by Manycore Tech (@saturdayrobotic, @junfanzhu98, @aurorafeng_01)
Since CVPR 2026 is taking place in Denver, our regular San Francisco Saturday Robotics & World Models Reading Club session on June 6 will be paused and upgraded into a special CVPR Denver gathering.
This will keep the same high-signal, deep-discussion format that defines our weekly Saturday sessions: technical sharing, sharp questions, open discussion, and real exchange between people actively working on robotics, world models, embodied AI, computer vision, and physical intelligence.
This special session is co-hosted with SpatialVerse by Manycore Tech. At the forefront of spatial intelligence with a focus on deepening our collective physical-world understanding. They collaborate across the ecosystem, from world models and synthetic 3D environments to embodied AI and robotics.
We'd love to hear your hot takes on:
"what's still a bottlenecks around embodied AI systems? more by model architecture, embodied data, physical grounding, or evaluation?"
We welcome CVPR attendees, researchers, engineers, founders, and builders working on relevant frontier topics, including but not limited to:
Robotics world models and action-conditioned prediction
JEPA / V-JEPA-style predictive representation learning
Vision-language-action models, world-action models, and robot foundation models
Human egocentric video, UMI-style data, teleoperation, and robot-collected interaction data
Multimodal world models across vision, tactile, proprioception, language, and action
Cross-embodiment transfer, long-horizon planning, and embodied generalization
Physical grounding, spatial understanding, simulation, and evaluation for robot learning
Video generation / video world models for robotics
CVPR 2026 robotics, embodied AI, world-model, and 3D vision papers
And most importantly, your hot 🔥 takes
Schedule (tentative)
5:30 to 6:15 PM
Doors open, dinner, drinks, strawberries, and networking. 🥘🍾🍓
6:15 to 6:30 PM
Opening remarks from Saturday Robotics and SpatialVerse by Manycore Tech.
6:30 to 7:15 PM
Keynote / lightning talks from CVPR authors or domain experts.
7:15 to 8:15 PM
Open technical Q&A and roundtable discussion.
8:15 to 9:30 PM
Free-form discussion, curated introductions, and open mingling.
Registration
This event is intended for relevant researchers, PhD students, postdocs, faculty, senior engineers, technical founders, and builders working in AI, robotics, computer vision, reinforcement learning, world models, 3D vision, simulation, or embodied intelligence.
When you RSVP, please briefly note your affiliation and research focus. We review applications to keep the room high-signal, relevant, and productive.
Previous Saturday Robotics Reading Club sessions have hosted researchers and builders from teams including Boston Dynamics, Google DeepMind, NVIDIA, Stanford, UC Berkeley, Rhoda AI, Meta FAIR, Generalist, Dyna Robotics, and leading Bay Area robotics startups. The weekly discussions have also generated in-depth public technical writeups and community posts that have drawn attention from researchers across the field, including engagement from Yann LeCun.
This Denver edition continues that tradition during CVPR week: a solid offline gathering for robotics, world-model, and embodied AI people who want to go deeper than the usual conference hallway conversation.
Whether you are building physical robots, training world models, studying embodied generalization, or debating what actually helps machines understand and act in the physical world, this is the room you want to be in at CVPR.
See you in Denver! 🤖🍓📚
Join Discord Community
https://discord.gg/WH7DrTHRXK
Follow Saturday Robotics
https://x.com/saturdayrobotic
https://www.linkedin.com/company/saturdayrobotic/
Follow Our YouTube Channel
Hosts: Junfan Zhu, Aurora Feng
discord.gg/WH7DrTHRXK