GigaBrain Challenge 2026

CVPR 2026 Workshop Competition

June 3rd, 13:00-18:00
Colorado Convention Center Room 506

Workshop Schedule

1:00pm-1:30pm Workshop overview
1:30pm-2:10pm RoboTwin Track
2:10pm-3:00pm GigaWorld Track
3:00pm-3:20pm Coffee Break
3:20pm-4:00pm RoboChallenge Track
4:00pm-4:40pm PhysClaw* Track
4:40pm-5:20pm Best Paper Award
5:20pm-6:00pm QA + Closing + Networking

About the Workshop

The GigaBrain Challenge 2026 aims to push the boundaries of embodied intelligence. The workshop features four competition tracks focused on simulation, world models, real-world robot evaluation, and creative agentic demos for embodied AI, along with a Best Paper session showcasing outstanding research contributions. Beyond the formal program, participants will also have the opportunity to hear firsthand know-how sharing from organizers, competition winners, and researchers on key topics such as world models, VLA, embodied foundation model evaluation, simulation, and agentic systems for embodied intelligence. If you would like to connect with the embodied AI community and gain practical insights into where the field is heading, we would love to see you there in person.

Note:

The competition will conclude by May 15, 2026. No onsite competition will be held at CVPR; the workshop session will focus on awards ceremonies and presentations by winning teams.

Competition Tracks

Final rankings for all four tracks. Congratulations to the winning teams!

Track 1

RoboTwin Track

Evaluate VLA performance in simulation environments.

Competition Results

Champion
Champion
Team: zzl

Yixian Zou, Ningyue Zhang, Shangwei Li, Zhengning Wang

University of Electronic Science and Technology of China

1st Runner-Up
1st Runner-Up
Team: yc

Yuanchang Liang, Xiaobo Wang, Shengtao Zheng, Chenxu Zhao, Ping Jiang, Minghui Wu

National University of Singapore, Shenzhen University of Advanced Technology, Sangfor Technologies Inc., Tsinghua University, Mininglamp Technology

Track 2

World Model Track

Evaluate the performance of World Models acting as VLA evaluators.

Competition Results

Champion
Champion
Team: xuwu

Zhenyu Wu, Xiuwei Xu, Ziwei Wang, Jiwen Lu

Tsinghua University

1st Runner-Up
1st Runner-Up
Team: ABot-PhysWorld

Peng Zhang, Jiangyang Li, Lingjun Zhang, Changjie Wu, Xu Wang, Linzhe Shi, Hang Zhang

AMAP CV Lab

Third Place
Third Place
Team: Agent

Zhengwei Hu, Hao Ke, Zhaoyang Liu, Jiahua Wang, Yang Zhong, Yuhao Yang, Xuelin Tian

Xiaomi EV

Track 3

RoboChallenge Track

Evaluate VLA performance on real-world robots.

Competition Results

Champion
Champion
Team: Tymtbo

Lixin Huang, Kun Yu, Zhengming Zhou, Bowen Fu, Zhiying Du, Wenguo Hou, Xin Zhao, Diyun Xiang, Rui Cai

1st Runner-Up
1st Runner-Up
Team: JIIOV

Zhi Lv, Lianghai Tian, Zhenyu Zhao, Riqiang Jin, Qi Xu, Mochen Yu, Yao Tang

Third Place
Third Place
Team: mcBrains (MotuBrainWoW1)

Rongxu Cui, Jian Wang

Demo Track

PhysClaw* Track

Collect creative ways to use OpenClaw on embodied agents.

Competition Results

Champion
Champion
Team: ActiveClaw

Shilin Ma, Chubin Zhang, Xulong Bai, Zifeng Gao, Shiyi Zhang, Yansong Tang

Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School, Tsinghua University

1st Runner-Up
1st Runner-Up
Team: OpenClaw CardioHarness

Zhipeng Jiang, Xinyu Zhang, Hanzhang Fang, Jing Huang, Ying Zhou

New Jersey Institute of Technology; Indiana University -- Bloomington; New Jersey Institute of Technology; New Jersey Institute of Technology; Georgia Institute of Technology

Third Place
Third Place
Team: feedbot

Weijie Ke, Shuo Wang, Ying Wang, Pei Zhang, Haofeng Yu, Bingshan Hu

University of Shanghai for Science and Technology

Paper Submissions

Call for Papers

We welcome submissions related to VLA, embodied foundation models, world models, and reinforcement learning. Accepted papers will be presented in the workshop and selected works will be assigned poster boards. We will select a Best Paper Award.

OpenReview Submission

Submission Deadline

Deadline
Mar 20, 2026
Timezone: AoE (UTC-12)
Please plan to submit before the deadline. The submission portal will be provided via OpenReview.

Important Dates

Mid-March

Competition Kickoff

Track 1 (Simulation) and Track 2 (World Model) begin.

Mar 10

Paper Submission Opens

OpenReview submission portal opens ( OpenReview ).

Mar 20

Paper Submission Deadline

Deadline for paper submissions (timezone: AoE, UTC-12).

Mid-April

Phase 1 Conclusion & Phase 2 Start

Track 1 & 2 conclude. Track 3 (Real Robot) begins with invited teams.

May 15

Competition Ends

All tracks conclude. Final rankings determined.

June 3-7

CVPR 2026 Workshop

Awards ceremony and presentations by winning teams in Denver, USA.

Organizers

Zheng Zhu

Zheng Zhu

GigaAI

Xiaofeng Wang

Xiaofeng Wang

GigaAI

Hongyang Li

Hongyang Li

University of Hong Kong

Shanghang Zhang

Shanghang Zhang

Peking University

Yao Mu

Yao Mu

Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Haoqiang Fan

Haoqiang Fan

RoboChallenge, Dexmal

Zhizhong Su

Zhizhong Su

Horizon Robotics

媒体合作伙伴 (Media Partner)

Media Partner

算力赞助商 (Computational Sponsor)

Computational FREEDOM

Computational FREEDOM

技术合作伙伴 (Technical Partner)

AGIBOT 智元