We invite workshop paper submissions on ideas and experimental evaluations related to open-world navigation (OWN). Accepted papers will be released on the workshop website (as non-archival publications) after the conclusion of the workshop. Papers may be based on new and unpublished work, or may be an abstract based on prior publications. To encourage more sharing about failure modes and limitations of existing approaches, paper submissions must be accompanied by a short 30-40 second video highlighting and analyzing the limitations of the work. Please refer to the Call for Videos for guidelines and suggestions about the video format.

Topics of Interest

We invite contributions in areas including, but not limited to the following navigation-related topics:

  • Generalizing Navigation to the Open World
    • Generalizable perception/semantic understanding
    • Generalizable control/motion generation
    • Generalizable decision-making/reasoning/planning
    • Generalizable, multimodal task specification
    • World models for navigation
    • End-to-end approaches for navigation
  • Current Limitations of Navigation in the Open World
    • Failure modes of navigation systems
    • Failure modes of learned/foundation models
  • Handling Failures
    • Uncertainty estimation for learned/foundation models
    • Out-of-distribution detection for learned/foundation models
    • Failure detection in navigation
    • Robustness to failures and failure handling approaches
  • Datasets/Benchmarks
    • Large-scale datasets for OWN
    • Benchmarks for OWN

Submission Instructions and Important Dates:

Submissions should be 2-4 pages (not including references), following the RSS format. It should be accompanied by a 30-40 second MP4 video highlighting and analyzing the limitations of the work, or a failure mode of the presented system. The submission and review process will proceed through OpenReview. We encourage authors to include supplementary material (in the form of additional videos, code, or data) in a zip file or through external links.

Important Dates (All deadlines are AoE):

  • Submissions open: 13th May 2026
  • Paper/video submission deadline: 14th June 2026
  • Notification of acceptance: 26th June 2026
  • Camera-ready submission: 3rd July 2026
  • Workshop date: 17th July 2026 (AM)