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Back to EventsSaturday, September 26, 2026 · 2:00 – 5:00 PM PT

Robotics & World Models Reading Club 30

San Francisco, CA · venue shared after registration

Session 30 of the Saturday Robotics reading group for researchers working on robotic world models and embodied intelligence, with a keynote from Devol Robots on representation and architecture in manipulation and a second talk on Omni-Reason.

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Saturday, September 26, 2026 · 2:00 – 5:00 PM PT · registration is handled on Luma.
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Robotics & World Models Reading Club is a high-signal reading group for researchers working on robotic world models and embodied intelligence. Session 30 is hosted by Saturday Robotics, founded by Junfan Zhu and Aurora Feng, and runs as a Saturday afternoon of talks followed by an open roundtable.

The keynote comes from Elijah Yi Herng Ong, CTO of Devol Robots, on “What Scale Does Not Fix: Representation and Architecture in Robot Manipulation”. It covers the Interaction World Model (IWM 1.0) and Devol-ONE, and makes the case that the open problems in manipulation are questions of representation and architecture rather than questions of data volume.

The second talk is “Omni-Reason: A General Video Model That Could Solve 100 Computer Vision Tasks” from Hokin Deng, a research scientist at Harvard and CMU.

Registration for this session is full and Luma is taking waitlist sign-ups only. The event is in San Francisco; the organizers release the exact venue to confirmed attendees rather than publishing it, so the address arrives with your confirmation.

Overview

Highlights

  • Keynote: What Scale Does Not Fix — Representation and Architecture in Robot Manipulation, covering IWM 1.0 and Devol-ONE
  • Talk: Omni-Reason — A General Video Model That Could Solve 100 Computer Vision Tasks
  • Ninety minutes of Q&A and open-floor roundtable
Schedule

Agenda

  1. 2:00–2:30 · Doors open and social

    Arrive, settle in, and meet the other researchers in the room.

  2. 2:30–3:30 · Keynotes

    Devol Robots on representation and architecture in robot manipulation, followed by Omni-Reason on general video models for computer vision.

  3. 3:30–5:00 · Q&A and open-floor roundtable

    Questions to both speakers, then an open discussion across the room.

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Speakers

Practitioners presenting at this session.

Elijah Yi Herng Ong

CTO · Devol Robots

Hokin Deng

Research Scientist · Harvard / CMU

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  • Saturday Robotics
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