Robotics & World Models Reading Club 40: SF 11/21.

Robotics & World Models Reading Club 40: . SF 11/21 A high-signal reading group for AI researchers & builders pushing the frontiers of robotic world models, WAMs, and embodied intelligence. In our previous sessions, we brought together researchers and engineers from Boston Dynamics, Google DeepMind, NVIDIA, Stanford, UC Berkeley, Physical Intelligence, Tesla, Generalist, Rhoda AI, and leading Bay Area robotics startups. Hosted by Junfan Zhu. Support Saturday Robotics Inc: https://donate.stripe.com/28EcN52rjgeY1fJboYgEg00 ​​​​Reading Club 40's Core Theme ​​​​​​​​​​​​​Pre-Readings ​​​​​​​​​​​Location San Francisco ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​Date & Time Saturday, November 21, 2026 | 2:00 PM – 5:00 PM ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​Join WhatsApp Community https://chat.whatsapp.com/HYxhjyaBbBuFZUlrV0AIaV Join Discord Community https://discord.gg/WH7DrTHRXK ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​Follow Saturday Robotics on X /saturdayrobotic ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​Agenda 2:00 PM – 2:30 PM Door Opens & Social Food 😋, beverages🧋 and UNLIMITED strawberries 🍓 (our official reading club fruits ☺️😄). 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM Keynote by YouTube Recording: TBD (We are looking for recording volunteers) 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM Q&A, ​open-floor roundtable (10–20 min per topic) on spotlight papers or any paper you’d like to highlight. Feel free to share why the paper matters and its technical details. ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​Past events #iros-reading-club-31-0928: 🍾 IROS 2026 x Saturday Robotics — Robotics Research Night | Reading Club 30. Pittsburgh 9/28 Session 31 Luma: https://luma.com/tzbw7n61 #reading-club-29-0919: AgiBot × ManiFormer: Building the Next Generation of Physical AI. SF 9/19 Session 29 Luma: https://luma.com/sk70aihm #reading-club-28-0912: Booster T2: The Next Frontier of Open Humanoid Robotics. SF 9/12 Session 28 Luma: https://luma.com/00z3oxw6 #reading-club-26-0905: Rethinking Robot Development: Co-Designing Morphology, Sensing, and Learning Chenyang Ma (Applied Intuition, UNC) Session 26 Luma: https://luma.com/jm9jceqr #reading-club-25-0829: Sunnyvale 8/29 Session 25 Luma: https://luma.com/enowqo5v #reading-club-24-0822: Contact-Rich Robot Learning from Human Videos and Tactile. SF 8/22 Kelin Yu (Maryland, Amazon FAR) Session 24 Luma: https://luma.com/yl76re1b #reading-club-23-0815: Engineering Robotic Simulators for Evaluation and Beyond. SF 8/15 Kaifeng Zhang (Columbia, World Labs) Session 23 Luma: https://luma.com/non72bev #reading-club-22-0808: ODEWorld: A Continuous Predictive Architecture via Physical-Time Flow. SF 8/8 Haoyi Niu (UC Berkeley) Session 22 Luma: https://luma.com/7nnl4a5r Reading Club 22 Review: https://x.com/junfanzhu98/status/2086482247344079100?s=20 Reading Club 22 Recap: https://x.com/junfanzhu98/status/2086484540013560280?s=20 #reading-club-21-0801: Vision-Language-Kinematics Supervision for Perception-Based Humanoid Loco-Manipulation — SF 8/1 Yen-Jen Wang (UC Berkeley, Amazon FAR) Session 21 Luma: https://luma.com/4xkibxbh Reading Club 21 Review: https://x.com/junfanzhu98/status/2083948325112533456?s=20 Reading Club 21 Recap: https://x.com/junfanzhu98/status/2083950393734975839?s=20 #reading-club-20-0725: Agentic Robotics Models (ENPIRE and Cap-X), Mountain View 07/25 Haoru Xue (UC Berkeley) Kris Hauser (Samsung Research America, Robot Intelligence Lab) Session 20 Luma: https://luma.com/5ltk12w5 Reading Club 20 Review: https://x.com/junfanzhu98/status/2081420671180284190?s=20 Reading Club 20 Recap: https://x.com/junfanzhu98/status/2081423890988044794?s=20 #SIGGRAPH-reading-club-19-0722: SIGGRAPH x Saturday Robotics — World Models for Robotics: Bridging Graphics, Simulation & Physical Intelligence | Reading Club 19, LA 07/22 Session 19 Luma: https://luma.com/yh2212ac Reading Club 19 Review: https://x.com/junfanzhu98/status/2081923681627079055?s=20 Reading Club 19 Recap: https://x.com/junfanzhu98/status/2081924824709124174?s=20 #reading-club-18-0718: Causal World Models For Real-World Intelligence. SF 07/18 Guanming Wang & Bill (General Instinct, YC P26) Feng Fan (UCSD, Aether AI) Session 18 Luma: https://luma.com/f74eguvr Reading Club 18 Review: https://x.com/junfanzhu98/status/2078738476602884502?s=20 Reading Club 18 Recap: https://x.com/junfanzhu98/status/2078747463058694625?s=20 Autonomous Panel Moderation: Rebuilding the Factory: Physical AI on the Production Line: https://x.com/junfanzhu98/status/2078385948887490814?s=20 #reading-club-17-0711: Soft Tactile-Centric Multimodal Intelligence Toward Safe and Dexterous Manipulation. SF 07/11 Quan Luu, Purdue. Session 17 Luma: https://luma.com/e53zawq2 Reading Club 17 Review: https://x.com/junfanzhu98/status/2076205508646850819?s=20 Reading Club 17 Recap: https://x.com/junfanzhu98/status/2076207394426917187?s=20 #private-lunch-icml-0709: Saturday Robotics x ICML Private Lunch (Seoul) Private Lunch: https://luma.com/khqg11gt #reading-club-16-0704: The Embodied AI Hardware Stack — Supply Chain, Sensors, and the Data Flywheel — SF 07/04 Jerry Huang, Robotics Center of Silicon Valley. Session 16 Luma: https://luma.com/cgzyfpeb Reading Club 16 Review: https://x.com/junfanzhu98/status/2073666442512547957?s=20 Reading Club 16 Recap: https://x.com/junfanzhu98/status/2073667174678589620?s=20 #reading-club-15-0627: Scaling Touch: Flexible Tactile Skin for Dexterous Manipulation Binghao Huang, Columbia, Amazon FAR. Session 15 Luma: https://luma.com/7lts5ppf Reading Club 15 Review: https://x.com/junfanzhu98/status/2071129728984273105?s=20 Reading Club 15 Recap: https://x.com/junfanzhu98/status/2071132114226139489?s=20 #deep-tech-week-14-0625: Deep Tech Week Research Night SPEAR: A Simulator for Photorealistic Embodied AI Research. (ECCV 2026 accepted) by Mike Roberts, Senior Research Scientist, Adobe Research. Bogdan Cristei, Venture Partner at SHACK15 Ventures. Simone Totaro, CTO at Saturn Dynamics. Shumo Chu, CEO at General Intelligence Labs. Margaret Zhang, CEO at ThirdBrain Labs. Session 14 Luma: https://luma.com/l1g9c2l1 Deep Tech Week 14 Review: https://x.com/junfanzhu98/status/207041778456006