Upcoming seminar "From VLA to World Models"

Upcoming seminar
"From VLA to World Models"

Date: 24 September 2026
Time: 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Venue: Room 2303, Academic Building, HKUST
Event Format: Seminar, Lecture, Talk
Speaker: Dr. Colin Cai

About X Square Robot

X Square Robot develops general-purpose robots powered by embodied foundation models. In 2026, the company launched WALL-B, the world’s first embodied foundation model built on a World Unified Model (WUM) architecture. It also develops robotic platforms specifically designed for foundation-model-based control.

Spanning data, models, and robotic platforms, X Square Robot’s full-stack technologies are already being applied in homes, logistics, and beyond, advancing the development of precise and general-purpose robots.

About the Speaker

Dr. Colin Cai is a researcher specializing in embodied foundation models at X Square Robot. He received his Ph.D. from HKUST. His current work focuses on the pre-training of embodied foundation models.