MyoSymposium · 2025

MyoSymposium @ NeurIPS'25

Saturday, Dec 6 · 8:00–11:00 AM PST·Ballroom 6D, San Diego Convention Center, USA

Keynotes across AI, biomechanics, and neuroscience, plus MyoChallenge’25 winners presenting table tennis and soccer solutions. Spotlights on OmniRetarget and HITTER.

Speakers

• Wang Xingxing

  Unitree Robotics, China

• Nicolas Heess

  Google DeepMind

• Konrad Kording

  University of Pennsylvania, USA

  Grounding Intelligence in Movement

• Pannag Sanketi

  Google DeepMind, USA

  Achieving Human-level Robot Table Tennis: Key Innovations and Lessons Learned

  DeepMind table tennis agent: policy architecture, sim2real, and real-time adaptation that won ~45% of matches against human players.

• Yanan Sui

  Tsinghua University, China

  Self Model for World Model: Comprehensive Modeling and Control of Human Sensory-Musculoskeletal System

• Ben Moran

  Google DeepMind, UK

  Strategies for learning complex robotic behavior from agile humanoid soccer

Agenda

• 08:00–08:05Introduction
• 08:05–08:25Xingxing Wang
• 08:25–08:45Nicolas Heess
• 08:45–09:05Konrad Kording
• 09:05–09:30Break + Poster Session
• 09:30–09:40MC 25 Winners – Table Tennis
• 09:40–09:50MC 25 Winners – Soccer
• 09:50–10:10Pannag Sanketi
• 10:10–10:30Yanan Sui
• 10:30–10:35Spotlight OmniRetarget
• 10:35–10:40Spotlight HITTER
• 10:40–10:45Closing Remarks