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ICRA 2026

  • Dates: Jun 1 – 5, 2026
  • Place: Vienna, Austria
  • Venue: VIECON – Vienna Congress & Convention Center, Messeplatz 1, 1020 Vienna, Austria
  • Organiser: IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS)

ICRA 2026, the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society's flagship conference, took place 1–5 June 2026 at VIECON in Vienna under the theme 'Robots for All'. It drew more than 9,000 participants — the largest ICRA so far — with 196 exhibitors, 3 plenaries, 24 keynotes and 74 workshops and tutorials. The talks are on IEEE.tv. ICRA 2027 is in Seoul, 24–28 May 2027.

Key facts

  • Record attendance: 9,000+ participants, about 2,000 more than expected, and 196 exhibitors including 20 start-ups.
  • Theme: 'Robots for All', with General Chair Markus Vincze (TU Wien).
  • Best Conference Paper: SymSkill: Symbol and Skill Co-Invention for Data-Efficient and Reactive Long-Horizon Manipulation — Yifei Shao, Yuchen Zheng, Sunan Sun, Pratik Chaudhari, Vijay Kumar, Nadia Figueroa (University of Pennsylvania, GRASP Lab).
  • Recordings: Plenaries, keynotes, industry keynotes, awards, tutorials and panels are on IEEE.tv.
  • Public festival: The 'Festival of Robots' at Karlsplatz on 30–31 May drew about 15,000 visitors.

Important dates

  • Full Paper Submission: September 15, 2025 (past)
  • Workshop/Tutorial Proposals: December 2025 (past)
  • Paper Acceptance Notification: January 31, 2026 (past)
  • Early Registration Deadline: March 31, 2026 (past)
  • Standard Registration Deadline: May 22, 2026 (past)
  • Conference Dates: June 1-5, 2026 (past)

Registration

Fees: EUR 315–1,580 (full conference); day pass EUR 400–600; IEEE Life Members free

Keynote speakers

  • Ken Goldberg (UC Berkeley and Ambi Robotics): A Tale of Two Cultures: Can Agentic Coding Close the Gap?
  • Barbara Mazzolai (Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT)): Natural Revolution: Biological Principles for Frugal and Sustainable Robotics
  • Roland Siegwart (Autonomous Systems Lab, ETH Zürich): Aerial Robots – From Omnidirectional Flight to Physical Interaction at Height
  • Johannes Betz (Technical University of Munich): Learning to Handle Autonomous Vehicles at the Limits – Lessons Learned from Real-World Autonomous Motorsport
  • Michael Milford (QUT Centre for Robotics): From Neuroscience to Autonomous Vehicle Navigation
  • Aniket Bera (Purdue University): Toward Behaviorally-Intelligent Robots: Safe Navigation in Unstructured and Human-Centered Environments
  • Hesheng Wang (Global College, Shanghai Jiao Tong University): Learning to Navigate: From Scene Understanding to Decision Making
  • Eric Diller (Robotics Institute, University of Toronto): Using Magnetic Fields to Control Tiny Robots in the Gut and Brain
  • Fanny Ficuciello (University of Naples Federico II): From Bioinspired Design to Safe Control: Emerging Challenges in Medical Robotics
  • Tiantian Xu (Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology (SIAT)): Magnetically Actuated Microrobots for Precision Medicine
  • Haoyong Yu (National University of Singapore): Towards Wearable Robotics with better Portability, Safety, and Comfort
  • Ayoung Kim (Seoul National University): The Underdog Sensors: Are Robots Using Thermal and Radar Right?
  • Luca Carlone (Massachusetts Institute of Technology): Maps, Memory, and Tasks: Toward Spatial AI for the Next Generation of Robots
  • Maren Bennewitz (University of Bonn): Advancing Service Robots Through Active Perception: Mapping and Object Search Under Occlusion
  • Timothy Barfoot (University of Toronto): Why Field Robotics Research Still Matters
  • Jeannette Bohg (Stanford University): Do We Still Need Dexterous Hands?
  • Kento Kawaharazuka (Next Generation AI Research Center, The University of Tokyo): Towards the Ultimate Humanoid: At the Intersection of Humans and Machines
  • Nikos Tsagarakis (Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT)): Modular Bodies and Recovery Capabilities: Building Robots for Unstructured Environments
  • Yuke Zhu (UT Austin): Building Generalist Humanoid Robots
  • David Hsu (National University of Singapore): Scalable Robot Decision Making in the Open World: Planning and Plan Prediction with LLMs
  • Stefanie Tellex (Brown University): Towards Complex Language in Partially Observed Environments
  • Noémie Jaquier (KTH Royal Institute of Technology): Traveling the Robot Learning Manifold: A Tale of Geometries and Inductive Biases
  • Paolo Robuffo Giordano (IRISA Rennes): Intrinsic Robustness: A Journey from Control-Aware Planning to Robust Robot Learning
  • Julie A. Adams (Oregon State University): Challenges in Adaptive Robot Teaming: Understanding Human Teammate Performance
  • Marcia O'Malley (Rice University): Guiding with Touch: Wearable Haptics for Shaping Human–Robot Interaction
  • Tetsunari Inamura (Brain Science Institute, Tamagawa University): Engineering Human Agency and Self-Efficacy: The Next Frontier of Human-Robot Symbiosis
  • Berk Calli (Worcester Polytechnic Institute): Overcoming Manipulation Challenges in Environmental Robotics through AI-based Solutions and Human-Robot Partnership

Workshops

  • SimR: Simulation and Robotics Tutorial, Monday June 1: https://cs.pomona.edu/~ajc/tutorials/simr-icra2026/
  • Riemann and Gauss meet Asimov: 3rd Tutorial on Geometric Methods in Robot Learning, Optimization and Control, Monday June 1: https://sites.google.com/view/icra-2026-tutorial-geometry/
  • Digital Twins for UAV Autonomy: From Model-Based Design to Verified Deployment, Monday June 1: https://www.mathworks.com/company/events/tradeshows/icra-2026-5136850.html
  • Workshop on the Path Towards Generalizable Contact-Rich Robotics: Control and Representation, Monday June 1: https://cr2-icra.github.io/
  • 1st Workshop on Generative Digital Twins for Real2Sim and Sim2Real Transfer in Robotics, Monday June 1: https://awesomedigitaltwin.github.io/2026_ICRA.html
  • Act to Sense to Act Better: 1st Workshop on Learning and Representations for Active Perception in Manipulation, Monday June 1: https://active-perception-workshop.github.io/
  • Open Challenges for Rigorous Robot Perception, Monday June 1: https://icra2026-rigorous-perception.github.io/
  • Workshop on Reinforcement Learning in the Era of Imitation Learning, Monday June 1: https://rl4il-icra.github.io/
  • Dexterity with Multifingered Hands, Monday June 1: https://dex-manipulation.github.io/icra2026/
  • Synthetic Data for Robot Learning, Monday June 1: https://sites.google.com/view/icra-2026-sdrl-workshop
  • MM-Spatial AI: Multi-Modal Spatial AI, Monday June 1: https://xingxingzuo.github.io/MM-SpatialAI/
  • Connected Autonomous Robotic Systems (CARS), Monday June 1: https://connected-robots.com/
  • 1st Workshop on Generalization in Autonomous Driving, Monday June 1: https://tum-avs.github.io/ICRA2026_Workshop/
  • 1st Workshop on Long-term Deployments in the Wild (LoWi), Monday June 1: https://mobile-robotics-hub.github.io/workshop2026/
  • 2nd Workshop on Robot Ethics (WOROBET), Monday June 1: https://sites.google.com/view/icra2026-workshop-robot-ethics
  • 4th Robot-Assisted Medical Imaging (ICRA-RAMI), Monday June 1: https://sites.google.com/view/rami-icra-2026-workshop/home
  • 8th International Workshop on Robotics Software Engineering (RoSE26), Monday June 1: https://rose-workshops.github.io/rose2026/
  • Accelerating Discovery in Natural Science Laboratories with AI and Robotics, Monday June 1: https://sites.google.com/view/robotic-accelerated-discovery/
  • Aerial Inspection for Marine Infrastructures, Monday June 1: https://icra2026.aerialmaritimeinspection.com/
  • AI-Driven Soft Robotics, Monday June 1: https://sites.google.com/view/ai-soro-icra2026
  • A User-Centered Perspective on Human-Robot Sensorimotor Augmentation, Monday June 1: https://sites.google.com/unisi.it/human-augmentation/home-page
  • Catching Them Young: Engaging Students in Robotics Standardization, Monday June 1: https://sites.google.com/view/icra26-robotics-standards/home
  • Circular Robotics: Designing Sustainable Autonomy, Monday June 1: https://www.profactor.at/en/events-en/circular-robotics-designing-sustainable-autonomy-for-a-finite-world-icra-2026-workshop/
  • Embodied AI and the Future of Telepresence through Robotics, Monday June 1: https://sites.google.com/view/embodied-ai-icra-26/
  • From Sea to Space: Advancing Perception in Harsh Domains, Monday June 1: https://sites.google.com/view/icra-2026-s2s-perception/
  • Investing in Robotics: How to Judge, What Breaks, What's Hot, Monday June 1: https://www.ellipsis-venture.com/icra2026/
  • Joint Workshop on Ontologies, Semantic Maps and Autonomous Robotics Standardization, Monday June 1: https://wosra.github.io/j-wosmars/
  • Multimodal Embodied Interaction in Robots, Monday June 1: http://www.mananlab.tech/workshop
  • Multi-modal Robotics for Sustainable Environmental Sensing, Monday June 1: https://sites.google.com/view/sustainability-robotics/home
  • Notes and Bots: A Workshop on Robotic Musicianship, Monday June 1: https://icra2026rm.github.io/
  • Radar in Robotics: New Frontiers, Monday June 1: https://sites.google.com/view/radar-robotics/
  • Shared Challenges in Human-Centered and Resilient Robotic Autonomy, Monday June 1: https://sites.google.com/cs.miami.edu/scr-icra26
  • Signals in Sync: Multi-Modal Interfaces for Next-Gen Prosthetics, Monday June 1: https://sites.google.com/nyu.edu/sis-icra26
  • The Good Reviewer: Shaping Up Peer-Review in the Robotics Community, Monday June 1: https://alejandrofontan.github.io/The-Good-Reviewer-ICRA26/
  • The SOFT frontier 3: Soft or Rigid? New Trends in Wearable Robotics, Monday June 1: https://sites.google.com/view/sft-front
  • Towards Large-Area Tactile Sensing Skins, Monday June 1: https://large-area-tactile-sensing.github.io/
  • Workshop on Agricultural Robotics, Monday June 1: https://agrifoodroboticsworkshop.wordpress.com/icra2026/
  • Workshop on Frontiers of Optimization for Robotics, 2nd Edition, Monday June 1: https://sites.google.com/robotics.utias.utoronto.ca/icra26-frontiers-optimization/home
  • Workshop on Pedestrian Behavior Prediction, Monday June 1: https://workshop-pbp2026.github.io/
  • ViTac: Learning to See and Feel, Monday June 1: https://shanluo.github.io/ViTacWorkshops/vitac2026
  • Hands-on Tutorial: 3D Tactile Sensor Integration in Robotic Fingers for Smart Manipulation, Friday June 5: https://mech.vub.ac.be/multibody/ICRA_conference_workshop.htm
  • From Data to Decisions: VLA Pipelines for Real Robots, Friday June 5: https://icra2026vlapipeline.github.io/
  • Beyond Teleoperation: Learning from Diverse Human and Simulation Data, Friday June 5: https://icra-beyond-teleop.github.io/
  • Uncertainty in Open-World Robotics, Friday June 5: https://uncertainty-in-robotics.github.io/
  • Human-Inspired Principles for Robotic Dexterous Manipulation, Friday June 5: https://sites.google.com/view/humaninspiredrobotmanipulation
  • Geometry in the Age of Data-Driven Robotics, Friday June 5: https://geometric-robotics.github.io/icra-2026-workshop/
  • Workshop on Manipulation Robustness, Friday June 5: https://manipulation-robustness.github.io/icra2026/
  • RoboTac 2026: Embodied Tactile Intelligence in Predictive Perception, Friday June 5: https://www.robotac.eu/robotac-2026
  • Bridging the Gap between Robot Learning and Human-Robot Interaction, Friday June 5: https://sites.google.com/vt.edu/icra2026-learning-hri/
  • Scaling Compositional Intelligence for Multi-Agent Robotic Systems, Friday June 5: https://mars-eai.github.io/ICRA-SCI-MARS-Webpage/
  • Semantics for Reliable Robot Autonomy, Friday June 5: https://www.dynsyslab.org/icra2026-workshop-on-semantics-for-reliable-robot-autonomy/
  • RoboARCH: Robotics Acceleration with Computing Hardware and Systems, Friday June 5: https://sites.google.com/view/roboarch-icra26
  • 1st Workshop on Robot Meets GNSS and Ranging for Seamless Autonomy, Friday June 5: https://robotmeetsranging.tech/
  • 20 Years of Workshops on Benchmarking and Reproducibility: Part I, Friday June 5: http://www.reproducibleroboticsresearch.org/20YearsBenchRRR_ICRA2026
  • 2nd Workshop on e-Heritage and Robotics, Friday June 5: https://www.cvl.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp/EHR2026
  • 3rd Unconventional Robots: From Concept to Real-World Systems, Friday June 5: https://sites.google.com/andrew.cmu.edu/icra26-3rd-unconv-robots/home
  • 4th Workshop on NeuroDesign in Human-Robot Interaction, Friday June 5: https://neurodesign-in-hri.webflow.io/
  • 8th Workshop on Long-Term Human Motion Prediction, Friday June 5: https://motionpredictionicra2026.github.io/
  • Advances and Challenges in AI-Driven Automation and Robotic System Integration, Friday June 5: https://angelafiska.github.io/icra2026-automation-workshop/
  • AI-Driven Safe Aerial Robotics, Friday June 5: https://aerial-robotics-workshop-icra.com/
  • Challenges and Opportunities of Neuromorphic Field Robotics, Friday June 5: https://nfr-icra2026.com/
  • Embracing Intelligent Robotic Assistants for Robot-assisted Surgery, Friday June 5: https://sites.google.com/view/icra26-workshop-medical-robot
  • Emerging Paradigms for Robotic Manipulation: Extreme Conditions, Friday June 5: https://sites.google.com/unisi.it/ws-extrememanipulation
  • Enabling Autonomy and Independence in Aging Societies through Robotics, Friday June 5: https://weblab.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/en/news/a-workshop-on-aging-society-ai-and-robots-will-be-held-at-icra-2026/
  • Field Robotics, Friday June 5: https://norlab-ulaval.github.io/icra_workshop_field_robotics/
  • How Origami and Kirigami Have Revolutionized Robotics, Friday June 5: https://sites.google.com/view/origamirob
  • Open Challenges in Robotics for Asset Inspection and Management, Friday June 5: https://ariamhub.com/ocraim/
  • Perceptual Challenges for Planetary Exploration, Friday June 5: https://icra2026-planetary-robotics.github.io/
  • REaCT: Robotics for Environmental Assessment and Climate Action, Friday June 5: https://sites.google.com/view/react-climate-robotics/
  • Robots Meet Prior Maps: Leveraging Geometric and Semantic Priors, Friday June 5: https://sites.google.com/view/icra2026-priors-map-workshop/home
  • Soft & Safe? Rethinking the Role of Softness in Medical Robotics, Friday June 5: https://sites.google.com/view/rethinkingsoftness/home
  • Tailored to Move: Wearable Robotics for Motion Assistance, Friday June 5: https://sites.google.com/view/tailored-to-move-icra2026/home
  • Workshop on Intelligent Space Robotics and Systems, Friday June 5: https://space-robots.org/
  • Xplore: Cross-Disciplinary Aspects of Exploration, Friday June 5: https://xplore-workshop.github.io/

Official links

  • Website: https://2026.ieee-icra.org/
  • Workshops & Tutorials: https://2026.ieee-icra.org/workshops-and-tutorials/
  • Registration Information: https://2026.ieee-icra.org/attend/registration-information/
  • Conference Program: https://2026.ieee-icra.org/program/
  • Paper Submission Platform: https://ras.papercept.net/
  • IEEE RAS Official Site: https://www.ieee-ras.org/
  • Talk recordings (IEEE.tv): https://ieeetv.ieee.org/event/icra-2026
  • Industry keynotes: https://2026.ieee-icra.org/program/industry-keynotes/
  • Award finalists: https://2026.ieee-icra.org/awards/

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