IROS 2026

Dates: 27 sept. – 1 oct. 2026
Lieu: Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Site: David L. Lawrence Convention Center, 1000 Fort Duquesne Boulevard, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, USA
Organisateur: IEEE RAS, IEEE IES, RSJ and SICE

L'IROS est l'une des plus grandes conférences de recherche en robotique, coparrainée par l'IEEE RAS, l'IEEE IES, la RSJ et la SICE. L'édition 2026 se tient du 27 sept. au 1er oct. au David L. Lawrence Convention Center de Pittsburgh, présidée par Howie Choset (CMU). Elle compte plus de 1 900 articles, chacun présenté sous forme d'exposé et de poster, ainsi que 20 keynotes, 3 tables rondes plénières, 86 ateliers, 9 compétitions et plus de 170 exposants.

Points clés

Articles: Plus de 1 900 articles, chacun présenté à la fois sous forme d'exposé et de poster, selon la note du président du programme.
Ateliers: 86 ateliers et tutoriels : 44 le dimanche 27 sept. et 42 le jeudi 1er oct.
Exposition: Plus de 170 exposants répartis sur 180 stands numérotés dans les halls A et B, avec une Innovation Stage et une Tech Talk Stage pour les interventions industrielles.
Compétitions: 9 compétitions dans la Competition Area, dont deux nouvelles cette année : assemblage IKEA par humanoïde et origami robotique.
Late-breaking results: Environ 150 posters de late-breaking results (non évalués par les pairs).
Visites: 6 visites techniques du Robotics Innovation Center et du NREC de CMU le 1er oct., toutes complètes.
Aide au déplacement: Bourses de voyage IROS-SDC allant jusqu'à USD 600 chacune pour 25 étudiants, ainsi que les programmes RAS Member Support et IES-SYPA.

Dates importantes

Propositions de sessions spéciales: 31 janvier 2026 (passée)
Date limite de soumission des articles: 2 mars 2026 (passée)
Propositions d'ateliers/tutoriels, de compétitions et de forums: 16 mars 2026 (passée)
Notification d'acceptation des articles: 16 juin 2026 (passée)
Date limite des articles finaux et de l'inscription des auteurs: 16 juillet 2026 (passée)
Date limite d'inscription early bird: 24 juillet 2026 (passée)
Date limite des late-breaking results: 10 août 2026 (passée)
Date limite d'inscription standard: 18 septembre 2026 (passée)
Ateliers et tutoriels (jour 1): 27 septembre 2026 (passée)
Conférence principale: 28–30 septembre 2026 (passée)
Ateliers et tutoriels (jour 2) et visites techniques: 1er octobre 2026 (passée)

Inscription

Tarifs: From USD 400 (day pass); full conference USD 460–1,565; IEEE Life Members free

S'inscrire: https://xpressreg.net/register/iros0926/start.asp

Conférenciers invités

Elena De Momi (Politecnico di Milano): Open Questions on the Road to Autonomous Surgery
Naomi Fitter (Oregon State University): Socially-Informed Context Awareness for Robots in Human-Populated Settings
Greg Chirikjian (Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI)): From Hyper-Redundancy to Robot Imagination and Affordance Learning
Genta Suzuki (Fujitsu): Fujitsu Kozuchi Physical OS: A Research Strategy for Scalable Physical AI
Gaurav Bansal (John Deere / Blue River): Building Autonomy for the Real World
Al Rizzi (RAI Institute): Developing Advanced Robot Capability at the RAI Institute
Yekai Sun (PaXini AI): Tokens of the Physical World: Accelerating Intelligence Emergence via Multimodal Embodied Data
He Wang (Galbot): Towards the AlphaGo and ChatGPT Moments of Embodied AI
Jen Jen Chung (University of Queensland): All data are equal, but some data are more equal than others
Yigit Menguc (Marble Wit Research Co.): Soft Robotics, Tensegrity, and the People Who Love Them.
Robin Murphy (Texas A&M University): Rethinking Disaster Robotics: The Open Questions That Matter Now
Gina Olson (University of Massachusetts Amherst): Embracing Design Complexity: A Biomimetic Approach to (Soft?) Snake Robots
Tim Bretl (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign): How you can be part of a revolution in composite manufacturing
Lael Odhner (RAI Institute): Big bets in manipulation systems: where is the frontier today?
David Held (Carnegie Mellon University): Robots That Learn After Deployment: Designing Policies for Fast Adaptation
Ankur Mehta (UCLA): Robotics problems that robotics can't solve
Brittany Duncan (University of Nebraska-Lincoln): Patterns from the Field: how contextual lessons can inform robot design
Ralph Hollis (Carnegie Mellon University): Lorentz Levitation Technology for Fine Motion Robotics, Haptic Interaction, and Vibration Isolation
Genki Yamauchi (Public Works Research Institute (PWRI)): From Big Sites to Every Site: Extending Construction Robotics to the Work Done by Hand
Nancy Pollard (Carnegie Mellon University): Keynote
Lisa Chai (Interwoven Ventures): Plenary panel: Start-ups and Entrepreneurship (Mon 28 Sep)
Henrik I. Christensen (UC San Diego): Plenary panel: Start-ups and Entrepreneurship (Mon 28 Sep)
Vijay Kumar (University of Pennsylvania): Plenary panel: Start-ups and Entrepreneurship (Mon 28 Sep)
Martina Hansen (Sudo AI): Plenary panel: Start-ups and Entrepreneurship (Mon 28 Sep)
Andrea Thomaz (Diligent Robotics): Plenary panel: Start-ups and Entrepreneurship (Mon 28 Sep)
Ali Agha (Field AI): Plenary panel: Start-ups and Entrepreneurship (Mon 28 Sep)
Sami Haddadin (MBZUAI): Plenary panel: Start-ups and Entrepreneurship (Mon 28 Sep)
Sanjiv Singh (Near Earth Autonomy): Plenary panel: Start-ups and Entrepreneurship (Mon 28 Sep)
Robert Ambrose (Texas A&M University): Plenary panel: Space (Tue 29 Sep)
Kim Hambuchen (NASA Johnson Space Center): Plenary panel: Space (Tue 29 Sep)
Ueno Hiroshi (JAXA): Plenary panel: Space (Tue 29 Sep)
Andrea Bajcsy (Carnegie Mellon University): Plenary panel: Should Robots be Generalists or Specialists? (debate, Wed 30 Sep)
Ken Goldberg (UC Berkeley): Plenary panel: Should Robots be Generalists or Specialists? (debate, Wed 30 Sep)
Georgia Chalvatzaki (Technical University of Darmstadt): Plenary panel: Should Robots be Generalists or Specialists? (debate, Wed 30 Sep)
Katerina Fragkiadaki (Carnegie Mellon University): Plenary panel: Should Robots be Generalists or Specialists? (debate, Wed 30 Sep)
Philipp Wu (xdof): Plenary panel: Should Robots be Generalists or Specialists? (debate, Wed 30 Sep)
Huazhe Xu (Tsinghua University): Plenary panel: Should Robots be Generalists or Specialists? (debate, Wed 30 Sep)
Yu Sun (IEEE T-ASE): Plenary panel: Should Robots be Generalists or Specialists? (debate, Wed 30 Sep)
Nancy Amato (UIUC): Plenary panel: Should Robots be Generalists or Specialists? (debate, Wed 30 Sep)
Matt Mason (Carnegie Mellon University): Plenary panel: Should Robots be Generalists or Specialists? (debate, Wed 30 Sep)
Toshi Fukuda (Nagoya University): Plenary panel: Should Robots be Generalists or Specialists? (debate, Wed 30 Sep)
Katsu Yamane (Path Robotics): SICE 'Robotics without Borders' luncheon seminar (title TBA), Mon 28 Sep

Ateliers

Workshop on Open Robotics Software, 1 October 2026: https://sites.google.com/rice.edu/iros26-robotics-software/
Why Rust for Robotics: A Perspective From Industry, 27 September 2026: https://rust-for-robotics.github.io/iros2026/
Reproducing Robot Manipulation: Developing Guidelines to Improve Accessibility and Reproducibility of Open-Source, 27 September 2026: https://www.robot-manipulation.org/events/workshops/iros-2026
Building Scalable Infrastructure for Robot Learning: From Data Scaling to Real-World Deployment, 1 October 2026: https://scale-infra.github.io/iros2026/
Soft Robot Manufacturing and Testing Hackathon, 1 October 2026: https://sites.google.com/umass.edu/softroboticsreproducibility/iros-2026
Reproducible Benchmarking of Robotic Grasping and Manipulation: From Advanced AI to Generalized Humanoid Intelligence, 1 October 2026: https://sites.google.com/view/rgmcw2026/home-page
Physical World Models for Scaling Embodied AI, 1 October 2026: https://physical-world-models.github.io/IROS2026/
WORLDS: World Models and Spatial Intelligence for Physical AI, 27 September 2026: https://worlds-iros2026.github.io/
1st International Workshop on Industrial Applications of Robot Learning, 27 September 2026: https://aistairc.github.io/IROS2026-workshop/
Perception and Decision Making for Athletic Humanoid Robotics, 27 September 2026: https://iros-2026-athletic-humanoid.github.io/workshop/
Scaling vs. Structure: Rethinking Bimanual Manipulation Beyond Single-Arm Policies, 27 September 2026: https://bimanual-robot-learning.github.io
Sim2Real and Classical Control: From Rigorous Theory to Data-Driven Robotics, 1 October 2026: https://sim2realgap.github.io/sim2real-and-control-workshop-iros2026/
5th Workshop on Mobile Manipulation and Embodied Intelligence (MOMA.v5): Contact-Rich Mobile Manipulation for Robust Real-World Deployments, 27 September 2026: https://mobile-manipulation.net/events/moma-iros26/
Foundation Models in Multi-Robot Systems, 27 September 2026: https://zhourobotics.github.io/fm-mrs/
Scalable Tactile Sensing for Dexterous Manipulation, 27 September 2026: https://tactile-dexterity-iros.github.io/

Liens officiels

Site web: https://2026.ieee-iros.org/
Program Guide: https://2026.ieee-iros.org/program/
Keynotes: https://2026.ieee-iros.org/program/keynotes/
Workshops & Tutorials: https://2026.ieee-iros.org/program/workshops-tutorials/
Competitions: https://2026.ieee-iros.org/program/competitions/
Society events: https://2026.ieee-iros.org/program/society-events/
RAS events: https://2026.ieee-iros.org/program/ras-events/
Technical tours: https://2026.ieee-iros.org/program/technical-tours/
Registration: https://2026.ieee-iros.org/attend/registration/
Venue: https://2026.ieee-iros.org/attend/conference-venue/
Travel information: https://2026.ieee-iros.org/attend/travel-information/
Accommodations: https://2026.ieee-iros.org/attend/accommodations/
Organizing committee: https://2026.ieee-iros.org/about/organizing-committee/
Press & media: https://2026.ieee-iros.org/about/press-media/
Partnership and exhibit prospectus: https://iebms.heiexpo.com/usi/iros/iros26prospectus.pdf
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