IROS 2026

Date: 27 set – 01 ott 2026
Luogo: Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Sede: David L. Lawrence Convention Center, 1000 Fort Duquesne Boulevard, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, USA
Organizzatore: IEEE RAS, IEEE IES, RSJ and SICE

IROS è una delle più grandi conferenze di ricerca sulla robotica, co-sponsorizzata da IEEE RAS, IEEE IES, RSJ e SICE. L'edizione 2026 si svolge dal 27 settembre al 1 ottobre al David L. Lawrence Convention Center di Pittsburgh, presieduta da Howie Choset della CMU. Conta più di 1.900 articoli, ciascuno presentato come talk e come poster, oltre a 20 keynote, 3 panel plenari, 86 workshop, 9 competizioni e oltre 170 espositori.

Informazioni chiave

Articoli: Oltre 1.900 articoli, ciascuno presentato sia come talk sia come poster, secondo la nota del Program Chair.
Workshop: 86 workshop e tutorial: 44 domenica 27 settembre e 42 giovedì 1 ottobre.
Esposizione: Oltre 170 espositori in 180 stand numerati nei padiglioni A e B, con un Innovation Stage e un Tech Talk Stage per i talk dell'industria.
Competizioni: 9 competizioni nella Competition Area, tra cui due al debutto quest'anno: assemblaggio IKEA con umanoidi e origami robotico.
Late-breaking result: Circa 150 poster di late-breaking result (non sottoposti a revisione paritaria).
Visite: 6 visite tecniche al Robotics Innovation Center e al NREC della CMU il 1 ottobre, tutte esaurite.
Sostegno per il viaggio: Borse di viaggio IROS-SDC fino a USD 600 ciascuna per 25 studenti, oltre ai programmi RAS Member Support e IES-SYPA.

Date importanti

Proposte di sessioni speciali: 31 gennaio 2026 (passata)
Scadenza invio articoli: 2 marzo 2026 (passata)
Proposte di workshop/tutorial, competizioni e forum: 16 marzo 2026 (passata)
Notifica di accettazione degli articoli: 16 giugno 2026 (passata)
Scadenza articolo definitivo e iscrizione degli autori: 16 luglio 2026 (passata)
Scadenza iscrizione early-bird: 24 luglio 2026 (passata)
Scadenza late-breaking result: 10 agosto 2026 (passata)
Scadenza iscrizione ordinaria: 18 settembre 2026 (passata)
Workshop e tutorial (giorno 1): 27 settembre 2026 (passata)
Conferenza principale: 28–30 settembre 2026 (passata)
Workshop e tutorial (giorno 2) e visite tecniche: 1 ottobre 2026 (passata)

Iscrizione

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

Iscriviti: https://xpressreg.net/register/iros0926/start.asp

Relatori principali

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

Workshop

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/

Link ufficiali

Sito 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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