IROS 2026

Datas: 27 de set. – 1 de out. de 2026
Local: Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Local do evento: David L. Lawrence Convention Center, 1000 Fort Duquesne Boulevard, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, USA
Organizador: IEEE RAS, IEEE IES, RSJ and SICE

A IROS é uma das maiores conferências de pesquisa em robótica, copatrocinada por IEEE RAS, IEEE IES, RSJ e SICE. A edição de 2026 acontece de 27 de setembro a 1º de outubro no David L. Lawrence Convention Center, em Pittsburgh, presidida por Howie Choset, da CMU. São mais de 1.900 artigos, cada um apresentado como palestra e pôster, além de 20 keynotes, 3 painéis plenários, 86 workshops, 9 competições e mais de 170 expositores.

Fatos principais

Artigos: Mais de 1.900 artigos submetidos, cada um apresentado como palestra e como pôster, segundo nota do Program Chair.
Workshops: 86 workshops e tutoriais: 44 no domingo, 27 de setembro, e 42 na quinta-feira, 1º de outubro.
Exposição: Mais de 170 expositores em 180 estandes numerados nos Halls A e B, com um Innovation Stage e um Tech Talk Stage para palestras da indústria.
Competições: 9 competições na Competition Area, incluindo duas que estreiam este ano: montagem IKEA com humanoides e origami robótico.
Late-breaking results: Cerca de 150 pôsteres de late-breaking results (sem revisão por pares).
Visitas técnicas: 6 visitas técnicas ao Robotics Innovation Center e ao NREC da CMU em 1º de outubro, todas esgotadas.
Auxílio de viagem: Auxílios de viagem IROS-SDC de até USD 600 cada para 25 estudantes, além dos programas RAS Member Support e IES-SYPA.

Datas importantes

Propostas de sessões especiais: 31 de janeiro de 2026 (encerrada)
Prazo para submissão de artigos: 2 de março de 2026 (encerrada)
Propostas de workshops/tutoriais, competições e fóruns: 16 de março de 2026 (encerrada)
Notificação de aceitação de artigos: 16 de junho de 2026 (encerrada)
Prazo para artigo final e inscrição de autores: 16 de julho de 2026 (encerrada)
Prazo de inscrição antecipada: 24 de julho de 2026 (encerrada)
Prazo para late-breaking results: 10 de agosto de 2026 (encerrada)
Prazo de inscrição regular: 18 de setembro de 2026 (encerrada)
Workshops e tutoriais (dia 1): 27 de setembro de 2026 (encerrada)
Conferência principal: 28–30 de setembro de 2026 (encerrada)
Workshops e tutoriais (dia 2) e visitas técnicas: 1º de outubro de 2026 (encerrada)

Inscrição

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

Inscrever-se: https://xpressreg.net/register/iros0926/start.asp

Palestrantes principais

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

Workshops

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/

Links oficiais

Site: 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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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/iros2026pittsburgh