See and understand the world.
active perception · multimodal sensing · spatial understanding · human activity awareness
IROS 2026 Full-Day Workshop · September 27 · Pittsburgh, PA
Can your robotwork for eight hours?
Full-Shift Robot Co-Workers
Active Perception and Interaction for Human Environments
A full-day workshop on robots that can perceive, reason, act, recover, and adapt across real workplace shifts.
Sunday, September 27, 2026 · 8:00 AM-5:30 PM
Full-shift robot challenge
Perceive. Think. Act. Endure.
Reason and predict before acting.
world models · consequence prediction · uncertainty estimation · task and motion planning
Execute and interact reliably.
language-conditioned control · VLA models · mobile manipulation · dexterous skills
Work across a full shift.
long-horizon autonomy · memory · monitoring · failure recovery · adaptation
Intro to this workshop
Robots clocking in for a real workday.
The workshop focuses on active perception, interaction, planning, recovery, and evaluation for robots operating around people in real workplace environments.
We welcome work that connects technical methods with deployment evidence, including field reports, negative results, and lessons from real systems.
Work in progress, demos, deployment reports, and position pieces are welcome in IEEE two-column workshop paper format.
Call for Junior VoicesStudents, postdocs, and early-career researchers: prove it.Share emerging ideas, deployment lessons, and sharp perspectives on robots working beyond the demo.
We plan to recognize outstanding workshop paper and poster contributions. Details will be announced closer to the workshop.
Sponsors
Contact
For workshop questions, contact chuchu.chen@gwu.edu.