IROS 2026 WorkshopFull-Shift Robot Co-Workers
Call for contributions

Call for Contributions

We invite paper submissions and poster contributions on full-shift robot co-workers: robots that can perceive, reason, coordinate, recover, and remain useful across long periods of real work around people.

Submissions opening soon

We welcome both technical papers and grounded field perspectives.

The workshop is especially interested in work that connects perception, planning, learning, evaluation, and human-robot interaction to the practical problem of keeping robots useful through complete workplace shifts.

Accepted submissions will be invited for poster presentation, and selected submissions may be invited for spotlight talks, panel discussion, or workshop awards, subject to the final program.

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Submission link
Coming soon
Deadlines
To be announced
Format
Paper, short paper, poster, or deployment report
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Topics of interest

What we are looking for

  • Long-horizon robot autonomy across real work shifts
  • Active perception, state estimation, mapping, and scene understanding
  • Task planning, scheduling, recovery, and continual operation
  • Human-robot coordination, intent understanding, and safe interaction
  • Embodied AI and foundation models for workplace robots
  • Evaluation protocols, benchmarks, metrics, and reproducibility
  • Reliability, failure analysis, negative results, and deployment lessons
  • Industrial, warehouse, hospital, campus, and service-robot case studies
Submission types

Papers are welcome, and so are honest deployment lessons.

Workshop Papers

Research papers on methods, systems, evaluation, and lessons for robots operating around people over extended periods.

Short Papers

Early-stage ideas, compact technical contributions, and position papers that frame open problems for the community.

Posters and Demos

Poster presentations, system demonstrations, datasets, benchmarks, and work-in-progress results.

Deployment Reports

Field reports, failure cases, negative results, and practical observations from real robot operation.

Early-career track

Students and postdocs can also submit for Junior Voice.

View Junior Voice