IROS 2026 WorkshopFull-Shift Robot Co-Workers
Robot sending workshop paper submissions

Call for Papers

IROS 2026Pittsburgh, PASeptember 27 · 8:00 AM-5:30 PM
Scope

Robots that work beyond the demo.

This workshop focuses on robots that remain useful across complete workplace shifts: perceiving changing environments, reasoning before acting, interacting safely with people, recovering from failures, and continuing operation over long horizons.

We welcome not only polished methods, but also field reports, negative results, failure analyses, and lessons learned from real deployments.

Topics

Topics of Interest

PERCEIVE

Understand changing human environments

  • Active perception
  • State estimation and mapping
  • Scene understanding
  • Human activity awareness
THINK

Reason before acting

  • Task planning and scheduling
  • Recovery and continual operation
  • Embodied AI and foundation models
  • Uncertainty-aware decision making
ACT

Interact and execute safely

  • Human-robot coordination
  • Intent understanding
  • Safe interaction
  • Demos and workplace case studies
ENDURE

Remain useful across a shift

  • Long-horizon autonomy
  • Evaluation protocols and metrics
  • Reliability and failure analysis
  • Negative results and deployment lessons
Submission checklist

Submission Format

Paper length

4 or 6 pages in standard IEEE two-column conference format.

Submission types

Work in progress, demos, deployment reports, and position pieces are welcome.

Presentation

Accepted papers will be presented as posters.

Awards

Best Workshop Paper and Best Poster awards are planned.

Supported by our workshop sponsors.