The 2026 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2026) will be held from 27 September – 1 October in Pittsburgh, USA. The programme includes plenary and keynote talks, workshops, tutorials, forums, competitions, and a debate.
Elena De Momi – Open Questions on the Road to Autonomous Surgery
Genta Suzuki – Fujitsu Kozuchi Physical OS: A Research Strategy for Scalable Physical AI
Yekai Sun – Tokens of the Physical World: Accelerating Intelligence Emergence via Multimodal Embodied Data
He Wang – Towards the AlphaGo and ChatGPT Moments of Embodied AI
Jen Jen Chung – All data are equal, but some data are more equal than others
Yigit Menguc – Soft Robotics, Tensegrity, and the People Who Love Them
Robin Murphy – Rethinking Disaster Robotics: The Open Questions That Matter Now
Gina Olson – Embracing Design Complexity: A Biomimetic Approach to (Soft?) Snake Robots
Tim Bretl – How you can be part of a revolution in composite manufacturing Lael Odhner – Big bets in manipulation systems: where is the frontier today?
David Held – Robots That Learn After Deployment: Designing Policies for Fast Adaptation
Brittany Duncan – Patterns from the Field: how contextual lessons can inform robot design
Ralph Hollis – Lorentz Levitation Technology for Fine Motion Robotics, Haptic Interaction, and Vibration Isolation
Genki Yamauchi – From Big Sites to Every Site: Extending Construction Robotics to the Work Done by Hand
Community discussion sessions open to all attendees, these forums will be held on Monday 28 and Tuesday 29 September.
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