CALL FOR PAPERS
2026 IEEE Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2026) will take place in Vienna, Austria on June 1-5, 2026.
Being the flagship conference of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society, ICRA will bring together the world’s top researchers and leading companies to share ideas and advances in Robotics and Automation. The conference will include plenary sessions, contributed paper sessions, workshops and tutorial sessions, forums, exhibitions, and robot competitions.
Paper Submission: Deadline: 15 September 2025 (23:59 PST)
Papers to ICRA 2026 can be submitted through the PaperPlaza Portal. The page limit is 8 pages including all content: text, figures, tables, acknowledgements, and references. Papers exceeding this limit will be returned without review.
All papers must be submitted in PDF and must follow the ICRA double column format. Since this year, the ICRA review process is double-anonymous. While all co-authors must be entered in Paperplaza when submitting the paper, the author information must be removed on the submitted PDF. Information and templates are available here. It is the authors’ responsibility to not identify themselves in the response file. It is also the authors’ responsibility to download reviewers’ comments for the rejected paper and make it a part of author responses.
Submission of accompanying videos: Open (1) Aug 5-Sept 9, 2025, and (2) Sept 17-22, 2025 (23:59 PST).
We strongly encourage authors to submit a video clip to complement the paper submission. Please note that a video that was NOT submitted with the initial submission of an ICRA paper (during the two submission windows), will NOT be accepted at a later date.
Video uploads will be unavailable between 10 September and 16 September 2025, to allow the unhindered uploading/updating of the PDF manuscripts of contributed papers during that period.
Detailed Video submission guidelines for contributed ICRA papers:
- File size: up to 20MB
- Format (only one of the following should be used): mpeg, mp4, mpg
- Maximum duration: 180 sec.
- Minimum height: 480
- Minimum frame rate (fps): 20
- Scan type: Progressive
Presentation of RA-L, T-ASE, T-RO and RAM papers
All published papers from RAM and non-evolutionary published RA-L, T-ASE and T-RO papers are eligible for presentation at ICRA, during an eligibility time window. Authors are automatically offered the option to present their paper at one of these conferences upon notification of final acceptance. Please, check the webpage of the journals for information on eligibility time window: RA-L, RAM, T-ASE and T-RO. The deadline for transfer of journal papers to ICRA 2026 is 30 November 2025.
Guidelines Regarding the Use and Disclosure of AI Tools for Authors
Generative AI tools and technologies, such as ChatGPT, may not be listed as authors of a paper submitted to ICRA 2026. The use of content generated by AI in an article (including but not limited to text, figures, images, and code) must be disclosed in the acknowledgments section. The AI system used must be identified, and specific sections of the article that use AI-generated content should be specified and accompanied by a brief explanation regarding the manner in which the AI system was used to generate the content. The use of AI systems for editing and grammar enhancement is common practice and, as such, is generally outside the intent of the above policy.
GUIDELINES REGARDING THE USE AND DISCLOSURE OF AI TOOLS FOR REVIEWERS
Information or content contained in or about a manuscript under review shall not be processed through an AI system. Doing so is considered a breach of confidentiality and as such is not permitted.
FAQ
Traditionally, ICRA covers all areas of robotics research. In order to find out if your paper will fit to the conference, you may want to check the ICRA keywords. You can find the complete list of ICRA keywords here: Keywords – IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (ieee-ras.org)
When you submit a paper, you should select at least three keywords from this list.
The ICRA review process is double-anonymous (both reviewers and authors stay anonymous). Therefore, manuscripts should exclude the authors and their affiliations. However, when all the co-authors must be entered in Paperplaza at the time of first submission. The author information will be visible to the editors and AEs only, but not to reviewers.
You can find templates here: Important Information for Manuscript Preparation (papercept.net)
The allowed paper length is 8 pages, meaning 8 pages for the complete paper content including all material and references. Any supplementary material must fit within the 8 regular pages. A video attachment is possible.
There is no plan to extend the paper submission deadline.
You can include URLs (not links embedded in the pdf), but you should not expect that reviewers will look at those links, or that they will influence the review process. Beyond the submitted paper and the (optional) supplementary video, reviewers are not required to look at any other material when writing their reviews.
Please find more information of the PDF requirements on Compliance (papercept.net).
IEEE supports the evolutionary publication paradigm of workshop papers being improved to conference papers, which are then improved to journal papers. Therefore, papers, which previously have been published at a workshop without formal/peer reviewed proceedings, can be submitted to ICRA. Similarly, papers, which have been uploaded on a preprint server (e.g. arxiv) and are not submitted simultaneously to any other conference or journal, can be submitted to ICRA.
However, if your workshop paper has a DOI, this would be considered as an archival publication equivalent to a conference paper. Such papers cannot be submitted.
If you want to transfer an accepted paper from one of the journals T-ASE, T-FR, or RA-P to ICRA, the paper should be submitted in paperplaza in the relevant submission category of ICRA. Do not submit it as a regular ICRA paper! For the paper upload, you will need to enter a code, which can be obtained from the Editor-In-Chief of the journal.
Notice that papers from T-RO, RA-M, and RA-L follow a different process and do not require a code. Authors of accepted papers will receive an email from PaperCept regarding the transfer of their paper to a conference at which they wish to present their paper.
The deadline for all transfers of journal papers to ICRA 2026 is 30 November 2025.
