CALL FOR PAPERS NOW CLOSED!
We thank you for a record-breaking submission number of 5.088 papers for the upcoming ICRA 2026 Conference.
The review process has now started.
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.
Important Dates:
Acceptance message: January 31, 2026
Paperplaza opens for final submission: February 6, 2026
Author registration: March 6, 2026
Deadline Early Registration: March 31, 2026
Deadline Standard Registration: May 22, 2026
RESUBMISSION OF PAPERS REJECTED FROM IROS 2025
ICRA 2026 introduces a new submission category “IROS-ICRA transfer” for papers that previously were submitted to IROS 2025, but were not accepted for publication. The submission should include an additional Author Response File (PDF) to clarify how the comments from the AE/Editor and the reviewers were taken into account in the preparation of the revised paper. The papers will undergo a regular review process.
It is 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.
Presentation of RA-L, RAM, T-ASE, T-RO and T-FR papers
All published papers from RAM and non-evolutionary published RA-L, T-ASE, T-RO and T-FR 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, T-RO and T-FR. The deadline for transfer of journal papers to ICRA 2026 is 31st December 2025.
For Authors: Guidelines regarding the use and disclosure of AI tools
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.
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.