Workshops & Tutorials - IEEE ICRA 2026

ICRA 2026 Workshops and Tutorials

ICRA 2026 will again feature workshops and tutorials on Monday, 1 June 2026 and Friday, 5 June 2026.

Below you can find the lists (in alphabetical order, divided by day) of accepted workshops & tutorials. The info, which half-day session is in the morning or in the afternoon plus the room numbers and further explanations) will be released at a later stage.

2026 Workshop and Tutorial Timing
Full-day:
09:00 – 17:30

Half-day:
Morning session: 09:00 – 12:30
Afternoon session: 14:00 – 17:30

Coffee and Lunch Breaks
Morning coffee break: 10:30 – 11:00
Lunch break: 12:30 – 14:00 (no official lunch provided by ICRA)
Afternoon coffee break: 15:30 – 16:00

Workshops & Tutorials on Monday, 1 June 2026

Category	Name of Workshop / Tutorial	Full Day / Half Day	Monday, 1 June 2026	Room Name
Tutorials
Tutorial	Digital Twins for UAV Autonomy: From Model-Based Design to Verified Deployment	HALF	AFTERNOON	Stolz 1
Tutorial	Riemann and Gauss meet Asimov: 3rd Tutorial on Geometric Methods in Robot Learning, Optimization and Control	FULL	FULL DAY	Lehar 1
Tutorial	SimR: Simulation and Robotics Tutorial	HALF	MORNING	Stolz 1
Workshops
Workshop	1st Workshop on Generalization in Autonomous Driving: Paradigms, Practice, and Public Road Demonstrations	HALF	AFTERNOON	Strauss 1
Workshop	1st Workshop on Long-term Deployments in the Wild (LoWi): Perception, Learning, and Navigation	FULL	FULL DAY	Strauss 2
Workshop	2nd Workshop on Robot Ethics – Ethical, Legal and User Perspectives in Robotics and Automation (WOROBET)	FULL	FULL DAY	Business Suite 3-4
Workshop	4th Robot-Assisted Medical Imaging. ICRA-RAMI	FULL	FULL DAY	Schubert 3
Workshop	8th International Workshop on Robotics Software Engineering (RoSE26)	FULL	FULL DAY	Schubert 2
Workshop	Accelerating Discovery in Natural Science Laboratories with AI and Robotics	FULL	FULL DAY	Schubert 4
Workshop	Act to Sense to Act Better: 1st Workshop on Learning and Representations for Active Perception in Manipulation	FULL	FULL DAY	Hall C4
Workshop	Aerial inspection for marine infrastructures	HALF	MORNING	Hall C5
Workshop	AI-Driven Soft Robotics: Innovations, Challenges, and Future Directions	FULL	FULL DAY	Hall C2
Workshop	A user-centered perspective on human-robot sensorimotor augmentation	HALF	AFTERNOON	Schubert 5
Workshop	Catching Them Young: Engaging Students in Robotics Standardization	HALF	AFTERNOON	Business Suite 1-2
Workshop	Circular Robotics: Designing Sustainable Autonomy for a Finite World	HALF	AFTERNOON	Hall C5
Workshop	Connected Autonomous Robotic Systems	HALF	AFTERNOON	Hall C3
Workshop	Dexterity with Multifingered Hands: Hardware, Sensing, and Skills	FULL	FULL DAY	Stolz 2
Workshop	Embodied AI and the Future of Telepresence through Robotics	HALF	MORNING	Strauss 1
Workshop	From Sea to Space: Advancing Perception in Harsh Domains	FULL	FULL DAY	Hall C1
Workshop	Generative Digital Twins for Sim2Real and Real2Sim Transfer in Robotics	FULL	FULL DAY	Hall A3
Workshop	Investing in Robotics: How to Judge, What Breaks, What’s Hot	HALF	MORNING	Hall C3
Workshop	Joint Workshop on Ontologies, Semantic Maps and Autonomous Robotics Standardization	FULL	FULL DAY	Schubert 6
Workshop	MM-Spatial AI: Multi-Modal Spatial AI for Robust Navigation and Open-World Understanding	FULL	FULL DAY	Lehar 3
Workshop	Multimodal Embodied Interaction in Robots	HALF	MORNING	Hall A2
Workshop	Multi-modal robotics for sustainable environmental sensing	HALF	MORNING	Lehar 5
Workshop	Notes and Bots: A Workshop on Robotic Musicianship	FULL	FULL DAY	Galerie Lounge 1-4
Workshop	Open Challenges for Rigorous Robot Perception	FULL	FULL DAY	VIP Lounge C
Workshop	Radar in Robotics: New Frontiers	FULL	FULL DAY	Hall C7
Workshop	Shared Challenges in Human-Centered and Resilient Robotic Autonomy	FULL	FULL DAY	Hall C6
Workshop	Signals in Sync: Multi-Modal Interfaces and AI-Driven Control for Next-Gen Prosthetics	HALF	MORNING	Schubert 5
Workshop	Synthetic Data for Robot Learning	FULL	FULL DAY	Strauss 3
Workshop	The Good Reviewer: Shaping up peer-review in the robotics community	HALF	MORNING	Business Suite 1-2
Workshop	The SOFT frontier 3: Soft or Rigid? New Trends in Wearable Robotics	HALF	AFTERNOON	Lehar 5
Workshop	Towards Large-Area Tactile Sensing Skins: From Scalable Materials to Embodied Robotic Perception	HALF	AFTERNOON	Hall A2
Workshop	ViTac – Learning to See and Feel: Vision-Tactile Synergy for Embodied AI	HALF	MORNING	Schubert 1
Workshop	Workshop on Agricultural Robotics: Dealing with the complex agricultural environment	FULL	FULL DAY	Stolz 0
Workshop	Workshop on Frontiers of Optimization for Robotics, 2nd Edition	FULL	FULL DAY	Lehar 4
Workshop	Workshop on Pedestrian Behavior Prediction	HALF	AFTERNOON	Schubert 1
Workshop	Workshop on Reinforcement Learning in the Era of Imitation Learning	FULL	FULL DAY	Hall A1
Workshop	Workshop on the Path Towards Generalizable Contact-Rich Robotics: Control and Representation	FULL	FULL DAY	Lehar 2

Workshops & Tutorials on Friday, 5 June 2026

Category	Name of Workshop / Tutorial	Full Day / Half Day	Friday, 5 June 2026	Room Name
Tutorials
Tutorial	Hands-on Tutorial: 3D tactile sensor integration in robotic fingers for smart manipulation.	HALF	AFTERNOON	Strauss 2
Workshops
Workshop	1st Workshop on Robot Meets GNSS and Ranging for Seamless Autonomy: Exploring Synergies and Challenges of Radio-based Ranging Technologies in Robotics	FULL	FULL DAY	Schubert 5
Workshop	20 Years of Workshops on Benchmarking and Reproducibility: Part I Reproducibility	FULL	FULL DAY	Schubert 3
Workshop	2nd Workshop on e-Heritage and Robotics	HALF	MORNING	Stolz 2
Workshop	3rd Unconventional Robots: From Concept to Real-World Systems	FULL	FULL DAY	Lehar 4
Workshop	4th Workshop on NeuroDesign in Human-Robot Interaction: The making of engaging HRI technology your brain can’t resist	FULL	FULL DAY	Stolz 0
Workshop	8th Workshop on Long-Term Human Motion Prediction	FULL	FULL DAY	Hall C7
Workshop	Advances and Challenges in AI-Driven Automation and Robotic System Integration with Digital Twins	HALF	AFTERNOON	Stolz 2
Workshop	AI-Driven Safe Aerial Robotics	FULL	FULL DAY	Lehar 2
Workshop	Beyond Teloperation: Learning from Diverse Human and Simulation Data	FULL	FULL DAY	Strauss 3
Workshop	Bridging the Gap between Robot Learning and Human-Robot Interaction	FULL	FULL DAY	Hall A2
Workshop	Challenges and Opportunities of Neuromorphic Field Robotics and Automation	FULL	FULL DAY	Lehar 5
Workshop	Embracing Intelligent Robotic Assistants for Robot-assisted Surgery in the Era of Embodied Intelligence: Trends, Opportunities, and Challenges	FULL	FULL DAY	Hall C1
Workshop	Emerging paradigms for robotic manipulation: the reality of extreme conditions	HALF	MORNING	Hall A3
Workshop	Enabling Autonomy and Independence in Aging Societies through Advanced Robotics and AI: Methods, Challenges, and Future Perspectives	FULL	FULL DAY	Business Suite 3-4
Workshop	Field Robotics	FULL	FULL DAY	Stolz 1
Workshop	From Data to Decisions: VLA Pipelines for Real Robots	FULL	FULL DAY	Hall A1
Workshop	Geometry in the Age of Data-Driven Robotics	FULL	FULL DAY	Hall C4
Workshop	How Origami and Kirigami Have Revolutionized Robotics and What’s Beyond?	HALF	MORNING	Strauss 2
Workshop	Human-Inspired Principles for Robotic Dexterous Manipulation: What Are We Missing?	FULL	FULL DAY	Hall C5
Workshop	Open Challenges in Robotics for Asset Inspection and Management (OCRAIM)	FULL	FULL DAY	Galerie Lounge 1-4
Workshop	Perceptual Challenges for Planetary Exploration: Enabling The Next Generation of Space Robotic Missions	FULL	FULL DAY	Hall C2
Workshop	REaCT: Robotics for Environmental Assessment and Climate action	FULL	FULL DAY	Schubert 6
Workshop	RoboARCH: Robotics Acceleration with Computing Hardware and Systems	FULL	FULL DAY	Schubert 2
Workshop	RoboTac 2026: Embodied Tactile Intelligence in Predictive Perception, Learning, & Control in Grasp & Manipulation: Emerging the Role of Embodiment and Visuo-Tactile-LLM Foundation Models	FULL	FULL DAY	Hall C6
Workshop	Robots Meet Prior Maps: Leveraging Geometric and Semantic Priors for Real-World Robot Autonomy	FULL	FULL DAY	Lehar 1
Workshop	Scaling Compositional Intelligence for Multi-Agent Robotic Systems	FULL	FULL DAY	Schubert 1
Workshop	Semantics for Reliable Robot Autonomy: From Environment Understanding and Reasoning to Safe Interaction	FULL	FULL DAY	VIP Lounge C
Workshop	Soft & Safe? Rethinking the Role of Softness in Medical Robotics	FULL	FULL DAY	Business Suite 1-2
Workshop	Tailored to Move: Wearable Robotics for Motion Assistance	FULL	FULL DAY	Schubert 4
Workshop	Uncertainty in Open-World Robotics	FULL	FULL DAY	Strauss 1
Workshop	Workshop on Intelligent Space Robotics and Systems	FULL	FULL DAY	Lehar 3
Workshop	Workshop on Manipulation Robustness: Towards Human-Level Robustness under Real-World Challenges	HALF	AFTERNOON	Hall A3
Workshop	Xplore: Cross-Disciplinary aspects of Exploration in Robotics, Reinforcement Learning, and Search	FULL	FULL DAY	Hall C3