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

Workshops & Tutorials on Friday, 5 June 2026

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