

The Premier Conference in Robotics & Automation. The ICRA 2026 Congress will take place in the heart of Europe. 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.
Johannes Betz
Learning to Handle Autonomous Vehicles at the Limits – Lessons Learned from Real-World Autonomous Motorsport · Technical University of Munich
Michael Milford
From Neuroscience to Autonomous Vehicle Navigation · QUT Centre for Robotics
Aniket Bera
Toward Behaviorally-Intelligent Robots: Safe Navigation in Unstructured and Human-Centered Environments · Purdue University
Hesheng Wang
Learning to Navigate: From Scene Understanding to Decision Making · Global College, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Eric Diller
Using Magnetic Fields to Control Tiny Robots in the Gut and Brain · Robotics Institute at the University of Toronto
Fanny Ficuciello
From Bioinspired Design to Safe Control: Emerging Challenges in Medical Robotics · University of Naples Federico II
Tiantian Xu
Magnetically Actuated Microrobots for Precision Medicine · Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology (SIAT)
Haoyong Yu
Towards Wearable Robotics with better Portability, Safety, and Comfort · National University of Singapore (NUS)
Ayoung Kim
The Underdog Sensors: Are Robots Using Thermal and Radar Right? · Seoul National University (SNU)
Luca Carlone
Maps, Memory, and Tasks: Toward Spatial AI for the Next Generation of Robots · Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Maren Bennewitz
Advancing Service Robots Through Active Perception: Mapping and Object Search Under Occlusion · University of Bonn
Timothy Barfoot
Why Field Robotics Research Still Matters · University of Toronto
Jeannette Bohg
Do We Still Need Dexterous Hands? · Computer Science at Stanford University
Kento Kawaharazuka
Towards the Ultimate Humanoid: At the Intersection of Humans and Machines · Next Generation AI Research Center, The University of Tokyo
Nikos Tsagarakis
Modular Bodies and Recovery Capabilities: Building Robots for Unstructured Environments · Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT)
Yuke Zhu
Building Generalist Humanoid Robots · Computer Science Department of UT-Austin
Organized by
Supported by
Senior Program Committee
Nancy Amato
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Brenna Argall
Northwestern University
Sonia Chernova
Georgia Tech
Maria Pia Fanti
Politecnico di Bari
Sandra Faust
Amy Kyungwon Han
Seoul National University
Kris Hauser
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaig
Seth Hutchinson
Northeastern University
Lydia Kavraki
Rice University
Hanna Kurniawati
Australian National University
Kevin Lynch
Northwestern University
Marco Morales
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaig
Todd Murphey
Northwestern University
Allison Okamura
Stanford University
Christian Ott
Technische Universität Wien
Dimitra (Mika) Panagou
University of Michigan
Hugo Rodrigue
Sungkyunkwan University
Yu Sun
University of South Florida
Ram Vasudevan
University of Michigan
Matthew (Matt) Walter
Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago
