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Call for Papers | COMPSAC 2026 Symposium on Cognitive Robotic Systems
Call for Papers of the COMPSAC 2026 Symposium on Cognitive Robotic Systems (CRoS), which will take place from 7 to 10 July in Madrid (Spain).
The large foundational models in Artificial Intelligence (AI) have transformed machine cognition to the level that today humans can interact with machines using audio, video, chat, and gestures almost at the human-level. Multi-agent frameworks equipped with advanced predictive and prescriptive models and decision algorithms are serving as the backbone of intelligent robotic systems and services in many application domains. However, the technology still lacks open-source models for autonomous goal- oriented real time voice conversation, multimodal sensory perception, autonomous navigation in small mobile robots, effective fusion of AI and control theory for smooth robotic movements, and integration of world knowledge for situational awareness.
Among the organisers Fabrizio Lamberti of the Department of Control and Computer Engineering-DAUIN.
Topics
The symposium invites researchers to submit high quality research on robotic systems and services (with and without mechanical moving components). Robot demonstrations, extended abstracts on ongoing research (2 pages) are accepted, along with high quality research papers as short papers (4 pages) and full papers (8 pages) on validated research prototypes.
Possible topics for this Call include, but are not limited to:
Deadline for submitting contributions: 10 February 2026 (with the possibility of an extension).
For more information, please visit the conference website or contact Fabrizio Lamberti.
The large foundational models in Artificial Intelligence (AI) have transformed machine cognition to the level that today humans can interact with machines using audio, video, chat, and gestures almost at the human-level. Multi-agent frameworks equipped with advanced predictive and prescriptive models and decision algorithms are serving as the backbone of intelligent robotic systems and services in many application domains. However, the technology still lacks open-source models for autonomous goal- oriented real time voice conversation, multimodal sensory perception, autonomous navigation in small mobile robots, effective fusion of AI and control theory for smooth robotic movements, and integration of world knowledge for situational awareness.
Among the organisers Fabrizio Lamberti of the Department of Control and Computer Engineering-DAUIN.
Topics
The symposium invites researchers to submit high quality research on robotic systems and services (with and without mechanical moving components). Robot demonstrations, extended abstracts on ongoing research (2 pages) are accepted, along with high quality research papers as short papers (4 pages) and full papers (8 pages) on validated research prototypes.
Possible topics for this Call include, but are not limited to:
- Context aware robots sharing space with humans
- Autonomous and embodied robots
- Grounding language in perception and action
- World-model learning and predictive simulation for robots
- Agentic AI for robot perception
- Assistive cognitive robots
- Emotion and/or gesture perception in cognitive robots
- Conversational robots
- Human robot interactions
- Collaborative robots (cobots) with cognitive reasoning
- Companion robots
- Robot pets
- High precision cognitive robots
- Mind, knowledge, and awareness in robots
- Policies for robot behaviour – do and don’t
- Safe robots and safety of robots
- Cultural adaptation and personalization in robotic systems
- Memory systems and episodic learning in cognitive robots
- Cognitive robotic applications
Deadline for submitting contributions: 10 February 2026 (with the possibility of an extension).
For more information, please visit the conference website or contact Fabrizio Lamberti.