Short papers
4 pages excluding references, using the two-column IEEE template; authors present a seven-minute talk with seven minutes for Q&A.
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IJCAI SPAI Workshop 2026
1st IJCAI Workshop on Safe Physical AI
The 1st IJCAI Workshop on Safe Physical AI, held at the University of Bremen in August 2026, brings together researchers from robotics, AI safety, machine learning, planning, and ethics to address the challenges of ensuring physical and cognitive safety in embodied AI systems. The workshop focuses on developing shared methodologies for verification, interpretability, uncertainty quantification, and alignment in real-world autonomous systems operating in human environments.
Paper fit
Contribution paths
A strong submission should clearly identify its contribution and evaluate it appropriately.
Extended abstracts
1 page excluding references, using the two-column IEEE template; authors present a two-minute lightning talk.
Research areas in scope
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Safe Physical AI Research Topics
Safe decision making and action selection for embodied agentsUncertainty quantification, risk estimation, and probabilistic verificationInterpretability of policies and world models, including mechanistic and behavioral approachesTask specification, alignment, and intent understanding for physical agentsMonitoring and evaluation of untrusted models or untrusted hardwareRuntime verification, safety shields, and control-theoretic safety mechanismsBridging classical robot safety and statistical learning: safety beyond toy domainsSafe operation in social, contextual, and multi-agent environmentsStress testing, benchmarking, and evaluation methodologiesContributions from ethics, law, and philosophy to physical AI safetyInterdisciplinary perspectives on risk taxonomies, safety vocabularies, and conceptual foundationsHardware and computational design choices for safety in physical AISafe autonomy in real-world cyberphysical systems, including aerial, mobile, and manipulation platforms
Policies worth checking twice
- Review is single-blind.
- Submissions of work previously published or under review at other venues are accepted, provided authors indicate this at submission.
- All submissions must use the two-column IEEE template.
- Authors of short papers and extended abstracts are strongly encouraged to submit a poster and join speaker office hours.
- Contributed talks are 5 minutes plus 1 minute for handover, with no questions in the room; discussion occurs during poster sessions.
Official sources
Compiled from the official call for papers. The organizers’ pages remain authoritative.
Last verified September 9, 2026