Paper Track
Accepted submissions will be presented as posters; a subset may be selected for short spotlight presentations.
Robotics/CORE Unranked
IROS 2026
IROS 2026 Workshop on Insect-Scale Autonomy
The IROS 2026 Workshop on Insect-scale Autonomy focuses on enabling reliable autonomy in robotic systems with extreme resource constraints, such as limited power, memory, computation, and size. It brings together researchers to explore bio-inspired solutions in perception, mechanics, and edge AI for tiny robots operating under tight physical and computational budgets.
Key deadlines
Verified August 30, 2026Full paper
September 2, 2026
AoE
Workshop timeline
Submission and decisions
Full paperKey deadline
September 2, 2026 · AoE
Paper fit
Contribution paths
A strong submission should clearly identify its contribution and evaluate it appropriately.
Research areas in scope
01
Resource-aware perception and learning
Perception and learning methods that extract task-relevant information from limited sensing and dataOperating under severe energy, memory, bandwidth, and latency constraints
02
Mechanics, actuation, design, and control
Co-design of morphology, actuation, compliant mechanics, passive dynamics, and feedback controlProducing agile behavior at small scales where conventional robot design assumptions fail
03
On-board compute, edge AI hardware, and deployment
Embedded architectures and system software for on-board perception, estimation, planning, learning, and controlOperating under strict energy, memory, latency, thermal, and communication budgets
Policies worth checking twice
- Submission deadline extended to September 1, 2026, at 11:59 PM AoE
- All accepted Paper Track submissions will be presented as posters
- A subset of accepted papers will be selected for short spotlight presentations
- A Best Paper Award will be presented
- A Best Poster Award may be presented, subject to number and quality of eligible contributions
Official sources
Compiled from the official call for papers. The organizers’ pages remain authoritative.
Last verified August 30, 2026