Short Papers
Up to 4 pages (excluding references and appendices)
Robotics/CORE Unranked
RoBoWoMo 2026
Workshop on Bridging the Gap between Neural and Symbolic World Models for Robot Planning, Reasoning, and Action
RoBoWoMo 2026 is a full-day workshop affiliated with IROS 2026 that brings together researchers working on neural and symbolic world models for robotics. The workshop aims to bridge the gap between these two communities by fostering dialogue on unification, application, and evaluation of hybrid architectures to improve robot planning, reasoning, and action.
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Contribution paths
A strong submission should clearly identify its contribution and evaluate it appropriately.
Long Papers
Up to 8 pages (excluding references and appendices)
Research areas in scope
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Hybrid Modular Systems and End-to-End Architectures
Neuro-symbolic graph networksNeural aiding symbolic: enhancing symbolic domains via latent world models for symbol (predicates, preconditions, and effects) discovery, extraction, and interpretability of embeddingsNeuro-symbolic program inductionFoundation model driven symbol generation for robotics tasksSymbolic aiding neural: leveraging symbolic planners for data collection to train neural world models for trajectory generationSymbolic priors to improve neural architecturesLatent dynamics combined with symbolic constraint modules
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Task and Application Driven Robot World Modeling
Creating world model systems for specific robot applications and domains such as manufacturingUtilizing, adapting, and integrating non-robot specific world models for robotic systems and applications
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Benchmarking, Evaluation, and Analysis
Defining metrics for a 'sufficient' robot world modelEvaluating hybrid systems/architectures across modeling fidelity, diverse task success, deployment readiness, horizon limitsAnalyzing benefits and drawbacks of combining neural and symbolic models
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Surveys and Taxonomies
Comprehensive reviews of existing literature on neural, symbolic, and hybrid (neuro-symbolic) world models applied to robotic domainsSurveys compiling literature that adapts and transfers world modeling techniques from non-robotics fields into robot applications and systemsTaxonomies that illustrate and clarify the varying definitions, scopes, and types (e.g., neural, symbolic, hybrid) of 'world models' across different research communities, tasks, and robotic applications
Policies worth checking twice
- All submissions must be anonymized (double-blind)
- Submissions must be formatted using the standard IEEE conference paper format (IROS/ICRA style)
- Supplementary material or appendices may be included after references, but reviewers are not required to read them
- This workshop is a non-archival venue: accepted papers will not be published in formal IROS proceedings
- Authors retain copyright and may resubmit accepted work to future venues or journals
- Dual submissions are welcome (e.g., work in progress, preprints, papers under review, or recently published), but authors are encouraged to verify the other venue’s dual-submission policy
Official sources
Compiled from the official call for papers. The organizers’ pages remain authoritative.
Last verified September 9, 2026