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RSS 2026

Lab-to-Production Workshop

May 04 2026Sydney, AustraliaOfficial workshop site Site reachable

The RSS 2026 Lab to Production Workshop focuses on bridging the gap between academic robotics research and industrial deployment, particularly in perception and manipulation systems. It emphasizes adapting research methods to meet industrial demands for precision, reliability, and safety in manufacturing, warehousing, and logistics environments.

Official CFP Back to deadlines Verified September 9, 2026

Key deadlines

Verified September 9, 2026

Full paper

June 16, 2026

AoE

Workshop timeline

Submission and decisions

Full paperKey deadline

June 16, 2026 · AoE

Paper fit

Contribution paths

A strong submission should clearly identify its contribution and evaluate it appropriately.

Extended Abstract

Up to 3 pages (excluding references, acknowledgments, limitations, and appendix), formatted in the RSS template, submitted via OpenReview. Must include a Limitations section and an AI usage statement. Supplementary videos or data are welcome but not required.

Research areas in scope

Discussion Topics

High-precision, contact-rich assembly and fine motor skills for tight tolerance and dexterous insertion tasks, with perception tightly coupled to control.Monitoring, error detection, and failure recovery for robustness during extended assembly sequences.Perception and pose estimation under factory realities such as clutter, occlusion, transparent or reflective parts, and high-speed motion.Manipulation of diverse objects and with varied dynamics spanning fast pick-and-place of arbitrary objects and manipulating deformables like cables, belts, tape, packaging, and bags.Factory world modeling, high fidelity simulation, and benchmarking to support sim2real transfer and evaluate policies for assembly and manipulation.

Policies worth checking twice

All submissions must adhere to a double-blind review policy: no author names, affiliations, acknowledgments, or external links in the submission.
All submission metadata must be anonymized.
Submissions must include a Limitations section describing assumptions, failure modes, and future improvements.
Submissions must include an AI usage statement (even if no AI tools were used).
All authors must have an OpenReview profile created at least two weeks before the submission deadline.
Submissions must address the workshop’s research questions and topics.
Real-robot experiments or convincing simulation-to-real transfer evidence are encouraged.
Non-robotics submissions will be returned without review.

Official sources

Compiled from the official call for papers. The organizers’ pages remain authoritative.

Official workshop site

Last verified September 9, 2026