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SeMaNa 2026
First Workshop on Semantic-Aware Mapping and Navigation: Towards Cognitive and Adaptive Robots
The SeMaNa 2026 workshop, held in conjunction with IROS, focuses on advancing semantic-aware mapping and navigation to enable cognitive and adaptive robotic behaviors. It brings together researchers from robotics, AI, and computer vision to explore how semantic representations, learned scene understanding, and multimodal large language models can improve robot navigation in complex, unstructured environments.
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Contribution paths
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Research areas in scope
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Topics of Interest
Semantic SLAM3D scene understanding3D scene graphs and hierarchical mapsNeural-symbolic spatial reasoningTopological and metric-semantic mapsMM-LLMs and VLAs for robot navigationVision-language groundingFoundation models for mobile robotsOpen-vocabulary scene understandingSemantic mapping in outdoor environmentsEmbodied AI and vision-language-action modelsSim-to-real for semantic navigationSemantic exploration and active mappingHuman-robot interaction and semanticsMulti-modal perceptionLong-term autonomy in dynamic environmentsMapping for interaction and planning
Policies worth checking twice
- Submissions must be double-blind: author names, affiliations, and acknowledgments must be removed; self-citations must be in third person.
- Submissions must follow the official IEEE RAS double-column format using provided LaTeX or MS Word templates.
- Submissions must be between 2 and 4 pages in length (references excluded).
- Workshop proceedings are non-archival; submissions may summarize previously published work or work under review elsewhere.
- Each submission will be reviewed by at least two independent reviewers.
- At least one author of each accepted paper must attend the workshop to present the work.
- Accepted papers will be presented as posters in two thematic clusters.
- A Best Paper Award and a Best Student Paper Award will be presented.
Official sources
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Last verified September 9, 2026