[CFP] 13th Italian Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (AIRO 2026), held in conjunction with the 24th Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AIxIA 2026)

[Gloria Beraldo]

CFP: 13th Italian Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (AIRO 2026) *** WORKSHOP ANNOUNCEMENT *** [Apologies for multiple copies of this announcement] ******************************************************************************************* 13th Italian Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (AIRO 2026) https://www.airo-aixia.it/workshops/airo2026 October 6 - 9, 2026 Perugia, Italy Held in conjunction with the 24th Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AIxIA 2026)

https://aixia2026.unipg.it/index.html ******************************************************************************************* Aims and Scope The goal of AIRO 2026 is to foster the discussion about the use of Artificial Intelligence methods to design intelligent robots. AI principles and methods play a crucial role in several areas of Robotics research (e.g., field, service, social robotics, etc.) and are pervasively exploited at various levels of robot architectures. We argue that robot intelligence is a property arising from the interaction between robots and their environment. As we expect robots to leave lab settings and to take part to our everyday life, either at home or in public spaces, the notion of AI as a separated and somewhat peculiar functionality of a robotic architecture shows its intrinsic limitations. On the contrary, the main motivation of AIRO 2026 is the belief that AI techniques should permeate all levels of a robotic architecture, with respect to both hardware and software components. Sensing, representation and action can greatly benefit from the adoption of various forms of AI. The scientific relevance of the workshop is related to how diverse areas of AI research can be used to design robots able to face complex challenges in real-world tasks. The scope of AIRO 2026 encompasses such diverse yet intertwined research areas as Sensing and Perception, Intelligent Control, Cognition and Adaptation, Foundation Models and Embodied AI, Vision-Language Models (VLMs) and Vision-Language-Action Models (VLAs) for Robotics, Robot Task Learning, Sim-to-Real Transfer, Human-Robot Collaboration, Safe and Trustworthy Robotics, Behaviour and Reasoning Models, knowledge Representation and Ontologies, but also robot engineering tools, real-time software architectures and fast-prototyping techniques. Starting from these fields, and in continuity with the previous AIRO workshops, we will explore how robot intelligence is expected to play major roles when robots interact with humans and when dealing with unpredictable real-world situations, like human assistance, housekeeping or autonomous driving, just to name three of the most common scenarios. Over the years, AIRO has established itself as a meeting point for researchers and practitioners working at the intersection of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, fostering collaborations across the Italian community and beyond. Workshop Format and submission The workshop will include oral presentations, system demonstrations and posters related to the integration of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics. Invited talks will complement presentations of contributed papers. Prospective authors wishing to give either an oral or poster presentation will be required to submit a 5-page extended abstract (not including references). People interested in presenting a live demo or a video demonstration of their work, will be required to submit a 1-page abstract describing the main relevant aspects of the demo/video. All the 5-page extended abstracts and the 1-page abstracts will formthe Proceedings of the event, which will be published in the CEUR Workshop Proceedings AIxIA Series, as in previous Workshop editions, as well as on the workshop website. Additional submission and format details can be found at https://www.airo-aixia.it/workshops/airo2026/submissions Important Dates Submission deadline: July 30th, 2026 Notification of acceptance: August 30th, 2026 Camera Ready: TBA, 2026 Workshop days: October 2026 (co-located with AIxIA 2026, exact day TBA) Workshop Organizers Gloria Beraldo (National Research Council, CNR, Rome, Italy) Alberto Castellini (Universita' di Verona, Verona, Italy) Alberto Finzi (Universita' di Napoli "Federico II", Naples, Italy) Fabio Patrizi (Sapienza, Universita' di Roma, Roma, Italy)