[meetings] IEEE RO-MAN 2026 Workshop - OCARE : Opportunities and Challenges for Assistive Robotics in Elder care

[Rachid Alami]

Dear Colleagues

We invite you to submit contributions to:

"OCARE : Opportunities and Challenges for Assistive Robotics in Elder care"

This workshop will be a full-day event held in a hybrid format on August 28, 2026.
It is organized in conjunction with the IEEE RO-MAN 2026 Conference, in Kitakyushu, Japan.

The following list represents the topics we aim to address in a context of older adults care:
- Assistive Robotics for people with special needs (e.g., older adults, people with disabilities)
- Rehabilitation Robotics and Physical Therapy
- Case studies and real-world implementations of assistive robots for elder care and/or people with disabilities
- Interaction of assistive robots with care personnel
- Assistive and service robotics for care personnel
- Long-term deployments of physical caregiving robots
- Ethical and social implications of interactive robotics in healthcare
- Current limitations of assistive robots for older adult care
- Foundation models for physical caregiving robots
- Breakthroughs needed for assistive robots for older adult care
- Embodied assistive robotics for mobility support, rehabilitation, and physical caregiving (e.g., robotic walkers, wearable robots, smart environments, and interactive physical assistance systems)

For more details and submission: https://ocare.sciencesconf.org/ and https://ro-man2026.org/

Schedule:
- Short paper submission deadline: July 1
- Notification of acceptance: July 15
- Final version submission deadline: August 2

Organizers:
Rachid Alami, LAAS-CNRS
Tom Shibata, Kyushu Institute of Technology
Claudia Müller, University of Siegen
Timothée Dhaussy, LAAS-CNRS
Yuko Tamaki-Welply, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS)

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- Rachid Alami
https://homepages.laas.fr/rachid/