CFP: RoboTwin Workshop @ IEEE Smart World Congress 2026 (Deadline: May 1, 2026)

[Enrico Donato]

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the workshop:

“Digital Twin Frameworks for Real-World Robotic Learning” (RoboTwin)
co-located with the IEEE Smart World Conference 2026 (SWC 2026)

Where: University of Calabria @ Rende, Italy
When: September 7–10, 2026
Webpage: https://swc-ieee-2026.github.io/workshops/robo-twin/

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Call for Papers (Deadline: May 1, 2026)

We invite high-quality submissions in the following formats:

• Full papers (6 pages)
• Short papers (4 pages)
• Poster/Demo papers (2 pages)

Contributions will undergo peer review. All accepted and presented papers will be included in the SWC 2026 proceedings and indexed in: IEEE Xplore, Elsevier, IET, and Scopus.

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Workshop Scope

This workshop explores how digital twin frameworks can accelerate the development, validation, and deployment of learning-based robotic systems in real-world environments.

Topics include (but are not limited to):

• Digital twin modeling and engineering for robotics
• Photorealistic 3D reconstruction and surface modeling
• Metrics, benchmarking, and trustworthiness
• Learning-enabled robotics via digital twins
• Scalable architectures and real-world applications

For any questions or requests, please feel free to contact us.

Best regards,
The Workshop Organizers
Enrico Donato – Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna (enrico...@santannapisa.it)
Antonino Agostino – Baker Hughes
Guido Schillaci – Baker Hughes
Egidio Falotico – Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna

Enrico Donato, PhD

PostDoc in BioRobotics & Biomedical Engineer

BRAin Inspired Robotics (BRAIR) Laboratory

@ the BioRobotics Institute,

Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies

Viale R. Piaggio 34, 56025 Pontedera (PI), Italy

Email enrico...@santannapisa.it