[Meetings] [CfP] RSS SemRob 2026: Workshop on Semantic Reasoning and Goal Understanding in Robotics

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Call for Papers: 3rd RSS Workshop on Semantic Reasoning and Goal Understanding in Robotics (RSS SemRob 2026)

Workshop website: https://semrob.github.io

Submission link: https://openreview.net/group?id=roboticsfoundation.org/RSS/2026/Workshop/SemRob

Paper Submission Deadline: 8 June 2026, 23:59 AOE

Workshop Date: 17 July 2026

Workshop Location: Sydney, Australia (RSS 2026)

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We invite you to submit your papers to the 3rd Workshop on Semantic Reasoning and Goal Understanding in Robotics, which will be held at the 22nd Robotics: Science and Systems conference (RSS 2026), in Sydney, on 17 July 2026.

Description. This workshop will explore how semantic representations and mechanisms enable more robust, generalizable, and transferrable robot learning.

Topics. SemRob continues to be non-archival, and we invite paper submissions on various topics, including (but not limited to):

Hybrid architectures that combine symbolic representations (e.g., scene graphs) and/or procedural reasoning strategies with learned representations
Semantic representations for generalizable robot learning (e.g., skill representations/primitives, efficient action tokenization, constraints and pre-/post-conditions, geometric task-space primitives, object-centric representations, affordances, etc.)
Mechanisms for online human-in-the-loop policy supervision and behavior-correction
Neural and external memory mechanisms for storing and retrieving experience
Meta-cognitive processes (chain-of-thought reasoning, self-critiquing, uncertainty monitoring/calibration, agentic reasoning structures, etc.)
World dynamics models for synthetic data generation, policy training, etc.
Algorithms and mechanisms for test-time adaptation, policy steering, online policy guidance, etc.
Frameworks and systems for cross-embodiment robot learning

Please share this announcement with your audience! We look forward to your contributions.