[Meetings] [CfP] RSS SemRob 2026 (Deadline Extension!): Workshop on Semantic Reasoning and Goal Understanding in Robotics

[Jonathan Francis]

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CfP: 3rd Workshop on Semantic Reasoning and Goal Understanding in Robotics, at the 22nd Robotics: Science and System Conference (RSS SemRob 2026).

Website: https://semrob.github.io

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

Paper Deadline (Extended!): 18 June 2026, 23:59 AOE

Workshop Date: 17 July 2026

Location: Sydney, Australia

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How can robots learn not just to act, but to understand what their actions mean? 

RSS SemRob 2026 explores semantic reasoning and goal understanding as foundations for more robust, adaptive, and generalizable robot learning. The workshop brings together researchers across robot learning, embodied AI, planning, cognitive robotics, neuro-symbolic AI, vision, language, and multimodal learning to discuss how robots can learn task-relevant representations, reason over objects and relations, and ground semantic knowledge in real-world behavior.

SemRob continues to be non-archival, and we especially welcome work that investigates how semantic structure can improve the data efficiency, generalization, adaptability, safety, and interpretability of learned robot policies:

• Semantic representations for robot learning
• Vision-language-action models and robot foundation models
• Hybrid neural-symbolic robot learning
• Scene graphs, task graphs, knowledge graphs, and structured world representations
• World models for planning, policy learning, simulation, and evaluation
• Cross-embodiment learning and transfer across robot platforms
• Test-time adaptation, policy steering, and failure recovery
• Human-in-the-loop learning, feedback, and behavior correction
• Semantic memory for storing and reusing robot experience
• Metacognition, uncertainty estimation, self-critique, and confidence-aware control
• Safety-aware reasoning for learned robot policies
• Data-efficient and compositional robot learning
• Benchmarks and evaluation for semantic generalization and real-world robustness

Visit our website for more detailed discussion and to see our amazing speaker list!

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Much appreciated,

Chairs, RSS SemRob 2026