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Robotics Forum
Athens · 2026 Accepting papers

Call for Papers – WRC 2026, Athens

World Robot Conference

Conference date

Athens, Greece


Paper deadline 14 Nov 2026

Registration deadline 21 Nov 2026

Robotics Forum invites researchers, academicians, industry professionals and students to submit original research papers for the World Robot Conference (WRC 2026), scheduled for 11 December 2026 in Athens, Greece.

The conference welcomes research contributions across the following session tracks, encouraging knowledge sharing, interdisciplinary collaboration and the exchange of innovative ideas.

Call for papers

WRC 2026 conference topics

Original research papers, abstracts, case studies and review papers in World Robot Conference are welcome. Topics include, but are not limited to:

1Topics

  • Robotics
  • Applications of robotics
  • Applications of robotics, advantages and disadvantages
  • Current and common research projects
  • Innovations in robotics
  • Robotics and engineering applications
  • Kinematics, dynamics, and control
  • Dexterous manipulation
  • Locomotion, nonlinear control, and visual serving
  • Mechanisms of robots
  • Design, humanoids, hands, and legged system
  • Snakes, and novel actuators
  • Reconfigurable robots and mems/nems
  • Micro/nanobots, and novel sensors
  • Haptics and tactile interfaces
  • Planning and algorithms for robots
  • Motion planning, task planning, coordination, complexity and completeness
  • Computational geometry, simulation, and planning
  • Contact modeling, grasp synthesis, and assembly
  • Force control and manipulation planning
  • Human-robot interaction and human centered systems
  • Brain-machine interfaces, and telerobotics
  • Human augmentation, and assistive robots,
  • Social robots, safe interaction, robots and art
  • Grounded language acquisition
  • Natural language generation
  • Human-robot dialogue
  • Underwater robotics
  • Aerial/space robotics
  • Agricultural and mining robotics
  • Distributed systems
  • Multi-robot systems
  • Networked robots
  • Medical robotics
  • Robot-assisted procedures
  • Smart surgical tools
  • Rehabilitation robotics
  • Interventional therapy
  • Image-guided procedures
  • Surgical simulation
  • Soft-tissue modeling
  • Telesurgery
  • Biological robotics
  • Biomimetic robotics
  • Robotic investigation of biological science and systems
  • Neurobotics, prosthetics, robotics and molecular biology
  • Robot perception
  • Vision, tactile and force perception, and range sensing
  • Sensor fusion, calibration and identification
  • Mobile systems and mobility
  • Mapping, localization, navigation, slam
  • Collision avoidance, and exploration
  • Estimation and learning for robotic systems
  • Reinforcement learning
  • Bayesian techniques
  • Deep learning
  • Graphical models
  • Imitation learning

Papers must be original and not published or under review elsewhere. Submission guidelines

Plan your participation

Important dates for WRC 2026

  1. Paper submission deadline Open
  2. Last date of registration
  3. Conference

The conference schedule mail is sent by the conference coordinator after the last date of registration. Do not book tickets or hotels before you receive it.

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