Overview and Deadlines

RoboSoft 2026 will be a high quality forum to interact across the boundaries of the different disciplines and range of topics, and it will be based on rigorously selected works bringing outstanding quality, originality and interest across disciplines.

• Extended Abstracts (not published in proceedings): February 15^th, 2026.

All times are in GMT (UTC-0); deadlines close at 4:00 p.m. on the stated date.

For accepted submissions, at least one author must present on site.

Submission

RoboSoft 2026 uses OpenReview as its submission system for conference papers. To be able to submit a paper, at least one author must be registered on OpenReview (ideally 7 days before the submission). Submission link: TBD

We will also be using double-anonymous peer review. This means that:

• The reviews will be made openly available on this platform post-review
• Submissions must be fully anonymized for double-anonymous review: remove author names, affiliations, acknowledgments, funding sources, self-identifying citations or links, and document metadata from the manuscript, figures, and any supplementary materials.

Format

We welcome extended abstracts (up to 2 pages plus 1 page for references, US letter size) that describe novel results or research directions. These contributions will not be published in the proceedings. The inclusion of a graphical abstract and/or of an accompanying video is strongly encouraged. Papers should be formatted in standard IEEE format. Templates for LaTex and MS-Word are available at the RAS paper submission support page.

These works can either represent preliminary results or report already published work. For the latter case, the original publication should be clearly mentioned with a variation of “this work is an extract from the paper [x]”.

The presentation format for the accepted extended abstracts is a poster. Videos should be submitted with your paper and have the following format:

• File size: 20MB
• File extension check and correction: mpeg, mp4, mpg
• Maximum duration: 3 minutes
• Minimum height: 480
• Minimum frame rate (fps): 20
• Scan type: progressive