September 2026 - RoboCup-athome

Quori Community Meetup @ IROS 2026
by Ross Mead 25 Sep '26

25 Sep '26

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: * What: Quori Community Meetup @ IROS 2026 * When: Monday, September 28, 2026, 11am ET * Where: Liberty Center, 1001 Liberty Avenue, 5th Floor * RSVP: HERE <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1qU8YGFWrBAHgwlu1PQzAi8bdqi8pEFKjFt9RruAq8f…> --- Hello colleagues! The Quori robot project team is planning an informal, in-person gathering at IROS 2026 in Pittsburgh for current and prospective members of the Quori robotics community. This event is scheduled to take place on Monday, September 28th, 11am ET at the Liberty Center, 1001 Liberty Avenue, 5th Floor. All are welcome! Quori is an NSF-funded, multi-award-winning, not-for-profit, open-everything, modular, social robot platform for the robotics research community (https://quori.org). The gathering at IROS will serve as an opportunity to meet with colleagues interested in the Quori robot platform and to network with other researchers interested in human-robot interaction and general robotics. To access the meeting venue, you must register! Names of attendees will be provided to Liberty Center staff in charge of access. Please RSVP to the Google Form HERE <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1qU8YGFWrBAHgwlu1PQzAi8bdqi8pEFKjFt9RruAq8f…> to express your interest in attending. You are encouraged to forward this to anyone you think might be interested in Quori. Additionally, our next Quori Community Virtual Meeting will take place October 21st at 12pm PT. At the virtual meeting, we will provide Quori development updates and invite research groups to optionally share updates on their work. Stay tuned for an announcement with more information. Finally, if you want to get your own Quori robot, please express your interest (noncommittal) via the Google Form HERE <https://forms.gle/hLmcfMoqVeEhJSKu7>. Please let us know if you have any questions or comments. Thanks and we hope to see you at IROS 2026 and/or at the Quori community virtual meeting! --- The Quori Project Team * Ross Mead (Semio) * Bill Smart (Oregon State University) * Mark Yim (University of Pennsylvania) * Simon Kim (University of Pennsylvania) * Naomi Fitter (Oregon State University)

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First Call for Participation RoboCup@Home 2027 Nuremberg, Germany
by Alina Hawkin 20 Sep '26

20 Sep '26

Dear all, We hereby publish the First Call for Participation for RoboCup@Home 2027, which will take place from June 15 to June 21, 2027 in Nuremberg, Germany. RoboCup is an international scientific initiative with the goal to advance the state of the art of intelligent robots through competitions (RoboCup@Home, RoboCup Soccer, RoboCup Rescue, RoboCup@Work and RoboCup Junior). The RoboCup@Home league aims to develop service and assistive robot technology with high relevance for future personal domestic applications. It is the largest international annual competition for autonomous service robots and is part of the RoboCup initiative. A set of benchmark tests is used to evaluate the robots’ abilities and performance in a realistic home environment setting. Focus lies on the following domains but is not limited to: Human-Robot-Interaction and Cooperation, Navigation and Mapping in dynamic environments, Computer Vision and Object Recognition under natural light conditions, Object Manipulation, Adaptive Behaviors, Behavior Integration, Ambient Intelligence, Standardization and System Integration. Important dates: Sep. 20, 2026 Publication of the Call for Participation Oct. 30, 2026 Deadline for submission of participation intention. Dec. 06, 2026 Deadline for submission of qualification material. (Team Description Paper, Team Video, Team Website). Dec. 23, 2026 Qualification announcement Jan. 22, 2027 Deadline for Participation Confirmation Further Information is published in the Call for Participation: https://athome.robocup.org/call-for-participation-robocuphome-2027/ The submission and evaluation criteria have also been published and can be found here: https://athome.robocup.org/rules/submission-review-criteria/ Please keep these in mind when creating your qualification material. You should also consult the official RuleBook, which is still subject to change until the competition: https://github.com/RoboCupAtHome/RuleBook Updates and reference material can be found on the official RoboCup@Home website:https://athome.robocup.org/ With kind regards, and looking forward to seeing your team in Nuremberg, The 2027 RoboCup@Home Organizing and Technical Committees

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[CFP] NEmo 2026 @ NeurIPS - deadline EXTENDED to 14 September (AoE)
by Emanuele Musumeci 10 Sep '26

10 Sep '26

Dear RoboCup@Home community, The submission deadline for NEmo 2026: Neuro-Symbolic Embodied Intelligence, a workshop at NeurIPS 2026 (December 12, 2026, Sydney, Australia), has been extended to September 14, 2026, Anywhere on Earth. NEmo focuses on the challenges of building long-lived autonomous agents that can perceive, reason, plan, learn, and adapt over extended interactions in physical or richly simulated environments. A central theme of the workshop is the role of neuro-symbolic approaches in making such agents more reliable and capable. Topics of interest include - combining learned perception, reinforcement learning and large language models with planning and structured symbolic knowledge - grounding and shared semantics - memory over long horizons - affordances - recovery from failed assumptions The workshop brings together researchers from machine learning, knowledge representation, planning, robotics, Semantic Web, human-robot interaction, and trustworthy AI. We accept ongoing and already published works as well as new contributions. Website: https://nemo.semantic.review <https://www.google.com/url?q=https://nemo.semantic.review&source=gmail&ust=…> Submit: https://openreview.net/group?id=NeurIPS.cc/2026/Workshop/NEmo <https://www.google.com/url?q=https://openreview.net/group?id%3DNeurIPS.cc/2…> Best regards, The NEmo 2026 Organizing Committee

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