Dear RoboCup@Home community,
We are pleased to announce *NEmo 2026: Neuro-Symbolic Embodied Intelligence*, a workshop at *NeurIPS 2026*, taking place on *December 12, 2026 in Sydney, Australia*.
NEmo is about *long-lived autonomous agents* that perceive, reason, plan, learn and adapt over extended interactions in physical or richly simulated environments.
This is close to what *@Home teams face directly*: open-ended tasks in a home, natural-language instructions that have to be grounded in what the robot can actually see and do, semantic maps that must stay valid across a run, and graceful behaviour when an assumption about the world turns out to be wrong.
*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 mid-task
*Contributions reporting experience from robot competitions and long-horizon deployments are explicitly welcome.* We accept ongoing and already published work as well as new contributions.
*Important dates*
- *Submission deadline:* September 10, 2026 - *Workshop date:* December 12, 2026
*Website:* https://nemo.semantic.review https://www.google.com/url?q=https://nemo.semantic.review&source=gmail&ust=1787936816327000&sa=E *OpenReview:* https://openreview.net/group?id=NeurIPS.cc/2026/Workshop/NEmo https://www.google.com/url?q=https://openreview.net/group?id%3DNeurIPS.cc/2026/Workshop/NEmo&source=gmail&ust=1787936816327000&sa=E
Best, The NEmo 2026 Organizing Committee