August 2026 - RoboCup-humanoid

[CFP] NEmo 2026 @ NeurIPS - long-lived embodied agents, neuro-symbolic reasoning (deadline 10 Sept)
by Emanuele Musumeci 27 Aug '26

27 Aug '26

Dear Humanoid League 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. The Humanoid League confronts a version of this that most benchmarks do not: decisions taken under *real dynamics and unreliable perception*, where a wrong assumption about the world costs a fall rather than a logged error — and where the agent has to keep playing afterwards. *Topics of interest include:* - combining learned perception, reinforcement learning and large language models with planning and structured symbolic knowledge - grounding and shared semantics between teammates - 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=…> *OpenReview:* 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, The NEmo 2026 Organizing Committee

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RoboCup Italian Open 2026 Call for Participation
by Vincenzo Suriani 10 Aug '26

10 Aug '26

Dear RoboCup Humanoid Soccer Community, We are pleased to invite you to participate in the *First Italian Open RoboCup Humanoid Soccer Tournament*, a RoboCup Regional Event, which will take place on October 23-25, 2026, in Rome, Italy. The tournament will be hosted within *Maker Faire Rome - The European Edition*, one of Europe’s major events dedicated to innovation, technology, creativity, and digital culture, offering teams the opportunity to present RoboCup and their research to a large international audience. The event will focus entirely on the RoboCup Humanoid Soccer League, with competitions in: - Middle Division - Large Division Depending on the participating teams and available robotic platforms, the tournament will include 3 vs 3 and 5 vs 5 matches, following the applicable RoboCup 2026 Humanoid Soccer League rules. *Programme* October 22 - Team Technical Setup Day October 23-25 - RoboCup Humanoid Soccer Competition October 25 (morning) - RoboCup Humanoid Soccer Workshop A short technical workshop that will bring together participating teams and invited speakers to discuss technical challenges, new humanoid platforms, and future directions. *Support for International Teams* To encourage international participation, up to 10 international RoboCup teams may be selected to receive reimbursement of travel and accommodation expenses subject to the conditions described in the official Call. The expected distribution is: - up to 6 Middle Division teams - up to 4 Large Division teams In addition, Booster Robotics will provide technical support during the event, making additional robotic platforms available to complement those brought by participating teams. *Technical Committee* The Italian Open Technical Committee includes official representatives of the RoboCup Federation: - Alessandra Rossi - Maike Paetzel-Prüsmann - Reinaldo Bianchi - Giuseppe Mocerino - Alessandro Ranellucci Local Chair - VIncenzo Suriani *Registration* We invite all international RoboCup Humanoid Soccer teams to submit an Expression of Interest. Applications will be reviewed by the Technical Committee. For the complete Call, regulations, and application procedure, please visit: https://makerfairerome.eu/en/call/call-for-humanoid-soccer-teams/ Expression of Interest deadline: September 7, 2026. Following the selection of participating teams, additional team members may be registered until September 15, 2026. We look forward to seeing many of you in Rome! Best regards, Italian Open Committee

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RoboCup @ IFA 2026 -- Call for Participation
by Heinrich Mellmann 04 Aug '26

04 Aug '26

TL;DR; - RoboCup HSL at IFA in Berlin, Germany - September 4–8, 2026 - **Your team is invited!** - Participation and entrance is free of charge. * Register here: * <https://forms.gle/Qt6zQUvyUeQxpudd9> * Wiki: * <https://hackmd.io/@4k7N01wRQ0OoPwCHc6tm1A/HJgySrcrMe> Hey everyone, We are organizing a RoboCup event at this year's IFA Berlin and warmly invite all HSL teams to join us. IFA is the "The world's largest home & consumer tech event" and will take place from September 4–8, 2026 at the Berlin exhibition grounds. IFA 2026 offered to host a RoboCup event and will provide us with a large exhibition space, furniture and other amenities. We are planning to set up a playing field roughly the size of an S-Field, with artificial turf, goals, and a team area for about 6–8 teams. We will have large screens, audio equipment and space for the team banners. The participation is free of charge for the teams. We are also planning a mini tournament with an awesome prize :) This is a great opportunity to kick off the new RoboCup season, and you are very welcome to be part of it! Fill our the short registration form to sign up for the event: https://forms.gle/Qt6zQUvyUeQxpudd9 More up to date information can be found in the wiki: https://hackmd.io/@4k7N01wRQ0OoPwCHc6tm1A/HJgySrcrMe Here are already a few key points: - All participating teams get free entry to IFA - Work on your robots and take part in the tournament - Run tests on the field - Connect with other HSL teams - Play test matches and do demos for visitors - Explore the trade fair and talk to potential sponsors - Boost your team's media presence For context: IFA is one of the biggest trade fairs for consumer electronics. In 2025, IFA had around 220,000 visitors and more than 1,900 exhibitors from 49 countries. Booster, Unitree, and other companies building humanoid robots will also be there and will probably run demos on our field as well. https://www.ifa-berlin.com/ We already set up a booth at IFA 2025 with a field and three teams, and it was a huge success. This year, we are hoping to make it even better 🙂 Here are a few impressions from last year: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/robocup-germany_wir-freuen-uns-dieses-wochen… https://www.linkedin.com/posts/berlin-united-robocup_robocup-ifaberlin-acti… https://photos.app.goo.gl/EMU6ueHMy9u6V2sf9 We are looking forward to seeing you there! Sunny greetings, Maike & Heinrich

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