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

27 Aug '26

Dear Small Size 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. SSL sits at an interesting end of this: a *shared world model and centralised team reasoning under a hard real-time budget*, where the question is not only what to represent but what can be reasoned about at all before the situation has moved on. *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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Want a Quori robot?
by Ross Mead 24 Aug '26

24 Aug '26

Hello colleagues! Quori is an NSF-funded, multi-award-winning (including the RoboCup 2026 Best Engineering Paper Award!), community-informed, not-for-profit, open, modular, social robot platform for the robotics research community ( https://quori.org). You can see the latest version of Quori in the one-minute YouTube video here: https://youtu.be/VFLEs2hwCtY As we continue testing and refining the prototype robot, we are gauging global interest in purchasing Quori robots, which will help inform how many units we need to manufacture in our initial production run. If you are interested (noncommittal) in purchasing a Quori robot, please complete the Google Form here: https://forms.gle/hLmcfMoqVeEhJSKu7 You are encouraged to forward this to anyone you think might be interested in Quori. The more units we manufacture, the less each unit will cost! If you have any questions or comments, please contact Quori.Robot(a)gmail.com and/or join the Quori Community Discord server ( https://discord.gg/k5kfPcgRUM). Thanks again for your interest! We are excited to welcome you to the Quori community! -- 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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[WORKSHOP] Submission Deadline for Workshop and Tutorial Proposals for IEEE Humanoids 2026 is August 3rd
by Andra Keay 31 Jul '26

31 Jul '26

Submission Deadline for Workshops and Tutorial Proposals for IEEE Humanoids 2026 is August 3rd! The 25th IEEE‑RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots will take place 6-9 December 2026, in Silicon Valley, California, bringing together the world’s leading researchers, engineers, and industry innovators in humanoid and human-centered robotics. Call for Workshops and Tutorials: https://2026.ieee-humanoids.org/call-for-workshops-and-tutorials/ We invite proposals for half-day or full-day workshops and tutorials to be held during Humanoids 2026. These sessions are aimed at exploring the frontiers of recent or emerging topics related to humanoid robotics, mirroring the cutting-edge scope detailed in the conference’s Call for Papers. All workshops and tutorials will run on the second day of the conference: Monday, 7 December 2026. Important Deadlines: Workshop/Tutorial Proposal Deadline: 3 August 2026 Notification of Workshop/Tutorial Acceptance/Rejection: 28 September 2026 Conference Day 2 (Workshops & Tutorials): 7 December 2026 Andra Keay : *andrakeay(a)gmail.com <andrakeay(a)gmail.com>* Ross Mead : ross(a)semio.com *General Chairs IEEE Humanoids 2026 : https://2026.ieee-humanoids.org/ <https://2026.ieee-humanoids.org/>* Dec 6th - 9th at Santa Clara Convention Center, California

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Ri-one Radio Communications Technical Challenge Submission
by NAITO Yuzuru 27 Jun '26

27 Jun '26

Dear All, On behalf of Team Ri-one, please find our submission for the Radio Communications Technical Challenge (Wi-Fi track): https://github.com/Rione/ssl-2026-TechChallence-Wireless Our approach uses commercial off-the-shelf components (Radxa ROCK 5A + Intel AX210, Wi-Fi 6E) to provide a low-cost, high-bandwidth, interference-resistant link, aimed at lowering the barrier of entry for new teams. The README.md (English) covers hardware, firmware/environment setup, methodology, and measured results. We have also published our robots' circuit designs this year; please find them here: https://github.com/Rione/ssl-Circuit/tree/baa913cb75b0630cb045215d907af2356… We look forward to your questions, and to seeing you in Korea. Best regards, Yuzuru Naito Team Ri-one

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GreenTea Radio Communications Technical Challenge Submission
by GreenTea 26 Jun '26

26 Jun '26

Dear All, On behalf of Team GreenTea, please find our submission for the Radio Communications Technical Challenge (Wi-Fi track): https://github.com/greentea-ssl/wifi-technical-challenge The report (README.md, English) is self-contained, covering all required items, methodology, hardware, firmware, and a reproduction guide with raw data. We look forward to your questions, and to seeing you in Korea. Best regards, Kohei Fujita Team GreenTea

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ER-Force Radio Communications Technical Challenge Submission
by Christoph Schmidtmeier 26 Jun '26

26 Jun '26

Hi all, here is the link to our radio communications submission: https://github.com/robotics-erlangen/radio-challenge-2026 Sadly, there is no measurement data and documentation yet due to unfortunate delays, but we hope to provide them as soon as possible from our hotel in South Korea. Thank you for your understanding. See you in the venue. Best Regards, Christoph ER-Force

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TIGERs Mannheim Radio Communications Technical Challenge Submission
by andre＠ryll.cc 26 Jun '26

26 Jun '26

Dear Community, we extensively documented our wireless communication solution in hardware and software for the radio communications technical challenge. We hope this makes it easier for other teams to adopt our solution. If you have any questions you can find me on the SSL Discord server. You can find the documentation here: https://github.com/TIGERs-Mannheim/Firmware/blob/master/WirelessCommunicati… Together with our open-source electronics here: https://github.com/TIGERs-Mannheim/electronics Best, Andre Ryll TIGERs Mannheim

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A-Team Radio Communications Technical Challenge Submission
by William Stuckey 26 Jun '26

26 Jun '26

Hi All, A link to our radio communications submission is can be found on our GitHub Wiki here: https://github.com/SSL-A-Team/firmware/wiki/Radio-Communication-Tech-Challe… We look forward to seeing everyone in Korea. Best, Will

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RoboCup 2026 – Open Source Award Submission The Bots
by Henry Bryant 17 Jun '26

17 Jun '26

Hello SSL Community, The Bots would like to submit a new ball receiving method using the existing kicker solenoids found on most SSL robots for the Open Source Award. Officially, its title is Solenoid Active Damping, which refers to the method by which a ball is damped - using the electromechanical energy found on robots with active control of the kicker solenoid to stop the ball. This method completely decouples the ball receiving damping needed from the ball dribbling damping needed, where the one tends to affect the other. In general, SSL robots that use a capacitor based kicker board have a significant amount of energy sitting unused during the receiving of a pass. That energy can then be used to keep the kicker extended after a short kick at the exact threshold where the kicker would otherwise collapse with any extra applied force. You can imagine the solenoid active damping similar to when one stops a soccer ball by pulling their foot back to absorb the energy as the ball gets to their feet. In a similar way, the solenoid is held with minimal possible force so that when the golf ball contacts it, the energy is almost completely damped as the wall collapses from under it. In the repository below, you can find the detailed documentation (as a README file) for the Solenoid Active Damping system with relevant code used for our RP2040 on the Chicker board in micropython. The important takeaway from this code is not the exact syntax shown in micropython for the RP2040, but rather the concept of how the implementation is formed - this is because each team's kicker boards will differ based on the chip used. You can find all the documentation, relevant code for the RP2040, and videos from later testing (not on the TDP) here: https://github.com/sfunderbots/Electrical/tree/main/Chicker/solenoid-active… Associated full code for the RP2040 on The Bots Chicker board here for reference: https://github.com/sfunderbots/Electrical/tree/main/Chicker/firmware Note that the code shown here is not the most recent version - the latest includes a fix to compensate for the voltage on the high voltage net lost over time, which is described in the README. We hope this open source system will help new teams wanting to keep cost and complexity of their robot low, by utilizing already existing hardware from the robot's kicker board used to kick a ball to be used in reverse. Subsequently, this system also aims to improve pass receiving performance without the need of a dribbler. Thank you for your consideration, ~Henry Bryant The Bots

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