January 2026 - RoboCup-worldwide

[jobs] Professorship (W3) for Interactive Robotics at Bielefeld University
by Sven Wachsmuth 06 Jan '26

06 Jan '26

Dear all, The Faculty of Technology at Bielefeld University has an opening for a permament *professorship (W3) for Interactive Robtics*, with a special focus on robotics engineering for real-time sensory perception, physical motion, learning and action control for autonomous, interactive robots. The *application deadline is Febuary 28, 2026.* Detailed information about the position can be found at: https://www.uni-bielefeld.de/uni/karriere/professuren/wiss3086_englisch.xml Best regards Sven -- PD Dr.-Ing. Sven Wachsmuth Faculty of Technology | CITEC COSY@Home-Lab Bielefeld University

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Call for Participation: RoboCup2026 Middle Size League
by 刘斐 04 Jan '26

04 Jan '26

Call for Participation  RoboCup 2026 Middle Size League June 30 to July 6, 2026 (Incheon, South-Korea) https://2026.robocup.org We would like to invite all MSL teams to participate in the 2026 RoboCup MSL World Championships. If you are interested to participate, please take the time to pre-register your team for the RoboCup 2026 MSL competitions.  1)    Pre-registration  For the pre-registration please send an e-mail to rc-msl-oc(a)lists.robocup.org and liufei(a)caa.org.cn containing the following data: ·   Team name ·   URL of the team’s home page ·   Name of the team leader ·   E-mail address of team or team leader ·   Affiliation ·   Country ·   Link to the qualification materials  Please send more information about teams to introduce them better on MSL website(https://msl.robocup.org/teams). Sending following information would be optional: ·   Logo ·   Profile (Describe team with at most 150 words). ·   Most research topics (up to 6 topics)   2)    Qualification materials  Please note that, according to the rules, the evaluation of some parts of the qualification materials will contribute to the scientific challenge final result.  By the time of pre-registration, please have ready the following qualification materials:  a)    A Team Description Paper describing the most innovative contributions or scientific results (the TDP is limited to 8 pages and must be formatted according to the LNCS format: http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0). b)    A list of 5 scientiﬁc papers published during the last 5 years of the team which are related to RoboCup. Abstracts of these papers and a complete reference to each paper must also be submitted. When more papers are submitted, only the first 5 will be considered. c)    A list of results and awards obtained by the team in the last 3 years. d)    A video showing the capabilities of the team’s robots (the maximum duration of the video is 60 seconds; if the submitted video is longer than 60 seconds, only the first 60 seconds will be considered for evaluation). e)    A list of contributions of the team to the RoboCup MSL community. f)     Declaration if the team will be part of a mixed team. g)    A mechanical and electrical description together with a software flow chart. h)   List of MAC Addresses used by the team, with explicit indication of those that will be used for wireless communication and their type: robots or development computers. All other MAC addresses will be blocked. (Modifications are allowed before the competition, no later than June 23, 2026.) i)    List of size and weight of the robots (If there are many different robots, please give the data for each type separately. Modifications are allowed before the competition, no later than June 23, 2026.): Dimensions: Length*Width*Height(cm) Weight: (kg)  For being able to participate in the RoboCup competition, teams have to ensure, at least, the minimum cumulative following criteria: ·   Demonstrate in the video that they are able to perform the basic actions to be able to play. ·   Produce a Team Description Paper (TDP) according to the above definition. ·   Obtain a minimum of 50 points in the overall qualification procedure.  The details regarding the qualification materials are contained in the rules and regulations document available at https://msl.robocup.org. Please read it thoroughly.  The qualification materials should be placed in a dedicated page of the team's web page. Please include the link to the qualification materials in the pre-registration information. 3)    Important dates  ·   Deadline for pre-registration and submission of the qualification materials: February 28, 2026 ·   Announcement of qualified teams: March 15, 2026  4)    Rules  The MSL Technical Committee will not publish new rules for 2026, therefore the rules from 2025 (version 26.0) will be used. These rules are available at: https://msl.robocup.org/rules    5)    Publication  Please note that after the announcement of the qualified teams the qualification materials of the qualified teams will be made publicly available. Therefore, teams applying for participation, grant the right of publication of their qualification materials to the MSL league(MAC addresses are an exception and should remain private).   6)    Plagiarism  Plagiarism, loosely the unattributed use of other peoples' words, code and ideas (see “https://www.ieee.org/publications/rights/plagiarism/plagiarism.html” for a more detailed description) is not tolerated in the RoboCup community.  The teams and team members that plagiarize other peoples' work and present it as their own will be disqualified. For a first offense, the team and team members will be banned from RoboCup competition for two years (usually the current and next year). Harsher penalties will be applied to repeat offenders or extremely serious cases of plagiarism. A team may be disqualified at any time for plagiarism, even after the competition has started. RoboCup will not reimburse teams for any expenses related to their disqualification.   The 2026 MSL Organizing and Technical Committees Fei Liu OC Chair, Middle Size League, RoboCup 2026  

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[jobs] The RobotiXX lab at GMU is hiring postdoctoral researchers
by Xuesu Xiao 03 Jan '26

03 Jan '26

Dear roboticists, the RobotiXX lab (https://robotixx.cs.gmu.edu/) at the Department of Computer Science, George Mason University in the Washington D.C. area is looking for postdoctoral researchers. The positions can start anytime from now and are expected to last one year, with possible renewal pending funding availability. At RobotiXX lab, we perform robotics research at the intersection of motion planning and machine learning, with a specific focus on deployable field robotics. A few of our recent focuses include, but are not limited to, off-road mobility and autonomy, social robot navigation, multi-robot coordination, vision-based navigation, self-supervised learning for robotics, task and motion planning, as well as human robot interaction. Candidates with relevant experience in robotics, motion planning, and machine learning are encouraged to apply. Hands-on knowledge in robotics hardware, field experience, and a good publication record is strongly preferred. The RobotiXX lab recently moved into a brand new, $254 million Fuse building in the heart of Arlington, VA (https://masonsquare.gmu.edu/fuse). The lab is 15-minute walk from DARPA and ONR and 20-minute drive from NSF, which provides good networking opportunities with federal program managers for future faculty remembers. The new 6,000 sqft lab features a two-floor, high-bay space with full motion capture coverage (2,533 sqft), a state-of-the-art robot maker space with ~$1 million fabrication equipment (1299 sqft), and a robot assembly / computer cluster room with GPU workstations dedicated to the lab's use (1,681 sqft). Fuse is also the home to many tech companies, fostering academia-industry collaboration right across the hallway from the lab (https://fuseatmasonsquare.com/). The selected candidates will conduct independent research to develop highly capable and intelligent mobile robots that are robustly deployable in the real world with minimal human supervision, publish papers in top-tier robotics conferences and journals, and advise graduate and undergraduate students in the RobotiXX lab. To apply, please send a single PDF of the following documents to Dr. Xuesu Xiao, Assistant Professor (xiao(a)gmu.edu): 1. cover letter, 2. curriculum vitae, 3. three references, 4. relevant publications, 5. other relevant materials, with the subject line “[postdoc] YOUR AFFILIATION - YOUR NAME”. For more information, please see the lab’s website (https://robotixx.cs.gmu.edu/), research statement (https://cs.gmu.edu/~xiao/xuesu_website_files/Research_Statement.pdf), and YouTube Channel (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCePdJzWg35eml4WRGkX3GQ). Thanks Xuesu ----------------------- Xuesu Xiao, Ph.D. -- Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science George Mason University xiao(a)gmu.edu https://people.cs.gmu.edu/~xiao/ https://robotixx.cs.gmu.edu/

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WCCI-IJCNN 2026 Special Session: #SS2, "Remote Sensing and Hyperspectral Image Classification"
by Pub Conference 03 Jan '26

03 Jan '26

Dear Colleagues, We are organizing a Special Session for WCCI-IJCNN 2026 on papers related to remote sensing and hyperspectral imaging. The prestigious conference will be held in Maastricht, the Netherlands, from June 21-26, 2026. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Semantic Segmentation of Remote Sensing Images - SAR Image Segmentation - Hyperspectral Image Classification - Graph Learning - Machine Learning and Deep Learning - Applications of Hyperspectral Image Classification All accepted papers will be included in the WCCI 2026 proceedings, which will be published in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. The submission portal is: https://ssl.linklings.net/conferences/WCCI/. Please select *“IJCNN SS02: Advances in Machine Learning and Deep Learning for Hyperspectral Image Classification.”* *Submission deadline:* January 31, 2026 (no extensions will be granted).

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