February 2026 - RoboCup-worldwide

Call for participation: RoboCup JapanOpen2026
by Wataru UEMURA 12 Feb '26

12 Feb '26

Dear RoboCuppers, We are pleased to announce that RoboCup JapanOpen 2026 will be held at SHIGA Daihatsu Arena from April 24th to 27th, 2026. RoboCup JapanOpen 2026 -- Call for Participation -- https://www.robocup.or.jp/JapanOpen2026/english.html We plan to have the following leagues: - RoboCup Soccer - small size (wheel) - RoboCup Soccer - small size (humanoid challenge) - RoboCup Rescue - robot - RoboCup Rescue - simulation - RoboCup @Home - open platform - RoboCup @Home - domestic standard platform - RoboCup @Home - bridge competition - RoboCup @Home - simulation open platform - RoboCup Industrial - logistics (not SML) - @Space challenge = Event dates = Team setup day : 24 April, 2026 Competition days: 25-27 April, 2026 Organizer: RoboCup Japan Regional Committee More details will be announced by each league organizer. = Important dates = Team registration deadline: 27 March, 2026 Member registration deadline: 3 April, 2026 * Please note that no refunds will be provided for cancellations made after 3 April 2026. = Registration Fees = - Faculty, Advisors, Mentors, or General Participants: 30,000 JPY - Students (18 years old and older) : 20,000 JPY - Students (under 18 years old) : 15,000 JPY * Important Note: All attendees, including faculty, advisors and mentors, must complete the registration and pay the fee to enter the team arena/competition areas. Those who have not registered will not be permitted access to these areas. = Contact = Secretary office of The RoboCup Japanese Regional Committee office[at]robocup.or.jp = League Organizers = Soccer small size - wheel : Ryoma Okada Soccer small size - humanoid challenge : Yasuhiro Masutani Rescue robot : Noritaka Sato Rescue simulation : Nobuhiro Ito @home open platform and domestic standard platform: Hakaru Tamukoh @Home simulation open platform : Tatsunari Inamura Industrial logistics : Wataru Uemura @Space challenge : Yoshinobu Hagiwara --- Best regards, Wataru Uemura ==================== Wataru UEMURA, Dr. Eng. Associate Professor, Ryukoku University Chairperson, RoboCup Japanese Regional Committee https://friede.elec.ryukoku.ac.jp/~wataru ====================

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[meetings] Humanoid Robots Reinforcement Learning Training On-site Training in Barcelona // Apr 8-10 2026
by Sonia W 10 Feb '26

10 Feb '26

Dear colleagues, Join the 3-Day Humanoid Robots Reinforcement Learning Training <https://www.theconstruct.ai/unitree-g1-humanoid-robotics-certificate-traini…> to master reinforcement learning for humanoid robots. You’ll learn how to train, validate, and apply RL-based control policies on real humanoid robots. *What you will learn:* - Reinforcement learning for humanoid robots - Humanoid imitation learning - Whole-body control - Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models for humanoids *Hands-on experience with simulation and real robots:* 1. Practical training using *Isaac Lab* and *MuJoCo*, enabling you to train and evaluate RL-based policies in realistic simulation environments. 2. Direct access to and experimentation with two real humanoid robots: *Unitree G1* and *PAL Robotics’ Kangaroo*. *Training Dates:* April 8–10 *Format:* On-site, Barcelona *Registration Link:* https://www.theconstruct.ai/unitree-g1-humanoid-robotics-certificate-traini… <https://www.theconstruct.ai/unitree-g1-humanoid-robotics-certificate-traini…> This training offers a unique opportunity to engage directly with state-of-the-art AI and robotics technologies, work and learn with other robotics developers from around the world, share ideas, and gain practical experience with the most advanced RL methods on real humanoids. Best, The Construct Robotics Institute

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2nd CfP: Soccer Simulation 2D at RoboCup 2026, Korea
by Tomoharu NAKASHIMA 09 Feb '26

09 Feb '26

Dear RoboCuppers, This is a 2nd call for participation of RoboCup 2026 Soccer Simulation 2D league. The deadline for qualification materials is: March 8, 23:59 UTC, 2026. Best Regards, Tomoharu Nakashima (OC, Soccer Simulation 2D league) ================================= Call for Participations RoboCup 2026 Soccer Simulation 2D league Incheon, Korea, June 20-July 6, 2026 Important dates: March 8, 2026: Qualification materials deadline March 23, 2026: Acceptance Notification Detailed information is described in the following link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vHs1W82DnE7Ch7R6w35UiepX4WPB6FNADV--mlb… =================================

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Updated Deadline and Final Call: The 8th Games, Agents, and Incentives Workshop (GAIW)@AAMAS 2026
by Nicholas Mattei 03 Feb '26

03 Feb '26

Call for Papers: The 8th Games, Agents, and Incentives Workshop (GAIW)@AAMAS 2026 Webpage: https://gtep-workshops.github.io/gaiw2026/ - Submission Deadline: February 4, 2026 Feb. 11th, 2026 (AoE) - Acceptance Notification: March 20, 2026 - Camera Ready: TBD (AoE) - Workshop: May 26, 2026 Call for Papers: We invite submissions to the 8th iteration of the Games, Agents and Incentives Workshop, co-located with AAMAS 2026 in Paphos, Cyprus, https://cyprusconferences.org/aamas2026/. Games, Agents and Incentives is a confederated workshop which focuses on agents and incentives in AI. In particular, it promotes approaches that deal with game theory (cooperative and non-cooperative), social choice, and agent-mediated e-commerce aspects of AI systems. The confederated workshop merges multiple workshops that have been associated with AAMAS in the past, which considered different aspects of the general interplay between AI and economics including CoopMAS, AMEC, and EXPLORE. Over the past two decades, the focus of agent incentives in decentralised and centralised AI systems has increased dramatically. These issues come up when designing preference aggregation mechanisms and markets; computing equilibria and bidding strategies; facilitating cooperation among agents; and fairly dividing resources. ********************************************************** PAPER SUBMISSION ********************************************************** Authors should submit full papers electronically in PDF format at: https://openreview.net/group?id=ifaamas.org/AAMAS/2026/Workshop/GAIW Formatting Guidelines: Please format papers according to the AAMAS 2026 format (https://cyprusconferences.org/aamas2026/submission-instructions/). Paper Length: Papers can be at most 8 pages long in AAMAS format. Additional pages may be used for references. Supplemental material can be appended at the end of the paper. However, reviewers are instructed to make their evaluations based on the main submission, and are not obligated to consult the supplemental material. Multiple Submissions: To widen participation and encourage discussion, there will be no formal publication of workshop proceedings. We will, however, post the accepted papers online to the benefit of the participants to the workshop. Therefore, submission of preliminary work and papers to be submitted or in preparation for submission to other major venues in the field are encouraged. Past Submissions: In order to strike a balance between new work and work that may have been presented, but not widely seen, we ask that if authors want to submit published work they do so non-anonymously and clearly indicate when and where the work was published. We will only accept work which has been published in the last calendar year (e.g., IJCAI 2025, NeurIPS 2025, AAAI 2025, AAAI 2026 and any conference held strictly after Jan 1, 2025). We invite papers on topics of game theory, mechanism design, fair allocation, computational social choice, and their applications to multi-agent systems: - Agentic AI Systems - Algorithmic mechanism design - Auctions - Behavioral Game Theory - Bounded rationality - Cooperative Games - Computational advertising - Computational aspects of equilibria - Computational social choice - Coalitions, coordination, collective action, and cooperation - Economic aspects of security and privacy - Economic aspects of distributed and network computing - Equilibrium computation - Empirical approaches to e-markets - Fairness (in ML & elsewhere) - Fair Division - Incentives in machine learning - Information and attention economics - Learning in games (e.g., solution concepts and equilibria) - Matching and Matching Markets - Negotiation - Preference aggregation and reasoning - Price differentiation and price dynamics - Social networks - Trading agent design and analysis - Uncertainty in AI and economic Best Presentation Award: The organizing committee of GAIW will be giving two awards (first-place and runner up) for best paper presentations. The award criteria include the clarity of presentation, the level of engagement, the content, and discussion handling. Inquiries: If you have any questions, direct them to alan.tsang(a)carleton.ca. ********************************************************** IMPORTANT DATES ********************************************************** - Submission Deadline: February 4, 2026 (AoE) - Acceptance Notification: March 20, 2026 - Camera Ready: TBD (AoE) - Workshop: May 26, 2026 ********************************************************** ORGANIZATION ********************************************************** Program Chairs Ben Armstrong, Tulane University Michael Curry, University of Illinois Chicago Hadi Hosseini, Penn State University Nicholas Mattei, Tulane University Alan Tsang, Carleton University Tomasz Wąs, University of Oxford -- *Nicholas Mattei* Associate Professor, Tulane University nsmattei(a)tulane.edu | www.nickmattei.net Stanley Thomas Hall | 305B +1 504 247 1416 Department of Computer Science Tulane University 6823 St Charles Ave New Orleans, LA 70118

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