Workshops will take place across two days of the conference on Monday, July 13 (half-day morning events) and Friday, July 17 (half-day morning and afternoon events). Each workshop is organized as a semi-independent event, and has a unique schedule reflecting the planned activities, constraints and preferences of the organizers. Please check the workshop websites for more details on their particular schedules.
| ID | Location | Title | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | TBD | Towards Robust Execution of Long-Horizon Whole-Body Control Tasks | https://opendrivelab.com/rss2026/workshop |
| 2 | TBD | From Perception to Action: Representation-Centric Robot Autonomy | https://rcba-workshop.github.io/rss2026/ |
| 3 | TBD | Beyond the Lab: Rethinking Methods for Human Behavior Monitoring and Modeling in In-the-Wild Human-Robot Interaction | https://sites.google.com/view/rss26-beyond-the-lab-hri/home |
| 4 | TBD | It’s the demos: A Deep Look at the Role of Demonstration Quality in Imitation-Based Robot Manipulation | https://its-the-demos.github.io/ |
| 5 | TBD | Bridging AI and Robotics: Towards Safer and Smarter Surgery | https://sites.google.com/view/ai-and-healthcare-robotics |
| 6 | TBD | Beyond rigidity - Deformable and Articulated Robotic Object Manipulation | https://rss2026-beyond-rigidity.github.io/ |
| 7 | TBD | Post-training for Robotics Foundation Models | https://posttraining-for-robotics.github.io/ |
| 8 | TBD | 4th Workshop on Dexterous Manipulation: Scalable Learning for Human-Level Skills | https://dex-manipulation.github.io/rss2026/ |
| 9 | TBD | Rethinking What It Means to be "Safe" for Generalist Robots | https://sites.google.com/andrew.cmu.edu/rethinking-safety-rss-2026/ |
| 10 | TBD | Workshop on Neuromorphic Robotic Systems (NeuRoSys) | https://sites.google.com/view/neurosys2026 |
| 11 | TBD | Whole-body Control and Bimanual Manipulation: Applications in Humanoids and Beyond | https://wcbm-workshop.github.io/rss2026/ |
| ID | Location | Title | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | TBD | Data-Centric Robotics: What Data Do Robots Really Need? | https://rss-workshop-2026.github.io/ |
| 13 | TBD | Closing the Sim2Real Gap: Progress and Challenges | https://sites.google.com/view/rss2026sim2realws/home |
| 14 | TBD | Mapping the Reef: Underwater 3D Reconstruction for Coral Ecosystems | https://alejandrofontan.github.io/Mapping-the-Reef-RSS26/ |
| 15 | TBD | Reason, Plan, Act: A Hands-On Tutorial on Embodied Agentic AI | https://sites.google.com/monash.edu/reasonplanactahands-ontutorial |
| 16 | TBD | Embodied Intelligence Meets Foundation Models: Tactile Sensing and Soft Manipulation | https://sites.google.com/openmind.org/intelligence-in-manipulation/home |
| 17 | TBD | Open-World Navigation in the Foundation Model Era: Robustness and Failure Recovery | https://adacompnus.github.io/open-world-navigation-26/ |
| 18 | TBD | Robot World Models | http://robot-worldmodels.github.io |
| 19 | TBD | Robot Planning in the Era of Foundation Models (FM4RoboPlan) | https://sites.google.com/alumni.brown.edu/fm4roboplan26/ |
| 20 | TBD | 3rd Workshop on Semantic Reasoning and Goal Understanding in Robotics (RSS SemRob 2026) | https://semrob.github.io/ |
| 21 | TBD | Trustworthy Embodied Foundation Models: Safety by Design versus Safety by Practice | https://robot-fm-safety.github.io/ |
| 22 | TBD | Embodied4Arts: Robots as Creative Partners for Artistic, Expressive, and Craft Tasks | https://embodied4arts.github.io |
| ID | Location | Title | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| 23 | TBD | Tactile Sensing for Robotic Foundation Models | https://tac-for-fm.github.io/rss2026/ |
| 24 | TBD | Diffusion for Robot Learning | https://rss2026-diffusion-robot-learning.github.io/ |
| 25 | TBD | From Imitation to Certification: Learning, Reasoning, and Formal Methods for Safe Robot Manipulation | https://sites.google.com/nyu.edu/imitation2certification-wsrss2/home |
| 26 | TBD | Sampling-Based Optimization for Robotics | https://sites.google.com/view/sampling-workshop |
| 27 | TBD | The Geometry of Motion: Physics-Informed Structures for Learning and Control | https://sites.google.com/view/rss26-geometry/home |
| 28 | TBD | Reinforcement Learning for Vision-Language-Action Models (RL4VLA) | https://sites.google.com/view/rl4vla-workshop/home |
| 29 | TBD | Human-centric Mobile Manipulation Workshop | https://adacompnus.github.io/human-centric-mobile-manipulation/ |
| 30 | TBD | Lab-to-Production Workshop: Toward Industrial-Grade Perception and Manipulation | https://robotics-workshop.github.io/l2p-rss26/ |
| 31 | TBD | Planning and Control with Imperfect Sensors and Perception | https://ariasystems.group/workshops/planning-perception.html |
| 32 | TBD | Failure Is Not the End: Towards Open-World Failure Recovery for Robots | https://csiro-robotics.github.io/failure-recovery/ |