11th International Conference on Interactive Collaborative Robotics (ICR 2026),
August 17–20, 2026   Vladivostok, Russia

Conference

 The International Conference on Interactive Collaborative Robotics (ICR) was established as a satellite event of the International Conference on Speech and Computer (SPECOM) in 2016. The conference gathers together experts from different communities to discuss challenges of human and robot collaboration in industrial, social, medical, education and other areas. Fundamentals and means for collaborative behavior of one or multiple robots with physical interaction with people in operational environment equipped with embedded sensor networks and cloud services in conditions of uncertainty and environmental variability are the main issues of the conference. ICR 2026 will be held in hybrid format.

 Organizers:

  • Institute of Automation and Control Processes of the Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Vladivostok, Russia)
  • St. Petersburg Federal Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences (St. Petersburg, Russia)

The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

  • Autonomous unmanned vehicles
  • Assistive robotics
  • Safety of robotic systems
  • Household robotics
  • Collaborative robotics
  • Medical Robotics
  • Educational Robotics
  • Artificial intelligence technologies
  • Management of robotic systems

Important Dates

April 01, 2026 ............... Submission of full papers

May 15, 2026 ............... Notification of acceptance

June 01, 2026 ............... Camera-ready papers and early registration

August 17–20, 2026 .... Conference dates

Conference Proceedings

The accepted papers will be published in the proceedings of the Interactive Collaborative Robotics conference in English in the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) book series published by Springer, indexed in EI-Compendex, SCOPUS and SpringerLink.

Proceedings from previous ICR conferences are available on the SpringerLink website

Language

The official language of the conference is English.

 Submission of Papers

The authors are asked to submit their papers using the online submission system: http://ia.spcras.ru/index.php/icr2026/

Articles submitted to the organizing committee should not be considered by another conference and published earlier or accepted for publication in another publication.

Authors should submit for review a paper in DOCM format in English with a volume of 12–15 pages, formatted in the Springer style and containing the following sections:

  • abstract (180–200 words)
  • keywords (at least 5 words and phrases)
  • introduction
  • the main part
  • conclusion
  • acknowledgements (if necessary)
  • references

Accepted papers must be personally presented at the conference by the authors in the form of an oral or poster report. No more than two papers are allowed from one author.

Contacts

E-mail: conf@spcras.ru

Web: http://icr.nw.ru