Call for Papers: COMPSAC 2026 Symposium on Cognitive Robotic Systems (CRoS)

Call for Papers of the COMPSAC 2026 Symposium on Cognitive Robotic Systems (CRoS), which will take place from 7 to 10 July in Madrid (Spain).
Among the organizers Fabrizio Lamberti of the DAUIN

Deadline: 10 February 2026

Topics
We welcome robot demonstrations, extended abstracts on ongoing research (2 pages), along with high quality research papers as short papers (4 pages) and full papers (8 pages) on validated research prototypes. The following list shows the areas of interest for CRoS with robotic systems having some sort of cognitive human interaction.
Areas of interest for original contribution include, but are not limited to:
- Context aware robots sharing space with humans
- Autonomous and embodied robots
- Grounding language in perception and action
- World-model learning and predictive simulation for robots
- Agentic AI for robot perception
- Assistive cognitive robots
- Emotion and/or gesture perception in cognitive robots
- Conversational robots
- Human robot interactions
- Collaborative robots (cobots) with cognitive reasoning
- Companion robots
- Robot pets
- High precision cognitive robots
- Mind, knowledge, and awareness in robots
- Policies for robot behaviour – do and don’t
- Safe robots and safety of robots
- Cultural adaptation and personalization in robotic systems
- Memory systems and episodic learning in cognitive robots
- Cognitive robotic applications

More information
- Contact: Fabrizio Lamberti
- Link to the Conference