About — AIR 2026

The International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (AIR) brings together the communities working at the intersection of artificial intelligence and robotics — from foundation models and learned policies to perception, manipulation, autonomous navigation, and human–robot interaction. The conference is hosted annually under a rotating theme that reflects the field's most pressing open problems.

The 2026 edition convenes in Singapore under the theme of embodied intelligence: the synthesis of large-scale learning with the physical demands of acting in the real world. Expect five days of single-track plenaries, parallel technical sessions, hands-on workshops, and a robotics demonstration hall.

By the numbers

2,400+

Expected attendees

480

Accepted papers

Workshops & tutorials

Countries represented

Technical tracks

Eight research tracks.

Submissions are organized into eight thematic tracks, each chaired by leading researchers in the area.

Perception & scene understanding

3D vision, semantic segmentation, vision-language grounding, sensor fusion, and open-vocabulary perception for robotic systems.

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Learning for control

Reinforcement learning, imitation learning, sim-to-real transfer, and learned policies for continuous control in physical systems.

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Manipulation & dexterity

Grasping, in-hand manipulation, deformable object handling, and contact-rich tasks in cluttered real-world environments.

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Mobile autonomy

Path planning, coverage strategies, SLAM, navigation in unstructured terrain, and multi-robot coordination at scale.

Human–robot interaction

Shared autonomy, social robotics, assistive systems, and the design of robots that collaborate safely with people.

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Foundation models for robotics

Vision-language-action models, large-scale pretraining, and the integration of generalist models with embodied agents.

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Safety, verification & ethics

Formal methods, safe exploration, robustness to distribution shift, and the societal implications of autonomous systems.

viii.

Field robotics & applications

Agriculture, healthcare, construction, logistics, and other domains where robots meet the demands of operational deployment.

Organizing committee

The people behind AIR 2026.

A volunteer committee of researchers from across the AI and robotics communities.

General chairs

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Program chairs

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Workshop chairs

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Local arrangements

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Contact

Get in touch.

For inquiries about the conference, paper submissions, or sponsorship opportunities.

A meeting place for embodied intelligence.