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About AIR 2026

A meeting place for embodied intelligence.

Five days, eight tracks, and a single question: how do machines that perceive, decide, and act come together to do useful work in the world?

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.

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By the numbers
2,400+
Expected attendees
480
Accepted papers
32
Workshops & tutorials
54
Countries represented
Technical tracks

Eight research tracks.

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

i.
Perception & scene understanding
3D vision, semantic segmentation, vision-language grounding, sensor fusion, and open-vocabulary perception for robotic systems.
ii.
Learning for control
Reinforcement learning, imitation learning, sim-to-real transfer, and learned policies for continuous control in physical systems.
iii.
Manipulation & dexterity
Grasping, in-hand manipulation, deformable object handling, and contact-rich tasks in cluttered real-world environments.
iv.
Mobile autonomy
Path planning, coverage strategies, SLAM, navigation in unstructured terrain, and multi-robot coordination at scale.
v.
Human–robot interaction
Shared autonomy, social robotics, assistive systems, and the design of robots that collaborate safely with people.
vi.
Foundation models for robotics
Vision-language-action models, large-scale pretraining, and the integration of generalist models with embodied agents.
vii.
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.

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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.

General inquiries

info@air2026.org

Program committee

program@air2026.org

Sponsorship

sponsors@air2026.org

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