HSR 2026
Humanoid Soccer Robots Workshop
Workshop at Humanoids 2026 Conference
Humanoid Soccer Robots Workshop
Workshop at Humanoids 2026 Conference
Robot soccer is a uniquely demanding benchmark for humanoid robotics. This workshop connects the RoboCup community with the broader humanoid robotics, robot learning, control, and embodied-AI communities to examine how these capabilities can be advanced jointly.
Expected Attendance: ~50 participants from academia and industry
The workshop will be structured as a full-day event featuring three or four invited talks, with speakers from both academia and industry, and two contributed-paper sessions. The paper sessions will cover topics such as perception, locomotion, control, robot learning, multi-agent coordination, foundation models, and benchmarking, with selected contributions presented as lightning talks followed by discussion. The program might include a demonstration session, subject to space availability, and a final panel bringing together academic and industrial perspectives on the future of humanoid robot soccer and general-purpose humanoid robotics.
Target Audience: Roboticists, AI researchers, machine learning engineers, control systems designers, and embodied intelligence experts from academia and industry.
Promotion Strategy:
Post-Workshop: Special issue in Autonomous Robots journal featuring selected workshop papers.
The workshop is committed to fostering an inclusive research community with balanced gender representation, diverse scientific expertise, and support for researchers at all career stages. All content will be accessible on mobile devices and shared asynchronously through dedicated platforms (Discord, website).