IROS 2026

Pittsburgh, here we come! 🤖 PAL Robotics is heading to #IROS2026.

We’re excited to join the global robotics research community at the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems this October.

📍 Booth 1005 | David L. Lawrence Convention Center, Pittsburgh

📅 27 September – 1 October 2026

This year, TIAGo Pro Arm will be joining us at IROS, giving attendees the opportunity to discover our newest research platform for advanced manipulation up close.

Designed for research in robot manipulation, perception, robot learning and physical AI, TIAGo Pro Arm provides a flexible platform for developing and testing new approaches to intelligent manipulation.

Attendees will also be able to learn more about TIAGo Pro, our mobile manipulation platform for research in areas including embodied AI, human-robot interaction, navigation and manipulation.

Whether you’re working on new learning approaches, manipulation challenges or the next generation of intelligent robots, come by our booth to meet the PAL Robotics team and explore our latest research platforms.

🎤 Our Agenda

Paper presentation: The SOSI Toolkit: Ontology, Synthetic Dataset, and Benchmark for Social Situation Understanding in Robotics

👤 Speaker: Luca Pallonetto
📅 30 September | 15:03
📍 Room 319

The paper presents the SOSI Toolkit, developed to support research into how robots understand and interpret social situations.

🔗https://2026.ieee-iros.org/program/contributed_talks/?q=sosi 

Workshop invited talk: Sim2Real and Classical Control: From Rigorous Theory to Data-Driven Robotics

Session 2: Invited Talks – Industrial Perspective

👤Speaker: Ferran Gebellí
📅 1 October | 10:15–10:45

Ferran will bring an industry perspective to the discussion around bridging simulation and real-world robotics, and the role of classical control and data-driven approaches.

🔗https://sim2realgap.github.io/sim2real-and-control-workshop-iros2026/

👋 Will you be at IROS 2026? Come and meet the PAL Robotics team in Pittsburgh!