Overview

Content

Topics of discussion and open questions include but are not limited to the following:

• Vision-Language Navigation

• Semantic SLAM

• Semantic Mapping

• Foundation Models for Robotics

• LLMs for Robotics

• Human-Robot Interaction

• Vision-Language-Action Models

• Object-Goal Navigation

• Embodied Question Answering

• Spatial and Causal Reasoning

• Real-Robot Autonomy Stacks

Call for Papers

We invite paper submissions to the 3rd AI Meets Autonomy: Vision, Language, and Autonomous Systems Workshop. 

This is a non-archival workshop, so both previously published papers and papers currently under review at conferences or other workshops are welcome. Submissions should follow the IROS 2026 paper format and be 4 to 8 pages in length (including references). Submissions do not need to be double-blind; single-blind submissions are sufficient. Submissions may cover a broad range of topics, including (but not limited to) vision-language navigation, semantic SLAM and mapping, foundation models for robotics, LLMs for robotics, human-robot interaction, vision-language-action models, and related areas. 

All submissions will undergo peer review. Selected outstanding papers will be invited to give a spotlight presentation at the workshop.

Call Submission Deadline: August 25th, 2026, 23:59 AoE

Submission Portal: OpenReview

Notification of Acceptance: September 5th, 2026

Call for Late Breaking Submission

We are now accepting late-breaking submissions to the workshop. 

The deadline is September 17, 23:59PM Anywhere on Earth (AoE). 

Submissions are single-blind (please include author names in your PDF) and should be submitted via this [Google Form link], not OpenReview.

This is a non-archival track, so you're welcome to reuse or resubmit existing conference submissions (e.g., your ICRA 2027 submission).

No formal reviews will be provided. We will only notify authors of accept (invited to the poster session) or reject decisions. For fairness, late-breaking submissions will not be considered for spotlight presentations.

Call for Challenge Competition Participation

Tentative Program

Speakers

Accepted Papers

CRAFT: Video Diffusion for Bimanual Robot Data Generation. Jason Chen, I-Chun Arthur Liu, Gaurav S. Sukhatme, Daniel Seita 

MimicAgent: Learning Quadruped Skills via Text-to-Trajectory Generation. Lucky Kant Nayak, Narayanan Palghat Parameswaran, Neehar Peri, Deva Ramanan

Cross-Environment LiDAR–Camera Misalignment Detection via Object-Level VLM Assessment. Seokhwan Jeong, Younggun Cho  

CMU-Drive and V2V-VLA: Cooperative Multi-agent Unified Driving with Reasoning Benchmark and Vehicle-to-Vehicle Vision-Language-Action Models. Hsu-kuang Chiu, Stephen F Smith 

Embody Lite: An Auditable Proxy Evaluation of Language-Model Control Interfaces. Jiacheng Liu

Large Reward Models: Generalizable Online Robot Reward Generation with Vision-Language Models. Yanru Wu, Weiduo Yuan, Ang Qi, Vitor Campagnolo Guizilini, Jiageng Mao, Yue Wang

Scalable LLM-based PDDL Domain Generation for Aerial Robotics. Songhao Huang, Yuwei Wu, Guangyao Shi, Gaurav S. Sukhatme, Vijay Kumar. 

ODG-NoMaD: Overhead-Camera Direction-Guided NoMaD. Blossom Treesa Bastian, Manish Kolachalam, Rani malhotra, Keerthi S Shetty, Ashish Dutta

A Survey of Agentic Robotics: Toward Continual Self-Improvement. Jiaming Wang, Yuhua Jiang, Liu Diwen, Chen Jizhuo, Zhengcheng Shen, Harold Soh

A Pragmatist Robot: Learning Task Planning by Trial and Error with Memory-Augmented VLMs. Kaixian Qu, Guowei Lan, René Zurbrügg, Changan Chen, Christopher Mower, Haitham Bou Ammar, Marco Hutter

MAPLE: Model-Agnostic LLM Agents for Autonomous Experiments using MADSci. Gabriel Ferrer, William Shields, Turgay Korkmaz 

Autonomous Culvert Inspection using VLMs. Yashom Dighe, Yash Turkar, Karthik K Dantu 

Evaluating VLMs for Visual Path Planning: A Benchmark and an Overlay Tool. Christine Ohenzuwa, Wenhao Luo, Katia P. Sycara, Woojun Kim 

Organizers

Acknowledgments: Workshop Paper Reviewers

We would like to thank the following reviewers (listed in alphabetical order) for their valuable time and effort in reviewing the workshop papers.

• Bavin Saravanan 

• Byeonghyun Pak 

• Dmytro Kurdydyk

• Ishaan Malhotra

• Jaskaran Singh Sodhi 

• Jianwen Cao 

• Junyoung Kim 

• Krrish Jain 

• Mangat Rai

• Muyang Yan

• Pravin Kumar Muralidaran

• Raghav Sharma 

• Sagar Sachdev

• Saksham Sharma

• Soumya Teotia  

• Sunghwan Kim  

• Varun Kandiyappan

• Zhizheng Liu 

• Zuntao Liu