XXVIII RoboCup International Symposium 2025

VENUE

The 28th RoboCup International Symposium will be held on 21 July 2025, in conjunction with RoboCup25 (July 14 to 20, 2025) in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil.

We are looking for submissions of papers reporting innovative and original research with relevance to areas of robotics and artificial intelligence. A full list of topics welcomed to this year’s symposium can be found below. Within the described scope of topics, we also encourage submissions of high-quality overview articles, papers describing real-world research, and papers reporting theoretical results. Researchers are invited to submit their work independently of whether they participate in the RoboCup competitions or have a RoboCup team.

The symposium will include technical sessions of an oral presentation of full papers of recognized importance in the area.

The event will take place at Salvador Convention Center (CCS), Av. Octávio Mangabeira, 5.490 Boca do Rio - Salvador - Bahia - Brazil

We are looking forward to seeing you in RoboCup International Symposium 2025.

CALL FOR PAPERS

In addition to the regular track with regular research papers, the development track encourages reports on innovative hardware developments, software frameworks, and open-source releases of software components. A review of papers describing these contributions will be based on technical aspects and benefits to the practice of communities specifically working in RoboCup.

The proceedings of the RoboCup International Symposium will be published and archived within the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNCS/LNAI) series by Springer after the conference. The LNCS/LNAI series has an impact factor of 0.407.

Important Dates

• Paper Submission Deadline: April 7th, 2025
• Notification of Acceptance: May 16th, 2025
• Camera Ready Submission: May 30th, 2025

Templates

All papers will be peer-reviewed and evaluated by members of the senior program committee. The proceedings of the RoboCup International Symposium will be published and archived within the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNCS/LNAI) series by Springer-Verlag after the conference. Submissions are limited to 12 pages including references. Papers should be formatted following the LNAI author guidelines (https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines).

Please submit contributions using this link: To be announced

After paper acceptance, if you need an invitation letter for a visa application, please check this page: To be announced

Conference topics of interest are, but not limited to:

Robot Hardware and Software
• mobile robotics
• humanoid robotics
• sensors and actuators
• embedded and mobile devices
• robot construction and new materials
• robot system integration
• robot software architectures
• robot programming environments and languages
• real-time and concurrent programming
• robot simulators
• sim2real learning

Perception and Action
• 3D perception
• distributed sensor integration
• sensor noise filtering
• real-time image processing and pattern recognition
• motion and sensor models
• sensory-motor control
• robot kinematics and dynamics
• high-dimensional motion control

Robot Cognition and Learning
• world modelling and knowledge representation
• learning from demonstration and imitation
• localisation, navigation, and mapping
• planning and reasoning
• decision making under uncertainty
• neural systems and deep learning
• complex motor skill acquisition
• reinforcement learning and optimisation
• motion and sensor model learning

Human-Robot Interaction
• robot social intelligence
• fluency of interaction
• speech synthesis and natural language generation
• natural language recognition
• explainable robot behaviours
• emotion recognition and reaction
• understanding human intent and behaviour
• safety, security and dependability
• enabling humans to predict robot behaviour

Multi-Robot Systems
• team coordination methods
• communication protocols
• learning and adaptive systems
• teamwork and heterogeneous agents
• dynamic resource allocation
• adjustable autonomy

Education and Edutainment
• robotics and artificial intelligence education
• educational robotics
• robot kits and programming tools
• robotic entertainment

Applications and Benchmarking
• search and rescue robots
• robot surveillance service and social robots
• robots at home, at work and in public spaces
• robots in the real world
• performance metrics
• human-robot interaction

REGISTRATION

To be announced

PROGRAM