ICRA 2026 Vienna everything happening at ICRA 2026 in one place. schedule, tech talks, innovation stage, keynotes, socials, and vienna survival tips.
May 30, 2026 · Updated May 30, 2026
ICRA 2026 runs June 1–5 at VIECON in Vienna. The official site scatters information across a dozen pages and two separate Google Docs that aren't linked prominently anywhere. This is everything in one place so you can actually decide what to attend without 15 browser tabs open.
Within each day, parallel events are grouped by their start time. If three things start at 09:00, you'll see all three together so you can pick.
At a glance Morning Midday Afternoon Evening Mon 1 Workshops · Badge 07:00 — Workshops Welcome Reception 18:00 Tue 2 Panels · Tech Talks · Innovation Keynote 1 · Awards Plenary · Tech Talks SAC Social 19:15 Wed 3 Panels · Tech Talks · Innovation Keynote 3 · Awards Plenary · Tech Talks Lightwheel Party 19:00 Thu 4 Panels · Tech Talks · Innovation Keynote 5 · Awards Lunch Robot Parade 15:00 Community Dinner 19:00 Fri 5 Workshops — Workshops —
Venue
Hall What's there Foyer A Registration · Badge pickup · Free chocolate + water bottle Hall A1 Keynotes · Plenaries · Panels · Awards Lunch Hall A2 Best Paper Award Sessions Hall A3 Regular Sessions (Orals) · RAS Town Hall Hall B Exhibition · Competitions · Robot Parade · Device charging Hall C Arts in Robotics · Posters (Interactive Sessions) Hall C5 Science Communication · Competition Awards Hall C6 Innovation Stage Hall C7 Tech Talk Stage Strauss 1–2 Industry Keynotes · Keynote Tutorials Lehar 1–4 Regular Sessions (Orals)
Monday, June 1 Workshops & opening. Badge pickup starts at 07:00.
Time Event Where 07:00–19:30 Registration / Badge Pickup (bring QR code)Foyer A 09:00–17:30 Workshops & Tutorials (full day) VIECON 09:00–12:30 Workshops & Tutorials (morning half-day) VIECON 09:00–11:30 Technical Tour 1 (UAS Technikum Wien Labs) Höchstädtplatz 6 14:00–17:30 Workshops & Tutorials (afternoon half-day) VIECON 14:00–18:00 Technical Tour 2 (TU Wien Robotics Labs) Gusshausstr. 27–29 17:45–18:00 Conference Opening Hall A1 18:00–20:00 Welcome Reception (Nebius sponsored, drinks + finger food, first look at exhibition)Halls A, B, C
Workshops I found interesting Tuesday, June 2 Main conference day 1. Exhibition opens. Two industry stages (Tech Talks in C7, Innovation in C6) run all day in parallel with the academic programme.
09:00–10:30 Where Event Hall A1 Panel 1 : Humanoid Robotics to Startup Creation Strauss 1–2 Keynote Tutorial 1 : Learning Agile Vision-Based Quadrotor Flight Hall C Interactive Session 1 (posters) Hall B + C Exhibition · Competitions · Arts in Robotics (runs until 18:00)
Tech Talk Stage (Hall C7) Time Company Topic 09:00–09:12 Weights & Biases / CoreWeave Bare Metal to Models: Accelerating Embodied AI 09:15–09:27 Nimbl'Bot A Modular 25-DOF Hyper-Redundant Robot for Complex Industrial Environments 09:30–09:42 Nebius Nebius Physical AI Workbench 09:45–09:57 Helsing TBD 10:00–10:12 Lightwheel Building a continuous learning system for physical AI 10:15–10:27 ROBOTERA Rethinking dexterous hands for real-world deployment
Innovation Stage (Hall C6) Time Company Topic 09:00–09:12 IEEE RAS IAB Opening: Bootstrapping and Beyond 09:15–09:27 HopTo Development Hopcopter: the world-leading hopping robot 09:30–09:42 Rockwell Automation Past/present/future of robot entrepreneurship (Ryan Gariepy, IERA winner) 09:45–09:57 Tumi Robotics Lessons from a Robotics startup 10:00–10:12 Women in Robotics Deploying Robots Faster, Safer, Smarter 10:15–10:27 Intellectus Agens Robotics and AI: Getting started
10:30–11:00 Where Event — ☕ Morning coffee
Stages continue through the break:
Stage Time Company Topic C7 10:30–10:42 TARS Foundations for General Physical Intelligence C7 10:45–10:57 PNDbotics (Ningbo) From Developer Kits to Real Work: Full-Scale Humanoid for Industrial Embodied AI C6 10:30–10:42 Allonic — C6 10:45–10:57 Needleye Robotics Academia to MedTech: Myths and Realities of DeepTech Startups
11:00–12:30 Where Event Hall A1 Keynote 1 : Autonomous Vehicles & Navigation Hall A2 Award Session : Best Paper Finalists Hall A3, Lehar 1–4, Strauss 1–2 Regular Sessions (Orals)
12:30–14:00 Where Event Restaurant D (Riesenrad) WiE Lunch Restaurant Melange Young Professionals Lunch
Stages keep running through lunch (good time to catch talks if you skip formal lunch):
Tech Talk Stage (Hall C7) Time Company Topic 12:30–12:42 Zhejiang Qiangnao Hands Evolution: From Bionic Substitution to Intelligent Augmentation 12:45–12:57 Pulsar HRI Addressing the Sim to Real Gap 13:00–13:12 HexaCercle From Iron Man to Embodied Intelligence Data Infrastructure 13:15–13:27 Tashan Technology Tactile Sensing: From Contact Perception to Manipulation Intelligence 13:30–13:42 Shadow Robot Dexterous and Tactile Robotics for Learning and Teleoperation 13:45–13:57 Unitree How Humanoid Robots Advance from Kung Fu Mode to Work Mode
Innovation Stage (Hall C6) Time Company Topic 12:30–12:42 Eclipsos Venture Investing in Robotics 12:45–12:57 Airskin Cool Tech vs. Real Customers 13:00–13:12 Robokraft Diving into robotics startups 13:15–13:27 Iono Robotics Lessons from a local startup 13:30–13:42 General Autonomy Lessons from a robotics startup 13:45–13:57 Brighter Signals The Future of Touch (lessons from fundraising)
14:00–14:50 Where Event Hall A1 Plenary Session
15:00–16:30 Where Event Hall A1 Panel 2 : Advancing Sustainability in Robotics Strauss 1–2 Keynote Tutorial 2 : OMPL 2.0 Hall C Interactive Session 2 (posters)
Tech Talk Stage (Hall C7) Time Company Topic 15:00–15:12 AGIBOT Finch From Pretraining to Learning While Deploying: Generalist Robot Policies 15:15–15:27 LimX Dynamics Humanoid Robot: Hardware & AI 15:30–15:42 MathWorks Pilot-in-the-Loop Autopilot Testing: Closing the Gap Between Simulation and Flight 15:45–15:57 PAL Robotics Towards General Purpose Robots: Advancing Intelligence and Mobility 16:00–16:12 Olive Robotics GmbH ROS-Native Sensing for Physical AI: Deterministic, Time-Synchronized Sensor Fusion 16:15–16:27 Touchlab Enabling High-Stakes Dexterity for Human Robot Interaction 16:30–16:42 Generative Bionics The Future of Physical AI (Daniele Pucci, CEO)
Innovation Stage (Hall C6) Time Company Topic 15:00–15:12 National Robotarium How to build a successful Robotics Ecosystem 15:15–15:27 Peru Ecosystem HR Fest 2026 (lessons from Peru) 15:45–15:57 ASPIRE Marine Challenge Launching new robotics initiatives 16:00–16:12 Mass Robotics Building an ecosystem 16:15–16:27 euRobotics How Europe is building robotics ecosystems 16:30–16:42 SPRINT Robotics Closing the gap between industry and academia 16:45–16:57 Panel Ecosystem building: what does industry want?
16:30–18:15 Where Event — ☕ Afternoon coffee (16:30–16:45) Hall A1 Keynote 2 : Medical & Healthcare Robotics (16:45–18:15) Hall A2 Award Session : Best Paper Finalists (16:45–18:15) Hall A3, Lehar 1–4, Strauss 1–2 Regular Sessions (Orals) (16:45–18:15)
Evening Time Event Where 18:15–19:15 RAS Town Hall Hall A3 19:15–20:30 SAC & YRP Social Hour Restaurant D (Riesenrad)
Wednesday, June 3 Main conference day 2. Density of good tech talks peaks today.
09:00–10:30 Where Event Hall A1 Panel 3 : Building Sustainable and Trustworthy AI for Automation Strauss 1–2 Industry Keynote Session 1 Hall C Interactive Session 3 (posters) Hall B + C Exhibition · Competitions · Arts in Robotics (runs until 18:00)
Tech Talk Stage (Hall C7) Time Company Topic 09:00–09:12 Nomadic AI Beyond Fluent Outputs: Agentic Evidence Gathering for Trustworthy Video Understanding 09:15–09:27 Connect Tech Inc. AI on Real Machines: Constraints, Trade-offs, and Execution 09:30–09:42 Proception.ai Scaling Dexterous Manipulation: Hardware Design and Human-Centric Data Collection 09:45–09:57 Contactile Tactile sensing: A physics foundation 10:00–10:12 Voxel51 (Open) 10:15–10:27 SCHUNK Humanoid Robotics Anthropomorphic End Effector Design (Between Industry & Research)
Innovation Stage (Hall C6) Time Company Topic 09:00–09:12 Waterlinked Optimizing real-time 3D sonar on minimal FPGA resources 09:15–09:27 Agrocolia Scalable Architectures 09:30–09:42 RideScan — 09:45–09:57 NeuraLoc — 10:00–10:12 Vaanfly Plug-and-Play Intelligence for the Next Generation of Robots 10:15–10:27 Semaphor Surgical AI infrastructure for surgical systems
10:30–11:00 Where Event — ☕ Morning coffee
Stage Time Company Topic C7 10:30–10:42 Xsens Scaling Human Data Collection in the Wild to Train Humanoid Robots C7 10:45–10:57 Sudo AI From Sim to Shelf: Bridging Sim2Real and Commercialization
11:00–12:30 Where Event Hall A1 Keynote 3 : Robot Perception & Spatial AI Hall A2 Award Session : Best Paper Finalists Hall A3, Lehar 1–4, Strauss 1–2 Regular Sessions (Orals)
12:30–14:00 Where Event Restaurant D Lunch with Leaders Hall C5 Science Communication Crash Course (13:00–14:00)
Tech Talk Stage (Hall C7) Time Company Topic 12:30–12:42 Seed Robotics Integrating Tactile Skin into Robotic Manipulators 12:45–12:57 Bitcraze A swarm welcome to new indoor drone capabilities 13:00–13:12 HEBI Robotics Everything you wanted to know about series elastic actuators 13:15–13:27 Enchanted Tools What does it take to build a people facing humanoid? 13:30–13:42 XELA Robotics Physical AI with a Human Touch: How Tactile Sensing is Pushing Physical AI Forward 13:45–13:57 NOKOV Motion Capture How Motion Capture Empowers Robotics Research
Innovation Stage (Hall C6) Time Company Topic 12:30–12:42 BMW Group / RoboTac Lab Robotics & Innovation at BMW and RoboTac Lab (Mohsen Kaboli) 12:45–12:57 Compliance Robotics Towards agile robotics adapted to a fragile world 13:00–13:12 CUSHYBOTS Robots for Protecting Humans 13:15–13:27 Dexterous Endoscopes From Publications to Users: The Pivot Academia Never Teaches You 13:30–13:42 Robostaffer What the market is looking for 13:45–13:57 Rexin Dynamics —
14:00–14:50 Where Event Hall A1 Plenary Session
15:00–16:30 Where Event Hall A1 Panel 4 : Publish or Perish: Surviving the Paper Deluge Strauss 1–2 Keynote Tutorial 3 : Modern Software Tools for Robotics Hall C Interactive Session 4 (posters)
Tech Talk Stage (Hall C7) Time Company Topic 15:00–15:12 XGRIDS Spatial Intelligence: From "Understanding Commands" to "Completing Tasks" 15:15–15:27 ARIA Robot Dexterity programme: First year highlights 15:30–15:42 Amazon Millions of Picks Later: Lessons from Deploying Foundation Models for Warehouse Robotics 15:45–15:57 Uber AI Solutions From Data to Deployment: Uber's role in scaling Autonomous Driving 16:00–16:12 Xynova Technology Tendon-driven vs. Direct Drive: Trade-offs in Dexterous Hand Design 16:15–16:27 Bota Systems AG The Role of High-Fidelity Tactile Feedback in Scaling Physical AI 16:30–16:42 Generative Bionics The Future of Physical AI (Daniele Pucci, CEO)
Innovation Stage (Hall C6) Time Company Topic 15:00–15:12 NIST Standards Overview 15:15–15:27 NIST SPIRSE Competition 15:30–15:42 University of New Brunswick 6G for Robotics 15:45–15:57 ASTM Humanoid Robots Standards 16:00–16:12 Federal Univ of Rio Grande do Sul Addressing Risks in AI Systems for Ethically Aligned Robotics 16:15–16:27 UC Irvine Semantics Maps 16:30–16:42 GTRI Robot Task Representation 16:45–16:57 Instituto Politécnico de Castelo Branco Ontology Reasoning with Multiple Autonomous Robots
16:30–18:15 Where Event — ☕ Afternoon coffee (16:30–16:45) Hall A1 Keynote 4 : Manipulation, Humanoids, Embodied Design (16:45–18:15) Hall A2 Award Session : Best Paper Finalists (16:45–18:15) Hall A3, Lehar 1–4, Strauss 1–2 Regular Sessions (Orals) (16:45–18:15)
Evening Thursday, June 4 Awards, Robot Parade, community building. Thursday is a public holiday (shops closed, restaurants open but book ahead).
09:00–10:30 Where Event Hall A1 Panel 5 : "Robots for All" in a Fragmented World Strauss 1–2 Industry Keynote Session 2 Hall C Interactive Session 5 (posters) Hall B Exhibition · Competitions (runs until 17:00) Hall C Arts in Robotics (runs until 18:00)
Tech Talk Stage (Hall C7) Time Company Topic 09:00–09:12 SafeAD Scene Understanding with Vision Language Models 09:15–09:27 Flexiv Robotics Human-Inspired Innovation & Embodied AI: General-Purpose Adaptive Robots 09:30–09:42 DEEP Robotics From Simulation to Real Robots: Challenges in Deploying AI on Quadruped Platforms 09:45–09:57 High Torque Robotics Democratizing Humanoids: Mini Pi Plus (affordable Full-Stack Ecosystem) 10:15–10:27 Daimon Robotics On the Construction of Tactile Infrastructure for Robotic Manipulation Learning
Innovation Stage (Hall C6) Time Company Topic 09:00–09:12 Silicon Valley Robotics Manufacturing for the first time (Andra Keay) 09:15–09:27 Sensmore — 09:30–09:42 NFM Robotics — 10:00–10:12 International Federation of Robotics The Global Robotics Landscape: Where It Is, Who Builds It, What's Next 10:15–10:42 IEEE RAS IAB Robotics Global Funding Report (Ali Shehadi)
10:30–11:00 ☕ Morning coffee
11:00–12:30 Where Event Hall A1 Keynote 5 : Robot Learning, Planning & Foundation Models Hall C6 IERA Award (21st, starts 11:05) Hall A3, Lehar 1–4, Strauss 1–2 Regular Sessions (Orals)
12:30–14:00 Where Event Hall A1 Awards Lunch (lunch boxes provided, it's a public holiday)
14:00–15:00 Where Event Hall A1 Plenary Session Foyer A Dress Day Photo Shoot (14:50)
15:00–16:30 Where Event Hall B 🤖 Robot Parade (15:00–15:45) Hall A1 Panel 6 : Return on Humanoid Investment Strauss 1–2 Keynote Tutorial 4 : Behavior Foundation Models from the Ground Up
16:30–18:15 Where Event — ☕ Afternoon coffee (16:30–16:45) Hall C5 Competitions Award Ceremony (16:45–18:15) Hall A1 Keynote 6 : Human-Robot Interaction (16:45–18:15) Hall A3, Lehar 1–4, Strauss 1–2 Regular Sessions (Orals) (16:45–18:15)
Evening Friday, June 5 Workshops & tutorials.
Time Event Where 07:00–14:00 Registration Foyer A 09:00–17:30 Workshops & Tutorials (full day)VIECON 09:00–11:30 Technical Tour 3 (RoboCupJunior European Championship) Marx Halle 14:00–17:30 Workshops & Tutorials (afternoon half-day) VIECON 14:00–16:30 Technical Tour 4 (RoboCupJunior, afternoon) Marx Halle
Friday workshops I found interesting Socials & parties Event When Where Notes Welcome Reception Mon 18:00–20:00 Halls A+B+C Included in ticket. Nebius-sponsored. SAC & YRP Social Hour Tue 19:15–20:30 Restaurant D (Riesenrad) — Lightwheel Physical AI Party Wed 19:00–23:00 via Luma Pending approval Awards Lunch Thu 12:30–14:00 Hall A1 Lunch boxes (public holiday) Community Building Dinner Thu 19:00–21:00 Rathauskeller —
Keynotes All in Hall A1.
# Topic When 1 Autonomous Vehicles & Navigation Tue 11:00–12:30 2 Medical & Healthcare Robotics Tue 16:45–18:15 3 Robot Perception & Spatial AI Wed 11:00–12:30 4 Manipulation, Humanoids, Embodied Design Wed 16:45–18:15 5 Robot Learning, Planning & Foundation Models Thu 11:00–12:30 6 Human-Robot Interaction Thu 16:45–18:15
Plenary sessions daily at 14:00. Industry keynotes Wed+Thu 09:00 in Strauss 1–2.
Vienna survival Tap water is alpine spring water. Better than bottled. Refill at fountains in Hall A and the Mall. Free NOKOV water bottle at Foyer A (first-come).
Cash needed at some restaurants. Gasthaus Rohrböck (Schnitzel) and Cordon Vert are cash-only.
Airport transit : trains every 30 min to Wien Mitte or Praterstern (one stop from venue). CAT train 25% off with code . 7-day Vienna pass: €25.20.
Thursday = public holiday : shops closed except Praterstern station. Restaurants open but make reservations. Plachutta (Tafelspitz), Drei Hacken (bone marrow).
Device charging : area in Hall B between competitions. Power sockets + lockable charging boxes.
Emergency : European 112 · Ambulance 144 · Fire 122 · Police 133
Links Built from the official ICRA 2026 site, conference emails, and the Tech Talk / Innovation Stage Google Docs. Last updated 30 May 2026.
