IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

A major annual robotics conference on par with ICRA, held each fall.

IROS, in full the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, was first held in Tokyo in 1988 and is jointly organized by the IEEE and the Robotics Society of Japan (RSJ), among others; it's usually held in the fall and draws more than 2,000 paper submissions a year. Its research scope overlaps heavily with ICRA's, spanning motion control, perception, SLAM, and robot learning, and the field commonly refers to the two together as robotics' two major conferences. It rotates between Asia, Europe, and the Americas: Abu Dhabi in 2024, Hangzhou in 2025, Pittsburgh, USA, in 2026, and Florence, Italy, set for 2027. For newcomers submitting papers, IROS and ICRA are usually the first choices in robotics.

ExampleLIO-SAM, a widely used method in LiDAR SLAM, was published at IROS 2020.

Also called

IROS

Related

IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation · Conference on Robot Learning · Robotics: Science and Systems · IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots · IEEE T-RO / IJRR / RA-L · Top-tier Conferences & Journals (CCF-A Venues)

Sources

Wikipedia: International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

As of

2026-09