We are excited to host a workshop on Self Driving Laboratories at IROS 2026. We are looking for contributions, especially from early career researchers!
See the poster and details below for more information.

Details
Robotics & Automation in Self-Driving Laboratories is a workshop at IEEE/RSJ IROS 2026 in Pittsburgh, organized by the University of Connecticut, Tufts University, Brown University, and the Vector Institute. The workshop site carries the full program, speaker abstracts, and the contributor abstract submission form: sites.tufts.edu/selfdrivinglabs-iros2026
Key dates
- Submission deadline — August 31, 2026
- Decision — September 10, 2026
- Workshop — September 27, 2026
Invited speakers
- Keith Brown
Boston University - A. Gilad Kusne
University of Maryland / NIST - Jason Hattrick-Simpers
University of Toronto - Naruki Yoshikawa
National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Japan - Youn-Suk Choi
Samsung, South Korea - Todd Hufnagel
Johns Hopkins University - Daniel van der Weide
University of Wisconsin–Madison - Rong Yang
Cornell University
Organizing committee
- Mihai “Mishu” Duduta
University of Connecticut - Markus Nemitz
Tufts University - Miguel Bessa
Brown University - Ang “Leo” Li
Vector Institute - Xuanjiang “William” Liu
Tufts University