IROS — IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

IROS is the IEEE/RSJ systems venue for robotics. VLA/manipulation coverage here is more hardware-and-deployment heavy than at CoRL / NeurIPS / ICLR: teleoperation interfaces, humanoid platforms, real-robot systems integration, dexterous/tactile manipulation hardware.

Surveys

• 🆕 IROS 2026 — VLA & Manipulation Survey (Sep 2026, Pittsburgh · pre-conference) — 1,900+ contributed papers; the robustness/efficiency/deployment counterpart to the ICLR/ICML/RSS architecture venues. Official-program session taxonomy + sampled papers, with trend deep-dives on WAM · memory & in-context learning · bimanual/humanoid. Full-paper analyses: AtomVLA · VLA-RL · 3D FlowMatch Actor · EquiBim · RoboSSM · TempoFit · IMLE-VLA · ICLR: Visual Reasoning.
• IROS 2025 — VLA & Manipulation Survey (April 2026, retrospective) — 1,991 accepted papers total; flagship AgiBot World Colosseo (1M+ trajectories, Best Paper Award Finalist; subsequently accepted to IEEE TRO 2026) + Neural MP (Best Student Paper). 7 categories spanning VLA architecture, real-robot deployment, dexterous manipulation, mobile manipulation, humanoid/whole-body, data/benchmarks, teleoperation interfaces. Includes a CoRL 2025 → IROS 2025 → NeurIPS 2025 / ICLR 2026 lineage map.

Related venue surveys

• CoRL 2025 — VLA & Manipulation Survey (Seoul, Sept 2025)
• NeurIPS 2025 — VLA & Manipulation Survey (San Diego, Dec 2025)
• ICLR 2026 — VLA & Manipulation Survey (Apr 2026)

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