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<font face="Arial" style="font-size: 14px;">Dear Colleagues,</font></p>
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<font face="Arial" style="font-size: 14px;">We are pleased to announce the <b>Call for Papers and Posters</b> for the <b>TAROS 2026 Conference (Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems)</b>, to be held on <b>7–9 September 2026</b> at the <b>University of Manchester,
UK, </b>which this year has the endorsement of IEEE RAS.</font></p>
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<font face="Arial" style="font-size: 14px;">TAROS is the longest-running UK-hosted international conference on robotics and autonomous systems, bringing together researchers and practitioners to present and discuss the latest advances in the field. </font></div>
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<font face="Arial" style="font-size: 14px;"><b>Conference Themes and Topics</b><br>
We invite submissions of <b>original full papers and posters</b> on all areas relevant to robotics and autonomous systems research, including but not limited to:<br>
• Advanced materials and techniques<br>
• Advanced sensors and actuators<br>
• Aerial robots and unmanned vehicles<br>
• Autonomous robots and vehicles<br>
• Assistive, service and personal robotics<br>
• Human-robot interaction and multimodal interfaces<br>
• Modelling, navigation, localisation and path planning<br>
• Bioinspired and hybrid robotic systems<br>
• Safety, verification and validation<br>
• Swarm, collective and field robotics<br>
• Medical and intelligent prosthetics<br>
…and other interdisciplinary topics with robotics applications. </font></p>
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<font face="Arial" style="font-size: 14px;"><b>Submission Details</b><br>
All submissions will undergo a rigorous peer-review process. Accepted papers and posters will be published in the official conference proceedings by <b>IEEE</b>. </font></p>
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<b><font face="Arial" style="font-size: 14px;">Important Dates </font></b></p>
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<b><i><font face="Arial" style="font-size: 14px;">Please ignore the dates on RAS papercept as these will be updated shortly with the correct ones below.</font></i></b></div>
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<font face="Arial" style="font-size: 14px;"><b><i>Full Papers</i></b><br>
• <b>Paper submission deadline:</b> 10 April 2026<br>
• <b>Notification of acceptance:</b> 2 June 2026<br>
• <b>Final (camera-ready) paper submission:</b> 16 June 2026</font></div>
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<font face="Arial" style="font-size: 14px;"><b><i>Posters</i></b><br>
• <b>Poster abstract deadline:</b> 19 May 2026<br>
• <b>Poster notification:</b> 11 July 2026<br>
• <b>Final poster submission:</b> 1 August 2026</font></div>
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<b>Conference dates:</b> 7–9 September 2026 </font></div>
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<font face="Arial" style="font-size: 14px;"><b>Submission and Contact</b><br>
Please submit your work through the conference online submission system using RAS Papercept: <i><a data-linkindex="0" data-auth="NotApplicable" title="https://ras.papercept.net/conferences/scripts/start.pl" class="OWAAutoLink" id="OWA4a4f82ef-991f-bea3-a66a-5851c093e694" href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://ras.papercept.net/conferences/scripts/start.pl__;!!PDiH4ENfjr2_Jw!HAW7t2O0QaMbsq-Z5CxA4ifGzI6xBMiZOKbhSmkKpEbuOJpSLd7IiNSo5giJygjjp5reXUSYC3Vei32PA9E8hmtX6029IcsSz3OJH4yxHDVWZ80$" style="margin: 0px;">https://ras.papercept.net/conferences/scripts/start.pl
[ras.papercept.net]</a></i>. For additional information, visit the conference website: <span style="color: rgb(0, 120, 212);"><a data-start="2417" data-linkindex="1" data-outlook-id="f3593b56-7f56-4bcb-a34e-438db8ec35b5" data-end="2446" data-auth="NotApplicable" title="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://taros-conference.org/?utm_source=chatgpt.com__;!!PDiH4ENfjr2_Jw!B4dyK-wnc7IrV5zXhIXhOL7XlUF1GbINZrHRodB-3qsKhJmB60Bflb0jWA46aFSn1fsS7G2hS14X4EBK6B4RZPaqRjT9ciYyrg$" class="OWAAutoLink" id="OWA45e4565a-4762-ac3d-e820-ec9b99b00c4c" href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://taros-conference.org/?utm_source=chatgpt.com__;!!PDiH4ENfjr2_Jw!B4dyK-wnc7IrV5zXhIXhOL7XlUF1GbINZrHRodB-3qsKhJmB60Bflb0jWA46aFSn1fsS7G2hS14X4EBK6B4RZPaqRjT9ciYyrg$" style="color: rgb(0, 120, 212); margin: 0px;">https://taros-conference.org/
[taros-conference.org]</a>.</span></font></p>
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<font face="Arial" style="font-size: 14px;">We look forward to your contributions and to welcoming you at TAROS 2026.</font></p>
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<font face="Arial" style="font-size: 14px;">Warm regards,</font></p>
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<font face="Arial" style="font-size: 14px;">Angelo Cangelosi</font></p>
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<font face="Arial" style="font-size: 14px;">TAROS2026 General Co-Chair</font></p>
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<font face="Arial" style="font-size: 14px;">University of Manchester</font></p>
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