 | FIRA Summit 2026: FIRA World Summit 2026 The Markham Pan Am Centre / York University Markham Campus Markham, Ontario, Canada, July 18-21, 2026 |
| Conference website | https://summit.firaworldcup.org/ |
| Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=firasummit2026 |
| Abstract registration deadline | June 5, 2026 |
| Submission deadline | June 5, 2026 |
| Notification to authors | June 20, 2026 |
FIRA 2026 World Summit
The FIRA World Summit 2026 will be held with the FIRA RoboWorld Cup 2026 from the 17th to the 21st of July 2026 in Markham, Ontario, Canada. The purpose of organizing the FIRA RoboWorldCup and Summit is to share many ideas and research results in AI and robotics areas. The FIRA Summit is soliciting novel research results on advanced robotics, intelligent systems, and building successful simulations for robots and systems. The original research papers reported on the leading edge of science and technology will be peer-reviewed and presented in this Summit, in order to consolidate the state of the art advancement in key areas of robotics and AI. The organizing committee of the FIRA 2026 World Summit is preparing to hold this year's conference, as a hybrid event.
Please be advised that the organization committee of FIRA World Summit 2026 applied for IEEE Explore to index the presented papers.
We call for submissions of short papers, reporting innovative, original research relevant to areas of intelligent robotics and artificial intelligence. A detailed list of topics is given below. Within the described scope of topics we also encourage submissions of high-quality overview short articles, and papers describing the real world. We invite researchers to submit their work independently of whether they participate in the FIRA competitions or have a FIRA team.
FIRA WorldSummit 2026 Call for Participation
Submission Guidelines
Papers submitted should be written in English. All papers will be peer-reviewed, and evaluated by members of the senior FIRA Summit program committee. Please go through the Summit 2026 website and CfP for more information
https://summit.firaworldcup.org
Remark 1: IEEE plagiarism check and indexingAs you are all aware, a very strict plagiarism check including self-plagiarism is performed by IEEE before indexing approval. The authors are solely responsible for the right format of the publication (pdf express) and the non-plagiarism. If a paper does not match IEEE standards and does not pass the required tests, it cannot be indexed in IEEE Xplore. Authors are fully responsible for providing correct manuscripts. The FIRA World Summit organizing committee is not responsible for any issue resulting from not following the above guidelines.
Remark 2: FIRA World Summit registrationThe summit policy requires that at least one of the authors of a paper must have paid the registration fee for the final paper upload. One standard registration can be used for the upload of at most two contributions. If you are an author or co-author of a single contribution, your registration cannot be shared or used for uploading someone else’s contribution. Papers must be electronically submitted through the AVIS Event electronic submission system (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=firasummit2026).
Remark 3: Overlength papers: The paper’s page limit is six pages, up to two more extra pages are allowed, with the extra charge of ( USD 120) per page. This will be assessed at the time of final submission. We emphasize that any accepted paper (oral or poster) not registered and not presented by one of its authors will not be included in the final proceedings and therefore will not be indexed in the IEEE Xplore.
Submission Instruction
- Follow the link below and read plagiarism awareness by IEEE: Plagiarism Awareness
- Prepare your paper according to the paper format provided in (Please use A4 paper size): IEEE Manuscript Templates for Conference Proceedings
- To prepare and submit the final version of a paper for inclusion in the conference proceedings, authors must perform ALL the subsequent activities: IEEE AUTHOR’S KIT | IEEE Author Center
- We, the members of the IEEE, in recognition of the importance of our technologies in affecting the quality of life throughout the world, and in accepting a personal obligation to our profession, its members, and the communities we serve, do hereby commit ourselves to the highest ethical and professional conduct and agree: IEEE Code of Ethics
- Papers must be electronically submitted through the AVIS Event electronic submission system (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=firasummit2026).
Important dates
- Submission of short papers: 5th June 2026
- Notification to authors: 20th June 2026
- FIRA World Summit 2026: 17th - 21st July 2026
FIRA World Summit Topics
Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
- Robot Hardware and Software Design of intelligent robots
- Perception, Reasoning and Action
- Robot Cognition and Learning
- High speed walking gaits and running robots
- Guidance and Navigation of Autonomous Vehicles
- Path Planning and Collision Avoidance in Autonomous Vehicles
- Communication and Connectivity
- Multi Agent Systems (MAS)
- Cooperative Guidance and Navigation
- Aerial Manipulation
- Active balancing, posture generators, and push recovery
- High Accuracy Motion Control
- Complex motion planning
- Human-robot interaction
- High-speed object tracking
- Robot personalities (Marvin, the depressed robot magician)
- Labeled vision data and ground truth for localization
- Team play and role assignment
- Attention to perception and reasoning
- Efficient architectures for intelligent sports and entertainment robots
- Education, Entertainment and Edutainment
Committees
General Committee Chairs
- Prof. Soroush Sadeghnejad, Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic), Tehran, Iran
- Prof. Kuo-Yang Tu, National Kaohsiung University of Science and Technology (NKUST), Kaohsiung, Taiwan
- Prof. Jacky Baltes, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan
Program Committee Chairs
- Prof. Meng Cheng Lau, Laurentian University, Canada
- Prof. Rodrigo da Silva Guerra, Federal University of Santa Maria, Brazil
- Prof. Azer Babaiev, Khalifa University, Dubai, UAE
Executive Committee Chairs
- Awards Chairs: Prof. Navid Mohaghegh, York University, Canada
- Workshop & Tutorial Chairs: Prof. Maysam Zamani Pedram, Yale School of Medicine, Canada
- Industrial Forum Chair: Mr. Jinux Kim, Federation of International RoboSport Association, South Korea
- Publication Chair: Prof. Mohammadazam Khosravi, Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic), Iran
- Publication Chair: Prof. Mahdi Ardestani, Technical and Vocational University, Iran
- Mrs. Christine Kim, Federation of International RoboSport Association, South Korea
- Website Chair: Mr. Amirmohammad Zarif, AVIS Group, Oman
- Video and Media Committee Chair: Mrs. Nika Rahmani, AVIS Group, Oman
Scientific Committee
- Prof. Flavio Campos, Mercer University, USA
- Prof. Karla Camarillo, Technological Institute of Celaya, Mexico
- Prof. Seyed Mohammad Hadi Sadati, Queen Mary University of London
- Prof. Chih Cheng Liu, Tamkang University, Taiwan
- Prof. Olivier Ly, Bordeaux University, France
- Prof. Maysam Zamani Pedram, Yale School of Medicine, Canada
- Prof. Navid Mohaghegh, York University, Canada
- Prof. Mohammadazam Khosravi, Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic), Iran
- Prof. Mahdi Ardestani, Technical and Vocational University, Iran
- Prof. Soroush Sadeghnejad, Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic), Tehran, Iran
- Prof. Kuo-Yang Tu, National Kaohsiung University of Science and Technology (NKUST), Kaohsiung, Taiwan
- Prof. Jacky Baltes, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan
- Prof. Amirhossein Hosseinmemar, College of New Caledonia, Canada
- Prof. Azer Babaiev, Khalifa University, Dubai, UAE
- Prof. Reinhard Gerndt, Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences, Germany
- Prof. Meng Cheng Lau, Laurentian University, Canada
- Prof. Mohammad Reza Chalak Qazani, James Cook University, Australia
- Prof. Rodrigo da Silva Guerra, Federal University of Santa Maria, Brazil
- Prof. Saeed Saeedvand, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan
- Prof. Laleh Seyyed-Kalantari, York University, Canada
- Prof. Houshang Karimi, York University, Canada
Publication
Please be advised that the organization committee of FIRA World Summit 2026 applied for IEEE Explore to index the presented papers.
Best Student Paper Award
FIRA Summit will award one best student paper award to the paper with a student as first author and that was presented by a student during the summit. The award will be judged by a jury whose members were selected from the FIRA community.
FIRA Summit will be a hybrid conference hosted simultaneously on the official FIRA AVIS Event Platform (https://events.avisengine.com/)
Venue
The Markham Pan Am Centre / York University Markham Campus Address: 16 Main St Unionville, Markham, ON L3R 0W7
The Markham Pan Am Centre is a multi-purpose community and aquatics centre located in the new downtown area of Markham, Ontario, Canada. The facility was designed to host the badminton, table tennis and water polo events for the 2015 Pan American Games, held in nearby Toronto in July and August, 2015.
Contact
More information on the FIRA official website
https://summit.firaworldcup.org/
More information on the FIRA social media
https://www.facebook.com/groups/firarobot/
https://www.instagram.com/firaworldcup/?hl=en
https://www.linkedin.com/company/fira-roboworldcup/
Contact
FIRA HQ Executive Secretary: Christine Kim hqoffice.fira@gmail.com/ +82-10-5208-4354
FIRA World Summit Chair: Prof. Soroush Sadeghnejad info@firaworldcup.org/ +98-21-64545952