Call for Papers

Papers are solicited for the 2026 IEEE International Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics, November 2-4, 2026, in Incheon, Republic of Korea.

Full papers (8 pages including references) are due June 19, 2026 with acceptance notifications on August 31, 2026 and final papers due October 15, 2026.

The safety, security, and rescue robotics community focuses on the ethical use of robots for public safety and security applications, such as law enforcement, anti-terrorism, nuclear decommissioning, and inspection of critical infrastructure, all phases of emergency management (presentation, preparedness, response, and recovery), and humanitarian assistance and disaster relief. Robot safety and risk of robots in general, for example preventing injuries or guaranteeing real-time execution, are not topics included in the symposium’s purview but safety and risk in the context of the extreme environments and operating conditions of SSRR applications is. SSRR is a field robotics domain, and although papers describing theoretical results are welcome, all papers should be motivated by real users’ needs, both clearly stating who are the end users and what are the anticipated or demonstrated practical end user requirements.

Exemplar topics

• Field Methodologies for Testing and Evaluation

• Multi-Robot Systems

• Extreme Scenarios and Environments

• Infectious Diseases

• Natural Disasters

• Human-Caused Disasters

• Humanitarian Assistance & Disaster Recovery

• Robot Simulators

• Case Studies and Surveys

• Casualty Assessment, Care, and Extraction

• Detection and Mitigation of CBRNE Events

• Inspection of Critical Infrastructure