Call for Papers

The 31st International Symposium on Artificial Life and Robotics will be held in Beppu, Oita, Japan, from January 21 to January 23, 2026. This symposium will bring together researchers to discuss the development of new technologies concerning artificial life and robotics, based on computer simulations and hardware designs of state-of-the-art technologies, and to share findings on how advancements in artificial life and robotics technologies, which relate to artificial intelligence, virtual reality, and computer science, are creating the basis for exciting new research and applications in various fields listed in the following topics:

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to

• Adaptation
• Agent-based modelling
• Artificial brain
• Artificial intelligence
• Artificial life
• Artificial living
• Artificial mind
• Bio-inspired robotics
• Bio-mimetics
• Bio-robot
• Biocomplexity
• Bioinformatics
• Biological evolution
• Biomedical database
• Biomedical imaging
• Brain science
• Chaos
• Cognitive science
• Complexity
• Control techniques
• Data mining
• Decentralized control
• Disease models and mechanisms
• Distributed system
• DNA computing
• Ethology
• Evolution of cooperation
• Evolutionary computations (Genetic algorithm)
• Gene expression and regulation
• Genome/Omics medicine
• Human genome information
• Human-machine interaction and collaboration
• Identification and Estimation
• In silico drug discovery
• Intelligent control
• Learning (Phenotypic plasticity)
• Machine Learning
• Manipulator
• Medical big data
• Medical informatics
• Mobile robots
• Model estimation
• Modular robotics
• Molecular biology
• Molecular evolution
• Molecular network
• Motion planning and navigation
• Multi-agent systems
• Multivariate statistics
• Nano-biology
• Nano-robot
• Neural networks
• Neurocomputing technologies and its application for hardware
• Parallel and distributed computing
• Phase polyphenism
• Quantum computing
• Quorum sensing
• Regenerative medicine
• Robot vision and image processing
• Robotic Mechanism
• Security
• Self-organization
• Sensor and multi-sensor data fusion
• Social insects
• Social physiology
• Sociometry
• Swarm intelligence
• Swarm robot
• Swarm robotics
• Tele-operation
• Walking robot

Organized Sessions

In addition to regular submissions, AROB-ISBC 2026 will feature a number of Organized Sessions (OS) on focused research topics. Some of these sessions will be open to general submissions as part of the Call for Papers.

Organized Sessions that are open to general submissions will be listed on this page. Details of these sessions and their submission availability will be announced here as they become available. If you are interested in contributing to an OS, please check back for updates and follow the instructions provided for each session.

If you are interested in proposing a new OS, please refer to the submission guidelines and note that the deadline for OS proposals is October 7, 2025 at 24:00 UTC.

Important Dates

Publication

Accepted papers will be published in the Proceedings of the AROB. Extended versions of the selected papers will be published in the international journal：Artificial Life and Robotics, Springer Japan.