Call for Papers
We invite you to submit a paper and/or participate in the 4th AAAI Fall Symposium on Unifying Representations for Robot Application Development (UR-RAD). UR-RAD 2026 will be an in-person event.
Capturing a desired task or interaction as a computational artifact (i.e., a representation) has long played a pivotal role in robotics. Many robotic subfields have traditionally employed a variety of different representational techniques, such as LTL, planning languages, social representations, natural language, and many more. These representations, however, lack cohesion in when and how they are applied. The 4th Symposium on Unifying Representations for Robot Application Development (UR-RAD) therefore aims to increase engagement between junior and senior researchers, elevate discussion between audiences and speakers, and provide unique avenues of interaction for all participants.
Review Process
We follow a double-anonymous review process where both authors and reviewers remain anonymous during the review phase. Please anonymize your work before submitting!
Topics of Interest
Research areas we welcome for submission
- Representational trends
- Natural language in robotics
- Novel representations & uses
- AI planning for robotics
- Formal methods in robotics
- Representations for robot learning
- Representations for user interfaces
- Robot end-user development and programming
- Robot runtime/control environments
- Opportunities for standardization
- Frameworks (e.g., ROS or middleware)
- Open-source & collaboration initiatives
- Identifying representation requirements
- Neurosymbolic representations
Submission Types
Choose the format that best fits your contribution
We invite the following contributions, formatted using the AAAI author kit:
Full Papers
Novel research, artifact submissions, or strong works in progress.
Short Papers
Positions, smaller artifacts, and early works in progress.
Important Dates & Timeline
Key deadlines and submission process
Intent to Submit (Optional)
Help us plan for reviewers by emailing urrad.symposium@gmail.com with:
- "[UR-RAD] Intent to Submit" as the subject
- A tentative title, tentative author list, and tentative keywords
This step is optional. Note that at least one author from each paper will be expected to review 2-3 other UR-RAD papers.
August 24, 2026 August 31, 2026
- Submission Deadline — anonymized for double-blind review; all papers may opt into the AAAI Fall Symposium proceedings
September 14, 2026
- Author Notification
September 29, 2026
- Camera-Ready Deadline
November 5-7, 2026
- UR-RAD 2026 Symposium
- Location: Arlington, VA
Questions? Contact us:
Contact us aturrad.symposium@gmail.com