IROS: IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems — papers and institutions, 2024–2026

Papers of IROS, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (CORE rank A; field: Artificial intelligence, Computer science (general)), 2024–2026: per year, the institutions, countries and topics, and the most-cited papers. Ranks are those of the CORE Conference Rankings, edition ICORE2026 (portal.core.edu.au), applied to every year shown. Papers are the works OpenAlex lists for the conference's proceedings, or for the issues of a conference-linked journal that publishes its papers (such as PACMPL, PVLDB or ACM TOG), by publication year; workshops, companion volumes, posters and Findings are left out. A paper counts once for each institution and country among its authors' affiliations as OpenAlex assigns them; papers without affiliations in OpenAlex count for none. For conferences published in book series that OpenAlex files as one source (LNCS, LIPIcs, SIAM and IOS Press proceedings), the papers are found by DOI: those of the volumes with the conference's title in Crossref, or LIPIcs DOIs, which name the conference. Conferences without DOIs (PMLR, USENIX, OpenReview) are listed without counts. A dash (–) for a year means OpenAlex has no papers of the conference for it yet: the proceedings are not published or indexed yet, or the conference did not meet that year (some meet every other year). 2026 counts what OpenAlex had indexed by 2026-11-02. Also as Markdown.

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Key findings#

IROS (IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems) is rated A by the CORE Conference Rankings (ICORE2026); OpenAlex lists 3,575 of its papers from 2024–2026 (1,587 in 2024, 1,988 in 2025; 2026 not in OpenAlex yet).
By the countries of the authors' institutions, the most papers come from China (1,361), the United States (854) and Germany (321).
The institutions with the most papers are Tsinghua University (138), Shanghai Jiao Tong University (131) and Zhejiang University (123).
Its most-cited paper of these years is “SMART-LLM: Smart Multi-Agent Robot Task Planning using Large Language Models” (2024), with 199 citations.

Papers per year#

IROS papers per publication year in OpenAlex (–: not in OpenAlex yet)
Year	Papers	With affiliations
2024	1,587	1,542
2025	1,988	1,956
2026	–	–

Sources#

Where OpenAlex lists the papers
OpenAlex source	Which papers
S4393918188	The conference's proceedings

Who publishes there#

Institutions with the most IROS papers, 2024–2026
#	Institution	Papers
1	Tsinghua University	138
2	Shanghai Jiao Tong University	131
3	Zhejiang University	123
4	Chinese Academy of Sciences	110
5	Technical University of Munich	109
6	Beijing Institute of Technology	90
7	Carnegie Mellon University	87
8	Harbin Institute of Technology	72
9	Chinese University of Hong Kong	59
10	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	56

Countries with the most IROS papers, 2024–2026
#	Country	Papers
1	China	1,361
2	United States	854
3	Germany	321
4	United Kingdom	249
5	Japan	216
6	Hong Kong	152
7	South Korea	148
8	Singapore	109
9	Italy	105
10	Switzerland	97

Keywords with the most IROS papers, 2024–2026
#	Keyword	Papers
1	human-robot interaction	203
2	robotic manipulation	200
3	autonomous driving	170
4	large language models	126
5	imitation learning	124
6	collision avoidance	117
7	obstacle avoidance	107
8	reinforcement learning	96
9	vision-language models	89
10	robot navigation	86

Most-cited papers#

Most-cited IROS papers of 2024–2026 (citations counted by OpenAlex)
#	Citations	Title	Published	Authors
1	199	SMART-LLM: Smart Multi-Agent Robot Task Planning using Large Language Models	2024-10-14	Shyam Sundar Kannan, Vishnunandan L. N. Venkatesh, Byung‐Cheol Min
2	139	UAV-DETR: Efficient End-to-End Object Detection for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Imagery	2025-10-19	Huaxiang Zhang, Hao Zhang, Kai Liu et al.
3	103	Learning Human-to-Humanoid Real-Time Whole-Body Teleoperation	2024-10-14	Tairan He, Zhengyi Luo, Wenli Xiao et al.
4	97	GELLO: A General, Low-Cost, and Intuitive Teleoperation Framework for Robot Manipulators	2024-10-14	Philipp Wu, Yide Shentu, Zhongke Yi et al.
5	61	CoPa: General Robotic Manipulation through Spatial Constraints of Parts with Foundation Models	2024-10-14	Haoxu Huang, Fanqi Lin, Yingdong Hu et al.
6	46	Whole-body Humanoid Robot Locomotion with Human Reference	2024-10-14	Qiang Zhang, Peter Cui, David Yan et al.
7	45	Scalable Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Warehouse Logistics with Robotic and Human Co-Workers	2024-10-14	Aleksandar Krnjaic, Raul D. Steleac, Jonathan Varghese Thomas et al.
8	43	Efficient Multimodal Semantic Segmentation via Dual-Prompt Learning	2024-10-14	Shaohua Dong, Yunhe Feng, Qing Yang et al.
9	42	SSCBench: A Large-Scale 3D Semantic Scene Completion Benchmark for Autonomous Driving	2024-10-14	Yiming Li, Sihang Li, Xinhao Liu et al.
10	42	ROG-Map: An Efficient Robocentric Occupancy Grid Map for Large-scene and High-resolution LiDAR-based Motion Planning	2024-10-14	Yunfan Ren, Yixi Cai, Fangcheng Zhu et al.

Conferences in the same field#

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Scholar4AI. (2026). IROS: IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems — papers and institutions, 2024–2026. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/proceedings/iros

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