BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Insect-scale Autonomy Workshop//IROS 2026//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT UID:iros2026-0830@insect-autonomy.github.io DTSTAMP:20260930T120000Z DTSTART:20261001T123000Z DTEND:20261001T124000Z SUMMARY:Insect-scale Autonomy: Introduction LOCATION:Room 334\, David L. Lawrence Convention Center\, Pittsburgh DESCRIPTION:Welcome and workshop overview\n\nProgram: https://insect-autono my.github.io/program/ URL:https://insect-autonomy.github.io/program/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:iros2026-0840@insect-autonomy.github.io DTSTAMP:20260930T120000Z DTSTART:20261001T124000Z DTEND:20261001T131500Z SUMMARY:Insect-scale Autonomy: Keynote 1: Yiannis Aloimonos LOCATION:Room 334\, David L. Lawrence Convention Center\, Pittsburgh DESCRIPTION:Purposive Memory and Purposive Perception: A key to insect-scal e autonomy\n\nProgram: https://insect-autonomy.github.io/program/ URL:https://insect-autonomy.github.io/program/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:iros2026-0915@insect-autonomy.github.io DTSTAMP:20260930T120000Z DTSTART:20261001T131500Z DTEND:20261001T135000Z SUMMARY:Insect-scale Autonomy: Keynote 2: Frances Chance LOCATION:Room 334\, David L. Lawrence Convention Center\, Pittsburgh DESCRIPTION:The Computer Bug You Want: Insect-Inspired Neuromorphic Primiti ves for Energy-Efficient Computation\n\nProgram: https://insect-autonomy.g ithub.io/program/ URL:https://insect-autonomy.github.io/program/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:iros2026-0950@insect-autonomy.github.io DTSTAMP:20260930T120000Z DTSTART:20261001T135000Z DTEND:20261001T142000Z SUMMARY:Insect-scale Autonomy: Contributed Talks — 1 LOCATION:Room 334\, David L. Lawrence Convention Center\, Pittsburgh DESCRIPTION:5 papers · 5 minutes each · Q&A during poster session\n\n#11: Rethinking Warping for Optical Flow on Edge Accelerators\n\n#12: Hold\, D on't Hallucinate: Structured Visual Heading\n\n#7: Five Bits of Direction: Event-Based Course Sensing for Trajectory Recovery\n\n#14: How Many Bits Does a Swarm Need? Adaptive-Precision Task Allocation for Resource-Constra ined Robots\n\n#15: How Much Route Fits in 3.2 kB? Capacity Limits of Quan tized Kenyon-Cell Familiarity\n\nProgram: https://insect-autonomy.github.i o/program/ URL:https://insect-autonomy.github.io/program/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:iros2026-1020@insect-autonomy.github.io DTSTAMP:20260930T120000Z DTSTART:20261001T142000Z DTEND:20261001T145000Z SUMMARY:Insect-scale Autonomy: Poster Session LOCATION:Outside Room 334\, David L. Lawrence Convention Center\, Pittsburg h DESCRIPTION:Accepted papers/posters outside the conference room\n\nProgram: https://insect-autonomy.github.io/program/ URL:https://insect-autonomy.github.io/program/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:iros2026-1050@insect-autonomy.github.io DTSTAMP:20260930T120000Z DTSTART:20261001T145000Z DTEND:20261001T154000Z SUMMARY:Insect-scale Autonomy: Rising Star Talks LOCATION:Room 334\, David L. Lawrence Convention Center\, Pittsburgh DESCRIPTION:20 minutes per speaker\, including Q&A\n\nElia Cereda: Closing the Loop at Insect Scale: Lessons from Performance-optimized Software Arch itectures for Nano-UAVs\n\nGabriel Gattaux: How Insect Brains Inspire Frug al Autonomous Navigation\n\nProgram: https://insect-autonomy.github.io/pro gram/ URL:https://insect-autonomy.github.io/program/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:iros2026-1140@insect-autonomy.github.io DTSTAMP:20260930T120000Z DTSTART:20261001T154000Z DTEND:20261001T161500Z SUMMARY:Insect-scale Autonomy: Keynote 3: Sawyer Fuller LOCATION:Room 334\, David L. Lawrence Convention Center\, Pittsburgh DESCRIPTION:Embodied Intelligence in Insect Robotics\n\nProgram: https://in sect-autonomy.github.io/program/ URL:https://insect-autonomy.github.io/program/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:iros2026-1330@insect-autonomy.github.io DTSTAMP:20260930T120000Z DTSTART:20261001T173000Z DTEND:20261001T180500Z SUMMARY:Insect-scale Autonomy: Keynote 4: Sarah Bergbreiter LOCATION:Room 334\, David L. Lawrence Convention Center\, Pittsburgh DESCRIPTION:Event-based mechanosensing for insect-scale autonomy\n\nProgram : https://insect-autonomy.github.io/program/ URL:https://insect-autonomy.github.io/program/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:iros2026-1405@insect-autonomy.github.io DTSTAMP:20260930T120000Z DTSTART:20261001T180500Z DTEND:20261001T183000Z SUMMARY:Insect-scale Autonomy: Industry Talk 1: Geoffrey Barrows (Centeye) LOCATION:Room 334\, David L. Lawrence Convention Center\, Pittsburgh DESCRIPTION:What can you do with a few thousand pixels?\n\nProgram: https:/ /insect-autonomy.github.io/program/ URL:https://insect-autonomy.github.io/program/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:iros2026-1430@insect-autonomy.github.io DTSTAMP:20260930T120000Z DTSTART:20261001T183000Z DTEND:20261001T190500Z SUMMARY:Insect-scale Autonomy: Keynote 5: Sean Humbert LOCATION:Room 334\, David L. Lawrence Convention Center\, Pittsburgh DESCRIPTION:Sensing What Matters: Embodied Control for Agile Autonomous Sys tems\n\nProgram: https://insect-autonomy.github.io/program/ URL:https://insect-autonomy.github.io/program/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:iros2026-1505@insect-autonomy.github.io DTSTAMP:20260930T120000Z DTSTART:20261001T190500Z DTEND:20261001T194000Z SUMMARY:Insect-scale Autonomy: Contributed Talks — 2 LOCATION:Room 334\, David L. Lawrence Convention Center\, Pittsburgh DESCRIPTION:6 papers · 5 minutes each · Q&A during poster session\n\n#4: Let it Cook: Learning to Wait in Sequential Decision Making\n\n#3: Design\ , Modeling and Control of Quad-thopter with Thrust Vectoring Mechanism for Omnidirectional Flapping Flight\n\n#10: Fold-to-Fit: Propeller Interactio n and Control of a Coaxial-Bicopter Quadrotor\n\n#9: New SemiDefinite Prog rams for the Mode Sensing Hypothesis\n\n#5: Distributed Strain Sensing for Disturbance Rejection in Quadrotor Attitude Control\n\n#8: Bio-Inspired D irect Jerk Measurement and Feedback for Quadrotor Roll Control\n\nProgram: https://insect-autonomy.github.io/program/ URL:https://insect-autonomy.github.io/program/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:iros2026-1540@insect-autonomy.github.io DTSTAMP:20260930T120000Z DTSTART:20261001T194000Z DTEND:20261001T202000Z SUMMARY:Insect-scale Autonomy: Poster Session LOCATION:Outside Room 334\, David L. Lawrence Convention Center\, Pittsburg h DESCRIPTION:Accepted papers/posters outside the conference room\n\nProgram: https://insect-autonomy.github.io/program/ URL:https://insect-autonomy.github.io/program/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:iros2026-1630@insect-autonomy.github.io DTSTAMP:20260930T120000Z DTSTART:20261001T203000Z DTEND:20261001T211500Z SUMMARY:Insect-scale Autonomy: Panel Discussion: Enabling Autonomy at Insec t Scale LOCATION:Room 334\, David L. Lawrence Convention Center\, Pittsburgh DESCRIPTION:Panelists: Frances Chance\, Yiannis Aloimonos\, Geoffrey Barrow s\, and Sean Humbert.\nRoadmap discussion and audience Q&A.\n\nProgram: ht tps://insect-autonomy.github.io/program/ URL:https://insect-autonomy.github.io/program/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:iros2026-1715@insect-autonomy.github.io DTSTAMP:20260930T120000Z DTSTART:20261001T211500Z DTEND:20261001T212500Z SUMMARY:Insect-scale Autonomy: Awards and Community Perspective Paper LOCATION:Room 334\, David L. Lawrence Convention Center\, Pittsburgh DESCRIPTION:One Best Paper Award\, one Best Poster Award\, and post-worksho p next steps\n\nProgram: https://insect-autonomy.github.io/program/ URL:https://insect-autonomy.github.io/program/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:iros2026-1725@insect-autonomy.github.io DTSTAMP:20260930T120000Z DTSTART:20261001T212500Z DTEND:20261001T213500Z SUMMARY:Insect-scale Autonomy: Closing remarks LOCATION:Room 334\, David L. Lawrence Convention Center\, Pittsburgh DESCRIPTION:Summary and acknowledgments\n\nProgram: https://insect-autonomy .github.io/program/ URL:https://insect-autonomy.github.io/program/ END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR