SeMaNa: Semantic-Aware Mapping and Navigation


Towards Cognitive and Adaptive Robots


IROS 2026 Workshop

Workshop Program Schedule

Time Type Presenter Talk
09:00 - 09:15 Opening Federico Rollo Workshop presentation
09:15 - 09:22 Awards Session Qiuyi Gu, Yuze Sheng, Jincheng Yu, Jiahao Tang, shanxiaolong, Zhaoyang Shen, Tinghao Yi, Xiaodan Liang, Xinlei Chen, Yu Wang ArtiSG: Functional 3D Scene Graph Construction via Human-demonstrated Articulated Objects Manipulation
09:22 - 09:29 Daniel Pillis Humanoids at Home: Autobiographical Semantic Maps for Humanoid Motion from Memory in a Reconstructed Domestic Environment
09:29 - 09:36 Juexiao Zhang, Luca Macesanu, Greta Perez-Haiek, Mohammed K Imam, Chen Feng DejaView: Metric-Free Dynamic Spatial Memory for Mobile Robots in Changing Environments
09:36 - 09:43 Taimeng Fu, Yi Du, Zitong Zhan, Qiwei Du, Shaoshu Su, Zhipeng Zhao, Chen Wang Point-Level Refinable Semantic Mapping for Spatial Understanding
09:45 - 10:15 Speaker Session 1 Lukas Rosenberger Schmid Vision, Language and Navigation - from Explicit to End-to-End methods
10:15 - 11:00 Coffee Break & 1st Poster Session Semantic mapping and world representations
11:00 - 11:30 Speakers Session 2 Bernadette Bucher Building visual representations with foundation models for mobile manipulation
11:30 - 12:00 Dhruv Shah Lessons from Scaling up Multimodal Navigation Policies
12:00 - 12:30 1st panel Lukas Rosenberger Schmid, Bernadette Bucher, Dhruv Shah Explicit World Models vs. Large Behavior Models
12:30 - 13:45 Lunch break
13:45 - 14:15 Speakers Session 3 Lu Gan Mapping for Robot Autonomy in the Wild: Open-Vocabulary, Embodiement-aware, and Collaborative
14:15 - 14:45 Kostas Alexis Semantics-aware Predictive Inspection Path Planning
14:45 - 15:15 Sebastian Scherer Pushing the horizon: how to scale semantic mapping and navigation beyond indoor environments
15:15 - 16:00 Coffee Break & 2nd Poster Session Semantic-aware navigation and exploration
16:00 - 17:00 Final remarks & Awards Federico Rollo Recap of the day and awards