About
The 2026 International Conference on Biomimetic Intelligence and Robotics (ICBIR 2026) will take place from August 8 to 11, 2026 in the beautiful city of Zhongwei, Ningxia Province, China. ICBIR 2026 is an affiliated conference of the Elsevier journal of Biomimetic Intelligence and Robotics, a Q1 journal with an Impact Factor of 5.4, ranking #11 among 48 international jouranls in robotics.
Original research papers in AI, Robotics, Biomimetics and related areas, as well as papers reporting novel real-world applications are welcome. All accepted papers will be published by Elsevier and Indexed by EI and Scopus. Award winning papers will be invited to publish an expanded version of the papers in Biomimetic Intelligence and Robotics and other journals. All accepted and presented papers at the conference will be considered for the five categories of best paper awards.
The Microsoft CMT service was used for managing the peer-reviewing process for this conference. This service was provided for free by Microsoft and they bore all expenses, including costs for Azure cloud services as well as for software development and support.
Important Dates
Submission of full original research papers in PDF: June 1, 2026
Notification of acceptance decisions for all papers: July 1, 2026
Registration and submission of accepted papers: July 15, 2026
Committee
Advisory Committee
DING Han, Huazhong UST
DUAN Guangren, HIT/SUSTech
GUO Lei, Beihang Univ.
GUO Shuxiang, SUSTech
LI Aili, Yuanhua Technology
LI Yibin, Shandong Univ.
LIU Hong, Harbin Institute of Tech.
MENG Qing-Hu Max, SUSTech
QIAO Hong, CAS Inst. Automation
SUN Yu, Univ. of Toronto, Canada
TANG Peifu, PLA General Hospital
WANG Yaonan, Hunan Univ.
ZHAO Jie, Harbin Institute of Tech.
ZHANG Hong, SUSTech
General Chair
YUAN Yixuan, CUHK
Program Chairs
JIA Xiao, Shandong Univ.
MIN Zhe, Shandong Univ.
Program Co-Chairs
CAO Fengkui, SIA CAS
CUI Zhiwei, Shandong Univ.
GAO Haiming, Zhejiang Univ.
GUO Chao, Wuhan Univ.
LAI Jiewen, CUHK
LI Changsheng, BIT
LU Bo, Soochow Univ.
SHAO Shuwei, Shandong Univ.
SHAO Mingjie, AMSS, CAS
TAN Ning, Sun Yat-sen Univ.
WANG Jiaole, HIT Shenzhen
Organizing Chair
WANG Jiankun, SUSTech
Award Committee Chair
GU Jason, Dalhousie Univ.
Finance Chair
YAN Tingcui, SUSTech
Publications Chair
ZHANG Qin, Shandong Univ.
Invited Speakers
Editorial Board Forum
Submission
1. Download the Elsevier ICBIR Latex Template.
2. The page limit is 6 pages for the paper, including text and figures, + 1 page for the bibliography/references.
3. Submit your paper via ICBIR 2026 at Microsoft CMT.
Accepted papers presented at the conference will be submitted for inclusion into Procedia Computer Science, which is indexed in Scopus, the Web of Science Conference Proceedings Citation Index, INSPEC, and Engineering Village.
Expanded versions of the accepted high-quality papers will be invited for publication in Biomimetic Intelligence and Robotics.
Registration
Program
Venue
Zhongwei, Ningxia, China
info@icbir.org