WELCOME

The 2018 IEEE-RAS 18th International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids 2018) will take place at Beijing Friendship Hotel in Beijing, China, on November 6-9, 2018. 

IMPORTANT DATES

•  July 20, 2018 (no further extension!) July 7, 2018: Submission deadline for papers. More info in the submission page.
• July 24, 2018 Submission deadline for workshop / tutorial.          

• September 10, 2018: Notification of acceptance of workshops.
• September 22, 2018  September 15, 2018: Notification of acceptance of full-length papers.

• October 13, 2018: Submission for final manuscripts.
  
• November 6 - November 9, 2018: Conference and exhibition.

NEWS 

• Tentative detailed program is updated. 

Regular session: Presentations of 8 min + 2 min for Q&A.

Spotlight session: Each interactive session participant will present a 1 minute spotlight of their paper. We will display your 1-slide ppt summary you have already submitted.

Interactive session: Electronic posters presented on TV displays connected to your laptop (TV displays are 23″ HD smart TVs, with VGA port).

• ACCOMMODATION: Room Reservation in Beijing Frienship Hotel (Venue of Humanoids 2018) at Discounted Pirces available. For details please refer to the Accommodation Page.
• Registration: the online registration system is open now.
• Special Issue of IJHR: Authors of selected outstanding papers from Humanoids 2018 are invited to submit the extended version of their papers to a coming Special Issue of the International Journal of Humanoid Robotics (IJHR). Submission deadline: 31 March 2019. Please refer to the Special Issue of IJHR.
• Invitation Letter: For an Invitation Letter, please contact us via humanoids2018@bit.edu.cn, and specify “Visa Invitation Letter Request” in the subject field, and provide the following information about you:
  

  - Full Name (as appear on passport)
  - Preferred Title (e.g., Prof./Dr./Mr./Ms.)
  - Affiliation
  - Gender
  - Date of Birth (DD/MM/YYYY)
  - Nationality
  - Passport Number
  - Date of Passport Issue (DD/MM/YYYY)
  - Place of Passport Issue
  - Title of Paper Submitted to Humanoids 2018
  - Paper Submission Number

• CATERING: In consideration of different dietary customs and preferences of the conference attendees, two kinds of diets will be prepared as follows:
  1. Regular diet (including different kinds of meat and eggs).
  2. Vegetarian diet.
  If you prefer a vegetarian diet, please e-mail (specifying “Vegetarian Diet Preferred” in the subject field) to humanoids2018@bit.edu.cn before Nov. 1, 2018; otherwise a regular diet will be prepared by default.

CONTACT: humanoids2018@bit.edu.cn