Program

The workshop will be held in conjunction with the 24th International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AI*IA 2026), on October 8th and 9th. 

8th October 2026

10:30 – Introduction to AIRO 2026 

Session 1: Perception, Vision-Language Models & Semantic Reasoning

10:40 – Vincenzo Guarino, Emanuele Musumeci, Vincenzo Suriani, Daniele Nardi
iAm.md: Robot Skill Self-Assessment through Agentic Introspection for Unknown Open-Vocabulary Domains

11:00 – Vladyslava Rudas, Dmytro Kuzmenko
Can Vision-Language Models Reason About Proxemic Risk from Egocentric Robot Images?

11:20 – Alessandro Umbrico, Gianmarco Cirelli, Christian Tamantini, Francesca Cordella, Andrea Orlandini
Towards a Compositional Semantics of Object Parts for Open-World Robotic Manipulation

12:00 – Claudio Pelleriti, Valeria Seidita
From Detection to Disobedience: Semantic Command Arbitration with Open-Vocabulary Perception and Vision-Language Models

13:00 - 14:00 – Lunch

Session 2: Task & Motion Planning, Affordance and Industry 4.0

14:00 – Alex Agliuzza, Matteo Baldoni, Cristina Baroglio, Roberto Micalizio, Consuelo Rubina Nava, Stefano Tedeschi
A Digital Twin-Based Testbed for MAS Applications in Smart Manufacturing

14:20 – Gloria Adegu, Alessandro Umbrico, Philippe Fillatreau, Thierry Louge, Stefano Borgo, Bernard Archimede
Investigating Semantic-Coupling of Task and Motion Planning

14:40 – Giuseppe Rauso, Riccardo Caccavale, Jaime Duque-Domingo, Alberto Finzi
Referential Ambiguity in Robot Task Planning over VLM-Generated Affordance Graphs

15:00 – Francesco Baldo, Luca Castri, Gloria Beraldo, Nicola Bellotto
Estimating the Causal Impact of Social Navigation Signals in Corridor Scenarios 

9th October 2026

Session 3: Safety, Monitoring & Ethical Deliberation

09:00 – Maria Elena Griseta, Michele De Carolis, Giulio Mallardi, Filippo Lanubile
Statistical Multivariate Node-Level Anomaly Localization for Robot Runtime Monitoring

09:20 – Lucrezia Mosca, Maria Chiara Callari, Valeria Seidita
What does an autonomous robotic system need to know about itself? A symbolic self-model for deliberation and explainability information

09:40 – Davide Cordioli, Alessandro Farinelli, Alberto Castellini
Offline Learning of Shield Thresholds for Safe Robot Deployment

10:00 – Gianni Randazzo, Valeria Seidita
Evaluating Ethical Deliberation as an Observable Process: A Knowledge Representation-Driven Approach

Session 4: Reinforcement Learning 

10:20 – Daniel Gigliotti, Flavio Maiorana, Luca Iocchi
Skill Composition for Legged Robot Reinforcement Learning

10:40 – Edoardo Zorzi, Flavio Maiorana, Alberto Castellini, Luca Iocchi, Alessandro Farinelli
Obstacle Avoidance in Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning