A newly dated conference programme reveals substantial research activity in decentralised space robotics and cooperative planetary exploration.
The joint i-SAIRAS and iSpaRo symposium takes place in Cologne, Germany, from 3 to 6 November 2026. Its programme includes presentations on decentralised swarm exploration in hazardous underground environments, robotic searches for life in caves, multi-robot lunar exploration, adaptive task negotiation and cooperative construction. Particularly relevant contributions include field validation of small-robot exploration swarms, coordination strategies for lunar regolith excavation and methods for identifying compromised robots in distributed planetary missions.
