TAROS is the longest-running UK-hosted international conference on robotics and autonomous systems, aimed at the presentation and discussion of the latest results and methods in autonomous robotics research and applications.  In 2025, the RoboStar (robostar.cs.york.ac.uk) centre of excellence on Software Engineering for Robotics, in collaboration with colleagues at the Universities of York and Leeds, are organising TAROS at the University of York, from the 20th to the 22nd of August.

TAROS 2025 invites full papers, short papers, and posters for presentation at the conference. This year there will be a special session on Software Engineering for Robotics dedicated to design and deployment of software for robotic systems; emphasis is given to all aspects of modelling, simulation, and implementation for the validation and verification of robotic systems. The conference proceedings will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series.

Submission Guidelines

All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The following paper categories are welcome:

• Full papers presenting significant findings and advances in robotics research (maximum of 12 pages).
• Short papers presenting more preliminary advances in robotics research (4-6 pages).
• Posters describing advances in robotics research (A0 or A1 portrait).

Paper submissions must be in Springer page format. Please refer to the style files and templates, with full formatting instructions available for download here.

Committees

Program Committee

• Kaspar Althoefer, Queen Mary University of London
• David Anisi, Norwegian University of Life Sciences
• Farshad Arvin, Durham University
• Philip Breedon, Nottingham Trent university
• Giuseppe Carbone, University of Calabria
• Gustavo Carvalho, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco
• Marie Farrell, The University of Manchester
• Mirgita Frasheri, Aarhus University
• Yang Gao, King's College London
• Maria Gini, University of Minnesota
• Mario Gleirscher, University of Bremen
• Claudio Gomes, Aarhus University
• Nick Hawes, University of Oxford
• Holly Hendry, University of York
• Kirsty Hewitson, Edinburgh Napier University
• Baoru Huang, University of Liverpool
• Nazmul Huda, Brunel University London
• James Kell, Jacobs
• Frederic Labrosse, Aberystwyth University
• James Law, The University of Sheffield
• Hae-In Lee, Cranfield University
• Liying Li, University of Glasgow
• Cunjia Liu, Loughborough University
• Pengcheng Liu, University of York
• Matt Luckcuck, University of Nottingham
• Alvaro Miyazawa, University of York
• Mohammad Reza Mousavi, King's College London
• Colin O'Halloran, University of Oxford
• Min Pan, University of Bath
• Yvan Petillot, Ocean Systems Lab, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh
• Marija Popovic, University of Bonn
• Mark Post, University of York
• Pedro Ribeiro, University of York
• Thomas Roehr, Simula Research Laboratory
• Matteo Rossi, Politecnico di Milano
• Shabnam Sadeghi Esfahlani, Anglia Ruskin University
• Uwe Schulze, Verified Systems International GmbH
• Nabil Shaukat, University of Leeds
• Patricia Shaw, Aberystwyth University
• Weiyong Si, University of Essex
• Andrew Sogokon, Lancaster University
• Adriana Tapus, ENSTA Paris
• Antonia Tzemanaki, University of Bristol
• Mien Van, Queen's University Belfast
• Mingfeng Wang, Brunel University London
• Ning Wang, Sheffield Hallam University
• Simon Watson, The University of Manchester
• Barbara Webb, The University of Edinburgh
• Andrew Weightman, The University of Manchester
• Houxiang Zhang, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
• Kaiqiang Zhang, United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority
• Jihong Zhu, University of York

Organizing committee

• General chair: Ana Cavalcanti  
• Programme chairs: Ana Cavalcanti, Simon Foster, Rob Richardson 
• CDT track chair: Pedro Ribeiro
• Software Engineering for Robotics track chair: Alvaro Miyazawa
• Poster session chair: Holly Hendry, Annabelle Partis
• Demonstrations chair: Fang Yan, Pengcheng Liu
• Financial chair and conference secretary: Emily Ellis
• Publicity chair: James Baxter, Ana McIntosh, Jihong Zhu

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to Ana Cavalcanti, Simon Foster, or Alvaro Miyazawa.