IROS, the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, is an annual academic conference covering advances in robotics. It is one of the premier conferences of its field (alongside ICRA, International Conference on Robotics and Automation) with an 'A' rating from the Australian Ranking of ICT Conferences obtained in 2010 and an 'A1' rating from the Brazilian ministry of education in 2012.
The acceptance rate can vary substantially (for example, it has been 32% in 2011 and 39% in 2012) and IROS typically receives more than 2000 paper submissions (for example, 790 out of 2459 submitted papers have been accepted for IROS 2011).
1st, IROS 1988, Tokyo, Japan (at Tokyo University of Science)
2nd, IROS 1989, Tsukuba, Japan
3rd, IROS 1990, Tsuchiura, Japan (at Hitachi MERL)
4th, IROS 1991, Osaka, Japan
5th, IROS 1992, Raleigh, USA
6th, IROS 1993, Yokohama, Japan
7th, IROS 1994, Munich, Germany
8th, IROS 1995, Pittsburgh, USA
9th, IROS 1996, Osaka, Japan
10th, IROS 1997, Grenoble, France
11th, IROS 1998, Victoria, Canada
12th, IROS 1999, Kyonggju, Korea
13th, IROS 2000, Takamatsu, Japan (at Kagawa University)
14th, IROS 2001, Maui, USA
15th, IROS 2002, Lausanne, Switzerland (at EPFL)
16th, IROS 2003, Las Vegas, USA
17th, IROS 2004, Sendai, Japan (at Tohoku University)
18th, IROS 2005, Edmonton, Canada
19th, IROS 2006, Beijing, China
20th, IROS 2007, San Diego, USA
21st, IROS 2008, Nice, France
22nd, IROS 2009, St. Louis, USA
23rd, IROS 2010, Taipei, Taiwan
24th, IROS 2011, San Francisco, USA
25th, IROS 2012, Vilamoura, Portugal
26th, IROS 2013, Tokyo, Japan
27th, IROS 2014, Chicago, USA
28th, IROS 2015, Hamburg, Germany
29th, IROS 2016, Daejeon, Korea
30th, IROS 2017, Vancouver, Canada
31st, IROS 2018, Madrid, Spain
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