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The 5th International Workshop on XR Solutions for Smart Production (XR-SPro '26)
Oct. 6, 2026 in Bari, Italy, in conjunction with ISMAR 2026
(held both physically on site in Bari and online)
Description
Industry 5.0 is set to revolutionize the manufacturing industry by transitioning research and innovation toward human-centric, sustainable, and resilient approaches. This new production paradigm benefits from extended reality (XR) technologies across every stage of the product life cycle. XR enables remote collaboration on product designs and workflows, as well as on-the-job training and coaching tailored to the work context and the expertise levels of individual workers. These systems support the design of safer factories and the optimization of production lines from a human-centered perspective, while increasing workers' competence and efficiency through sustainable and resilient methods.
At the same time, advances in Physical AI are transforming how intelligent & automated systems perceive, reason and act in the physical world. Physical AI integrates embodied intelligence, robotics, digital twins, and real-time sensor data to create systems that can understand and adapt to dynamic industrial environments. Combined with XR, Physical AI enables interactive and explainable human-machine-AI collaboration, where workers can visualize robot intentions, monitor autonomous systems and safely coordinate with AI-driven machines and cobots. This convergence opens new opportunities for human-in-the-loop decision-making supported by real-time visualized data through XR.
This workshop—XR Solutions for Smart Production (XR-SPro)—aims to identify the current state, gaps and future directions of XR and Physical AI research in the context of smart production systems. XR-SPro will build a community that brings together researchers, designers, and practitioners from academia and industry working at the intersection of XR, embodied AI, robotics, and advanced manufacturing.
The goals of this workshop are:
Exchange ideas and discuss opportunities and challenges across disciplines and between academia and industry.
Promote collaborative research across XR, robotics, AI, and industrial engineering.
Generate source material for future interdisciplinary work, including joint publications, benchmark datasets, and collaborative projects.
Identify open research questions related to trust, explainability, safety, and usability in human-AI collaboration for smart production.
Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
XR interfaces for monitoring and controlling autonomous robots and cobots to support human robot interaction (industrial, mobile, humanoid).
Digital twins combining XR visualization with real-time AI and sensor data.
Human-in-the-loop XR training for embodied AI systems.
Multimodal Data/Knowledge Capture & Physical AI
XR system architectures & interaction stacks
Simulation-to-reality workflows using XR and Physical AI.
Predictive maintenance and operational intelligence using XR and AI.
We invite authors to submit research, replication, position, and work-in-progress papers.
Important Dates (*All deadlines are 23:59 AoE)
● Paper Submission Deadline: July 13, 2026*
● Notification of Acceptance: July 17, 2026*
● Camera-ready Deadline: July 31, 2026*
● Workshop Day: October 6, 2026
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