CALL FOR PAPERS
Robotics and Automation Journal — Robotics, Autonomous Systems, Industrial Automation
Machines are no longer confined to the factory floor. They now move through warehouses, assist in operating rooms, navigate city streets, and coordinate entire production lines with little human direction. The Robotics and Automation Journal is a home for the research behind that shift. The journal brings together three closely connected fields. Robotics covers the design, control, and mechanics of machines that sense and act in the physical world. Autonomous systems covers the perception, planning, and decision-making that let those machines operate on their own. Industrial automation covers the engineering that turns these capabilities into reliable, scalable systems for manufacturing, logistics, and beyond. We publish original research, rigorous reviews, and applied case studies that connect theory to practice. We welcome work from academics, engineers, and industry practitioners, and we especially value papers that bridge the lab and the factory, showing not only what is possible but what works at scale. As a publication for advanced industrial intelligence, the journal aims to give researchers a trusted place to share their findings and give readers a clear view of where intelligent machines are headed.
Call for a special issue
Within the scope of the journal
Alongside its regular quarterly issues, each of the press's five journals will publish a special issue. The theme is the journal's own scope: any paper the journal already welcomes is welcome to the special issue. Special-issue papers go through the same screening and peer review as every other submission, and publication remains free of cost.
- Theme
- ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION
Author guidelines
Before you send your paper
- What we publish
- Original research, rigorous reviews, and applied case studies
- Screening
- Every submission is screened for similarity before it goes out for review.
- Review
- Every submission is peer-reviewed before acceptance. Accepted work is scheduled into the issue as it clears review.
- First decision
- You hear the outcome of the first round within four weeks of submitting.
- Frequency
- The journal is published quarterly.
- Deadline
- Submissions for Volume 1, Issue 1 close on 31 March 2027.
- Cost
- Publication is free of cost. There is no submission charge and no article processing fee.
- Rights & licence
- Authors retain copyright in their work. The press's copyright form grants the press a licence to publish and distribute the paper, and the published paper is released open access under CC BY 4.0, so anyone may read and share it with credit to the author.
- Language
- Manuscripts are considered in English. Please include a title, an abstract, keywords, and the full text.
- Editor-in-Chief
- Prof. Ben Clements, University of Leicester, England, United Kingdom.
- How to submit
- Send your manuscript through the press's submission form and name this journal in it. You will hear from the editorial desk once your submission has been read.
Author documents
Copyright Form
The journal's author agreement, completed and returned with the manuscript.
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Author, reviewer, or editorial details, completed at registration.
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Article Template
The journal's editable manuscript format and style guidance.
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