The 2006 IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots will be held on December 4 to 6, 2006 in Genova, Italy. The conference series started in Boston in the year 2000, traveled through Tokyo (2001), Karlsruhe/Munich (2003), Santa Monica (2004), and Tsukuba (2005) and will dock in Genoa in 2006.

This year's conference theme, Humanoid Companions, addresses specifically aspects of human-humanoid mutual understanding and co-development. Papers and proposals for workshops and tutorials covering these topics are solicited, see the call for papers .