Cultural heritage is one of the main cultural assets of many countries: it is involved in the development of human history, culture, arts, philosophy, etc. Moreover, it is a successful driver for the economic development of a territory, effectively contributing to its evolution and progress. On the other hand, new technologies are continuously developed in order to help academics, practitioners and specialists to discover and preserve cultural heritage; new technologies are also developed for making more usable cultural heritage to the general public.

Among these new technologies, robotics can play a key role for discovering, preserving, and making more usable this treasure that every culture owns. The robots, for example, can navigate and explore, build textured 3D models including a semantic interpretation and return back on their own.

The IRCCH workshop aims at bringing together researchers, practitioners and domain experts sharing the latest advances in the state of the art on the field of robotics applied in the cultural heritage field, with the intent of encouraging discussions and exchanges of ideas across a wide range of robotics innovations for any aspect regarding the field of cultural heritage. Finally, it explores how robotic computing and artificial intelligence can be designed and implemented to improve the urban environment. Interdisciplinary works are welcome and encouraged.