Events for May 23, 2025

Meeting Room: 301 Humans can perceive social cues and the interaction context of another human to infer internal states including cognitive and emotional states, empathy, and intention. This unique ability […]

Meeting Room: 401 This workshop provides a critical retrospective and forward-looking discussion about an NSF-funded project that studied the science and engineering behind creating and controlling robotic puppets. The project […]

Meeting Room: International Ballroom C (Omni Hotel) This workshop introduces participants to open-source underwater robotics simulators, highlighting their potential to lower entry barriers and accelerate research by providing cost-effective, risk-free […]

Meeting Room: 315 In this workshop, we explore the unique challenges and opportunities that multi-agent systems (MAS) present for push manipulation of loose materials for site preparation and prefabricated assembly. […]

Meeting Room: 309 Precision agriculture techniques are essential for increasing crop yields while reducing environmental impact, particularly in the face of climate change effects. Commercial robotic solutions are actively being […]

Meeting Room: 307 This full-day workshop will showcase the cutting edge of research and practice in autonomous robotics for the management and control of wildland fire. Wildland fire management presents daunting challenges due to unstructured uncertainty, scale, and complex multiscale nonlinear interactions between the process and its environment. This workshop will bring together researchers and […]

Meeting Room: 303 In the past decade, research into medical robotics has surged, with thousands of academic papers published each year, and the field gaining ever-increasing attention. Despite this growing ubiquity in academic discourse, translation into real-world products remains relatively slow, with few breakthroughs reaching the clinical stage. Observing the last 10 years and looking […]

Meeting Room: 407 Medical imaging plays a vital role in modern clinical practice, providing valuable information to physicians for diagnosis, image-guided surgeries, and more. Due to the high precision and reproducibility of robotic techniques, the involvement of robots can help overcome some limitations in conventional imaging methods, such as intra- and inter-operator variations. With the […]

Meeting Room: 302 This is the 6th edition of the ViTac workshop at the ICRA conferences, following successful workshops at ICRA 2019, 2020, 2021, 2023, and 2024. This year’s workshop will also coincide with the conclusion of the Special Collection on Tactile Robotics, which was organized in collaboration with the IEEE Transactions on Robotics. The […]

Meeting Room: 311 This full-day in-person community-building workshop strategizes on a roadmap for long-term humanoid research. The Workshop will capture the state-of-the-art and technical design requirements for a common platform for AI-based testing across a broad range of disciplines.

Meeting Room: 402 With robots being increasingly deployed in complex, dynamic environments, their ability to sense, plan, and act autonomously with intelligence is crucial for ensuring both agility and robustness. While computational intelligence (CI) has made significant improvements in the areas of perception, decision-making, and control, mechanical intelligence (MI) remains an essential yet underutilized approach. […]

Meeting Room: 412 In recent years, robot learning has made significant progress, with advances in general manipulation capabilities. Solutions using foundation models and vast collections of human demonstrations have shown strong generalization. Additionally, pretrained vision/language models have leveraged their common sense knowledge to perform various manipulation tasks. However, despite these achievements, the dexterity of these […]

Meeting Room: 310 This workshop, organized by the IEEE Working Group on Reproducibility in Soft Robotics, focuses on engaging the community to discuss reproducibility issues within the field. Soft robotics often involves the development of new materials, designs, and manufacturing methods, which can lead to challenges in reproducing results. These challenges can result in "reinvention […]

Meeting Room: 411 This workshop focuses on the safety implications of using vision-language foundation models (VLMs) in robotics, which are increasingly employed in systems like mobile manipulators and autonomous cars. VLMs, pre-trained on internet-scale data, offer the potential to enhance robots' understanding of complex environments, human feedback, and action planning. However, as robots become more […]

Meeting Room: 312 The Workshop on Athletic Robots and Dynamic Motor Skills (RoboLetics 2.0) aims to explore the advancement of athletic and agile robots, which are pushing the boundaries of next-generation robotics with their dynamic motor skills, agility, autonomy, and precision. These robots serve as valuable platforms for advancing technology in environments requiring rapid adaptation […]

Meeting Room: 314 Roboticists have made significant strides in the last decade, enabling complex robot behaviors across diverse domains. Dominant approaches to robot intelligence typically fall into two categories. First, analytical methods offer reliability and robustness but require expertise and do not generalize beyond pre-specified scope. Second, learning-based approaches enable complex behavior without explicit design […]

Meeting Room: 304 Teleoperation systems have benefited from their mechanical and technological components, physical connections between diverse human-machine interfaces, low-latency communication protocols, and advanced control strategies. However, this perspective often […]

Meeting Room: 406 How do we make a machine that indicates changes to its internal state, e.g., goals, attitude, or even emotion, through changes in movement profiles? That is, how do we build a machine that is fluent in body-language? This workshop will pose a possible direction toward such ends that leverages movement notation as […]

Meeting Room: 410 This proposal responds to numerous requests over the past year, especially from the younger generation of aerial robotics researchers. Aerial robotics has undergone a pioneering evolution, continually expanding the boundaries of what is achievable in the skies. Today, we aim to celebrate and reflect on 25 years of transformative innovations, challenges overcome, […]

Meeting Room: 305 Generating complex robot behavior requires reasoning simultaneously on both discrete, task-related decisions and feasibility of continuous motions. This problem is often referred to as Task And Motion Planning (TAMP). Research into TAMP approaches has proceeded for well over a decade, yielding key results and algorithms. Yet a prerequisite for such approaches is […]

Meeting Room: 404 Over the past five years, significant progress has been made in deformable object (DO) manipulation, spanning breakthroughs in representation, simulation, and control, as well as the integration of machine learning and large models for improved perception. Despite these advancements, key challenges persist, particularly in developing a unified framework for DO representation across […]

Meeting Room: 403 The rapidly evolving field of cross-domain robotics, particularly amphibious systems, represents a frontier that bridges multiple research communities. This workshop aims to connect researchers studying enabling technologies—such as underwater SLAM and swarm control—with industrial experts developing robotic platforms and scientists utilizing these platforms to study natural environments. By bringing together these diverse […]

Meeting Room: 405 The workshop "Human-Centric Robotics for Telepresence" aims to explore the impact of telepresence robotics with a focus on enriching user experience and promoting societal well-being. This interdisciplinary event will emphasize the critical role of human factors in shaping robotic applications across industries, healthcare, and beyond. Participants will discuss how both technological and […]

Meeting Room: International Ballroom A (Omni Hotel) Recent advancements in soft robotic systems have led to innovative solutions across various space applications. These include enhancements in surface and aerial exploration, advanced maintenance and inspection techniques to extend the longevity of space infrastructure, and the development of materials and systems capable of withstanding extreme space conditions. […]

Meeting Room: Sidney Marcus Auditorium The integration of robots into our daily lives depends on their ability to operate reliably and safely in complex, dynamic environments. Despite significant progress, achieving robust performance under uncertainty remains a major challenge. Real-time robust planning is computationally demanding, particularly for tasks such as whole-body control of multi-body robots or […]

Meeting Room: 408 Autonomous robots must operate in real-time within dynamic environments, requiring robust performance across diverse scales. To achieve this, roboticists are increasingly leveraging heterogeneous deployments across edge and cloud infrastructures, while integrating and co-designing robotics algorithms for various computing hardware, including CPUs, GPUs, FPGAs, MCUs, and even custom accelerator ASICs (e.g., Neuromorphic processors). […]

Meeting Room: 316 As wearable robotic devices for human movement assistance and rehabilitation transition into real-world applications, their ability to autonomously and seamlessly adapt to varying environmental conditions and user needs is crucial. Lower-limb exoskeletons and prostheses, for example, must dynamically adjust their assistance profiles to accommodate different motor activities, such as level-ground walking or […]

Meeting Room: International Ballroom D (Omni Hotel) This workshop will focus on bridging the gap between state-of-the-art innovation and industrial implementation for flexible manufacturing technologies. By bringing together a global community of manufacturing technologists from academia and industry, we aim to foster open discussions on shopfloor challenges, bottlenecks, and strategies to align future innovations with […]

Meeting Room: 313 Robots navigating through uncontrolled human spaces face many challenges due to the uncertainty of human behavior and the unstructured nature of environmental context and social rules. Social robot navigation combines planning with human-robot interaction and communication strategies to provide acceptable, context-dependent robot behavior. With recent rapid transformations in AI, social robot navigation […]