Sessions
4D Radar Technology and Advanced Sensor Fusion AI: From Hardware and Signal Processing of 4D Radar to Camera and LiDAR Integration in AI
Meeting Room: 412 This tutorial provides a deep dive into 4D radar technology and its integration with other sensor modalities in multimodal AI, with a focus on robotics applications. As […]
Grand Challenges in Robotics for Nuclear Environments: A Call to Action
Meeting Room: 309 The last decade has seen significant progress in the development and use of robots in nuclear environments across fission, fusion, and big science (e.g. CERN). Whilst much […]
Handy Moves: Dexterity in Multi-Fingered Hands
Meeting Room: 302 Multi-fingered robotic hands hold an immense potential for flexible manipulation in human environments. From using tools like scissors to preparing food, handling cloth, and robustly tying shoelaces, many […]
ROBOT-ASSISTED ENDOVASCULAR INTERVENTIONS: Challenges and Opportunities
Meeting Room: 303 Vascular diseases are leading causes of ischemic heart disease and stroke and lead to significant global mortality. Endovascular interventions, such as neuroendovascular and cardiovascular interventions are a […]
The Evolving Landscape of Surgical Robotics: Towards AI-Powered Unconventional Instruments and Technologies in the Operating Theatre
Meeting Room: International Ballroom E (Omni Hotel) Robotic surgery is entering an exciting new era where robots are no longer simply mechanical tools under the direct control of a surgeon, […]
Robotics Startup Bootcamp: Building and Scaling Robotics and Hardware Startups
Meeting Room: 314 The Robotics Startup Bootcamp, hosted by MassRobotics, is an immersive, full-day workshop designed to equip early-stage robotics startups — or those considering the commercialization of their research […]
4th Workshop on Future of Construction: Safe, Reliable, and Precise Robots in Construction Environments
Meeting Room: 315 Our workshop aims to facilitate discussion on construction robotics with an emphasis on perception and navigation in cluttered scenes, mapping of as-built environments, and safety-focused robot-worker interactions. […]
2nd Unconventional Robots: Rethinking Robotic Systems Beyond Convention
Meeting Room: 312 When you think about a robot, what comes to mind? A humanoid, quadruped, quadcopter, or a multi-degree of freedom robot arm? These standard robot morphologies have become […]
Thermal Infrared in Robotics
Meeting Room: 407 Achieving robust autonomy in robotics is challenged by sensor data reliability, especially in extreme environments. Conventional sensors like RGB cameras fail in low-visibility conditions (e.g., smoke, fog, […]
Foundation Models and Neuro-Symbolic AI for Robotics
Meeting Room: 305 The field of robotics has experienced significant growth through the integration of machine learning models, particularly with the rise of foundation models, neuro-symbolic AI, generative models (such […]
Robots in the Wild
Meeting Room: 411 In the field, we throw robots into the wild to achieve what seems a simple task, that quickly ends up being arduous. As experts, we continuously loop […]
REaCT: Robotics for Environmental and Climate Assessment
Meeting Room: 408 Surveying biotic and abiotic factors in the Earth's system is vital for addressing sustainability, climate change, and biodiversity loss. However, collecting comprehensive ecological data at relevant scales […]
Workshop on Mechanisms in Robot Manipulation: Challenges and New Opportunities
Meeting Room: 410 This workshop seeks to bring attention on the vital role of robotic mechanisms in shaping the future of robotic manipulation. We will examine how innovative hardware design […]
How do Robots Care? Innovative Strategies and Interfaces for Physically Assistive Robots in Healthcare
Meeting Room: 313 Recent advancements in robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) have enabled assistive robots to realize many activities alongside and with humans in shared environments. This physical proximity has […]
Robot Safety Under Uncertainty from Intangible Specifications
Meeting Room: 405 Robot and automation systems are expected to carry out increasingly sophisticated tasks in complex environments. This places stringent expectations on their autonomy stack to enforce operational constraints […]
State of the Art in Lower-Limb Exoskeletons: Exploring Specificity vs. Generalizability Across Users and Activities
Meeting Room: 403 Emerging robotic exoskeletons have the potential to enhance performance of non-disabled users, restore normative leg biomechanics to impaired users, or rehabilitate limb function after neurological disorders. However, […]
Rust for Robotics: Building Robust Foundations for Tomorrow’s Autonomous Systems
Meeting Room: 404 This workshop explores the potential of Rust programming language in addressing current challenges in robotics software development. Bringing together industry leaders, academics, and open-source contributors, the workshop […]
7th Workshop on Long-Term Human Motion Prediction
Meeting Room: 402 The Long-term Human Motion Prediction (LHMP) workshop, taking place every ICRA in 2019--2024, offers a unique interdisciplinary platform for researchers and practitioners from different communities to discuss […]
Robot Software Architectures 2025
Meeting Room: International Ballroom C (Omni Hotel) RSA25 is intended to create a forum where researchers, practitioners, and professionals can discuss on principles and practice in the use of advanced […]
1st Workshop on Acoustic Sensing and Representations for Robotics (RoboAcoustics)
Meeting Room: 316 Acoustic sensing is rapidly emerging as a critical area of research, offering new possibilities for robust robotic perception, localization, and interaction in complex environments. This workshop aims […]
Public Trust in Autonomous Systems
Meeting Room: 406 Future robotic systems, such as autonomous vehicles and caregiving robots, promise to revolutionize our homes, cities, and roads. However, a critical question remains—how can we trust that […]
Enhancing Dexterity in Space Environments: The Potential of Soft Robotic Systems
Meeting Room: 307 Robotic operation in space faces a consistent trade-off between building simple and resilient systems to withstand the extreme conditions, and maintaining flexibility in the robot system to […]
Open Challenges in Robotics for Asset Inspection and Management (OCRAIM)
Meeting Room: 310 This workshop aims to bridge the gap between cutting-edge research and real-world applications in robotics for asset inspection and management. In the context of this workshop, an […]
Human-Centered Robot Learning in the Era of Big Data and Large Models
Meeting Room: 301 Recent advances in training large-scale models on massive internet-scale data show great promise for developing foundation models that enable robots to perform sophisticated tasks in human-centered environments, […]
Workshop on Field Robotics
Meeting Room: International Ballroom F (Omni Hotel) Field robotics tackles the problem of developing, deploying, and evaluating autonomous mobile systems in unstructured and often dynamic environments. Typical commercial applications are […]
Multi-Stable and Origami-based Soft Robots
Meeting Room: 304 Bi- and multi-stable structures, as well as origami structures, can rapidly release elastic energy during transitions between different equilibrium shapes. These snap-through transitions between stable configurations are […]
Towards Reliable and Trustworthy Embodied AI in Everyday Scenarios
Meeting Room: 311 This workshop explores the reliability and trustworthiness of embodied AI systems in real-world deployments across a variety of everyday scenarios. It brings together tools and methodologies from […]
Empowering Humans with Miniaturized Sensing and Control: Shared Autonomy for Small-Scale Robots (SASSR)
Meeting Room: 401 The control of small-scale robots is becoming increasingly crucial across various domains, from medical to micromanipulation applications. Despite recent significant advancements, small-scale robot technologies often face limitations […]
Undergraduate Research Outreach Workshops
Meeting Room: International ballroom B (Omni Hotel) To see a complete list of Undergraduate Research Outreach Workshops, please click here.
ICRA 2025 Doctoral Consortium
Meeting Room: International ballroom D (Omni Hotel) Meeting Agenda 8:30 AM – 9:00 AM: Arrival & Registration 9:00 AM – 9:10 AM: Opening Session 9:10 AM – 10:00 AM: Poster […]
Technical Tours
Join us for a technical tour! For a list of the tours taking place on Monday 19 May 2025, please visit this page: https://2025.ieee-icra.org/technical-tours/
Advanced Manufacturing Pilot Facility
Departure Time: 9:10 AM Return Time: 11:30 AM Capacity: 20 High Bay user facility of the Georgia Tech Manufacturing Institute focused on translating manufacturing 4.0 technologies into industry adoption, with […]
Georgia Tech Research Institute
Departure Time: 9:15 AM Return Time: 11:30 AM Capacity: 20 Presentation of Georgia Tech Research Institute research labs and demonstration of robotics applications including multi-robot collaborative manipulation, VR tasking, adaptive […]
Georgia Tech Hi-bay Robotics and Human-Augmentation Space
Departure Time: 9:15 AM Return Time: 11:30 AM Capacity: 45 Group will be split in 3 and rotated through 3 lab areas: 1) CAREN area 2) Overground motion lab area […]
Klaus Building Robotics Lab Tour
Departure Time: 11:40 AM Return Time: 2:00 PM Capacity: 15 Touring of the robotics labs at Klaus Advanced Computing Building (KACB)
Advanced Manufacturing Pilot Facility 2
Departure Time: 12:45 PM Return Time: 3:00 PM Capacity: 20 High Bay user facility of the Georgia Tech Manufacturing Institute focused on translating manufacturing 4.0 technologies into industry adoption, with […]
Georgia Tech Research Institute 2
Departure Time: 12:45 PM Return Time: 3:00 PM Capacity: 20 Presentation of Georgia Tech Research Institute research labs and demonstration of robotics applications including multi-robot collaborative manipulation, VR tasking, adaptive […]
Georgia Tech Hi-bay Robotics and Human-Augmentation Space 2
Departure Time: 12:45 PM Return Time: 3:00 PM Capacity: 45 Group will be split in 3 and rotated through 3 lab areas: 1) CAREN area 2) Overground motion lab area […]
Klaus Building Robotics Lab Tour 2
Departure Time: 1:00 PM Return Time: 3:30 PM Capacity: 15 Touring of the robotics labs at Klaus Advanced Computing Building (KACB)
Multi-Modal Sensing and Shared Control: The Future of Wearable Robotics?
Meeting Room: 309 Multi-modal sensing and shared control are rapidly evolving fields that are pivotal to advancing the field of wearable robotics. This half-day workshop will delve into cutting-edge technologies […]
Learning Meets Model-Based Methods for Contact-Rich Manipulation
Meeting Room: 412 This workshop explores the challenge of enabling robots to autonomously handle complex, contact-rich interactions. Traditionally, model-based methods have provided structured frameworks for planning and control, while recent […]
Panel on Future Opportunities & Challenges in Robotics
Panelists: Michael Beetz, Kostas Bekris, Stephen Guy