Queer in Robotics: Building a Community and Generating Inclusive Guidelines

Meeting Room: 310 Description:  The Queer in Robotics event at ICRA aims to build an inclusive community for queer students, researchers and practitioners. Queer in AI’s demographic survey reveals that most queer scientists in the robotics community do not feel completely welcome in conferences and their work environments, with the main reasons being a lack of […]

Harnessing Learning, Data, Foundation Models and Open Source: How African Scientists are Advancing Robotics Research

Meeting Room: 401 Please join us on Wednesday, May 21st for a forum showcasing robotics research and innovations in industry, agriculture, and education in Africa, led by Africans and their partners. The event will feature keynote presentations from leading experts in the field, along with lightning talks by authors presenting their research at ICRA. This year’s […]

RAS-WiE Voices — Women shaping the future of robotics and automation

Meeting Room: International Ballroom F (Omni Hotel) The RAS-WiE Lunch provides a vibrant platform to celebrate and empower women in robotics and automation. The session will begin with a series of spotlight talks by the WiRA awards finalists. We will then have two presentations from distinguished female speakers, sharing their experience as women researchers in […]

Standards Networking Prize Competition and Introduction Luncheon

Meeting Room: International Ballroom D (Omni Hotel) Come have fun, learn about standards, and sign up for the Standards Video prize competition for a chance to win up to $6,000! Teams of three will be tasked to create a short, creative video at the conference about standards. More details about the video competition upon sign up. The event session […]

Black in Robotics and Blacks in Technology Social

Meeting Room: 310 Please join Black in Robotics (BiR) https://blackinrobotics.org/ and Blacks in Technology (BiT) https://blacksintechnology.org/ for a networking social hour. There will be a short presentation on the mission of these […]

LatinX in AI & Robotics

Meeting Room: 401 Launched in January 2018, a group of leaders from academia, industry, and social impact sectors united to focus on "Creating Opportunity for LatinX in AI." This initiative aims to […]

TC Telerobotics + TC Haptics Meet-up

Meeting Room: International Ballroom A&B (Omni Hotel) The IEEE Robotics & Automation Society's Technical Committees for Telerobotics (TCT) and Haptics (TCH) are hosting a joint meetup. If you are interested […]

Community Building Day Dinner

Meeting Room: International Ballroom E&F (Omni Hotel) ICRA 2025 invites you to the Community Building Day Dinner, a celebration of our growing community, shared commitment to robotics, and the diverse lived and […]