Events

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 explored multiple dimensions of the challenge, such as the sequencing and composition of controllers and the integration of meaning with kinematically and dynamically distinct systems. […]

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 environments for testing and development. We will explore current tools and future directions to better support both academic and industrial needs in this challenging field.

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. Specifically, this workshop focuses on the planning and coordination of MAS for both push manipulation and modular assembly tasks, with an emphasis on decentralized approaches. […]

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 deployed to assist in agricultural tasks. However, autonomous robots are far from reaching their full potential in this domain. Fully autonomous robots can significantly impact […]

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 […]