Events

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 overlooks the nuanced aspects of human interaction and cognitive engagement in remote operation scenarios. This oversight can lead to suboptimal user experiences, increased cognitive load, […]

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: 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 […]