Events

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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 […]