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 and safety guarantees. Safe control synthesis methods, including model predictive control, reachability analysis, and control barrier functions, commonly rely on explicit mathematical definitions of safety […]

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 introduced novel, complex tasks for the robotics community to address, which can be clustered into three main areas: Personal care robots that facilitate humans in […]

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 can provide a strong foundation for manipulation tasks, improve the generalization and effectiveness of these tasks, and offer elegant solutions to challenges that may be […]

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 as large language models and diffusion models), and other emerging techniques. While these methods have transformed areas like computer vision, natural language processing, and computer […]

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 to bring together researchers and practitioners from various domains and disciplines to discuss the latest advancements, challenges, and future directions in acoustic sensing for robotics. […]

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 software development techniques for building robot software architectures. The Robotics community is aware of the importance that software development principles have in building advanced robotics […]

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 in sensing and actuation capabilities. These limitations pose challenges in executing tasks within complex environments. To overcome these obstacles, human-in-the-loop paradigms are essential, as they […]

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 fields such as computer vision, machine learning, planning, control, and formal methods, all aimed at improving AI robustness and dependability. The workshop will also highlight […]

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 characterized by rapid and amplified motions. In recent years, the application of bi- and multi-stability to soft actuators and robots has attracted significant research interest. […]

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 keep up with rapidly changing conditions. Soft robotics offers the promise of robotic performance in unstructured environments. This workshop will bring together two fields to […]

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 in agriculture, construction, mining, and forestry. The range of physical mediums is also very diversified: in the air, on the ground, underground, on the water, […]

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 these technologies will be safe? Additionally, how can society understand what type of assurances it should expect and demand from these systems? Consider a scenario […]