7th Workshop on Long-Term Human Motion Prediction

Meeting Room: 402 The Long-term Human Motion Prediction (LHMP) workshop, taking place every ICRA in 2019--2024, offers a unique interdisciplinary platform for researchers and practitioners from different communities to discuss the many facets of modeling human motion and behavior in various automated systems. To reflect the broad range of engineering challenges in human-aware systems, we […]

Rust for Robotics: Building Robust Foundations for Tomorrow’s Autonomous Systems

Meeting Room: 404 This workshop explores the potential of Rust programming language in addressing current challenges in robotics software development. Bringing together industry leaders, academics, and open-source contributors, the workshop will cover Rust's value proposition for robotics, its ecosystem, its role in research and education, adoption challenges, and potential in emerging fields. Through presentations, panel […]

State of the Art in Lower-Limb Exoskeletons: Exploring Specificity vs. Generalizability Across Users and Activities

Meeting Room: 403 Emerging robotic exoskeletons have the potential to enhance performance of non-disabled users, restore normative leg biomechanics to impaired users, or rehabilitate limb function after neurological disorders. However, these devices have not been widely adopted due to their rigidity, bulkiness, acoustic noise, cost, battery life, and/or non-intuitive control. While parallel industries are providing […]

Robot Safety Under Uncertainty from Intangible Specifications

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 […]

How do Robots Care? Innovative Strategies and Interfaces for Physically Assistive Robots in Healthcare

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 […]

Workshop on Mechanisms in Robot Manipulation: Challenges and New Opportunities

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 […]

Foundation Models and Neuro-Symbolic AI for Robotics

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 […]

Robot Software Architectures 2025

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 […]

1st Workshop on Acoustic Sensing and Representations for Robotics (RoboAcoustics)

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. […]

Open Challenges in Robotics for Asset Inspection and Management (OCRAIM)

Meeting Room: 310 This workshop aims to bridge the gap between cutting-edge research and real-world applications in robotics for asset inspection and management. In the context of this workshop, an “asset” refers to any valuable physical resource or piece of infrastructure that requires regular monitoring, maintenance, or management to ensure its proper functioning and longevity. […]

Human-Centered Robot Learning in the Era of Big Data and Large Models

Meeting Room: 301 Recent advances in training large-scale models on massive internet-scale data show great promise for developing foundation models that enable robots to perform sophisticated tasks in human-centered environments, such as transportation, households, healthcare, and warehouses. These models introduce new paradigms for human-robot interaction, allowing robots to follow complex human instructions, collaborate effectively, and […]

Public Trust in Autonomous Systems

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 […]