ICRA 2025 Awards and Finalists
All papers below are eligible for the IEEE ICRA Best Conference Paper Award, and the papers with a * are eligible for the IEEE ICRA Best Student Paper Award.
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- IEEE ICRA Best Paper Award on Robot Learning
- IEEE ICRA Best Paper Award in Field and Service Robotics
- IEEE ICRA Best Paper Award on Human-Robot Interaction
- IEEE ICRA Best Paper Award on Mechanisms and Design
- IEEE ICRA Best Paper Award on Planning and Control
- IEEE ICRA Best Paper Award on Robot Perception
- IEEE ICRA Best Paper Award on Robot Manipulation and Locomotion
- IEEE ICRA Best Paper Award in Automation
- IEEE ICRA Best Paper Award in Medical Robotics
- IEEE ICRA Best Paper Award on Multi-Robot Systems
- IEEE ICRA Best Conference Paper Award
IEEE ICRA Best Paper Award on Robot Learning
Achieving Human Level Competitive Robot Table Tennis
Authors: David D’Ambrosio, Saminda Wishwajith Abeyruwan, Laura Graesser, Atil Iscen, Heni Ben Amor, Alex Bewley, Barney J. Reed, Krista Reymann, Leila Takayama, Yuval Tassa, Krysztof Choromanski, Erwin Coumans, Deepali Jain, Navdeep Jaitly, Natasha Jaques, Satoshi Kataoka, Yuheng Kuang, Nevena Lazic, Reza, Mahjourian, Sherry Moore, Kenneth Oslund, Anish Shankar, Vikas Sindhwani, Vincent Vanhoucke, Grace Vesom, Peng Xu, Pannag Sanketi
*Robo-DM: Data Management for Large Robot Datasets
Authors: Kaiyuan Chen, Letian Fu, David Huang, Yanxiang Zhang, Yunliang Lawrence Chen, Huang Huang, Kush Hari, Ashwin Balakrishna, Ted Xiao, Pannag Sanketi, John Kubiatowicz, Ken Goldberg
*No Plan but Everything under Control: Robustly Solving Sequential Tasks with Dynamically Composed Gradient Descent
Authors: Vito Mengers, Oliver Brock
IEEE ICRA Best Paper Award in Field and Service Robotics
*PolyTouch: A Robust Multi-Modal Tactile Sensor for Contact-Rich Manipulation Using Tactile-Diffusion Policies
Authors: Jialiang Zhao, Naveen Kuppuswamy, Siyuan Feng, Benjamin Burchfiel, Edward Adelson
A New Stereo Fisheye Event Camera for Fast Drone Detection and Tracking
Authors: Daniel Rodrigues Da Costa, Maxime Robic, Pascal Vasseur, Fabio Morbidi
*Learning-Based Adaptive Navigation for Scalar Field Mapping and Feature Tracking
Authors: Jose Fuentes, Paulo Padrao, Abdullah Al Redwan Newaz, Leonardo Bobadilla
IEEE ICRA Best Paper Award on Human-Robot Interaction
*Human-Agent Joint Learning for Efficient Robot Manipulation Skill Acquisition
Authors: Shengchent Luo, Quanuan Peng, Jun Lv, Kaiwen Hong, Katherin Driggs-Campbell, Cewu Lu, Yong-Lu Li
*To Ask or Not to Ask: Human-In-The-Loop Contextual Bandits with Applications in Robot-Assisted Feeding
Authors: Rohan Banerjee, Rajat Kumar Jenamani, Sidharth Vasudev, Amal Nanavati, Katherine Dimitropoulou, Sarah Dean, Tapomayukh Bhattacharjee
*Point and Go: Intuitive Reference Frame Reallocation in Mode Switching for Assistive Robotics
Authors: Allie Wang, Chen Jiang, Michael Przystupa, Justin Valentine, Martin Jagersand
IEEE ICRA Best Paper Award on Mechanisms and Design
Individual and Collective Behaviors in Soft Robot Worms Inspired by Living Worm Blobs
Authors: Carina Kaeser, Junghan Kwon, Elio Challita, Harry Tuazon, Robert Wood, Saad Bhamla, Justin Werfel
*Informed Repurposing of Quadruped Legs for New Tasks
Authors: Fuchen Chen, Daniel Aukes
*Intelligent Self-Healing Artificial Muscle: Mechanisms for Damage Detection and Autonomous
Authors: Ethan Krings, Patrick Mcmanigal, Eric Markvicka
IEEE ICRA Best Paper Award on Planning and Control
*SELP: Generating Safe and Efficient Task Plans for Robot Agents with Large Language Models
Authors: Yi Wu, Zikang Xiong, Yiran Hu, Shreyash Sridhar Iyengar, Nan Jiang, Aniket Bera, Lin Tan, Suresh Jagannathan
*Marginalizing and Conditioning Gaussians Onto Linear Approximations of Smooth Manifolds with Applications in Robotics
Authors: Zi Cong Guo, James Richard Forbes, Timothy Barfoot
IEEE ICRA Best Paper Award on Robot Perception
*MAC-VO: Metrics-Aware Covariance for Learning-Based Stereo Visual Odometry
Authors: Yuheng Qju, Yutian Chen, Zihao Zhang, Wenshan Wang, Sebastian Scherer
*Ground-Optimized 4D Radar-Inertial Odometry Via Continuous Velocity Integration Using Gaussian Process
Authors: Wooseong Yang, Hyesu Jang, Ayoung Kim
*UAD: Unsupervised Affordance Distillation for Generalization in Robotic Manipulation
Authors: Yihe Tang, Wenlong Huang, Yingke Wang, Chengshu Li, Roy Yuan, Ruohan Zhang, Jiajun Wu, Li Fei-Fei
IEEE ICRA Best Paper Award on Robot Manipulation and Locomotion
*Full-Order Sampling-Based MPC for Torque-Level Locomotion Control Via Diffusion-Style Annealing
Authors: Haoru Xue, Chaoyi Pan, Zeji Yi, Guannan Qu, Guanya Shi
*D(R, O) Grasp: A Unified Representation of Robot and Object Interaction for Cross-Embodiment Dexterous Grasping
Authors: Zhenyu Wei, Zhixuan Xu, Jingxiang Guo, Yiwen Hou, Chongkai Gao, Zhehao Cai, Jiayu Luo, Lin Shao
*TrofyBot: A Transformable Rolling and Flying Robot with High Energy Efficiency
Authors: Mingwei Lai, Yugian Ye, Hanyu Wu, Chice Xuan, Ruibin Zhang, Qiuyu Ren, Chao Xu, Fei Gao, Yanjun Cao
IEEE ICRA Best Paper Award in Automation
*In-Plane Manipulation of Soft Micro-Fiber with Ultrasonic Transducer Array and Microscope
Authors: Jieyun Zou, Siyuan An, Mingyue Wang, Jiaqi Li, Yalin Shi, You-Fu Li, Song Liu
*A Complete and Bounded-Suboptimal Algorithm for a Moving Target Traveling Salesman Problem with Obstacles in 3D
Authors: Anoop Bhat, Geordan Gutow, Bhaskhar Vundurthy, Zhonggiang, Sivakumar Rathinam, Howie Choset
*Physics-Aware Robotic Palletization with Online Masking Inference
Authors: Tiangi Zhang, Zheng Wu, Yuxin Chen, Yixiao Wang, Boyuan Liang, Scott Moura, Masayoshi Tomizuka, Mingyu Ding, Wei Zhan
IEEE ICRA Best Paper Award in Medical Robotics
*Image-Based Compliance Control for Robotic Steering of a Ferromagnetic Guidewire
Authors: An Hu, Chen Sun, Adam Dmytriw, Nan Xiao, Yu Sun
*AutoPeel: Adhesion-Aware Safe Peeling Trajectory Optimization for Robotic Wound Care
Authors: Xiao Liang, Youcheng Zhang, Fei Liu, Florian Richter, Michael C. Yip
*In-Vivo Tendon-Driven Rodent Ankle Exoskeleton System for Sensorimotor Rehabilitation
Author: Juwan Han, Seunghyeon Park, Keehon Kim
IEEE ICRA Best Paper Award on Multi-Robot Systems
Distributed Multi-Robot Source Seeking in Unknown Environments with Unknown Number of Sources
Authors: Lingpeng Chen, Siva Kailas, Srujan Deolasee, Wenhao Luo, Katia Sycara, Woojun Kim
*Deploying Ten Thousand Robots: Scalable Imitation Learning for Lifelong Multi-Agent Path Finding
Authors: He Jiang, Yutong Wang, Rishi Veerapaneni, Tanishq Harish Duhan, Guillaume Adrien Sartoretti, Jiaoyang Li
*Multi-Nonholonomic Robot Object Transportation with Obstacle Crossing Using a Deformable Sheet
Authors: Weijian Zhang, Charlie Street, Masoumeh Mansouri
In addition to the papers listed above, the following papers are also finalists for the IEEE ICRA Best Conference Paper Award
*MiniVLN: Efficient Vision-And-Language Navigation by Progressive Knowledge Distillation
Authors: Junyou Zhu, Yanyuan Qiao, Siqi Zhang, Xingjian He, Qi Wu, Jing Liu
*RoboCrowd: Scaling Robot Data Collection through Crowdsourcing
Authors: Suvir Mirchandani, David D. Yuan, Kaylee Burns, Md Sazzad Islam, Zihao Zhao, Chelsea Finn, Dorsa Sadigh
How Sound-Based Robot Communication Impacts Perceptions of Robotic Failure
Authors: Jai’La Lee Crider, Rhian Preston, Naomi T. Fitter
*Obstacle-Avoidant Leader Following with a Quadruped Robot
Authors: Carmen Scheidemann, Lennart Werner, Victor Reijgwart, Andrei Cramariuc, Joris Chomarat, Jia-Ruei Chiu, Roland Siegwart, Marco Hutter
*Dynamic Tube MPC: Learning Error Dynamics with Massively Parallel Simulation for Robust Safety in Practice
Authors: William Compton, Noel Csomay-Shanklin, Cole Johnson, Aaron Ames
*Bat-VUFN: Bat-Inspired Visual-And-Ultrasound Fusion Network for Robust Perception in Adverse Conditions
Authors: Gyeongrok Lim, Jeong-ui Hong, Min Hyeon Bae
*TinySense: A Lighter Weight and More Power-Efficient Avionics System for Flying Insect-Scale Robots
Authors: Zhitao Yu, Josh Tran, Claire Li, Aaron Weber, Yash P. Talwekar, Sawyer Fuller
*TSCLIP: Robust CLIP Fine-Tuning for Worldwide Cross-Regional Traffic Sign Recognition
Authors: Guoyang Zhao, Fulong Ma, Weiging Qi, Chenguang Zhang, Yuxuan Liu, Ming Liu, Jun Ma
*Geometric Design and Gait Co-Optimization for Soft Continuum Robots Swimming at Low and High Reynolds Numbers
Authors: Yanhao Yang, Ross Hatton
*ShadowTac: Dense Measurement of Shear and Normal Deformation of a Tactile Membrane from Colored Shadows
Authors: Giuseppe Vitrani, Basile Pasquale, Michael Wiertlewski
*Occlusion-aware 6D Pose Estimation with Depth-guided Graph Encoding and Cross-semantic Fusion for Robotic Grasping
Authors: Jingyang Liu, Zhenyu Lu, Lu Chen, Jing Yang, Chenguang Yang
*Stable Tracking of Eye Gaze Direction During Ophthalmic Surgery
Authors: Tinghe Hong, Shenlin Cai, Boyang Li, Kai Huang
*Configuration-Adaptive Visual Relative Localization for Spherical Modular Self-Reconfigurable Robots
Authors: Yuming Liu, Qiu Zheng, Yuxiao Tu, Yuan Gao, Guanqi Liang, Tin Lun Lam
*Realm: Real-Time Line-Of-Sight Maintenance in Multi-Robot Navigation with Unknown Obstacles
Authors: Ruofei Bai, Shenghai Yuan, Kun Li, Hongliang Guo, Wei-Yun Yau, Lihua Xie
All award finalists will be presented, Tuesday and Wednesday, at award sessions, in parallel to the regular oral sessions (listed as “Award finalists” sessions on Infovaya). The awards will be presented in the Hall A3 on Thursday, May 22 12:15 PM – 1:45 PM
