ICRA 2025 Keynote Sessions
Keynote Sessions at a Glance
Tuesday, 20 May
Rehabilitation & Physically Assistive Systems
9:55 AM
Meeting Room: Sidney Marcus Auditorium
SESSION CHAIR: Charlie Kemp,
Hello Robot
Speaker: Brenna Argall,
Northwestern
Title: Human Autonomy through Robotics Autonomy
Speaker: Robert Gregg,
U Michigan
Title: Towards Versatile Robotic Leg Prostheses and Exoskeletons: Control Theory Strikes Back
Speaker: Keehoon Kim,
POSTECH
Title: Rethinking Robotic Intelligence: From More Control to Better Design
Speaker: Cristina Piazza,
TUM
Title: Towards Bioinspired Bionic Limbs: From Embodied Intelligence to Neural Control
Optimization & Control
11:15 AM
Meeting Room: Sidney Marcus Auditorium
SESSION CHAIR: Frank Park,
SNU
Speaker: Todd Murphey,
Northwestern
Title: Robot Learning in Isolation
Speaker: Angela Schoellig,
TUM
Title: Powering Robotics with AI: from robot-specific data to internet-scale knowledge, from improved performance to common-sense behavior?
Speaker: Jana Tumova,
KTH
Title: Designing Robust Robots Through Rigorous Specifications
Speaker: Ram Vasudevan,
UMichigan
Title: Beyond the Demo: Scene-Savvy Robots That Are Provably Safe
Automation
3:15 PM
Meeting Room: Sidney Marcus Auditorium
SESSION CHAIR: Dawn Tilbury,
University of Michigan
Speaker: Maria Pia Fanti
Title: Artificial Intelligence Approaches for Cooperative, Connected and Automated Mobility of People and Goods
Speaker: Ilya Kovalenko
Title: Intelligent and Adaptive Distributed Automation for Industrial Systems
Speaker: Bengt Lennartson
Title: Efficient and Unified Planning and Robust Reinforcement Learning
Speaker: Hyungpil Moon
Title: Autonomous Robotics for Efficient Container Package Handling in Logistics
Human Robot Interaction
4:35 PM
Meeting Room: Sidney Marcus Auditorium
SESSION CHAIR: Katsu Yamane,
Path Robotics
Speaker: Sonia Chernova,
Georgia Tech
Title: Autonomy in the Human World: Developing Robots that Handle the Diversity of Human Lives
Speaker: Dongheui Lee,
TU Vienna
Title: Challenges in Human-Centric Robotics: Human Intent Reading
Speaker: Harold Soh,
NUS
Title: A Foundation Model for HRI?
Speaker: Holly Yanco,
UML
Title: Designing Robots for Humans
Wednesday, 21 May
Soft Robotics
8:30 AM
Meeting Room: Sidney Marcus Auditorium
SESSION CHAIR: Barbara Mazzolai,
IIT
Speaker: Robert Katzschmann,
ETH Zurich
Title: Creating Life-like Robots based on Musculoskeletal Designs and Living Biohybrid Technologies
Speaker: Hugo Rodrigue, Sungkyunkwan University
Title: High-performance Soft Pneumatic Actuation
Speaker: Cynthia Sung,
U Penn
Title: Leveraging Robot-Fluid Interactions for Efficient Multi-Robot Swimming
Speaker: Wenzhen Yuan,
UIUC
Title: Achieving High-dimensional Sensing with Vision-based Sensors
Field Robotics
9:55 AM
Meeting Room: Sidney Marcus Auditorium
SESSION CHAIR: Matthew Johnson-Roberson,
Vanderbilt
Speaker: Margarita Chli,
University of Cyprus & ETH Zurich
Title: Vision-Based Robotic Perception: Ready for Real-World Deployment?
Speaker: Tobias Fischer,
Queensland University of Technology
Title: Visual Place Recognition: Navigating Without GPS Using Bio-Inspired Approaches
Speaker: Joshua Mangelson,
BYU
Title: Perception, Localization, and Mapping for Marine Autonomy at BYU
Speaker: Inna Sharf,
McGill
Title: Robotics for Timber-Harvesting Operations
Bio-inspired Robotics
11:15 AM
Meeting Room: Sidney Marcus Auditorium
SESSION CHAIR: Paolo Dario,
SSSUP
Speaker: Kyujin Cho,
SNU
Title: Bioinspired Gripping: Learning from Nature to Advance Robotic Manipulation
Speaker: Dario Floreano,
EPFL
Title: Avian-Inspired Drones
Speaker: Talia Moore,
U Michigan
Title: Bio-inspired design approaches for inertial appendages
Speaker: Yasemin Ozkan-Aydin,
U Notre Dame
Title: Bio-inspiration Strategies for Building Robust Robots for Unconventional Environments
Haptics
3:15 PM
Meeting Room: Sidney Marcus Auditorium
SESSION CHAIR: Claudio Pacchierotti,
IRISA
Speaker: Jeremy Brown,
Johns Hopkins University
Title: Embodied Intelligence in Prosthetics: A Retrospective on Haptic Feedback, Human-Machine Integration, and User-Centered Design
Speaker: Matej Hoffmann,
Czech Tech U, Prague
Title: Robots with a sense of touch
Speaker: Tania Morimoto, University of California San Diego
Title: Soft haptic interfaces for teleoperating soft robots
Speaker: Jee-Hwan Ryu,
KAIST
Title: How Stiff or Light Can We Go? Passivity-based Approaches for Stable and Transparent Haptic Interaction
Planning
4:35 PM
Meeting Room: Sidney Marcus Auditorium
SESSION CHAIR: Jason O’Kane,
TAMU
Speaker: Hanna Kurniawati,
ANU
Title: Scalable Long-Horizon Planning in Non-Deterministic and Partially Observed Worlds
Speaker: Jen Jen Chung,
UQ
Title: Planning to See and Touch
Speaker: Dan Halperin,
Tel Aviv U
Title: Do We Still Need Robot Algorithms?
Speaker: Jing Xiao,
WPI
Title: Robot Action Planning in Unknown and Uncertain Environments
Thursday, 22 May
Manipulation
8:30 AM
Meeting Room: Sidney Marcus Auditorium
SESSION CHAIR: Kevin Lynch,
Northwestern U
Speaker: Tamim Asfour,
KIT
Title: Robots Think with their Hands
Speaker: Yasuhisa Hasegawa,
Nagoya
Title: Assist-as-Needed: Robotic Mobility Support for Preserving Human Agency
Speaker: Alberto Rodriguez,
Boston Dynamics
Title: The humanoid mission in manufacturing
Speaker: Shuran Song,
Stanford
Title: Making manipulation as simple as possible but not simpler
Locomotion
9:55 AM
Meeting Room: Sidney Marcus Auditorium
SESSION CHAIR: Katja Mombaur,
KIT
Speaker: Sarah Bergbreiter,
CMU
Title: Locomotion at Small Scales
Speaker: Cosimo Della Santina,
TU Delft
Title: Moving Without Thinking: Embodied Intelligence in Locomotion
Speaker: Hae-Won Park,
KAIST
Title: Robot Legged Locomotion Beyond Bioinspiration: Hardware Design and Control Algorithms
Speaker: Ludovic Righetti,
NYU
Title: The long and winding road of optimization for legged locomotion
Safety & Formal Methods
11:15 AM
Meeting Room: Sidney Marcus Auditorium
SESSION CHAIR: Hadas Kress-Gazit,
Cornell
Speaker: Chuchu Fan,
MIT
Title: Graph Control Barrier Function for Large-Scale Multi-Agent Safe Control
Speaker: Meng Guo,
Peking University
Title: Verified Neural Planner for Multi-robot Systems
Speaker: Changliu Liu,
CMU
Title: Steering Towards Safe Human-AI Interactions
Speaker: Pian Yu,
UCL
Title: Formal Verification for Trustworthy Human-Robot Collaboration
Multi-robot Systems
3:15 PM
Meeting Room: Sidney Marcus Auditorium
SESSION CHAIR: Daniela Rus,
MIT
Speaker: Sabine Hauert,
Bristol
Title: Breaking Swarm Stereotypes: Enabling Real-World Applications
Speaker: Dimitra Panagou,
Michigan
Title: Reliable and Resilient Multi-Robot Systems
Speaker: Alyssa Pierson,
Boston University
Title: Designing Semi-Cooperative Robots to Improve Team Autonomy
Speaker: Fumin Zhang,
HKUST
Title: Opinion Dynamics and Robot Clustering
Data will Solve Robotics and Automation: True or False?
4:35 PM
Meeting Room: Sidney Marcus Auditorium
MODERATOR: Ken Goldberg,
Berkeley
Moderator/Speaker: Frank Park,
SNU
Speaker: Aude Billard,
EPFL
Speaker: Animesh Garg,
Gatech
Speaker: Leslie Kaelbling,
MIT
Speaker: Russ Tedrake,
TRI & MIT
Speaker: Daniela Rus,
MIT
