ICRA 2025 Stage Presentations
Two stages located on the exhibit floor provide an extension of the education program, featuring additional technical presentations and interactive features:
1. Tech Talk Stage
Short talks and demos given by leading companies in the field at the Exhibit Hall. These will be given by a number of organizations on Tuesday, 20 May and Wednesday from 9:40am-1:40pm and 3-5:20pm. Tech Talks will also be given on Thursday 22 May from 9:40 am to 12:15pm.
2. Innovation Stage
The Industrial Activities Board (IAB) is introducing the Innovation Stage for the first time at ICRA 2025. The Innovation Stage will provide innovators the opportunity to present their cutting-edge work at the Exhibit Hall.
Robot Parade
In addition to presentations on the two stages, please join us for the Annual Robot Parade on Thursday, May 22, from 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM in the Exhibit Hall.
The Stage Presentations Schedule is listed below:
Tuesday, 20 May
9:30 AM – 9:45 AM: Intro to Innovation Stage Timetable/Activities
Presenter: Andra Keay or Christine Fraser
9:45 AM – 10:00 AM: Standards Talk: Overview of RAS Standard Efforts
Presenter: Craig Schlenoff
10:00 AM – 10:15 AM: Standards Talk: Overview of Robot Task Representation Implementation
Presenter: William Freidank
10:15 AM -10:30 AM: Standards Talk: Overview of Humanoid Robot Study Group
Presenter: Aaron Prather
10:30 AM -10:45 AM: Standards Talk: Overview of P1955 (6G Empowering Robotics)
Presenter: Howard Li
10:45 AM -11:00 AM: Standards Talk: Semantic Maps for Autonomous Robots
Presenter: Jaeho Lee
11:00 AM – 11:15 AM: Overview of the Danish Robotics cluster and potential opportunities for partnering with it
Presenter: Ole Georg Anderson
12:15 PM – 12:30 PM: Standards Talk: Systema Robotica Design Driven Taxonomy
Presenter: Ali Ahmed
12:30 PM – 12:45 PM: Startup Talks – Touchlab -Founder and CEO Zakareya Hussein Sharing Lessons Learned
12:45 PM – 1:15 PM: Humanoids Standards Presentation – with demos
Presenters: Aaron Prather, Ross Mead, Alona Kharchenko and Francisco Ferro
1:15 PM – 1:30 PM: Startup Talk – reasonX Safety Assurance Platform
Presenter: Umair Siddique
3:00 PM – 3:15 PM: Open Source Talks – Quori
Presenter: Ross Mead
3:15 PM – 3:30 PM: Open Source Talks – ROS
Presenter: Kat Scott
3:30 PM – 3:45 PM: Fluid Reality
Presenter: Joe Mullenbach
3:45 PM – 4:00 PM: Open Source Talks – The AICOR Virtual Research Building Presenter: Benjamin Alt
4:00 PM – 4:15 PM: Open Source Talks – NIST robot arm database
Presenter: Kamel Saidi
4:15 PM – 4:30 PM: Open Source Talks – MCAP Logging
Presenter: Adrian MacNeil
4:30 PM – 4:45 PM: Roboto.ai
Presenter: Benji Barash
Wednesday, 21 May
9:00 AM – 9:15 AM: Ecosystem Talks
Presenters: Jenny Read & Radhika Gudipati – ARIA
9:30 AM – 9:45 AM: Ecosystem Talks
Presenter: Ed Colgate – HAND
9:45 AM – 10:00 AM: Ecosystem Talks
Presenter: Ingo Keller – The National Robotarium
Title: Building the robotics startup ecosystem for the UK
10:00 AM – 10:10 AM: Industry Forum – Intro to Atlanta Ecosystem
Presenter: Milt Walker
10:10 AM – 10:30 AM: Industry Forum – VisionNav
Presenter: Amad Stokes
Title: Navigating the Future: How Robotics Is Reshaping Material Handling and Logistics
10:35 PM – 10:55 PM: Industry Forum – Mujin
Presenter: Jeronimo Rodrigues
11:50 AM – 12:10 PM: Industry Forum – Skymul
Presenter: Eohan Geroge
Title: We Built the Perfect Robot—Then the Jobsite Kept Changing
12:30 PM – 12:45 PM: Startup Talk: PULSAR
Presenters: Miguel Lopez Estevez, Head of Robotics
12:45 PM – 1:00 PM: Startup Talk – DreamFace
Presenter: Prof Mohammad Mahoor
1:00 PM – 1:15 PM: Startup Talk – Saphira
1:15 PM – 1:30 PM: Startup Talk: Ember Robotics
Presenter: Shivani Mouleeswaran
1:30 PM – 1:45 PM: Startup Talk: Brighter Signals
Presenter: ChristineFraser, CoFounder
2:45 PM – 3:00 PM: Intro to IEEE Entrepreneurship, Hard Tech VC Summit
3:15 PM – 4:30 PM: We invite you to join us for a Robotics Pitch Competition:
The winner will receive an invitation to the MassRobotics investor open house in October, complimentary booth space at RoboBusiness, a dedicated article or podcast in the Robot Report, and cash prize.
More information, Eligibility requirements, and application can be found here.
Applications close on May 5th.
4:30 PM – 4:45PM: Startup Talk: Contactile
Presenter: Heba Khamis
4:45 PM – 5:00 PM: Startup Talk – Psyonic
Presenter: Ardeel Akhtar
4:55 PM – 5:15 PM: Industry Forum – Slip Robotics
Presenter: Dennis Seidlak
Title: How Observability at Scale Accelerates Robotics Development
Thursday, 22 May
9:30 AM – 9:45 PM: Manufacturing Mentor Talks – The Startup Experience
Presenter: Hafeez Jimoh
9:45 AM – 10:00AM: Manufacturing Mentor Talks – Agile Robotics for Small-Batch, Reconfigurable Manufacturing
Presenter: Karol Janik
11:00 AM – 11:15 AM: Interview with Dragomir Angelov
Title: Waymo on scaling autonomous driving
Tuesday, 20 May
9:40 AM – 10:00 AM: Quanser
Presenter: Murtaza Bohra, R&D Manager, Academic Application
Title: An Open Ecosystem for Modern Robotics Research
10:00 AM – 10:20 AM: Artly
Presenter: Yushan Chen, Cofounder and COO
Title: Blend the artistry of human craftsmanship with cutting-edge AI and robotics
10:20 AM – 10:40 AM: Ghost Robotics
Presenters: Avik De, CTO and Vinh Nguyen, Mobility Lead
Title: Robust Real-World Mobility Utilizing Model-Based and RL Methods
10:40 AM – 11:20 AM: High Torque
Presenter: David Zhang, Founder
Title: Pi+: A Modular Humanoid Platform for Embodied Intelligence
11:20 AM – 11:40 AM: Honda Research Institute USA Inc
Presenter: Soshi Iba, Division Director, Intelligence Robotics Research Division
Title: Avatar Robot with Dexterity and Shared Autonomy
11:40 AM – 12:20 PM: Aidin Robotics
Presenter: HyoukRyeol Choi, CEO
Title: Robotic Sensors for Physical Interaction Intelligence
12:40 PM – 1:00 PM: Boston Dynamics
Presenter: Sam Seifert, Director of Applications
Title: How To: Getting VLMs to Drive Spot
1:00 PM – 1:20 PM: Symbotic
Presenter: Eric Wemhoff
Title: Applications of collaborative robot arms in the fields of education and research
1:20 PM – 1:40 PM: DOBOT
Presenter: Eric Zhou
Title: Applications of collaborative robot arms in the fields of education and research
3:00 PM – 3:20 PM: Flexiv
Presenter: Brianna Thalia Villalobos
Title: Shaping the Future with Adaptive Robots
3:20 PM – 3:40 PM: Berkshire Grey
Presenter: Matt Mason, Chief Scientist
Title: Can warehouse robotics inspire great research?
3:40 PM – 4:00 PM: Zoox
Presenter: Nick Roy
Title: Towards Scalable and Robust Autonomy
4:40 PM – 5:00 PM: Segments.ai
Presenter: Otto Debals, CEO
Title: Multi-sensor data labeling for perception
Wednesday, 21 May
9:40 AM – 10:00 AM: Haply
Presenters: Jessica Henry, Product Manager and Emmanuel Wilson, Application Engineer
Title: Redefining human-machine interaction through precision technology
10:00 AM – 10:20 AM: PAL Robotics
10:20 AM – 10:40 AM: PSYONIC
Presenter: Aadeel Akhtar, Founder and CEO
Title: Advanced Bionic Hands for Humans and Robots
10:40 AM – 11:20 AM: SCHUNK
11:20 AM – 11:40 AM: Raphe
Presenter: Vivek Mishra, CEO
Topic: Commandless Coordination: Decentralized Intelligence in Robotic Swarms
12:40 PM – 1:00 PM: Foxglove
Presenter: Adrian Macneil, Co-Founder & CEO
1:00 PM – 1:20 PM: VisionNav Robotics
Presenter: Sonny Bucci, Technical Sales Specialist
Title: Autonomous What? AGV/AMR Tech Overview
1:20 PM – 1:40 PM: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories
Presenter: Diego Romeres, Team Leader, Senior Principal Research Scientist
Title: Dexterous Robotics: From Multimodal Sensing to Real World Physical Interactions
3:00 PM – 3:20 PM: Hebi Robotics
Presenter: Dave Rollinson
Title: Everything you wanted to know about series elastic actuators, but were too afraid to ask
3:20 PM – 3:40 PM: Google DeepMind
Presenter: Maria Bauza, Senior Research Scientist
Title: A novel and scalable solution for learning “optimal behaviors” through RL for Sim2Real transfer
3:40 PM – 4:00 PM: Hello Robot
Presenter: Binit Shah, Senior Software Lead & Developer Relations
Title: Building web teleoperation for Stretch
4:00 PM – 4:40 PM: Booster Robotics
Presenter: Chaoyi Li, Head of Globalization
Title: Building Embodied AI Ecosystem with Humanoid Robots
4:40 PM – 5:00 PM: Robot Era
Presenter: Lucas Wang, VP of Product
Title: Challenges and perspectives in direct drive dextrous hand
Thursday, 22 May
9:40 AM – 10:00 AM: Google DeepMind
Presenters: Laura Graesser and Saminda Abeyruwan, Senior Research Engineer
Title: Deep-dive into a real-world competitive table-tennis robosystem and lessons for general robot learning
10:00 AM – 10:20 AM: Shadow Robot Company
Presenter: Rich Walker, Director
Title: Designing robots to survive learning in the real world
10:00 AM – 10:20 AM: Independent Robotics
Presenter: Greg Dudek, CTO
10:40 AM – 11:20 AM: Franka Robotics
Presenter: Sven Parusel, Senior Vice President Academia and Research
Title: From Torque-Controlled Robotics to Embodied AI
11:20 AM – 11:40 AM: Rainbow Robotics
Presenter: Jungwoo Heo, CTO
Title: An introduction to RB-Y1
11:40 AM – 12:15 PM: Robot Era
Presenter: Lucas Wang, VP of Product
Title: Challenges and perspectives in direct drive dextrous hand
