IEEE/RSJ IROS: IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

One of the largest and most impactful robotics research conferences worldwide. IROS provides a forum for the international robotics community to explore the frontier of science and technology in intelligent robots and systems. Covers theory and applications of robotics, from sensing and perception to decision-making and learning.

Organiser: IEEE Robotics and Automation Society / RSJ
Founded: 1988
Frequency: annual
Usually held in: October
Duration: 5 days
Typical attendance: 3000-4000
Audience: Academic researchers, industry professionals, students
Topics: intelligent robots, robotic systems, perception, navigation, manipulation, human-robot interaction, field robotics
Tags: robotics, intelligent-systems, ieee

Keynote speakers

Elena De Momi (Politecnico di Milano): Open Questions on the Road to Autonomous Surgery
Naomi Fitter (Oregon State University): Socially-Informed Context Awareness for Robots in Human-Populated Settings
Greg Chirikjian (Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI)): From Hyper-Redundancy to Robot Imagination and Affordance Learning
Genta Suzuki (Fujitsu): Fujitsu Kozuchi Physical OS: A Research Strategy for Scalable Physical AI
Gaurav Bansal (John Deere / Blue River): Building Autonomy for the Real World
Al Rizzi (RAI Institute): Developing Advanced Robot Capability at the RAI Institute
Yekai Sun (PaXini AI): Tokens of the Physical World: Accelerating Intelligence Emergence via Multimodal Embodied Data
He Wang (Galbot): Towards the AlphaGo and ChatGPT Moments of Embodied AI
Jen Jen Chung (University of Queensland): All data are equal, but some data are more equal than others
Yigit Menguc (Marble Wit Research Co.): Soft Robotics, Tensegrity, and the People Who Love Them.
Robin Murphy (Texas A&M University): Rethinking Disaster Robotics: The Open Questions That Matter Now
Gina Olson (University of Massachusetts Amherst): Embracing Design Complexity: A Biomimetic Approach to (Soft?) Snake Robots
Tim Bretl (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign): How you can be part of a revolution in composite manufacturing
Lael Odhner (RAI Institute): Big bets in manipulation systems: where is the frontier today?
David Held (Carnegie Mellon University): Robots That Learn After Deployment: Designing Policies for Fast Adaptation
Ankur Mehta (UCLA): Robotics problems that robotics can't solve
Brittany Duncan (University of Nebraska-Lincoln): Patterns from the Field: how contextual lessons can inform robot design
Ralph Hollis (Carnegie Mellon University): Lorentz Levitation Technology for Fine Motion Robotics, Haptic Interaction, and Vibration Isolation
Genki Yamauchi (Public Works Research Institute (PWRI)): From Big Sites to Every Site: Extending Construction Robotics to the Work Done by Hand
Nancy Pollard (Carnegie Mellon University): Keynote
Lisa Chai (Interwoven Ventures): Plenary panel: Start-ups and Entrepreneurship (Mon 28 Sep)
Henrik I. Christensen (UC San Diego): Plenary panel: Start-ups and Entrepreneurship (Mon 28 Sep)
Vijay Kumar (University of Pennsylvania): Plenary panel: Start-ups and Entrepreneurship (Mon 28 Sep)
Martina Hansen (Sudo AI): Plenary panel: Start-ups and Entrepreneurship (Mon 28 Sep)
Andrea Thomaz (Diligent Robotics): Plenary panel: Start-ups and Entrepreneurship (Mon 28 Sep)
Ali Agha (Field AI): Plenary panel: Start-ups and Entrepreneurship (Mon 28 Sep)
Sami Haddadin (MBZUAI): Plenary panel: Start-ups and Entrepreneurship (Mon 28 Sep)
Sanjiv Singh (Near Earth Autonomy): Plenary panel: Start-ups and Entrepreneurship (Mon 28 Sep)
Robert Ambrose (Texas A&M University): Plenary panel: Space (Tue 29 Sep)
Kim Hambuchen (NASA Johnson Space Center): Plenary panel: Space (Tue 29 Sep)
Ueno Hiroshi (JAXA): Plenary panel: Space (Tue 29 Sep)
Andrea Bajcsy (Carnegie Mellon University): Plenary panel: Should Robots be Generalists or Specialists? (debate, Wed 30 Sep)
Ken Goldberg (UC Berkeley): Plenary panel: Should Robots be Generalists or Specialists? (debate, Wed 30 Sep)
Georgia Chalvatzaki (Technical University of Darmstadt): Plenary panel: Should Robots be Generalists or Specialists? (debate, Wed 30 Sep)
Katerina Fragkiadaki (Carnegie Mellon University): Plenary panel: Should Robots be Generalists or Specialists? (debate, Wed 30 Sep)
Philipp Wu (xdof): Plenary panel: Should Robots be Generalists or Specialists? (debate, Wed 30 Sep)
Huazhe Xu (Tsinghua University): Plenary panel: Should Robots be Generalists or Specialists? (debate, Wed 30 Sep)
Yu Sun (IEEE T-ASE): Plenary panel: Should Robots be Generalists or Specialists? (debate, Wed 30 Sep)
Nancy Amato (UIUC): Plenary panel: Should Robots be Generalists or Specialists? (debate, Wed 30 Sep)
Matt Mason (Carnegie Mellon University): Plenary panel: Should Robots be Generalists or Specialists? (debate, Wed 30 Sep)
Toshi Fukuda (Nagoya University): Plenary panel: Should Robots be Generalists or Specialists? (debate, Wed 30 Sep)
Katsu Yamane (Path Robotics): SICE 'Robotics without Borders' luncheon seminar (title TBA), Mon 28 Sep

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